A WARMINSTER school has the finest set of young businessmen and women in all of Wiltshire, it was announced last week.

Kingdown School beat off competition from more than 30 other schools to win the county final of the Young Enterprise scheme, which ran from last September until April this year.

The 11-strong team, aged between 16 and 17, came first for their project Chips Enterprise, which produced a booklet for primary schools teaching them how to use computers and the internet.

The group received the award from Lord Bath in a ceremony at his Longleat Estate on May 9.

Paul Quantick, LEA adviser and county chairman of Young Enterprise said: "It was an innovative project, well researched and designed, which met a need expressed by primary schools."

One of the pupils behind the winning project, Annie Slow, 17, said: "We have learnt a lot about business especially the problems you have to encounter and how to overcome them."

The school is now in the south west heat, which will offer them the chance to enter the national and European finals.