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Christmas Art
In the splendid surroundings of The Assembly Rooms,
Nigel Griffiths MP unveiled the finalists of his annual Christmas card
competition.
The competition, which is open to all primary school
pupils in the Edinburgh South constituency, received 1,500 entries. This
year's competitions was won by Lucinda Burns of St Margaret's Primary
School.
Mr Griffiths has been running this competition for the
last three years and uses the winning design for his personal Christmas
card every year.
To help him work through the massive pile of entries
this year, Mr Griffiths called upon the Lord Provost Eric Milligan to
help him pick out a winner and present the prizes,
While Lucinda gets the ultimate prize of having her
design printed as a greetings card, eight other youngsters were singled
out by the Lord Provost for their spectacular designs. The result of the
competition was as follows: 1st Lucinda Burns, St Margaret's Primary
School; 2nd Ryan Lambert, Kingsinch Special School; 3rd Michelle Smith,
St Crispin's Special School; 4th Dean Forrest, Gilmerton Primary School;
by Daniel Aitken
Special Commendation - Daniel Aitken (Gracemount
Primary School), Rebecca Neilson (Liberton Primary School), Jamie
Thomson (Royal Blind School), David Shin (Preston Street Primary School)
and Megan McGregor (James Gillespie's Primary School)
by Dean Forrest
by Rebecca Neilson
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