STUDENTS at the University of Southampton have received a pat on the back, as well as cash prizes, from the city's docks for the high standard of their work.

Marianne McKiggan and Elina Kivinien were nominated for the Associated British Ports (ABP) prizes by lecturers of the environmental sciences' degree course.

They were judged to have produced the best reports on the potential impact of a hypothetical scenario of regenerating the Fawley Power Station site on Southampton Water as a wind-energy farm.

The two students were awarded £100 each by ABP - an annual prize the company has been making for the last seven years as part of its support for the University's degree course.