GLASGOW'S cutest kids are about to get the chance to shine.

The Evening Times has begun the search for this year's Times Tot.

Starting on Monday photographers will be poised and ready to capture this year's hopefuls.

The search begins at the St Enoch centre.

On Tuesday and Wednesday the team will head to intu Braehead and on Thursday and Friday they will set up their mobile studio in The Forge Shopping Centre, beside Primark.

Pictures will be taken between 9.30am and 5.30pm throughout the week and we are aiming to capture hundreds of smiling tots who will hope to win the hearts of our readers.

Babies and children up to the age of four can have their pictures taken - for free - at the city malls by Evening Times photographers.

The pictures will be published in the the Evening Times newspaper and all the photographs will be available to buy.

Readers will then vote for their favourite by telephone, text or by filling in a form that will appear in the newspaper, and which counts as a double vote.

This year the Evening Times is teaming up with the St Enoch Centre, intu Braehead and The Forge Shopping Centre to find our winner.

More than 40,000 people cast their votes in last year's competition and little Carson Lambert, who was six-months-old at the time, beat off competition from over 600 others to come out on top.

Carson won £1,000, a £250 Hamley's voucher, a £250 St Enoch Centre voucher as well as a Times Tots trophy and certificate.

His mum, Tracy, said she "couldn't stop crying" when she heard the news.

Cute Carson was closely followed by two-year-old Lola McDowell who took second place, and sixteen-month-old Ava Kate Anderson who was placed third.

This year the winner will take home £1000, a £150 gift card from St Enoch, £150 gift card from intu Braehead and £150 gift card from The Forge Shopping Centre.

Anne Ledgerwood, general manager at St Enoch's, said last year that Times Tots was one of the most popular events at the Glasgow shopping centre.

She said: "As a family- focused shopping destination, Times Tots is one of our most important- and popular -events.

"Each year it attracts hundreds of families to have free photographs taken of their little ones and be in with a chance of winning one of our amazing prizes."