A GRAND total of 207 babies have been entered in our great Baby of the Year 2009 competition.

The work of collating them has now been completed and they will all appear in a special eight-page supplement two weeks today, 24 April.

We will be asking our readers to vote to whittle the number down to just 160 finalists, 80 bonny boys and 80 gorgeous girls.

The competition will then progress in the normal way with a series of weekly heats followed by a grand final when our top two babies will be chosen.