A WEST Grimstead builder has scooped a hotly-contested accolade.

Nick Wigmore, of Walden Homes Ltd, has been awarded the NHBC Pride in the Job Single Home Commendation winner for the stand-out work on Church Barn, Common Road, Whiteparish.

The builder fended off competition from thousands of rival building businesses to be picked winner of the south west.

He said: "I have been building bespoke quality homes in the Salisbury area now for more than 12 years and am honoured to be able to receive this award, which will presented to me by the chief executive of the NHBC in Exeter in September."

Nick, a former pupil of Cathedral School and Bishop Wordsworth's, is to put the property on the market within the next two months.