An artistic girl is spearheading a campaign promoting firework safety among children.

Clayton Primary pupil Jess-ica Foulds will see 5,000 copies of her poster distributed to schools throughout West York-shire after winning a fire service competition.

Community safety fire officer Richard Hagger said it was hoped young children would be able to relate to the safety poster, designed by the nine-year-old.

Jessica's design was picked out from around 750 entries submitted by schoolchildren and is the first time West Yorkshire Fire Service has used a children's poster to drive home its message.

Station Officer Hagger said: "The campaign is centred around children. We are trying to stop as many accidents caused by fireworks as we can.

"Primary schoolchildren tend to be the least aware about the dangers of fireworks and we hope to change that by choosing a poster that is eye catching but not too overwhelming.

"It is the first time we have chosen a child's poster to front our campaign but we hope it will be the first of many."

Jessica said she wanted her efforts to teach other children how to avoid accidents on November.

She said: "Lots of children do not know what fireworks can do and I want to tell them how they can be hurt."

Her mother, Deborah Firth, said: "We love fireworks but I have always told my children that safety comes first and I'm proud of what Jessica is trying to tell other children."

Last year on Guy Fawkes Night, Bradford had more firework-related injuries than any other region of West York-shire, with 17 of the 38 incidents coming from the district.

But Peter Bradley, accident and emergency consultant at Bradford Royal Infirmary, said the safety message did seem to be getting home to children. He said: "Over the two weeks leading up to Bonfire Night last year, and on the night itself, 21 people were admitted to BRI with firework-related injuries. But that is quite a low figure and the number has been coming down, most of last year's injuries were to adults and not children. The one group that does seem to be getting injured still is teenagers. The simple message is be sensible and you won't get hurt."