Three award winners have received their prizes for helping to brighten up Haworth.

Village gardener and healthy food champion Steve Thorpe gave awards to those who won the three categories of Haworth in Bloom. Lilian Evans, of Belle Isle Road, came first in the garden of the year section. Njoy hair stylists, of Mill Hey, were chosen for the business premises of the year award.

Njoy’s prize was a free garden makeover, carried out by Mr Thorpe himself.

The tallest sunflower section is open to youngsters from the Haworth area. This year it was won by Mr Thorpe’s eight-year-old daughter, Amy. She grew a nine-foot-high sunflower in the back yard of her home and won a trophy, gardening tools and books.

Mr Thorpe praised all the participants.