AN up-and-coming web designer has won first prize in a national competition.

Peter Bell won the £2,000 cash prize in the competition run by home study provider SkillsTrain to find the student whose life has most improved this Christmas.

The 35-year-old, from Alnwick Road, in Durham City, has been studying

web design

with the distance learning company for the last year, and is now starting to attract commercial interest.

He is already running his own evening classes in computing and

web design

and is now working on two commercial projects,

designing web sites

for a neighbour’s business and the local Indian takeaway.

Mr Bell said: “This has come at exactly the right time.

“My

web design

business is taking off and now with this win I’ll be able to treat the family this Christmas.”

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