CHARIOTS of Fire producer David Puttnam made a special visit to a Plumstead school to talk to pupils at the school's prize-giving ceremony.

Plumstead Manor Secondary School pupils were given a motivational talk by the man responsible for movies The Killing Fields, Midnight Express and most famously Chariots of Fire, which won four Oscars.

He congratulated pupils of the Old Mill lane school for their hard work and encouraged them for the future.

November 22, 2001 14:46