GROUPS of teenage girls from across the Borough took on the original Krypton Factor assault course as part of an exercise to boost the Army's profile amongst the fairer sex.

Among the participants were twenty young people from the Bolton Council of Mosques Youth group that took part in the gruelling one-and-a-half-mile run before battling their way over barriers, under camouflage nets and through troughs of mud.

The event, at the Army's Holcombe Moor training camp, near Ramsbottom, was aimed at giving a flavour of different challenges and tasks that are undertaken within an Army setting, promoting awareness of the Army and what it does.

Lutha Magloire, north west community liaison officer for the Army, said: "We invited the girls down and then put them through their paces with a series of different activities."

All successful participants will receive a certificate of attendance and additional AQA accreditations in recognition of their achievements.