A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD chocolate fan is the most popular boy in his school.

For four-stone Nathan Bookbinder-Ryan won twice his weight in Milky Ways - enough to give a bar to the whole infants and junior sections at Blackpool's Arnold School and have a load left over.

Nathan, of Clifton Drive North, St Annes, took delivery of more than 2,300 chocolate bars at the weekend, thanks to his success in a competition run by Fox Kids, a new children's cable and satellite TV channel.

Nathan's mother Debra, dad Richard and 20-month-old brother Callum have already helped him make inroads into the chocolate pile.

"He's so lucky," said Debra. "He loves going in for competitions and he's won several prizes.

"But he was absolutely thrilled when he won the Milky Ways - his first thought was to share them with his schoolfriends, which I thought was wonderful."

To win the contest, Nathan had to name the show Milky Way sponsors on Fox Kids - Goosebumps.

Nathan's lucky streak has won him previous prizes of a Crayola briefcase, a Li-lo, T-shirt and £70-worth of books.

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