nursery schoolchildren are celebrating after Bromley Council agreed to a new classroom being built.

The new facility at Castlecombe Primary School, Mottingham, is due to open in 2004.

It is one of three new classrooms to be built in the next 18 months as part of a £436,00 programme jointly funded by the Government and the council.

One of the new buildings will be at Blenheim Primary School, Orpington, with the location of the other still to be announced.

Headteacher Jenny Shepherd said: “Everyone is pleased that by next year we shall be able to offer this additional benefit.”