Home straight

Home straight

This years ‘most online votes’ is on the home straight with about 60 hours left – time for a quick update.

We have 2 films with a clear lead then 50 votes separate 3rd – 6th then a gap and again about 50 votes between 7th and 10th.

We were temporarily overwhelmed at one point (Tuesday) by the number of votes / comments so apologies if your support took longer than usual to be posted and it was clear some of the schools had well organised voting to boost their ranking (well done!).

Congratulations to those entrants that have managed to get community support via their local newspapers, this has had considerable success in getting extra votes.

If you haven’t RSVP’s to Donna better do so now – we are under siege for extra seats.

Have we told you about the live entertainment on the night?

No?

2012 was Leo Sayer (just brilliant). Last year we had ‘Boys in the Band’ and this year……?

Such is life!

Trust us, you’ll be pleased you came.

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