PUPILS at St Bedes RC High School, Blackburn, are through to the finals of a national school dinners challenge.

Sarah Bolton and Caroline King came up with "Erupting Bangers" and "Snail Sensation" for the Grab 5 Schools Menu Challenge which aims to put vegetables at the cutting edge of school dinners.

Judged by primary school pupils from Leeds, the girls won the North West heat and now go forward to the UK finals at the Good Housekeeping Institute in London on November 29.