Maidah with her winning design (Image: BBFC)

An 11-year-old Liverpool schoolgirl has won a national competition that will see her artwork displayed on cinema screens across the country before every UK showing of Wicked: For Good.

Maidah, a student at North Liverpool Academy in Everton , beat more than 700 young artists to win the British Board of Film Classification’s (BBFC) Create the Card competition, held in partnership with Universal Pictures. Her vibrant design, featuring a hand-in-hand Glinda and Elphaba walking toward the Emerald City, will appear as the official BBFC Black Card when the film opens in cinemas on Friday, November 21.

For her art teacher, Jade Miller, 23, the victory is nothing short of life-changing. Miss Miller told the ECHO : "Maidah was a talented stude

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