TWO youngsters from Bromsgrove are among the winners of a diary competition in which pupils from nine county schools took part.

Sophie Lovick and Alenka Butkovicova, both from Aston Fields Middle School, in Drummond Road, were among 500 children who entered the Anne Frank Diary Competition to write a diary detailing the experiences of a present day asylum seeker who had just arrived in Britain.

Two winners were chosen from each school and Sophie was also chosen as one of the overall winners.

The competition coincides with the launch of the Anne Frank Exhibition, at Worcester Cathedral, on January 4, where the Rev David Walker, the Bishop of Dudley, will present the winners with their prize, which includes a copy of the Anne Frank Diary.

Anne Frank was a 12-year-old, Jewish girl who went into hiding with her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam in 1942.

She kept a diary for two years but when the family was sent to a concentration camp in 1944, only her father survived.

He found her diary and, some years later, decided to publish it.

With the personal backing of movie mogul Steven Spielberg, the exhibition will challenge racism, prejudice and the persecution of minorities, according to the organisers.

It will also enable children to witness the events of the Second World War through the eyes of someone their own age.

It runs until January 29.