YOUNGSTERS at Stourport High School are working hard to ensure that future generations do not forget the sacrifices made by local people during the Second World War.

The school has been awarded a £2,000 Lottery Grant for the Veterans Reunited project devised by the Government to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the war.

History teacher, Ceri Owens, has enlisted local historian and war veteran, Geoff Neal, to help put together a display of photographs, written testimonies and memorabilia of wartime experiences.

"The aim is that we can make copies so that a permanent resource is created and that the display not only used in school but out in the community, so that these people are not forgotten," said Mr Owens.

Pupils also want to record the recollections of local veterans and other people with interesting wartime memories on to a DVD to use as a history resource in the classroom.

The grant is also going towards the erection of a permanent memorial in the school to the past pupils who sacrificed their lives in the Second World War, to go alongside the memorial that already exists to the fallen of the First World War.

Mr Owens and fellow history teacher, Dave Griffin, spent the half-term holiday tracking two former pupils - Romany gipsy, Moses Hodgkins and George Edwin White, who both died in Normandy during the D-Day landings.

Anyone who can help with any part of the project should call 01299 826866.