A BIDEFORD teenager has won a national award for his animated film.

The Kingsley School's Simon Taylor won the key stage four award in the UK Schools Computer Animation Competition.

The 15-year-old's animation, Sick of School was described as one of the top two in the competition's best of show and he won a lap top, a Playstation and computer games.

The competition was organised by the University of Manchester Computer Sciences department in conjunction with Electronic Arts, a computer games companies.

Simon described the day as the best in his life.

His teacher, Kingsley's head of ICT Matt Norris, said: "For Simon to have won one award was just superb — to win two in the UK's most respected competition for digital animation is awesome.

"Simon's future is looking very exciting."