TWO schools in New Milton are celebrating winning a cash windfall from BT which will help the whole community.

New Milton and Ashley junior schools have beaten dozens of other schools to win £5,000 from the telecommunications company.

The project that so impressed BT is called In Your Neighbourhood. This will see year five and six pupils working with New Milton Town Council on a vision to improve the town. The money will be used to buy camcorders, videos, photography equipment and mapping technology to create a model of the town. That model will be the basis for a public consultation event which the pupils will organise themselves.

They will ask local people how they would like the town to look by 2015.

The children's ideas will eventually be reported back to the town council's town project group, using the IT technology bought with the BT money.