AN award-winning York dancer is celebrating after winning places at three ballet schools - each with a full scholarship.

Donya Ambler, 16, of Steeple Close, Wigginton, has decided to take up the offer at a London-based school, Elmhurst in association with the Birmingham Royal Ballet.

However, she also received offers from the Northern Ballet School and the Central School of Ballet.

She has also been offered a two-week scholarship at the Northern Ballet Theatre to attend their summer school. Donya, who is currently taking her GCSEs at Manor School, Acomb, and studies at the Andrea Ferrebee School of Dance in Monkgate, York, said she wanted to thank all her teachers for allowing her to follow her dancing ambitions.

Updated: 08:56 Tuesday, June 17, 2003