AWARD winning underwater photographs will be on show at Warrington Museum from Friday.

The display of work by internationally acclaimed Mark Webster will be open to the public for free until December.

Tube sponges, anemones, corals spider crabs and lumpsuckers are just some of the colourful marine wildlife in an excellent exhibition.

The show, entitled A Bit Of A Dive, will be in the special display room at the Museum Street building, which is combined with the library - and is free to enter.

The display is touring the UK after featuring in the 10th anniversary celebrations of the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford. Mr Webster has won silver and bronze medals for the UK in four CMAS World Championships of Underwater Photography. He has also written The Art and Technique of Underwater Photography, published by Fountain Press, and contributes to several diving publications.

He also hosts regular workshops in underwater photography in the Red Sea, Caribbean, Thailand and Indonesia.