STUDENT Mark Coleman won a national training prize after scoring the best mark in the country in his exams.

Mark, 22, of Dorset Crescent, is in the final year of a City and Guilds refrigeration and air conditioning course at North West Kent College’s Gravesend campus.

He was awarded the 2003 Harry Decker Award, along with a certificate and a £250 cheque, as the UK’s highest-placed apprentice at NVQ Level 2.

The annual prize was established in memory of Harry Decker, a long-time member of the Refrigeration Air Conditioning Group of the Heating and Ventilating Contractors’ Association, following his death in 1981.

Mark, who is on day-release at the college, works for Strood-based Airconaire, a design contractor for air conditioning, heating and refrigeration.