TREES were handed out to children to get them thinking green.

Last week, Gordale Garden Centre, Burton, hosted a five-day free event to get young people planting trees and thinking positively about green issues.

The garden centre invited selected schools in the area to send boys and girls accompanied by their teachers to a talk on the importance of trees and the positive difference trees make to the environment.

Following instruction on how to plant and look after trees, the children were given a free tree and planting kit so they could plant it when they returned to their school.