The evening started with a most wonderfully informative and entertaining presentation by Adrian Eggleston (ex South Yorkshire Police Force). After a brief introduction to the structure of DNA and its discovery by 'Watson and Crick' working at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, Adrian went on to talk about the infancy of 'forensics' in detecting crime and the sophisticated methods now used. He mentioned some cases we were familiar with and also showed us how the use of DNA fingerprinting had helped solve previously unsolved cases.
Margaret Atter, who gave the vote of thanks, was right when she said how much we had all learned. The phrase 'getting away with murder' certainly isn't true any more!!
Adrian kindly offered to judge the 'Easter Bonnet' Competition and as you can see it was certainly difficult to pick a winner ......
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| Winner and runner-up |
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| Aren't they impressive .... the hats I mean!! We then had the business part of the meeting before we were able to enjoy the most wonderful refreshments provided by Angela and Pauline - thank you. Sue Dunigan was the lucky raffle winner. |
Simnel Cake ....... cheese and biscuits ....... trifle ...... mmm!!
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