VOTE FOR ME!!! (please)

After many weeks of growing tension, excitement and anticipation, online voting for this year's Sunbeams bonny baby competition has finally opened.

Promoted by everyone's favourite family newspaper The Sun (what?!), more than 30,000 eager kiddies have submitted their pics (kids are very good with cameras and stuff these days) and that number now has to be whittled down to a mere 100 by the great British public.

I've spent considerable time deciding where my vote will go and, after much soul-searching, have chosen to support the claims of a young man from Pudsey, West Yorkshire by the name of Jamie White.

Should you wish to join me in recognising the fact that big babies are people too, then you can by following these instructions:

• Click on to http://sunbeams.thesun.co.uk/


• Type Jamie White into the box and press search


• Click on to the picture of the large, smiley child that appears in the top left hand corner


• Scroll down to the red box which reads VOTE FOR JAMIE WHITE


• Click on to it


• Pat yourself on the back


• Get back to work

Voting closes at midday next Wednesday (16 September), so you haven't got long.

Between now and then, Jamie and I would encourage you - to use that famous Ulster phrase - to "vote early and vote often" (particularly if you know how to delete cookies on your PC).

Needless to say I will remind you about this again before next week. And then I'll let you know how he gets on.

I reckon, with a bit of luck and some help from Simon Cowell, he could become the new SuBo.