SOPHIE Lydia Smith is more at home wearing hard hats and high vis jackets than ball gowns thanks to her role as a building surveyor for Stroud District Council.

However, the 24-year-old former Cirencester College student is hoping SNJ readers will vote for her to be crowned Miss England when the finals take place at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry next month.

The current Miss Cheltenham can lay bricks and do limestone walling and this belle certainly doesn't conform to the stereotypical view of a beauty queen.

She said: "If SNJ readers text 'MISS ENGLAND47' to 63333 texts cost just 50p each! Any support over the next few weeks would be greatly appreciated."

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