OSCAR-WINNING animator Nick Park may be facing some tough competition - from schoolgirl Kathryn Lang's dad!

Philip Lang, 42, has painted larger-than-life cartoons of the popular Wallace and Gromit characters on his daughter's bedroom wall.

And they have met with approval from the Preston-based Oscar recipient. Philip, of Livesey Branch Road, Feniscowles, Blackburn, said Kathryn was a big fan and he liked to draw in his spare time, so he painted the characters on to her wall.

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