The winner of a road safety competition to devise a title for a newsletter to promote school travel awareness in primary schools was presented with his prize at a special ceremony at King Charles Primary School, Falmouth, on Monday, the first day of Autumn Walk to School Week.

He was pupil Lawrence Murgatroyd, who received a £10 voucher at the school assembly from Rachel Smith, a consultant at the county council.

As part of her job a School Travel Awareness Newsletter was produced and a competition held for local children to conceive the title for it.

The winning title from Lawrence was "Walking Talking News" and at Monday's school assembly he was presented with a £10 Boots voucher.

The competition was held as a result of the Government's Energy Efficiency Best Practice programme. Rachel was asked to work with all the schools in Falmouth and Penryn to encourage them to write their own School Travel Plan.

School Travel Plans help pupils, parents and staff to consider how they travel to and from school and promotes the use of sustainable transport, such as walking, cycling, public transport and car sharing schemes.

The county council has now invited Rachel to return to Cornwall to carry out some follow up work, involving a Parents Information Leaflet aimed to raising awareness amongst parents of both existing and other possible future initiatives to help reduce congestion around school gates.

John Mellor, School Travel Plan Officer with the Road Safety Unit, said: "We welcome Rachel back to Falmouth to continue her work in the area and look forward to seeing some of the school travel plans come to fruition. I like to think the end result will be a safer and friendlier environment for all road users."

Schools across Cornwall will be celebrating Autumn Walk to School Week.

At Kea School on Tuesday it was the inaugural journey for the walking bus when the county's road safety mascot Billy the Boots was encouraging youngsters and parents to adoppt a healtheir way of travelling to work.