CASH courtesy of a model Concorde is winging its way to the campaign to cut medicine waste.

The pint-sized plane - currently grounded in the car park of Hodge Hill Nurseries in Kidderminster - has been snapped up by a US buyer to adorn an airport restaurant in Oregon.

Lloyd Sutherland-Finch has paid £650 for the model. The garden centre will donate most of the cash to the campaign to urge patients to think again before ordering prescription medicines they will not use.

Ask About Medicines Week - which runs until Saturday - is bringing home the message and every lunch time campaigners will be handing out leaflets and advice at the Swan Centre in Kidderminster.

Prescriptions worth £638,000 - the cost of 110 hip replacements - were returned unused to Wyre Forest pharmacies in 2002 and health chiefs are urging patients to think before they order tablets, creams and liquids.

Tuesday saw three first school pupils - including Calum Robinson from St Wulstan's First in Stourport - collect prizes for designing winning campaign poster which will be displayed in surgeries across the district.

All entries are now being exhibited at Bewdley, Stourport and Kidderminster libraries.

And today at the Swan Centre King Charles I High School pupils will stage a themed role play which will be filmed next week and then distributed to surgery waiting rooms.