Nominations are now open for our Gwent's Best Mum competition 2019

We are launching our Gwent’s Best Mum competition to find the most inspirational mums in the region.

We want you to send us a photo of you together and tell us, in up to 200 words, why your mum deserves to be crowned Gwent’s Best Mum.

We will feature the best entries on our website and in the paper ahead of Mother’s Day on March 31.

The prize is Spring afternoon tea in the Olive Tree Garden Room and an Indulgent Manicure at the Beauty Bar, sponsored by Celtic Manor, and a rejuvenating facial and massage of your choice sponsored by Jenna McDonnell beauty salon, on Chepstow Road.

You have until Wednesday March 13, at 5pm to enter.

small team of Argus editorial staff will then pick a winner.

Last year’s competition was won by Jayne Long from Nantyglo. The mum from Nantyglo was nominated by her niece, 20-year-old Summer Thomas.

Last year's winner (www.christinsleyphotography.co.uk)

Miss Thomas’ mother Clair died from a sudden brain haemorrhage when she was 31-years-old.

She said “When I was five-years-old my mother died. My aunt Jayne, who had three children of her own, took in me and my sister.

“Without her I believe we would have ended up in foster care. She treated me and my sister as though we were her own children and we never went without anything.

“She’s so selfless and she helped me get through losing my Mam. It shows just how close we are at the fact I don’t call her my aunty but my Mam. I owe a lot to this woman and a thank-you just wouldn’t be enough.”

When told she had won Mrs Long said: “I am overwhelmed. My sister died in 2004 and it was a big shock. We were very close and losing her was awful.

“I decided to take her children on with my husband. I have three of my own children but growing up they were with us most days anyway, so they settled in quite well.”

To enter, e-mail your photo and up to 200 words to: leah.powell@newsquest.co.uk with your name, age, where you and your mum are from and a contact phone number.