A competition designed to bring out the artistic best in Bradford has been inundated with entries.

The competition to design pages for a community calendar in the Newlands area has attracted nearly 350 entries, including paintings, photographs and poetry, from artists as young as three and as old as 71.

The entries were judged yesterday when a panel of artists and Newlands project workers chose the pictures that will adorn the walls of almost every Newlands home in 1999.

On each page the calendar will include a diary of events happening in each of the estates as well as a directory of community organisations useful to local residents.

Seven thousand calendars will be sent to households on the Thorpe Edge, Ravenscliffe, Greengates, Fagley and Thornbury estates in the new year and a further three thousand will be distributed to community centres and organisations.

Newlands partnership co-ordinator Tim Whitfield was on the judging panel that chose the winning entries.

He said: "The competition has created an enormous amount of interest and we've had contributions from a whole range of people all over the Newlands area.

"We are trying to build a spirit of creativity in the communities and I think this is a really good way of showing there is just as much talent in Newlands as there is anywhere else in Bradford."

Award-winning Manningham advertising and design agency Duloy-Seymour has been, offering practical advice.

Company partner Billy Duloy said: "It's been a very high standard of entries and exceptionally hard to select the winners.

"I think it will be a really professional finished product.''

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