DORSET mums Kirsty Taylor-Gallop, 32, and Clara Taylor-Gallop, 26, celebrated winning a top award for their blog.

The pair from Blandford won the UK’s Most Innovative Parent Blog in the fifth annual Mum and Dad (MAD) blog awards, which celebrate the UK’s parent blogging community.

More than 250,000 nominations and votes were submitted in the awards this year, with just 75 finalists.

They were presented with their trophy and a brand new home streaming system and games console at a ceremony in London.

Kirsty said: “I am delighted and amazed to have won this award. I started writing a blog in 2012 as a way to share our adventures as same sex parents and it’s grown from there. Being an award winner means the world to us, and all our family are so proud.”

Sally Whittle, founder of the MAD Blog Awards said: “The MAD Blog Awards celebrates the thousands of parents up and down the country who have discovered blogging as a way to capture family memories and make new friends.

“The standard of entries this year was incredible, and we’re so proud of all our winners for what they’ve achieved.”