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A Cockermouth man has won a national amateur photography competition ran by UK retail giant Wilkos.

A SOMERSET man has won a national amateur photography competition. Chris Gilligan, from Taunton, has been selected as one of 12 winners to be featured in the 2022 wilko wild bird calendar. The budding photographer entered the competition with a picture of a female house sparrow. Mr Gilligans image was chosen to be part of the calendar, and he was given an £100 wilko voucher. “Finding out that I’d been chosen as a winner was such a nice surprise," he said. "As a wilko customer f...

Coronavirus doctors diary: Study shows one-in-three children have rarely been leaving the house Published image captionChildren playing cricket in Bradford in 2001 A new study indicates that only a third of children in Bradford had sufficient exercise in the first lockdown, last spring - and that a similar proportion were rarely leaving the home. Dr John Wright, of Bradford Royal Infirmary, says this is contributing to a different kind of health crisis, one that began long before the pandemic, ...