A MAJOR cycling festival held in Peeblesshire in May beat off stiff competition to secure a top award.

TweedLove has won Singletrack Magazine’s 2015 Event of the Year Award.

The award is decided by the readers of Singletrack Magazine and users of Singletrackworld website.

Singletrack is one of the world’s biggest mountain bike media platforms, with millions of viewers and readers each month.

The award has previously been won by some of the UK’s biggest bike events, and this year the short list included the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup at Fort William and Ardrock Enduro.

Tweedlove event director Neil Dalgleish said: "We are absolutely delighted to win this -– coming out on top against such fantastic competition shows how far TweedLove has come in five short years.

"We’re proud to help put the Tweed Valley on the map and we’re looking forward to making 2016 an even better year for our festival.

"We’ll keep trying our best to put on events which do the trails here justice, get folk on their bikes and above all to put smiles on the riders’ faces – that’s what it’s always about. Thanks as ever to the incredible local community and volunteers without whom the whole thing wouldn’t happen.”

TweedLove will run from May 14 until May 30 next year. The full programme will be announced soon.