SCHOOLS in Harlow and Stort Valley are to benefit from a new education scheme set-up by the Imperial War Museum, at Duxford, Cambridgeshire.

Using National Lottery funds, the museum has designed an outreach programme whereby primary sources and evidence of the First and Second World War, currently stored at Duxford, will be taken into schools.

An Outreach Worker will be appointed to deliver artefacts and photographs to the pupils and help them study the material in the classroom.

The museum says the programme will bring history lessons alive and stimulate the motivation, interest and understanding of children who are unable to access the museum's war collection.