5 JANUARY 1968, Page 28

Junior winners

Although not many competitors tried to imitate the style of a favourite author, there were several first class entries. W. R. McGaffin's advertisement for a coffin-sale showed a rare sense of the macabre, but the winner of the 13-15 age group was without a doubt Diana Berthoud's parody of a Tory political broad- cast. The other guinea goes to the ten year old Shaw twins, whose entries were both careful and imaginative. Gail Smyth gets ten shillings for identifying the source of the words as Dickens's A Christmas Carol.