Three award winners have received their prizes for helping to brighten up Haworth.

Village gardener and healthy food champion Steve Thorpe dished out the awards to those who won the three different categories of this year’s Haworth in Bloom.

Belle Isle Road resident Lilian Evans came first in the garden of the year section and was given a trophy.

Mr Thorpe, who sponsors the contest himself, said: “She always has a nice garden and she’s really up on all the composting and recycling.

“She grows her own vegetables and fruit trees.”

He said he hoped her example would encourage other gardening enthusiasts to enter this category. “We could do with a few more people taking part next year,” he added.

Mill Hey hair stylist firm Njoy was chosen for the business premises of the year award.

Mr Thorpe said: “They always make a real effort with their frontage.

“They have two plant tubs and two hanging baskets and all summer the staff weeded them, dead headed and made sure they were watered properly.

“It’s particularly nice for the award to go to someone at the bottom end of the village.”

Njoy’s prize was a free garden makeover, carried out by Mr Thorpe himself.

The tallest sunflower section is open to youngsters from the Haworth area.

This year it was won by Mr Thorpe’s eight-year-old daughter, Amy. She grew a nine-foot-high sunflower in the back yard of her home and won a trophy, gardening tools and books.