FOUR-year-olds given an early boost in life moved on to their next challenge with a goodbye gift.

The Sure Start Programme in Hindley and Hindley Green presented all the children leaving the scheme with a rucksack full of goodies to carry with them in to infants' school.

Sure Start Partnership member, Hindley Councillor Stuart Shaw, said: "The scheme was set to provide the under fours with the best possible start in life and it has done this with great success."