A beautiful Canvey baby has been named the cutest in the country!

Katie Hills, just ten months-old, won the hearts of judges in a national competition which will see her in a national TV ad campaign.

Gorgeous Katie Hill fought off competition from hundreds of other hopeful tots.

Cutie - toddler Katie Hills Picture: ROBIN WOOSEY

Her prize is to become the new face of Metanium, a nappy rash cream. She has already starred in a photo-shoot for Prima magazine, who ran the competition and in the future she will be pictured in magazines and posters across the country.

Proud mum Sally, 28, of Norton Avenue, Canvey said: "I'm delighted, there is no other word for it. "Everyone thinks their own baby is lovely but now other people think so to."

Published Friday November 1, 2002

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