May 16, 2007

A DELIGHTED Dumbarton man has been announced as the lucky winner of a once in a lifetime cruise on Cunard’s Queen Mary 2.

He now has to decide who will join him on the trip to New York.

John Clifford triumphed in Saturday’s Grand Final in front of hundreds of shoppers at the Clyde Shopping Centre in Clydebank.

In the quiz-based challenge John narrowly pipped Bankie Liz McGinlay and Susan Talbot from Bonhill to the finishing line — winning the star prize of a six night transatlantic cruise to the Big Apple on Cunard’s flagship, the world’s biggest ocean liner.

John revealed he was ecstatic to win but he has now been left with the dilemma of who to take with him.

He said: “The only problem I have now is deciding who to take with me, but I’ve narrowed it down to my mum or girlfriend. I’ll have to toss a coin. I still can’t believe I’ve won.

“It really hasn’t sunk in yet. It’s such an amazing prize.”

The Cruise Control competition - organised by YOUR Radio in conjunction with the Reporter and our sister titles, the Helensburgh Advertiser, the Clydebank Post and the Greenock Telegraph - had been running for four weeks.

YOUR Radio programme controller Dave Ross was delighted with the response.

He said: “It was a fantastic finale to our biggest ever competition and from the thousands of entries we have a very worthy winner.”