A LUCKY winner of Cotswold MP Geoffrey Clifton-Brown's Christmas photo competition, Maurice Dyson of Frampton Mansell, will be seeing their photo on the MP's Christmas card.

Mr Dyson will be seeing his photo of Frampton Mansell Church on Mr Clifton-Brown's Christmas card, which will be circulated among his mailing list, and will be receiving £50 as a prize.

Mr Clifton-Brown launched a photo competition in September to select the best picture for his Christmas card.

He invited Cotswold constituents to submit photos containing a Christmas or winter theme, but which did not contain people.

Entries were judged by Mr Clifton-Brown and his team and a decision was made on October 17.

Mr Clifton-Brown said: "I’d like to thank Wilts and Glos Standard for helping me publicise this competition in particular. 

"I would like to congratulate Maurice Dyson, who has lived in the Cotswolds for 50 years, and for whom Frampton Mansell Church means a great deal to him as well as thousands of others who have been associated with it.

"The scene is an iconic neo-Norman Cotswolds’ stone building and landscape with the snow depicting wintery conditions symbolising Christmas."

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Maurice Dyson, an artist living in Frampton Mansell, described the village as "a lovely, quiet village resting on the side of a Cotswold valley".

He said that he was very pleased his winter image would be seen in many homes and perhaps many countries, and expressed his thanks to Mr Clifton-Brown for choosing it.

Maurice has lived in the Cotswolds for 50 years, expressing his love for the area in prose, poetry, drawings and paintings and his art work can be found in several countries

He said: "My desire is that all who see this picture will be blessed with God's peace and love this Christmas and always."