SIX young Middlesbrough fans will learn today if they are to be models.

The Carling Cup winners are looking for six hopefuls - four girls and two boys - to model a range of strips so supporters can choose the club's new away kit.

The winning Boro Babes and Boys will take part in a range of modelling assignments for the club over the next 12 months.

They will also feature on Boro TV, the centre pages of the Boro matchday programme, the club's official retail catalogue and website.

Boro's commercial manager, Graham Fordy, said: "The standard of entries was the best ever so we thank all those fans who have sent in their photographs. Unfortunately, there can only be six winners.''

The girls shortlisted this year are: 16-year-old Eleanor Sands, from Hartlepool, Toni Simpson, 20, from Billingham, Katie Medd, 19, from Acklam, Middlesbrough, Zoe Lee Parry, from Ormesby, 19-year-old Sarah Louise Manning, from Middlesbrough, Claire Bloomfield, 17, from Guisborough and 17-year-old Amy Brown, from Netherfields, Middlesbrough.

The shortlisted boys are: Jay Parry, 17, from Middlesbrough, 20-year-old Matthew Alessi, from Ingleby Barwick, 17-year-old Sean Angell, from Guisborough, and Mark Curran, 19, from Saltburn.