by Trevor Sturgess, business editor

A talented Kent photographer is focusing her business on glamorous models - including Page Three girl Peta Todd, girlfriend of champion cyclist Mark Cavendish.

After years as a newspaper staffer, Alison Webster, from Goudhurst, set up a freelance enterprise to snap Page Three girls and take corporate shots for catalogues and advertisers.

Alison, circled, often uses locations close to her home - as well as accompanying the models for shoots in Ibiza, Tenerife and Spain.

The mother-of-two says they have become part of the family and are far from a "dumb blonde" stereotype.

"Like everybody else, I thought that if you are a model, you must be stupid," she said. "How wrong I've been."

Her subjects, including Peta, recently met up at the Green Cross Inn, Goudhurst.

Alison's daughter Charlie Jacks, now a singer, has been a model.

"It's fun," she said. "We're like a little family and we all look out for each other. It's good having my mum doing this."

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