An army of newspaper deliverers is set to get a smart new look thanks to a budding young designer.

Mubbasher Rehman beat off competition from more than 100 other entries in the T&A Design A Newsbag Competition.

And the Great Horton 12-year-old's imaginative newspaper delivery bag design scooped him a trophy and a Raleigh mountain bike donated by Action Bikes, of Hall Ings, Bradford.

Mubbasher and four runners-up visited the T&A building in Hall Ings this week to take a behind-the-scenes look at how the paper is produced before being presented with their awards by editor Perry Austin-Clarke.

Each runner-up received a trophy. They were Becky Smith, 13, from Wibsey Middle School, Leann Thornes, from Bankfoot Upper School, Katherine Ryder, 13, from Buttershaw Upper School, and fourteen-year-old Richard Carrahar, of Hawthorne Avenue, Shipley.

T&A canvassing manager Steve Woods said: "The quality of entries we have received has been great and it was very difficult choosing the winners.

"We thought the competition was very important to update the image of paper boys and girls and give them a bag to carry around that's cool and they can be proud of."

Mubbasher will now be invited back to work with T&A artists to transform his award-winning idea into a practical design for a newsbag which will be seen on the streets of Bradford next year.

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