Lydia Clark's beauty queen dream

Lydia Clark.
Lydia Clark.
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A HAMPSHIRE schoolgirl is hoping that Daily Echo readers can help her become a teenage beauty queen.

Lydia Clark from Lyndhurst has beat off competition from more than 9,000 girls to reach the semifinals of Teenage Queen UK.

The 14-year-old Hounsdown School pupil was asked to enter when she was at the Birmingham Clothes Show and is up against 50 other girls. The two with the most votes online will get a place in the London final. To vote for Lydia text TP30 to 81319. Texts cost 75p, plus usual network charge.

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