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There will also be model displays to feast ones eyes upon and, as a feast for the body, the Village Hall Committee will be serving refreshments all day, including the now the famous - we could almost say ‘world famous’ – bacon butties.
December 2nd 2012 is the date for this year’s HaMeX model show. It started purely as a
ne-off event in 2009, but has grown in
opularity, and so this is its fourth year. Originally called the ‘Hanslope Model Expo’,
Entry price is a very modest £2 for adults and any young people, 16 and under, are allowed in free – provided they are with a paying adult. Entry fees are donated to the Village Hall funds.
s it is based in Hanslope’s Village Hall just orth of Milton Keynes, this soon got hortened to HaMeX. It has also seen two ffshoots; the car show – Automodellismo, eld in April, and new for this year in July, the ighly successful smallspace, the show for pace, science fiction and fantasy modelling.
The location is Hanslope Village Hall, Newport Road, Hanslope, Bucks MK19 7NZ, opening times 10am through to 5pm.
HaMeX itself is mainly intended as a ‘kit wap’ – a place where modellers – and nyone for that matter – can come along, rowse amongst what is on offer, and maybe et an idea for an early Christmas present!
Visitors at the second show, with some of the models on offer
PCC Election Apathy
Some tables are still available, and full details of the show and the venue are at www.hamex.co.uk. Or contact the organisers
Paul Fitzmaurice: paul@hamex.co.uk (01234 711980) or Mat Irvine: mat@hamex.co.uk (01908 510191).
A costly fiasco or just teething problems? Only time will tell!
When the polling stations opened at 7.00am
Newport, Wales had no voters at all! In another, applause greeted voters after a long delay; the officials must have been bored out of their minds as the day progressed and the heating in the empty halls failed to keep them warm.
The chief executive of ERS was quoted as saying, “This election has been a comedy of errors from start to finish. Polling stations are standing empty because voters knew next to nothing about the role, let alone the candidates they were expected to pick from.” In our own Thames valley area there were six candidates, two independents and the other four all affiliated to political parties. It was sad to note, for those of us who had managed to access the information that the political candidates had had their ‘mission
statements’ prepared by their agents! So, it proved to be no easy task to make one wise choice, let alone two!
The turnout countrywide proved to be in the region of 14%, even lower than the previous lowest poll - the European elections in 1999 with a 23% turnout.
n Thursday, 15th November 2012, the Electoral Reform Society (ERS) had
redicted that there would be a low turnout or the election of Police and Crime
At a cost of £75 million we now have 16 Conservative, 13 Labour and encouragingly, 12 independent Police Commissioners countrywide. They will have the power to hire and fire chief constables, set police strategies and budgets and, in theory, have as their aim ‘to make sure the police provide a good service’. We wish them ‘luck’ in the difficult task ahead, in particular Andrew Stansfeld (Conservative), the new PCC for our own Thames Valley area. Ariel
Commissioners in the 41 police authority reas. They were to be proved right! hroughout the long day, reports were being
eceived that all was far from well. It, vidently, took more than two hours for the rst vote to be cast in one Leeds polling tation and six hours in one location in
Cumbria before 11 voters had exercised their ght. Believe it or believe it not, one station in
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