Pupils on the winning track

WINNERS . . . front row: Lea Lees, Dominic Collins and Mason Mattocks. Back, Peter Cushing, Kadie Miller, Henry Nicklin, and Councillor Andrew Fender, chair of TfGM

PUPILS have won a prize in a campaign to build awareness of anti-social behaviour and fare evasion on the tram system.

Oasis Academy Limeside had its 60-second commercials shown on the big screen at HOME arts complex and won the award for artistic merit.

Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) invited more than 250 schools within the 92-stop tram network to create an advert about the consequences of bad behaviour on Metrolink.

Four schools were shortlisted and Oasis pupils won cinema tickets for family and friends for their TV commercial showing how copycat behaviour and fare evasion could leave Metrolink with no money left to run services.

TfGM’s Metrolink director, Peter Cushing, said: “The standard of all the commercials has been remarkable, with great creative approaches.”