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17th May 1997
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Trail 'O'
Name Club Score Time 1 Andrew Suddaby BL 11 0:12 2 John Palmer NOC 11 0:13 3 B Barnby WCOC 11 0:16 4 Sue King SOS 11 0:17 5 Peter Palmer WCH 11 0:27 6 David Peregrine WAOC 11 0:35 7 Satu Peregrine WAOC 11 0:45 8 Alison Banham TVOC 10 w6 9 Gerry Spalton LEI 10 w6 10 John Denmark SROC 10 w4 11 M Heardsman ESOC 10 w8 12 Lorna Collett SROC 10 w10 13 Matthew Haliday OD 9 w4,6 14 Karen Bolen AIRE 9 w4,11 15 M Grennery LOG 9 w5,7 16 A Heppenstall LOC 9 w1,8 17 D Biggs HAVOC 8 w1,2,7 The correct answers: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 A B A C B A B C A C C
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Name Age Club Time (mins) Laura Evans 6 NOC 4 Jenny Evans 3 NOC 10 Daniel Halliday 11 OD 3 Matthew Halliday 5 OD 6 Joanna Halliday 7 OD 4 Jessica Halliday 9 OD 4 Jack Salt 6 IND 5 Ben Salt 3 IND 11 Nicholas Frentz 6 HH 5 Scott Bowen 4½ HH 5 Oban Lewsley 3 BL 9 Lisa Petrie 5 CLYDE 9 Gemma Petrie 3 CLYDE 10 Lauren Innes 6 BKO 5 Jeremy Frentz 3 HH 14 Thomas Clough 5 WRE 5 Matthew Clough 5 WRE 11 Harriet Haynes-Young 10 NOC 3 Mark McLeod 6 SLOW 6 Michelle and Immalee 16/18 WIM/ DEVON 7 Kate Bowen 2 HH 15 Matthew Franklin 10 SO 3 Ingrid Franklin 8 SO 4 Ben Salt - again! 3 IND 14 Charlotte Goode 7 NATO 6 Andrew Goode 5 NATO 8 Lowri Jones 6 AIRE 5 Richard Jones 5 AIRE 6 Robert Kelly 5 CLARO 6 Cerys Jones 3 AIRE 11 Ralph Street 6 SLOW 5 Duncan Birtwistle 5 CLARO 7 Greg Street 4 SLOW 11 Fraser Birtwistle 3 CLARO 8 Chris Parsons 3 SLOG 7 Tom Parsons 5 SLOG 11 Holly Pownall 4 EPOC 11 Christopher Mallinson 2 LEI 19 Oliver/Helen Watson 2 & 3 SLOW 20 Eleanor Bate 6 ESOC 6 Charlotte Ward 4 HALO 7 David Ward 7 HALO 6 Andrew Sutherland 4 SYO 14 Clare Sutherland 9 SYO 4 Mark Sutherland 7 SYO 5 Fiona Sutherland 2 SYO 14 Alex Moore 5 SO 7 Francesca Godden 4 TVOC 8 Michael Godden 7 TVOC 7 Deborah Moore 2 SO 14 Helen Gardner 10 WAOC 3 Rachel Banham 5 IVOC 8 Joanne Banham 2 TVOC 11 Peter Gardner 12 WAOC 3 Simon Gardner 8 WAOC 5 Mike Niall/ Ward O'Brien 2½ EPOC 19 Miriam Yates 7 NOC 6 Ryan Wilson 4½ SYO 6 Catherine/Lucy Taylor 7/6 CLOK 6 Bethany Schorah 5 DEE 9 Simon Anderson 3 BKO 11 Emma Jones 7 SLOW 12 Matthew Jones 3 SLOW 12 Robert Jones 5 SLOW 10 Mark Penny 3 DEE 13 Liam Nash 2 IND 18 Hazel Garton 9 BOG/NOC 4 Blair Cowan 12 BOG/NOC 3 Oliver Cuff 12 BOG/NOC 4 Hugh Denton 2 GO 27 Ben Seward 6 SBOC 6 Tom Seward 8 SBOC 5 Michael Collins 5 SPLOT 5 Andrew Collins 2 SPLOT 9 Mark Farrington 11 HOC 4 Thomas Bowering 2½ MOK 10 Mary Emberton 4 EPOC 17 Beth Emberton 7 EPOC 5 Matthew Brigginshaw 3 HH 11 Daniel Brigginshaw 1 HH 19 John Burn-Murdoch 8 IND 5 Stephen Burn-Murdoch 11 IND 4 Thomas Robertson 5 SOS 10 Anna Burn-Murdoch 5 IND 6 Jack Kelsey 4 BOK 14 Ben Kelsey 6 BOK 7 Emily Barrett 4 DVO 12 Ryan Barrett 4 DVO 12 Rachel Elsegood 8 MDOC 5 Jenny Elsegood 6 MDOC 9 Jessica Marshall 5 CLOK 6 Stuart Thomas 5 NOC 6 Craig Thomas 3 NOC 9 Owen Henley 5 GO 11 Adam Henley 2 GO 11 Lucy Fryer 8 LOC 5 Alison Fryer 6 LOC 6 Jamie Presland 7 SMOC 6 Nicola Presland 4 SMOC 7 Nicholas Cooper 5 IND 9 Simon Cooper 7 IND 7 Sarah Williams 7 EPOC 6 Blair Cowan 12 BOG 3 Oliver Cuff/Hazel Garton12/9 BOG 4 Shaun Lloyd 11 BAOC 12 Jessica Chapman 5 SO 7 Evie Chapman 2 SO 12 Martin Nilsen 9 MEROC 5 Nicholas Nilsen 4 MEROC 9 Catherine Nilsen 2 MEROC 9 Amy Kimberley 1 DVO 18 Beth/Mary Emberton 5/7 EPOC 7 Michael May 7 SLOW 5 Rachel Banham 5 IVOC 6 Christopher Bell 4 LOK 7 Jessica Appleton 2 CLARO 17 Alexandra Frost 5 TVOC 9
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Yellow
Length 2.3km, 12 controls 1 Paul Sellers M12 PFO 17:29 2 C Pakuls W8 GO 19:54 3 M Neilson 20:51 4 R Jordan M10 GO 21:16 5 O Cuff M12 BOG 21:21 6 W Daniels M12 SMOC 22:57 7 C Sutherland W10 SYO 24:13 8 K Hill W12 LEI 24:29 9 H Crews M3 25:25 10 P Cassidy M12 NOC 25:50 11 M Cassidy W9 NOC 26:06 12 N Marshall M7 CLOK 27:29 13 J Sellens M8 PFO 28:15 14 Jack Salt M6 28:47 15 A Sims W21 DVO 29:12 16 R J & A Burn-Murdoch M5 30:07 17 R Cooper 30:15 18 C Clarke 30:49 --------- Yellow Standard ------------ 19 Jessica Chapman SO 31:29 20 K Kennedy W21 SROC 31:54 21 A Graham + 1 W8 SOC 38:14 22 A Wright W4 CLOK 39:51 23 Z & C Smithard DEE 42:48 24 G Johnson W40 BOK 50:34 25 M Yates W7 NOC 50:59 26 P Riley & R TettM5 EBOR 50:59 27 R Wilson M5 SYO 54:10 28 S Gillespie M10 SROC 55:09 29 M Briggs W21 IND 55:57 30 N Neilson + 2 M4 MEROC 57:51 31 Mark Penny M3 DEE 70:16 32 Alexandra Frost W5 TVOC 71:38 Simon Murdoch M12 Retired J Gillespie M8 SROC Retired H&B Garton BOG Missing 5
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Orange
Length 3.6km, 12 controls 1 M Thomson M21 NOC 29:13 2 N Must M45 IND 31:00 3 Frankiss AW M55 WIM 32:54 4 D Souch W21 EBOR 33:25 5 Emma Jones W16 NOC 35:19 6 Ursula Crosby W50 SYO 36:59 7 Jennifer Thomas W21 ULOC 37:44 8 K Balmond W45 SWOC 39:16 9 J Drewett M21 39:18 10 J Fry W50 SLOW 39:29 11 A Mills W60 SYO 40:38 12 Alan Prosser 42:35 13 H McClintock M50 NOC 43:52 14 Miriam McLarnon W45 NGOC 45:20 15 Isabel GriffithsW50 LEI 45:23 16 C Cope W50 HALO 45:45 17 C Heath W40 SPLOT 47:10 18 T Cowton M12 WCOC 47:23 19 J Goodall W45 MEROC 47:38 20 D Fox M60 IND 48:25 21 P Schofield W45 WCH 48:28 22 A Tucker 51:07 --------- Orange Standard ------------ 23 S Poxon M12 MDOC 51:34 24 J Pitfield W50 IND 52:07 25 T Evans M21 IND 54:00 26 Zoe Fiander W12 SYO 60:26 27 D Cole M12 SMOC 62:19 28 J Wallace W21 WCOC 63:19 29 O'Kelly W40 IND 65:48 30 Jill Harrison W35 MOK 67:43 31 Sean Harrison M8 MOK 68:23 32 Justin ScholtensM10 RAFO 76:03 33 J Downe W50 CLOK 76:30 34 Katie Moncaster W10 TVOC 76:45 35 H E Biggs M75 HAVOC 84:39 36 J Taylor M10 SROC 127:11 37 Morgan Cooke M12 MDOC 128:03 38 Lewis Jones M16 IND 131:38 39 M Heardman W80 ESOC 164:56 M Holland M40 LOG Retired C Holland M40 LOG Retired L Adler M70 BKO Retired A Cheung M14 AIRE Retired
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Red
Length 6.1km, 12 controls 1 C Adams M21 SYO 30:00 2 John Hurley M40 DVO 32:07 3 J Adams M45 EPOC 32:54 4 I Dawes M21 UDOC 33:23 5 G Sellens M40 PFO 39:53 6 D Watson M12 IND 41:53 7 Iain Souch M21 EBOR 42:31 8 M White M21 IND 42:58 9 T Atkins M20 IND 44:20 10 Dale Clegg M40 AUSTL 45:00 11 Richardson M40 IND 45:13 12 J Sage M35 IND 45:34 13 Claire Leitch W21 SO 47:07 14 J Hudd W21 BOK 48:03 15 Dave Goodwin M21 NOC 48:49 16 J Peto W21 IND 49:20 17 G Farquhar M50 NZ 50:08 18 A Sage W21 NOC 51:01 19 L Dunn M50 NOC 51:11 20 J Nolan W21 SYO 52:24 21 T Haycock W21 IND 55:38 22 E Day W40 CLARO 55:53 23 J Hill W21 DEE 55:58 24 G Hyem M21 IND 56:03 25 Helena Dupee W45 SO 57:49 26 K Farquhar W45 NZ 59:00 27 P Daniels M40 SMOC 60:43 -------- Red Standard ---------------- 28 T Oates M14 AIRE 60:50 29 Andrew Suddaby M55 BL 61:16 30 C Mills M60 SYO 63:24 31 A Briggs M15 IND 65:11 32 K Bokton W21 NUOC 65:55 33 D Schofield M45 WCH 65:59 34 Cathy O'Rourke W40 LEI 69:24 35 S Hillier M16 WIM 70:27 36 Kate Fox W21 IND 71:40 37 Sue Harrison W21 IND 71:55 38 V Ameijenda 72:00 39 S Howard W40 WCH 72:59 40 Padkin W21 LOK 73:46 41 C Johnson 73:53 42 J Holmes M50 EPOC 74:36 43 G Ferry M50 IND 75:18 44 H Clarke W45 IND 82:22 45 E Artinn GUOC 82:23 46 E Morgan W60 NN 82:49 47 V Williams & A White M35 SKP 83:04 48 J Dickinson W40 PFO 83:28 49 A Bukavs M45 NOC 85:00 50 Claire E AllisonW21 WAROC 94:32 51 E Ross 100:50 52 S Smith + 1 M11 HALO 118:27 Bridget Stein W35 SBOC Retired
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Saturday the 17th came and went like a blur. There I was planning the whole day for nearly two years and it all passed by without a hitch! From my perspective there was a chain of events which knitted together to make the whole day unfold into a stream of constant activity. Much of the frantic fixing and tinkering went on unnoticed by all but a few eagle eyed competitors. So how do I start my comments on how the event unfolded.
Prior to the actual day I saw that the B6034 was to be closed to traffic. This turned out to be a blessing as it eased the pressure on the coach shuttle as they had hardly any traffic flow to hinder their smooth progress. The day before the event I arrived at the finish assembly at 8.45 am to find it deserted... good, I had beaten everyone out of bed, but not the loo hire people.. they arrived having phoned everyone find out where I was. Funny really as they weren't supposed to arrive until 12pm. Good start I thought.. and so it continued. ..Marquee people an hour late etc. etc.. Nevertheless by mid morning the site was looking a potential finish for the BOC97 event.
Up at the main assembly, branches hadn't been cut from trees to help the coach entry / exit route, no hose had been put on the tap for the drinks people and the no-one had a key for the car park entry gate! Small worries I told myself, just give it time. Helpers were on hand to put the results display boards up, the control description sheets and get out the road signs. By 3pm. all was nearly ready. Only the generators and radios needed to be picked up from Bakewell.
On returning to the main assembly, it looked great, quiet calm and waiting for the event the next day... a great memory. Next the radio check... help! the range was too short so we couldn't reach the finish in Clumber ... we'll manage. The generators worked anyway. Back at the finish assembly the team had done the bulk of the work and here too, the scene was set for the next day. Home for tea and then back up for some final checks on signs and taping... finally home at 10.15 pm, not bad.
7.15 am Saturday - smashed the lock off the gate to allow cars into the field. Is this an omen I ask? Traders arrive and pitch up no problems. At Clumber, all seems well except the start teams haven't arrived and its 9.15 am... but the map reclaim and clothing drop teams are here. Results people are getting on with things so I can relax a little --- NO not yet!. The coaches arrived at 9am at the College and 1st competitors are on the coaches .... but the start routes have not been put out! The staple gun (which I needed) is with my dad - he is talking to the coach drivers and left his radio in the equipment van. Frantic driving to retrieve the equipment and then I only just beat the early starts to the begin taping the route.
Back at main assembly the cars are coming in thick and fast... almost 1500 in all and the emergency parking is put to use! Problem... cars hitting bumpers and sumps on rocks near the parking entrance... out with the sledgehammer. Crackle... radio message... "road sign may be missing on A57" ... check ... they are ALL missing! someone has pinched the lot! rapid deployment of emergency signs.. these manage to stay out the rest of the day!
This was how the day continued.. small mishaps and contingencies were handled and brought into play. Not many people noticed all these small annoying niggles which sought to wreck the day from an organisational point of view.
My problems were sorted by adaptable helpers. The problems which occurred outside my remit, namely in the forest, were to have a bigger and more lasting impact on the whole event. My sympathies go to the planners and controller whose work was undone by such a small thing but with major consequences. They should take heart that the majority of the planning etc.. went very well on the day.
A number of big thank you's go out to all my team leaders who valiantly put up with me trying to interfere with their work when they knew perfectly well what they were doing. Particularly to my Father Alan Jones, who designed and made all the signs and other pieces of essential equipment. My family members who all contributed to the event on the day. It was reported that we only collected 3/4 of a bin liner of rubbish from both sites after you had all gone home, a feat that very few major events can boast.
The whole event would not have gone ahead without the co-operation of the N.T. and Worksop College in the use of their land for the event. Also for Johnson's coaches who did a sterling job on the shuttle. I hope everyone found the number of loos just right. These were overdone these because I hate queuing .......... don't you?
Anyone with lost property please check the items listed in the results as being handed in. If you do not receive your map from either your club representative or in with the results booklet, if you did not run, call me as I have some spare maps for each course.
I will look back fondly at all I have experienced with this years British Champs. Also wondering, will I do it again?... give me few years then ask! ... Thanks to all who came and praised much of what they saw, I appreciate it.
Andy Jones
Several championship runners were apparently confused by the colour-coded finish funnel; if this affected your concentration then I'm sorry. I hope the large number of Trail-O kites didn't distract any championship runner - I would have preferred the Trail-O not to have used the same area as the championships, but this was not possible. Most of the Trail-O competitors appreciated the course but it does seem a lot of effort for so little support.
The only downside to the event was near the end of the competition. An experienced orienteer, who should have known better, refused to hand in his map, in accordance with the rules given in the programme.
Karen and Dai Bedwell
It is very sad that this British Champs will probably be remembered as the day the number dropped off. Two years of dedicated planning and hard work by many people, and years of training by the competitors, ruined at a stroke. Apologies don't seem enough, but they are all I have got.
In spite of the above, the comments on the courses themselves appear to have been favourable. Winning times were largely within recommended, except for W21E. It seems that they are running faster than the rules allow them to!
As Clumber Park is very technically easy, we set out to give long legs, with changes of direction, and different route choices. I hope it worked.
We were hampered by the late withdrawal of the South Lawn (south of the lake), which is where we had planned the Blue start, and all the long courses. Also, the OOB. area west of the assembly field affected the short courses and the through routes of most other courses Fortunately, this shrank in size, otherwise planning course 30 would have been almost impossible.
Thank you to Keith (and family) and Steve for helping to collect in controls on Saturday, and to Mike for using his holiday to help on Monday.
Many thanks to Ian McMillan for the patient way he controlled us, and the helpful advice and suggestions he furnished us with. Also thanks to Dave Olivant for helping us through the vagaries of Picover. Last, but not least, a big thank you to my family for putting up with me. Changing jobs, moving house and planning the British has seen a testing 6 months!
Ian Whitehead
Dave & Jean Hall
I would like to pay particular tribute to the excellent NOC organisation under Andy Jones's meticulous direction. The parts I saw, the bussing, starts, finish & results processing, seemed to work without a hitch - the speed with which the results were displayed at the finish, in the assembly area and then by the next day on the net was magnificent. But now to the forest side...
CONTROL 783 The voiding of 7 courses has cast an awful cloud over the event and Iwill deal with that problem in some detail. The controller, along with others, has some explaining to do. The problem control was 783, the first control on M20L, M40L and W21E, and the second on W16A, W18B, W20S, and W35S. Some time after 1 pm one of the two codes started to peel off and finally fell off completely exposing another number underneath. As soon as it was reported, that not until a competitor had completed their course, a planner went and taped it up around 2.30 p.m. During this period some competitors were not affected because they approached the flag from the side which had the correct code displayed throughout or arrived when another competitor was at the flag and was able to put them right. However, other competitors lost varying amounts of time, some by at least ten minutes.
When I run a basic course for planners or controllers, I include putting out a kite with codes which have been covered up, but not covered up well enough, in order to illustrate a potential danger. The message is `don't cover old numbers' - this commandment learned at the feet of Vic Roberts and Gerry Goodridge 20 years ago.
So how come I let it go this time? When I took on the controlling job one of my earliest requests to the planner was to have each control site identified with a unique tag number so that if we moved a control from one site to another, even only a short distance away, it would get a new number which would become the final control code number. Changing from a site number to control code number has been a frequent source of problems in the past at big events (and small). However, I was informed that we couldn't do this because we were using the DVO system where the numbers were a fixed part of the punch trestle and they couldn't be changed. Consequently, there were a limited number of numbers which could be used. It meant I had to watch carefully when a control site was moved but I did not worry then about the code number display. As far as I was concerned the number codes were part and parcel of the trestle and well tested by British weather in which mist and rain can play a significant part in any season of the year.
I started my final controlling on the Thursday afternoon on a warm, sunny day and the control display seemed fine - the codes were quite clear. However, when I was controlling on the Friday afternoon, a dank, drizzly day, I found a code number starting to peeling at the edges. I did a rough repair with some rather unsuitable tape and moved on only to find others which were in the same condition, and also saw, to my horror, some with another number underneath. I soon realised that I wasn't going to get round all the controls if I continued like this and I went back to inform the planners that we had a serious problem which needed seeing to (along with a problem relating to the tripods) and that what was needed as a temporary repair was some sellotape wrapping right round the codes. I then went back to complete my control visitations finishing that night near 8 pm, returning the forest the next morning soon after 5 a.m. to re-check that Thursday's group had not been vandalised on the Friday.
I do not take share the view that we should be pleased that 20+ courses were OK. A single course voided is always a huge disappointment for the competitors on that course. We're out to provide a good orienteering experience for everyone and the only problems which should arise should be those brought on by competitors themselves failing to navigate properly under the pressure of competition. As an aside I do reject the implication underlying a comment by an elite competitor that the occurrence could have resulted in somebody's livelihood being put in jeopardy. To me the implication was that this should be regarded in a more serious light than if the mistake had affected a W35S running simply for satisfaction of orienteering. That seems to be completely at odds with the spirit of the sport. Who would want to officiate at orienteering events with that sort of additional pressure being put on them?
I have learned since the event that it was known about a week before the event that there was a problem with the fixing of the code numbers. Early on a code at a control on courses 29 and 30 also came off but was quickly replaced and does not appear to have caused serious problems.
COURSE 19 I do apologise for not spotting that the numeration went from 3 to 5. The course was just as it should have been. It would be nice to blame the computer but totally unfair - it was human error. The computer is a tool and does what it is told (most of the time!). The original control 4 had been taken out and the course adjusted - but not the numbering. I had checked the planner's final draft of both the course and the control description list and checked again when the final maps were returned but simply did not spot the error. Some people were not affected at all but others were thrown by it and lost time.
CONTROL 639 The flag, but not the trestle, at control 639 used by courses 8, 15 & 19, between some thick rhododendrons, was vandalised early on but did not seem to cause serious problems. I watched competitors tackling the control before the flag was replaced and some did not even notice the flag was not there - they swept into the control trestle totally focused on the number, punched and were away.
DOGS AND HORSES Some competitors were affected by an unpleasant altercation with the gentleman living in the house in the out of bounds area to the south. However, it is not a one sided story. He had been upset by competitors running through his garden and paddock (which were out of bounds) - a problem which had occurred previously at an event and one which he had thought been sorted out with the National Trust so that it would not happen again. Had the planners, organiser or I been aware of the problem a wide area round the house and rhododendrons would have been taped. We also knew nothing about the horse gallop, also in the south west part of Clumber, which must have frightened some competitors. We are very sorry about both these happenings.
THE PLANNING I controlled at a very good JK Relays in Clumber in 1991 but I was greatly surprised how much harder it was to plan good courses for an individual event - it was quite a different exercise. If you look at the map you will see that it is very difficult to produce legs of technical difficulty 4, never mind 5*, in Clumber! To compound the problem the brambles seemed to be significantly worse than they were and then about six months ago we were told we could not use a large runnable area to the south of the Lake. What you hope for in Clumber is that people will be going so fast that their speed will outrun their navigational skills and mistakes will occur. And that's what happened - even to the extent of some competitors not simply being in the wrong vegetation block looking for a control but being on the wrong side of one of the tarred roads running through the area. The planners did a good job getting the times almost all spot on the BOF recommendations and generally the winners were those you would expect to be potential winners on very technical areas.
POSTSCRIPT Will it happen again? No system for running orienteering events is going to be foolproof but we could do much better. In 1995 I wrote a detailed paper for the BOF Technical Conference, which was partially published in the July `96 CompassSport. It listed serious problems which so frequently dog our big events (to which list Clumber will now be added) and made some major proposals which I believe would improve the situation. The heart of the matter remains unchanged. So, will it happen again? Certainly.
Ian McMillan (M85)
Clumber Park was an ideal venue for the on the day courses, the only drawback being the walk to the start area. For those with long memories, JK70 had a run in from the wood close to this start to a finish in the car park area, about 700 metres!
The colour courses were well planned, with no controller input necessary. The event would have been considerably enhanced with pre-marked maps, especially for the Trial-O. I now realise that it is harder to plan or control a Trail-O than it is to compete, and believe that all orienteers could improve their technique if they took advantage of Trail-O where available, you would enjoy it.
My thanks to all the many who helped.
Peter Hornsby
On behalf of the BOC97 team I should like to record how upset we all are about the problem which caused the voiding of seven courses on the individual day. I can only apologise to those whose enjoyment of the weekend was affected by this. In addition I am personally very disappointed that an elite course was affected.
I do hope that a large majority of you did enjoy your weekend in the East Midlands. On your behalf I should like to thank all those who made the events possible, including all of my colleagues on the BOC97 committee, all of the clubs within the East Midlands and all those individuals who helped out in any way with the myriad of tasks which are necessary to make it all happen.
I am aware that a number of you have expressed concern at the level of the entry fees for BOC97. It is my firm intention to make the final accounts available to any concerned BOF member, although I am not going to delay the publication of the results for this reason. Watch out for further information in BOF Bulletin.
John Hurley
