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The Annual General Meeting will take place on Thursday, 12th July-registration 7.30 and AGM at 7.45. Both will be at the RAFA club.

A proposal is to be put to the meeting that, in League or Knockout matches, a team may be allowed to field only 2 players. Proposed by Alan Pilcher of Time Out.

Three members of Committee are due for re-election. They are Andrew Hunter, Sheila Mercer and Harry Buck and all three have indicated that they are available for re-election.

I have been informed that Lawrence Cook will be on "The Chase", ITV1 at 5 pm, Friday 4th May. Make sure you watch!

UPDATE - Congratulations to Lawrence on an impresive performance and winning a pleasant amount of cash!

Tenable challenges a team of five players to step up and take on "top ten" list questions, with the chance to take home a cash prize of up to £125,000!

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Alan Bentley won this year's quiz with Dennis Brown second and Andy Alcock third. Full results as an XL spreadsheet.

Just been informed by Ian Welham that a team in which he is a guest will be on Eggheads on BBC Two at Six pm Tuesday 16th January.

UPDATE - If you missed it live it is worth a look on iPlayer to see Ian in action. Do you know what type of product was the first ever to have its bar code scanned? Ian knew, watch the program to find the answer.

The event has just finished and full results can be found on the web site http://www.europeanquizzingchampionships.com. For watchers of Eggheads, The Chase and Mastermind there are many familiar names in the top 10 from the individual event. Egghead Pat Gibson was the winner. Ian Welham finished 121st out of the 199 entry, an excellent result considering the quality of the field. Playing with Gareth Aubrey, Ian finished 19th in the pairs event out of 99 pairs. This event was also won by the Eggheads in the shape of Pat Gibson and Kevin Ashman. Looking at some of the sample questions from previous championships makes you realise that this is a different level of quizzing. Well done Ian!

This took place on 12th July at the RAFA Club in Cleethorpes. Chair Malcolm Towle presented his usual entertaining Report which was followed by Sheila Mercer's Treasurer's Report on the current state of the League's finances. She was able to present a very healthy picture compared to the previous year. This was due partly to an end to the tradition of presenting free individual plaques to Trophy winners but mainly to an extremely generous donation of £500 by an anonymous donor in addition to the equally generous annual donation from Wilkin Chapman LLP. Annual subscriptions are to remain the same for next season.

There followed a lively debate to consider a proposal from Alan Pilcher-seconded by Malcolm White-that teams be allowed to field only 2 players in League and KO matches and this was carried by 9 votes for to 5 against.

Some members asked for the Committee to contact the Grimsby Telegraph to attempt to achieve a restoration of regular coverage of results and tables following the demise of the Cleethorpes Chronicle and Publicity Sec. Harry Buck agreed to have yet another go!

The three members of Committee due for re-election viz. Andrew Hunter, Sheila Mercer and Harry Buck were all re-elected to serve en bloc but there were no nominations to fill the other 3 vacancies.

The next meeting of Committee is scheduled for Wednesday, 25th July at 7.30 at the RAFA Club.