WHEN Ivan Pratt found himself struggling to find a celebrity to pick his new shop's grand draw winner, there was only one person that he could turn to -his mother.
Ivan, from Gainford, opened the Iron Horse Cyclery, in Clark's Yard, Darlington, last month, and decided to hold the draw for a new imported Iron Horse Adirondac bike as a promotion.
But when it came to pulling the name of the lucky winner out of the hat, he found his mother Anne was the only person who could turn on the glamour - with her impersonation of rock star Tina Turner.
Dressed as the veteran singer, Anne went along to the bike shop, turned some heads and drew the name of Scott Sweeny, from Darlington, out of the hat to win the bike.
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