Howard Briggs - SOUTHEND BOYS' AND SOUTHEND GIRLS' CHOIR TRUST The Conservative candidate for Blenheim Park Ward, Southend-on-Sea, May 2010
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	Southend Boys' Choir and Girls' Choir Chuckle Conductor, to music student, "You should have taken up singing earlier" Student, "Why? Do you think the practice would have made me really good?" "No, but you might have given up by now." Click here to return to the top of the page.