OVER the summer Sellafield Ltd invited children of employees, contractors, and the community to help create road signs for the site.

Inspired by the theme ‘Sam the Snail’, 238 young people submitted drawings designed to encourage people working on the nuclear site to drive safely so that they could return home to loved ones, injury-free.

Judges including Euan Hutton, Sellafield Ltd chief executive, and Suzanne Pender, from the Sellafield Family Network, had the difficult task of choosing the winners.

They selected an outright winner in each of the two age categories. They were 6-year-old Remi in the 0-6 age category and 9-year-old Emily in the 7-12 age category.

The judges also created a shortlist of 20 snails from which employees voted for 6-year-old Ivy as their People’s Vote winner.

All three winners shared the inspiration behind their designs.

Remi said: “I’m excited for my picture to be a road sign at Sellafield so that other people and my Mammy and Daddy can see it when they go to work."

Emily said: “I came up with the drawing because in the area where my mum works, she said there are quite a few builders, so I thought; why don’t I do my snail wearing all the builder outfits."

Ivy said: “I like drawing cartoon characters using YouTube videos ‘How to draw-step-by-step. Thank you to everyone that voted for my Sam the Snail."

Their designs will now be turned into road signs on the Sellafield site, and traffic stickers at Hinton House in Warrington.