STUDENTS have shown off their film making expertise at the same time as helping a charity recruit more fundraisers.

A group of pupils from Turton High School have produced a 15-minute long promotional video for Bolton Hospice thanks to the impressive £1.8m media and computer suites which were installed at the school last year.

The 10 teenagers spent seven months working on the video, including filming inside the hospice, at the charity shop in Chorley Old Road and at a concert to celebrate the hospice's 10th anniversary. They edited the footage back at school during the summer holidays.

News reader Martin Lewis provided the voiceover for the video after committing himself to helping out hospice fundraising organisations all over the country this year.

The video was premiered in front of an audience of 300 hospice volunteers at The Pack Horse hotel and received a resounding thumbs-up.

Advanced skills media teacher, Jane Sweetlove, said: "The hospice approached us to make the video because they knew we had so much new technology at our fingertips.

"Making the film gave the pupils a real insight into how the hospice works."