Top ugly mug pulls her last face

Kath Taylor pulls her world championship winning face

After years of making herself look as ugly as possible, a champion gurner says she has pulled her last face.

Kath Taylor from Cumbria was crowned women's champion at the World Gurning Championships held at the Egremont Crab Fair last September.

But after one year at the top, Ms Taylor has decided to retire from competition.

Gurning sees contestants put their heads through a horse collar and pull the most gruesome or daft expressions.

Ms Taylor said she has enjoyed the recognition which has come with her title: "Children stop and say 'Come on, take your teeth out and let's see you do the gurning', so I do it if it makes them happy, and they go away laughing."

She passed on her secret to the next world champion: "You can only do it good if you have got dentures, you can't do it with your own teeth in."