Congratualtions to Clare Burke, of Bradford Grammar School, who won this year’s British Council’s competition “What the EU has done for me”.

The competition is in its second year and Clare’s excellent essay means Yorkshire once again has a winner, after Simon Quarrell from Notre Dame High School, Sheffield claimed one of the prizes last year.

Along with three other winners from the UK, and three from Finland, Clare’s prize was an all expenses paid trip to this week's EU summit as a young journalist.

You can read Clare’s essay, along with the other winners of the competition on the British Council’s website here.