SIBLINGS David and Victoria Weir both brought home gold medals, while Emma England, Carrie Robertson-Bell, Will Battershill and Billy Craske also topped the podium at the Devon Schools' Cross Country Championship, staged at Exeter Arena.

Among the highlights from Plymouth and West Devon athletes, there was a silver medal for Ivybridge Community College's senior girl Jess Harvey, behind Exeter's Rosie Chamberlain (16.23).

Seventeen-year-old Harvey clocked 16 minutes 32 seconds, with Jess Burns (17.31) of Plymstock, just outside the medals in fourth.

Plymstock School students, Victoria and David Weir, England and Ivybridge duo Robertson-Bell and Battershill, are now among several local athletes who have been selected to take part in the South West Schools' Cross-Country Championships, also at Exeter on Saturday, February 4.

David Weir (15.23) took the intermediate boys' title with another Plymouth AC product James Blackford (16.05), of Devonport High School, bagging bronze.

Ivybridge Community College's Luke Honey (16.08) was fourth in this age-group category.

Victoria Weir won the junior girls' title in 12.22, closely followed by Plymouth College's Emily Ackford (12.28) who secured silver in a category in which city runners claimed five of the top 10 finishing places.

Poppy Tank (12.34) and Kay Bryson (12.56), both of Plymouth College, were fourth and sixth, respectively, with Devonport High School for Girls' Emily Attfield (12.38) coming fifth.

Emma England (9.17) won a keenly-contested minor girls' race, pipping Kelly College's Sian Temple (9.19), who was second.

Robertson-Bell (9.17) confirmed her place in the SW squad with a gold-medal winning display in the inter-girls.

Junior boy Battershill (15.13) finished well ahead of runner-up Thomas McShane (15.25), while Plymouth College pair Steven Rogers (15.38) and Frankie Aldred (15.41), and Devonport High School's Tom Blackford (15.55), were fifth, sixth and ninth.

Ivybridge's Craske (10.16) was an emphatic victor in the minor boys age group and has also been selected to compete back in Exeter on February 5 for his county.