BURY'S MFI Homeworks store has helped deaf teenagers from across the North West get their hands on computer design technology.

The Bury store, together with other MFI outlets in the region, teamed up to invite students from the Royal School for the Deaf in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, to special lessons in kitchen planning.

They harnessed MFI Homeworks' state-of-the-art computer aided design (CAD) system.

This system allows customers to see their own kitchen or bedroom plan as a full colour, three-dimensional "photorealistic" image and is available in MFI stores throughout the country.

Previously, students had spent a lesson in school preparing their own detailed plans for a new kitchen.

Peter O'Rourke, area sales manager for MFI Homeworks in the North West, said: "Our CAD system has been designed to offer a state-of-the-art planning service for our customers.

"We felt that it would also help bring design technology to life for pupils at the Royal School for the Deaf."

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