TALENTED teenager Laura Crowther has an all-singing, all dancing career ahead of her.

The 18-year-old, of High Crest, Linthwaite, has won a clutch of accolades over recent months.

Last year, Laura scored a Grade Eight with distinction for her opera singing.

Equally gifted on the dance floor, she travels to Manchester in March where she will compete against 50 other young modern jazz dancers for the chance to be recognised as one of the best performers in the country.

Laura, who studied at Colne Valley High School and Greenhead College in Huddersfield, is also to appear as Maria in the Huddersfield Light Opera Society's production of West Side Story at the Lawrence Batley Theatre in April.

Now in the middle of her first year of a music and drama degree at Huddersfield University, she is coached in singing by Skipton-based James Ashworth.

She has danced since the age of three under the expert guidance of Huddersfield coaches Zoe Cook and Pam Strickland.