A publishing company is looking for the Leigh poetry champ of the Millennium.

One writer will represent each of the nation's towns in The National Poetry Anthology.

Entry is free.

Editor, Peter Quinn, said: "We're looking for poems on any subject, but they must not have been previously published."

Send three poems on any subject (upto 20 lines and 160 words each) with a first class stamp to United Press, 1, Yorke Street, Burnley, BB11 1NW, by the closing date, June 30.

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