YORK youngster Danielle Winskill has become a festive lights switch-on celebrity after winning a competition to design a Christmas card.
Her picture is appearing on signs at 35 Shepherd Construction sites across the country, as well as on the company's corporate Christmas cards.
The York-based company organised the contest, in which children were asked to design an original Christmas card with a theme revolving around safety in construction.
Nine-year-old Danielle, a pupil at Lord Deramore's Primary School, in Heslington, was one of many children who took part, and
was chosen as the national winner from four regional winners.
As well as being presented with prizes, she was also invited to Newcastle to join the city's Lord Mayor, Councillor John Marshall, and the Lady Mayoress, Mrs Audrey Marshall, in switching on the festive lights at a landmark building, Swan House, which is being re-developed by Shepherd in a £13 million project to provide contemporary apartments.
Updated: 10:41 Saturday, December 07, 2002
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