TWO talented young chefs have produced topping ideas for one of the world's leading pizza manufacturers.

Leyland schoolchildren Tom Goulding, 10, and Natalie Wild, 12, came out tops in a contest run by Schwan's, Leyland-based manufacturer of the Chicago Town Pizza, who invited pupils in the area to apply their creativity to pizza design.

And they couldn't have been more exciting or different. Tom, of St James's CE Primary School, Leyland, came up with a World Cup Faces topping, with his pizza split into continents -- Europe, Americas, the East and Australasia and Africa. Each quarter contained toppings from the continents in which they originated, including dates and olives from Africa, onions, garlic and spicy sausage from Europe, sweetcorn, green chillies and red pepper from the Americas and tuna and prawns from the East and Australasia.

Natalie, a pupil at Balshaw's High School in Leyland, devised a pizza to appeal to sweet-toothed diners.

Hers had a honey pastry base covered in toffee sauce, with sliced Snickers bars, marshmallows, crumbled Caramel bar, melted chocolate and Haribo sweets to decorate.

The company has no plans to introduce either topping idea to its extensive menu, but both pupils saw how the products are made with an exclusive tour of the Leyland pizza factory.

Both won a year's free supply of Chicago Town Pizza -- 52 vouchers -- and runners up Chloe Chew, Andrew MacDonald, Sam Richards and Robert Carter also won 20 or 10 Chicago Town Pizza vouchers.