West Berkshire schools enjoy breakfast club with Newbury and District Agricultural Society's Buttercup the wooden cow

A wooden cow called Buttercup has been helping to spread the word about healthy breakfasts to schoolchildren across the district.

Education officer at the Newbury and District Agricultural Society Jan Murray has been taking her trusty sidekick along to a number of breakfast club events at primary schools in West Berkshire this month.

“It went extremely well,” she said. “The children were very, very enthusiastic and very engaged.