A Wandsworth pupil has scooped the top prize in a design-a-bike competition which encourages children to choose two wheels instead of four for the journey to school.
Olivia Farah, of Beatrix Potter Primary School, took home a new Raleigh bike worth up to £250 by winnning the Sustrans' Bike It poster competition held in schools across the country.
Olivia's winning design showed a multicoloured bike made out of words describing how much she likes riding her bike and was chosen out of hundreds of entries for the competition.
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Holly Bruford, Bike It officer for Wandsworth, said: "I'm delighted that Olivia's design was chosen by the judges as the words in the picture really do sum up the joys of riding a bike.
"Only a small percentage of young people regularly cycle to school, but we know that many more want to.
"In fact our own survey show that about 45 per cent of students want to cycle to school."
Bike It is a nationwide scheme, managed by sustainable transport charity Sustrans, aiming to increase the number of young people cycling to school and on other journeys.
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