A SCARECROW competition held for the first time in Rockwell Green last year could be expanded to cover the whole of Wellington.

The town’s new mayor, Cllr Marcus Barr, who organised last year’s contest with his daughter Cllr Zoe Barr, wants to make it a Wellington-wide annual event.

Town councillors will discuss the idea at their monthly meeting in the United Reformed Church Hall on Monday evening (June 5).

Cllr Marcus Barr said the event would be run through the school summer holidays with entries registered via the council and judged by councillors viewing scarecrows in their individual wards.

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One of last year's Rockwell Green scarecrow competition entries.

He said he would personally provide the prizes for the scarecrow winners.

Last year’s scarecrow competition in Rockwell Green attracted 42 entries and was won by Lisa Holcombe, of Greenway Road, and her sons, five-year-old twins Theo and Oakley, and Preston, age six, who modelled it on their pipe-smoking granddad.

Cllr Zoe Barr said at the time she had been overwhelmed by how enthusiastic Rockwell Green families had been and the amount of effort which had gone into the variety of scarecrow themes.

The entries covered everything from a traditional individual straw-filled scarecrow to a construction and motor repair scene featuring an owner’s car.

Wellington Cllr Wayne Battishill said: “I think it is brilliant idea from our new mayor and I know lots of families on the Cades estate where I live will just love to get involved with channeling their children’s creative skills into making scarecrows.”