A UKULELE-playing pensioner and a ten-year-old future singing star were named winners of this year’s Wordsley’s Got Talent show.

Malcolm Palmer, aged 75, from Gornal, won the adult section of the second annual competition - staged by the organisers of Wordsley Festival.

While ten-year-old Stourbridge singer Elysia Rae Faux won the kids’ section of the show which was held on Saturday May 21 at Wordsley’s Richardson Hall.

Mr Palmer, who runs the Stourbridge branch of the George Formby Society, won over the judges with his lively banjo ukulele playing antics and personable persona - despite three failed attempts to make it on TV’s Britain’s Got Talent. He said after picking up his trophy: “I’m really thrilled. I’ve never won anything in my life.”

Meanwhile children's section winner, St Joseph’s School pupil Elysia, was "overjoyed" after impressing the judges with her rousing Amy Winehouse-inspired rendition of Valerie. Her proud mum Marie Faux added: “We’re absolutely delighted; she loves singing.”

Guitar soloist Adam Foxall, aged 19, from Amblecote, was voted into second place in the adult category - and third place went to Wordsley/Kingswinford based female singing duo Affinity.

In the children’s section - ten-year-old musical theatre star in the making Thomas Withers from Kingswinford took home the second place trophy and 13-year-old singer Jessica Powell from Wall Heath came third.

Both winners and the runners-up will all perform at this year’s Wordsley Festival taking place in King George V Park, Bells Lane, Wordsley, on Saturday June 18.

Competition organiser Neil Morris said of the performers: “They’re just what we were looking for.”