ORGANISERS of a children's competition in Millom hope to highlight a community problem.

The town's Tesco store ran the contest to encourage youngsters to design a poster raising awareness of dog mess blighting the streets.

The competition was won by five-year-old Amy Park, whose drawing and slogan "The dog must poop so use your scoop" impressed the store's management team.

Maxine Lawford, community champion at the store, said: "We decided to run the competition to highlight the problem of dog poo in Millom and get the kids aware.

"We want to distribute the posters around the town near schools, council offices and get them out there.

"Kids are the ones, most of the time, who stand in it and we don't want that. From my own journey to work I must see about 30 bits of dog poo around."

Amy's submission has now been made into a poster for free by Pilgrim Design.

Mrs Lawford said: "I think it's an absolutely fantastic design. She has got the point across and her slogan is brilliant.

"It's simple and straight to the point. Amy was one of our youngest entrants and I thought it was brilliant."