11.   TOP prize winners in the Stanley and District Mid-Week Games League were Lanchester Social Club and South Moor Social Club.

12.   A RETIRED businessman who kept his sense of humour despite discovering he had cancer has won a top prize for his comic poetry.

13.   STUDENT and part-time chef Michael Pearson has won a top national prize in the first competition he has entered.

14.   Top prize is a day at a recording studio.

15.   Earlier this year he took third prize for his leeks in the British Championship and scooped the top prize in the Welsh Onion Championship.

16.   American Family Publishers randomly hands out a smaller award, waiting as long as another year to award its top prize.

17.   And on the final day, sailing a near-flawless race, they almost earned the top prize.

18.   Another beneficiary of this change is Emir Kosturica, the Yugoslav film director whose latest work recently won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

19.   Barry Douglas lives up to his promise by taking the bronze medal, one year before taking the top prize at the Tchaikovsky in Moscow.

20.   A little more than two months ago, Hollywood made history when Halle Berry and Denzel Washington took home the top acting prizes at the Academy Awards.