Students in Hounslow have designed posters urging fellow teenagers to speak out about domestic abuse.
Wiktoria Grabowska, of Heston Community School, and Anel Pieterse, of The Green School, in Isleworth, both 15, will see their creations displayed across the borough from this week.
Anel said she was glad to be doing something to educate people about relationship abuse, and Wiktoria said she wanted the issue 'to be seen as part of our world'.
The posters were the winning designs in a competition run by the council's award-winning Learning to Respect programme, which was set up to prevent domestic abuse by ensuring young people recognise an abusive relationship and know where to seek support if they are affected.
Councillor Sue Sampson, Hounslow's cabinet member for domestic violence, whose sister was murdered by her estranged husband, said: "I would urge teenagers who are in an abusive relationship to realise their own worth. No one, no matter what age you are, should tolerate bullying, verbal or physical abuse or emotional blackmail in order to control them. Control is not love."
