It might be a few weeks until Halloween but primary school pupils in Downend think they may have grown Bristol's biggest pumpkin.

For the second year running, pupils of St Augustines of Canterbury school, in Boscombe Crescent, have grown a bumper crop of pumpkins.

School secretary Jan Randall said: "Last year the children grew pumpkins for the first time and we challenged pupils at Emersons Green school to see who could grow the biggest. We had three huge pumpkins and the smallest was bigger than the Emersons Green one.

"They were just from three seeds and in compost so we've no idea why they grew so big this year. We wondered whether any other schools have grown any and whether ours is the biggest."

Last year's winning pumpkin weighed 6 stones 12lb and was raffled off to raise funds for St Augustines and its sister school in India. Of the other pumpkins, weighing 4 stones 9lb and 2 stones, one was turned into soup for homeless people and the other donated to a charity raffle.