ASPIRING model, Zoe Collinson, 14, a Year 10 pupil at Albany, took time out from her busy schedule to tell us about her exciting plans for the future.

Zoe, who wants to be a model when she is older, has come a step closer to realising her ambitions.

She is currently signed to Eurokids Modelling Agency in Warrington, after agreeing a two-year contract last September.

She is also on the books of Ray's Casting Agency, which supplies television with extras for programmes and adverts.

She has wanted to be a model since a very early age, after entering numerous beauty competitions with success.

Her portfolio of photographs was produced by Eurokids in September and Zoe is using it to forward her ambitious plans, and is currently waiting for news concerning work from a media agency in Sheffield.

Zoe, wants to be a 'supermodel' for the glamour, the lifestyle and the money.

Her successes to date include the Adlington Carnival Queen in August 1998, coming in the top seven in the North West Junior Queen of the Year.

She was second in the Great Britain Princess 1994 and the British Isles Junior Queen in 1995.

At the Clothes Show in December 1998, she was approached by modelling agency Select who took a polaroid picture and her details.

Watch this space!

Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.