Spotlight on ... Laura Diamond

Position: Qualified nursery nurse What made you enter the Miss Newcastle contest? My mum and boyfriend have been telling me to enter for years now. I'd always wanted to but never had the confidence. Then this year I thought, it's the start of a new year, why not do something different? I'm down to the final 20. What happens next? The winner will be announced at an event at the Marriott hotel in Gateshead, on Thursday (8 May). She will go through to the semi-finals of Miss England and gets £500 cash, plus £500 vouchers for the Nu-Age Medical Spa, who are sponsoring...