YOUNG World Cup fans were delighted to receive their prizes of "Ultimate Football" books by Ivor Baddiel, as winners of our NIE sports writing competition.

Four prizewinners: Phillippa Thirkettle, Valencia Chambers, Ryan McMurray and Andrew Holden, are all pupils at St Wilfrid's CE High School, Blackburn.

The fifth joint winner, Imran Hanif, is from Nelson.

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