IT'S taken two years but a grandfather and grandson duo have raised the Titanic!

Nobby Clarke, 67, and 11-year-old Cory Robinson have shown they are ship-shape when it comes to model building by completing a model of the legendary doomed ship.

The nimble-fingered pair have spent every spare minute of the last two years working on the beauty. Nobby, of Park Place, Feniscowles, Blackburn, said: "It's a magnificent model. We both feel really good that we have completed it."

Nobby said his grandson, who attends St Bede's High School, Blackburn, has been excellent at model building.

Since he was nine years old, Cory popped down to his grandad's house at least three times a week to work on the boat.

Nobby is a former engineer in the Star Paper Mill, now Sappi, off Livesey Branch Road, Blackburn.

His love of engineering, and the fact that his father and grandfather were both in the Navy, inspired him and Cory.