WEST DORSET: Has your child got what it takes to dazzle and shine like a star in front of the camera? Here’s the perfect opportunity to see if they have, as the Bridport & Lyme Regis News launches its 2015 Child of the Year portrait competition to find the child with the most dazzling and winning smile.

This year the Bridport & Lyme Regis News is delighted to welcome Broadstone-based Fraser Portraits as the official Bridport & Lyme Regis News Child of the Year photographers. With over 30 years of experience in taking children’s portraits, Fraser Portraits can’t fail to produce a smile for our competition!

There are four different age categories to be won and an overall winner to be chosen.

*Unisex 0-9 Months

*Unisex 10-18 Months

*Unisex 19-36 Months

*Unisex 3-6 Years

If you would like to enter a child into our competition, each person entering will need to cut out a Child of the Year ‘PHOTO SESSION’ advert which will be published each week in the Bridport & Lyme Regis News from March 5 – March 19.

Then all you have to do is take a copy of the advert along to our special Child of the Year photo shoot taking place at the following venues from 10am – 4pm daily;

• Bridport Children’s Centre, Skilling Hill Road, Bridport, Dorset DT6 5LA

Entry is free- all you need is the advert from the paper. (No photocopies will be allowed and one coupon per child is required. Children must be aged from 0 months to 6 years old.)

Photo packages will be available to purchase if you wish to have a memento of the picture taken of your child for the competition but there is no obligation to purchase these as it is free to take part in the competition

Once all the pictures have been taken, supplements of all the pictures will appear in the Bridport and Lyme Regis News on April 23. Voting for the child you would like to see crowned as the winner of the Bridport and Lyme Regis News Child of the Year portrait competition will be by post, text and phone. Full details will be printed within each supplement.

All category winners will receive a canvas print of their winning picture and a £25 gift voucher, the overall winner will receive a slightly larger canvass from Fraser Portraits and a £50 gift voucher. All winners will also get a certificate.

For more details visit; bridportnews.co.uk/childoftheyear.

So if you know a child with a winning smile who you think could be our Child of the Year winner – why not enter our easy competition?