MODEL Search '99 ended in success for nine winners at a special fashion show in Fareham shopping centre at the weekend.

Winning smiles and confident poses brought £100 shopping vouchers for the following winners: age 4-6: Aimee Yates, four, Portchester; Joshua Ward, four, Fareham. 7-10: Amy Leach, nine, Warsash; Arnold Richardson, eight, Fareham. 11-15: Jade Bell, 11, Stubbington, Stuart Deidson, 13, Fareham.

Winners who went home with £200 in shopping vouchers; best female model 16-plus, Lynsey Pringle, 20, Bridgemary; best male model, 11-plus, Chance Newcome-Bilham, 18, Fareham; best larger size model, Clare Somerset, 16.

Each winner also won a year's modelling contract with the contest organiser, casting agency Cezanne International, of Fareham.

More than 300 hopefuls took part in heats in hopes of striding down the catwalk. A total of 31 were chosen for the event on Saturday.

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