A BOLTON mum and her two sons have hot footed it into the final of a top line dancing contest. Anita Ellison and her boys David, 13, and Shaun, 12, of Eldon Street, Tonge Moor, are set to dazzle judges at Southport with a dancing display they devised themselves. The family trio form part of an eight-strong line dancing group that will take to the floor at the seaside resort's Floral Hall in November.

It only took the boys and their schoolteacher mum two hours to create the dance which they have called the Dolores Charleston and which Mrs Ellison claims includes a totally new line-dancing step, the Black Bottom, which they have invented.

The routine includes a total of 64 steps which are repeated four times in a routine which lasts about three minutes

The routine has already impressed judges at a regional heat held at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool, which saw them pitched in the top 15 of nearly 80 routines.

Costumes

And Mrs Ellison is as nimble with a needle and thread as she is on the dance floor, making all her family's line dancing costumes herself.

And she revealed that she first got the line dancing bug to help shed the pounds, losing two stones within months of stepping out.

She added: "I love it and my two sons love it as well. It took about two hours to devise and then another four to write all the moves down.

"My sons and I created it from some of our favourite steps which went to the music. I added some links between them and then finished it off."

But there's no hope that the family's dancing threesome will become a quartet, for the Ellisons' patriarch says he has no ambitions to become a line-dancing expert.

Nigel Ellison, 34, a timber yard formean joked: "I've tried it once but I'll never do it again."

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