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Normans competition winner on top of the world...

If you are going to win a great prize with a great music image then why not go the whole hog...

Winner
 

The winner of the Normans Picture Image competition to win a Zoom Q4 Handy Video Recorder has been revealed — and what an image they won it with too!

Congratulations

Congratulations go to Gur Rotkop — who as you can see, had perhaps got himself the best place in the world to do a spot of trombone practice…

Amazing

Jonty Hines of Normans told 4BR: “Out thanks go to everyone who entered – there were some quite brilliant images and we found it a really difficult decision to make.

It was Gur’s amazing image that topped everything though, and we are sure the Video Recorder will come in handy for his next practice venue!”

It was Gur’s amazing image that topped everything though, and we are sure the Video Recorder will come in handy for his next practice venue!Jonty Hines

Find out more

To find out more about Normans go to: http://www.normans.co.uk/

Clearance items:

There are some brilliant clearance deals on offer at the moment too...

http://www.normans.co.uk/c-310-clearance-items.aspx

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