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After a 24-hour Twitter marathon, recruiting, tweeting and retweeting, I am now unable to add anyone else having reached the Twitter limit - however this will change as from tomorrow. If you have been directed here from Twitter (particularly by the #duncansdream tag), please follow me at www.twitter.com/voteduncan , vote for me (by clicking "Vote") and tell the world you have voted by tweeting the following: Help #duncansdream become a reality - take 20 seconds to change a life and #voteduncan at www.duncannagle.co.uk. Please RT. I will endeavour to follow you as soon as I can - thanks for your patience! In the meantime, facebook users don't need to feel left out - please join Vote Duncan Facebook Status Day.

My manifesto

“Unexceptional”: A word that by its very definition applies to 99% of people 99% of the time – the “unexceptional” person works hard all year in a job that they don’t care for with people they barely tolerate for wages that cover the bills and leave a little bit over for a couple of weeks away – okay, the situation isn’t ideal, but that’s how it is. Sound familiar? “Normal”, “average”, “run-of-the-mill”; all of these could apply to me, but rather than take them as an insult or reason to be down I embrace the norm, and therefore make it my key manifesto pledge to prove that: “You don’t have to BE exceptional to DO the exceptional”. If elected, I promise to do something new, different and above all exceptional on each one of the 12 holidays – be it an adrenaline-fuelled activity, having a go at a local craft, a limbo-contest whilst wearing flippers, or even just sampling the local delicacy – I want to prove that you don’t have to be a Nobel-Prize winning, billionaire Personal Trainer to do the exceptional – if I can do it then it is pretty much guaranteed that you can do it too. If I am chosen to serve you for the year, your task won’t be over after you have clicked “Vote Duncan” – Tweet me, Facebook me, comment on my blog with ideas and inspiration for things to do, places to see, restaurants, bars and anything else you can think of; just remember I am a pretty normal bloke, so if I don’t take that bungee jump off the back of a helicopter, it isn’t personal.

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Competition Finalists

• Roxy Stuart Roxy describes herself as resilient, chatty, loveable, inquisitive, deep, courageous, ambitious, critical, and dependable. If she was an animal she would be a dolphin, for two reasons; they get to experience the world from a totally different perspective and they are the only mammals who mate for pleasure! Her best experience was falling in love at first sight....yes it does happen.
• Sarah Clapham Sarah is 29 years old, shortly to be celebrating turning 30 this summer. She was born and bred in Gtr Manchester. The furthest she had been on holiday as a child was to Cornwall where she got as far as Land's End but when she was 18 she decided to take her first trip overseas to Corfu. Sarah feels more at home when overseas than she does in her own home town!
• Sam Simmons Sam believes in making her own luck and seizing every opportunity life brings. She has had a variety of creative jobs working in advertising, animation and television. She now lives with her friends in London working on the other side of the camera modelling, doing voiceovers and presenting.
• Steve Henson Steve is 56 and attended the University of Life and gained a decree Nisi. He enjoys a staple diet of humour, is conscientious and has a good circle of friends to call on for advice and guidance. He has worked overseas before and respects that his actions when he is away is a reflection on his employers.
• Lee Blake Lee Blake comes from a leisure and tourism background, having worked in places such as Chessington World of Adventures, Madame Tussauds and even lived and worked in Gran Canaria for a year. He currently works full time in a call centre in Surrey and wants to get out and top up his tan!
• Christina Leon Christina is a 24 year old from the West coast of Scotland. In her free time she goes social networking mad! She loves learning languages and is currently learning Japanese. She enjoys modelling, singing and dancing, performing on stage but most importantly she loves holidays!
• Duncan Nagle Duncan was an average child, exhibiting few skills other than “being really good at Street Fighter 2”, and left school with A-Levels in French, Latin and Classical Civilization. Neither gaming nor knowledge of dead people helped Duncan in his early retail career. Duncan now lives in the Wild West Midlands with his wife and three cats.
• Sue Mellor Sue describes herself as a Yorkshire lass turned Essex Girl with a unique personality. She has a keen sense of adventure which has put her into some interesting situations over the years. Only cunning, quick wit and perseverance has got her through. It would be a dream come true for Sue to be a travel reviewer for lowcostholidays.com.
• Danny Steele Being a middle child of 1970's, Kent didn't give Danny obvious grounding in presenting programmes, however it was his role of one of the Shepherds at a Nativity play that gave him his first taste of the performing bug. Fast forward a few years and he is now living in London and is a presenter and stand up comedian.
• Lauren Stott Lauren describes herself as a happy-go-lucky kind of girl, the wrong side of 25, torn between settling down and finding a ‘proper’ job or following her travel dreams and jumping on the next plane. She is a born explorer, who once, with childhood naivety and optimism, tried to dig to Australia in the garden.