AN award-winning takeaway is offering customers their weight in chips if they can guess the height of the Redcar Beacon - in chips.

Oliver’s Fish ‘n’ Chips is offering the weighty prize as part of a fun competition to mark National Chip Week, which takes place between February 16 and 22.

Mike and Helen Roberts are challenging customers to guess how many Oliver’s chips standing end to end it would take to reach the height of the Redcar Beacon.

“We wanted to celebrate National Chip Week and our Redcar heritage in a fun way, so we’ll be asking all of our customers to take a guess,” said head fryer Mr Roberts.

“Whoever is closest to the correct answer will win their weight in chips, to be served at their own convenience whenever they visit Oliver’s Takeway.”

Mike and Helen are also hoping that Oliver’s can win the National Chip Week’s Best Chippy Awards, having recently become one of Teesside’s first eateries to earn a Certificate of Excellence from online review website Trip Advisor.

Based on Bath Street, between Redcar seafront and Redcar High Street, the shop, formerly known as Russell’s, was bought by the couple three years ago and renamed Oliver’s after their two-year-old son.