The Llangattock village in the Brecon Beacons National Park has been named the greenest community in the UK.

The Llangattock Green Valleys project has already won the Welsh final of the British Gas challenge in 2009 and has now won the country wide title. The village located in Powys has won £100,000 for spending on a local environmental project.

The village was choose from among 100 projects across the UK to be in the 14 communities that would compete over 14 months as part of the Green Streets challenge, which was aimed at helping communities save energy and generate their own energy.

"Winning Green Streets is incredibly exciting. We've all worked really hard towards this and it's great to see that British Gas really understands and appreciates what we're trying to do here in Llangattock,” said Michael Butterfield, from the Llangattock scheme.

He also said that community is aiming to be carbon negative by 2015 and also become a net exporter of renewable energy