A BEWDLEY babe in the running to be named the UK's sexiest "girl next door" by a major men's magazine said Wyre Forest residents have been voting in their droves to scoop her the top £10,000 prize.manager of the Talbot Inn in Bewdley, Sally Mauger, is urging regulars to vote for former employee Kayleigh Pearson.

Kayleigh Pearson, 18, said the votes had poured in to FHM after readers picked her as one of 10 "High Street Honeys", featured in the latest issue of the magazine.

She said: "A lot of clubs and bars here and in Worcester, where I am a student, have been getting people to vote. One bar won't let people in unless they vote for me!"

Among Kayleigh's champions are staff at the Talbot Inn, Bewdley, where the sports studies student worked behind the bar before she left to study at Worcester University College.

Manager Sally Mauger said: "We have accosted every single customer we can to get them to fill out the voting form. We are getting between 70 and 100 votes a day."

But Kayleigh, who went to Bewdley High School, was this week fighting another battle - to win back her health in time for the November 17 ceremony in London, where the winner will be announced.

She said: "I got the flu and I had to do a photo shoot for FHM. I felt like the most unsexiest person in the world!"

Vote for Kayleigh at www.fhm.com/honeys, by fax on 020 7343 3000 or by post to FHM High Street Honeys 2003, FHM, Mappin House, 4 Winsley Street, London W1W 8HF.