Pupils from Bicester - including Letitia Varney, Catia Sousa, Ruth-Ann Hubbucks and Lily Arnold, pictured - launched a campaign after learning their school has to pay for its rubbish to be recycled.

Pupils from Bicester Community College wrote to their MP Tony Baldry after discovering their school had not recycled rubbish for six months because of the cost.

Mr Baldry suggested taking a group of youngsters to meet Government ministers to explain their concerns.

In their letter to Mr Baldry, members of the school council wrote: "The problem has arisen because where the recycled paper was collected free from schools we are now being asked to pay to have it taken away."