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Vote Now for Your Favourite Neston's Got Talent Finalists

Online voting has now opened for this year's Neston's Got Talent competition.

Full details of how to vote are included in the following two articles.  You have one vote, per email address, in each of the two categories:

Vote in the 5-13 years age category

Vote in the 14+ years age category

Voting closes on Wednesday, 4th July 2012 at 6pm.

PLEASE NOTE - You must be registered with AboutMyArea to vote. After registering, you will be sent an automated email. You need to respond to that email in order to complete the registration and be able to vote.  We have had some people contact us to ask why they still cannot vote after registering, it will be because you have not yet clicked on the link in the confirmation automated email, so please look out for it and check in your spam folder in case it has slipped in there by accident.

Below is the full story of the auditions, held during the last week of May.  

Auditions were held this week at Neston Parish Church for the 2012 Neston's Got Talent competition.

A wide variety of acts took to the stage, demonstrating a huge amount of talent and leaving the judges with a very tough task.

Entries were invited in two age categories - 5-13 years and 14 and over.  In all, 17 acts performed.  The intention was for the judges, Julie Trimmer from Sainsbury's, Ruth Hall from E.R.I.C. (Empowering Resources in the Community) and Neston Town Councillor Dean Munday, to select three acts from each age category to go through to a public vote.  In the end, they found it so difficult to whittle down the array of talent that they asked to bend the rules and allow four acts through from each group instead.

The Finalists. Photo © Linda Pelling

The finalists are:

Age 5-13

• Lauren Mealor
• Oakleigh Briscoe
• Neave Diamond
• Maisie McMahon

Age 14 and over

• Joe Rimmington & Dan Lee
• Callum & Keeley Cartledge
• Chelsea Holroyd
• Jordan Henshaw

Voting 

The auditions were filmed by Dave Bladen of Elite Video and Television, and the 8 finalists' clips will be uploaded onto AboutMyArea Neston on Friday 8th June.  The public will then have the opportunity to vote for their favourites in each category.  This will make up 70% of the final vote, with the remaining 30% in the hands of the judges when all eight acts perform again in the Finals at Neston Village Fair on 7th July.  Cash prizes will be awarded to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd acts in each category, with the prize fund kindly donated by Sainsbury's, Neston.

Neston's Got Talent judges Ruth Hall, Julie Trimmer and Dean Munday. Photo © Linda Pelling

Our photographs below show each of the acts that performed. Please note that these are AboutMyArea's photos, not those of Linda Pelling, who was only available to come along at the end of the auditions to take the photos of all the finalists together, and the judges.  Hence they may not be the best quality, but you get the gist!

Congratulations to all the acts who took part in the auditions - you were all AMAZing.

Neston's Got Talent 2012 - the Contestants

The Mad Hatters - Will Kimpton, James Waddington and Tom Byers

Harriet, Evee & Hattie

Amelia Cartledge

Lauren Mealor

Declan Cartledge

Oakleigh Briscoe

Neave Diamond

Maisie McMahon

Lucy Pickthall

Jasmine Dunne

Rhiannon Murati

Joe Rimmington and Dan Lee

Aaron Bladen

Callum & Keeley Cartledge

Chelsea Holroyd

Jordan Henshaw (and Nigel!)

Emily Walmsley

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Comments

Lynne V

At 16:35 on 7th June 2012, Lynne V commented:

Well done to all the wonderful contestants at the Auditions for Neston's Got Talent!
Neston certainly has got loads of talent, hope that everyone who entered enjoyed entertaining us. Thanks a lot everyone.
Looking forward to the Finals on June 7th.

Lynne Vaughan (Event Co-ordinator Neston Village Fair)

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