We apologise to readers of the Barking and Dagenham Post whose children appeared in the Cut Kids pull-out in this week’s issue.

Unfortunately, due to a printing error, some of the entrants’ pictures were blurred or distorted. This only affected a limited run of copies but we want to assure our readers that we take the issue extremely seriously and have therefore decided to re-print the eight-page pull-out in our next issue (August 29).

We apologise again for any upset this may have caused but urge readers to get their votes in and help crown the borough’s cutest kid next month.