Kim Botting, chair of the Soham Carnival said it would be an ideal way to celebrate its diamond anniversary.

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The channel's reporting on Libya was named best international coverage and Anna Botting was named presenter of the year.

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If Mr Botting can find his 60 princesses, he hopes to have a "princess cavalcade of floats" through the village.

BBC: Soham Carnival seeks 60 past 'princesses'

Mr Botting's father helped organise the first town festival in the 1950s and his mother was also involved for many years.

BBC: Soham Carnival seeks 60 past 'princesses'

But I also nearly careened into glass walls, got stuck in an elevator, could barely hear the discussions in story meetings and got little other writing or interview work done while botting into the newsroom.

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