Here are the two prizewinners of Dawlish's children's creative writing competition on the theme of the WaveWalker: TJ and Nahla.

The eight-legged walking jack-up barge, brought in to build the seafacing foundations of the new sea wall, was locally nicknamed 'Luke Wavewalker', and attracted a lot of interest from local residents and visitors. It departed last month after completing the work.

In December, the Mayor of Dawlish Alison Foden announced a writing competition for children, who were invited to create a story about 'Luke'.

She has now awarded prizes and certificates to TJ, aged 12, and Nahla who is almost five, on their doorsteps, following a brief ceremony on Zoom.

The Mayor and her co-judge Diane Flavin, the Dawlish librarian, agreed that they should be joint winners.

Cllr Foden said "Both TJ and Nahla are worthy winners and we know the entrants had worked really hard on their stories.

"TJ's entry also mentioned our famous Orange Army, while Nahla's included a lovely drawing of Luke. Congratulations to them both".

TJ's winning entry:

Big storms come and go

Railway lines, defences and more

Try as they might they could not manage

But the wall, it was quite a sight

So along came Luke The sea Walker king

All the big rocks into place

Showing us what is meant to be

Of things to come, where life would be

One night Luke and Owl saw an alien! The alien took all the stuff. He turned the sea red! Luke was sad. Owl flies to get the stuff back! Yay!