The winners of a creative arts competition inspired by a First World War exhibition have been announced.

Rob Adam won the adult category of the competition based on the Home Fires and Foreign Fields exhibition at Uxbridge Library last year, for his painting Youthful harvest.

Skye Gregory, won the Key Stage Two short story category with her story called The Tunnel.

Entries covered a range of First World War-related subjects, including the effects of shell shock and life for soldiers on the front line. Some of the entries also had local links, referring to army recruitment in Uxbridge and the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) hospital at Harefield.

Afterwards Mr Adam said: “Both my grandfathers were survivors of World War One, and my father was a squadron leader in World War Two, so I consider myself to be one of the privileged people they fought for.

“The Home Fires and Foreign Fields competition was an opportunity to try and paint something visually acceptable about an event that was so brutal.”

All poetry and short story winners were awarded Waterstones vouchers and art category winners received vouchers for A. Boville Wright art shop in Uxbridge. The winning entries and runners-up are on display in the Local Studies, Archives and Museum section of Uxbridge Library until the end of May.