Why Miss Bath competition is now attracting star students

Young women from Bath are proving you can have brains as well asbeauty as they battle it out to represent the city in the MissEngland pageant.

The organisers of the traditional competition are searching forgirls to buck the stereotype of the beauty queen and bring it up todate for the present day.

One of those hoping to represent Bath in the national finals is17-year-old Lina White, who is studying for A-levels in maths,further maths, economics, chemistry and Spanish at Ralph AllenSchool.

Over the summer she picked up 12 A*s in her GCSEs and is hopingto show people a new side to her in the contest.

Lina said: "My parents were the people who …