A LOCAL woman who found herself at the centre of national media attention at the weekend said the whole story had been sexed up.

Former Guernsey Press reporter Emma Cunningham and colleagues from the Bramley WI Lite posed glamorously for a calendar to raise money for a children’s hospice.

But she said the story that originally appeared in her local newspaper, The Basingstoke Gazette, had since been blown out of proportion. The national media were focusing on a dispute with another WI and the suggestion on the calendar that the Bramley group could be the sexiest WI in the country.

Miss Cunningham woke on Saturday to find her photograph in many of the national newspapers, including the front of The Telegraph. ‘It’s been absolutely crazy,’ she said. ‘Since I woke this morning my phone has been ringing off the hook.  It’s been just like a scene from a farce and I guess this must be my 15 minutes of fame. It’s been upsetting to have the story twisted like this, but if it sells calendars and raises money for the hospice, it will all be worth it.’

Miss Cunningham, 35, came to Guernsey aged six and her parents, Mike and June, still live here.