A Churchill teenager has won a national singing contest.

The first Singer of the Year competition by Rotary International was won by 17-year-old Josephine Goddard in Chelmsford Cathedral on Saturday.

Last year the talented teenager won a competition spanning the 51 Rotary clubs in Somerset, West Dorset and West Wiltshire.

She was sponsored by the Rotary Club of Wrington Vale to attend the national final in Chelmsford.

The event was attended by Rotary representatives from across the country, as well as the Mayor and Mayoress of Chelmsford.

Josephine was presented with her award, together with the award for runner-up of the overall Young Musician Competition, by Ian Thomson, the president of Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland.

The Bristol Grammar School pupil will now give a solo concert at Barrow Gurney Church as part of the Barrow Gurney Festival, and she will appear as Mabel in The Pirates Of Penzance at the Bristol Cabot Choir's Come and Sing event.