WITH more than 10,000 votes, this year's Bonny Baby contest has been declared the most successful yet - and this week, the Globe can finally announce the bonniest baby of the borough!

Hundreds of families with bonny babies applied for the competition and mums, dads, nans, grandads, aunties, uncles and friends clearly went the extra mile this year as thousands of phone votes and text messages flooded in each day.

But unfortunately there can only be one overall winner and it was 17 month-old Brady Taylor White, from Thurstaston, who was our readers' favourite and took the title with a whopping 1,081 votes!

Second place was awarded to two-year old Abbie Connor, from Wallasey with almost 700 votes and Sophie Wilson, who has just celebrated her first birthday, was placed third with just short of 500 votes.

A surprised, but very excited, Lynne White, Brady's mum, was over the moon to hear the news that Brady had won the contest.

"I can't believe that Brady has come first as there were a lot of cuties in the paper," she said.

"We all voted for him - me, my husband Gary and all my friends - I think that Brady won because he has such lovely blonde curls and I'm really made up for him.

Lynne added: "It was my mum's idea to put Brady forward, she also put me in for Miss Wirral Globe and I won it in the late 1980s - so it's all down to my mum's efforts!"

Lynne now receives an Asda baby giftpack courtesy of Asda, Liscard, a £50 gift voucher for Olivers Gifts in Oxton and a framed photograph.

The competition has raised several thousand pounds which will be split between Claire House and the Lyndale School sensory garden appeal.

Globe Managing Director Jane Longden said: "This has been the biggest ever response to our Bonny Baby competition. We are thrilled that the contest has such appeal to so many of our readers and woul;d like to thank the many thousands who took part in the poll."