SCULPTOR Graham Ibbeson has completed a rather unusual commission - for a cricket tournament and the prime minister of Albania.

Graham has created miniature lifelike images of comedian Sir Norman Wisdom - who he met and sculpted many years ago and who loved Graham's work. 

He explained: "To Albanians Norman Wisdom was bigger and better than Justin Timberlake, the Beatles and Elvis Presley all rolled into one.

"That's why this is such an honour and I do like the idea of a small statue of mine of a funny little man being competed for in a cricket tournament. Then one is being presented to the prime minister of Albania, that is so funny.

"Created in my studio in Cockerham Lane and being handed to a president, life is just full of surprises."