FOUR students from schools in St Albans and Harpenden were awarded prizes after they made their mark in the fight against drugs.
Natasha Clarbour, 13, Martin Loader, 12, and Graham Horn, 13, from Sir John Lawes School in Harpenden and Jerome Mayaud, 12, from Beaumont School in St Albans each came runner-up in a competition ran by Hertfordshire Police.
They beat hundreds of entrants in their challenge to design a bookmark and posters with an anti-drugs message which will be distributed to all secondary schools and libraries in the central area, which covers St Albans and Welwyn Hatfield districts.
The bookmarks will also carry telephone numbers for the National Drugs Helpline, Childline, Crimestoppers and the Hertfordshire Police website.
At a special ceremony at Sopwell House Hotel in St Albans on Saturday the children were each presented with a £50 voucher for HMV by Chief Inspector Dave Moore and St Albans Football Club chairman John Gibson.
As an added bonus Natasha was asked by Mr Gibson to be mascot for their game against Enfield this Saturday.
Youth and drugs officer PC Lesa Skeggs said: "The bookmarks and posters will hopefully be a constant reminder to young people to think twice before taking drugs."
All the competition entries are currently on display at the Maltings Library in St Albans.
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