A NEWPORT schoolboy is looking forward to spending the cash he won after winning a competition to name the pandas on a city roundabout.
Nine-year-old Rhys Armstrong, a pupil at Lliswerry Junior School, christened the two pandas found on the roundabout near the Sunnydale Garden Centre, in Malpas, Kim and Billy.
Rhys' father, Andrew Armstrong, said the successful pun derives from the Kimberley Park home of the garden centre.
Rhys' school has gardening vouchers, and he won a £20 token for himself in the council-run competition advertised in the Argus.
Mr Armstrong said: "There's not much that someone of Rhys' age can buy at the garden centre, so he is trying to persuade his mother that the voucher has a retail value of £30 or £40."
Rhys said he was still "not sure" how he would spend his newly acquired wealth.
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