Billy is a hero - he's our Dog Idol 2008!

Yes, the beautiful Rough Collie is proudly the top dog in the district after winning our Dog Idol competition.
One-year-old Billy, owned by Chris France of Langford, polled the most votes out of more than 130 entrants featured here in our online gallery - and in our special Dog Idol supplement in the Biggleswade Chronicle last week.

That means Billy wins one year's supply of Pedigree food - a tasty prize for any canine and we're sure he's licking his chops already!
More than 1,200 votes were received by phone and text before the lines closed at midnight on Tuesday.

The runner-up wins a dog cleaner courtesy of Sainsbury's - and that goes to the family of Scooby, a cuddly King Charles Cavalier, aged two, owned by Tracy Smith of Potton.

We have joint third prizes of £20 each to the next two dogs. They are ten-year old Basset hound Sophie, owned by Carole Aylott of Arlesey and Boyce, six, a Jack Russell fox hound cross owned by Debbie Croot of Biggleswade.



Biggleswade Chronicle and biggleswadetoday editor Jim Stewart said: "We are delighted with the number of entries for this year's competition. The contest was tough and it was great to have so many votes.
"We are extremely grateful to Pedigree and Sainsbury's for supporting Dog Idol 2008."
Please note: The vote result is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

Just for fun, here's the list below of the 20 dogs who received the most votes:

1: 120 Billy
2: 003 Scooby
3: 024 Sophie
4: 125 Boyce
5: 022 Ernie
6: 062 Cadbury
7: 014 Scooby
8: 091 Libby
9: 066 Ben
10: 009 Toby
11: 008 Alfie
12: 054 Domino
13: 087 Joey
14: 115 Mac
15: 117 Isla
16: 089 Zara
17: 013 Stanley-Beau
18: 015 ET
19: 026 Molly
20 : 033 Charlie

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