A CHARITY is set to benefit from the super smile of the winner of the Courier’s Bonnie Baby competition.

Cute little George Thomson-Tait claimed £300 for his family after he was crowned the winner of the competition, which attracted thousands of votes from throughout the county.

Proud mum Shannon Thomson was delighted to win and revealed her plans for the prize money.

She said: “I was actually thinking of donating it to a local drug charity that is close to my heart but I am going to split the money.

“I’m going to give £150 to MELD (Mid and East Lothian Drugs) and £150 will go into George’s bank account.”

George, who turns one on January 11, is not the first member of the family to win the competition.

Shannon, of Tranent, told the Courier she had been inspired to enter him after a previous success.

She said: “My niece, Felicity Thomson, won the competition about five years ago.

“She won and my mum told me to put George in the competition as well.”

Friends and family all bought copies of the Courier and filled in the coupons to help George to be crowned the winner.

He also had a helping hand from customers at Tranent Post Office, where his 25-year-old mum works.

Her dad, George Thomson, was the town’s postmaster and is behind the redevelopment of the former Co-op building at the junction of Tranent’s High Street and Church Street.

She described her son as “a good baby, funny and always up to nonsense”.