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The new Miss England was revealed to nation on Friday, when Laura Coleman was crowned the beauty pag

eant winner. The 22 year old graduate, is a former Miss Derby, and had to compete against 49 other British contestants to win the coveted national title and £5000 in prize money.

Laura

is in a long line of successful beauty competitors. Her mother, Dena, 56, a Miss UK finalist in 1975 and a former Miss Coventry and Miss East Anglia, won a total of 15 titles in her career as a professional beauty pageant winner. And her grandmother, Irene Patrick, 85 won the Miss Lovely Legs competition in the 19

40’s and was a Miss Army pin up. She even wore a dress that her mother had worn in 1975 Miss UK finals, which she believes brought her luck during the heat stages in this year’s competition.

Coleman lists her top interests as culture, politics, fashion, charity and she is a keen ballet and tap dancer. She graduated last week from De Montfort University in Leicester last week with a 2:1 in Business and Mar

keting.

Next stop for Coleman is the Miss World comp in the Ukraine later this year, where she will be representing England.

A row has broken out in the US as to who can really be named the real Miss North America. The Derry Company is holding it’s first Miss North America beauty pageant and they have filed suit against an Ohio company who are holding their own pageant of the same name.

North American Productions Inc, claim that they the first to file the trade name Miss North America with the New Hampshire Secretary of State in 2007. The have held 10 pageants in total since then, including ‘Miss Teen North America’, ‘Little Miss North America’ and ‘Mr North America’, and they even hold pageants for cats and dogs!

But, the Ohio based company, Miss North America Ltd., bought the website address domain ‘missteennorthamerica.com’ and ‘missnorth.america.org’. The company had filed it’s trade name in May 2007, whereas North American Productions had beaten them to it in the February.

Whilst North America Productions Inc has described this as deliberate name stealing to destroy their pageant system, undermine it’s success and prevent profitability, the Ohio company have hit back saying they when they were being threatened by NAP they didn’t even own the trademark, and they have decided to dismantle the website because it’s just too much trouble!