DON’T miss your last chance to enter Red Funnel’s exciting new talent competition to uncover the best of the South’s fresh new talent.

The winner will receive a whopping £1,000 cash prize, and along with those shortlisted, will get paid to perform onboard Red Funnel’s vehicle ferries and in the terminals during the busy summer period.

If you are over 16 and you have a talent in music, comedy, magic or anything at all – so long as it is suitable for a family audience, all you need to do is submit a short film clip of your act (no more than two minutes), and complete an application form available from ticket offices or online at redhottalent.co.uk The deadline has been extended by two days to noon on Wednesday after which they will be whittled down to a final selection.

These films will be available for the public to view online and to place their votes from May 21 to 28 on the Daily Echo website at dailyecho.co.uk.

The top performers will then be invited to perform live at one of two heats – in Southampton on June 1, and in Newport, Isle of Wight, on June 2, with the grand final held in Southampton on Friday, June 5.