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Baring their hearts ‘Sometimes, you just wanna' get naked and show your colleagues – just for the sake of it – don't you?' So a Diary contact was asked by one of the, ahem, ‘brave' female councillors at Sandwell MBC who have stripped off – in the style of perennial nuddy-seeker Dame Helen Mirren – for a 2012 calendar, likely to turn a few heads (and, more un-chivalrous online observers have rudely suggested, maybe the odd stomach). But I guess Britain's annual drunken festival season has reached the ‘photocopy your bits' and ‘secretary in the stationary cupboard with the guy from marketing' stage. So it was a fair question. But fear not –we're discussing something altogether more, um, tasteful. Sandwell's Women In Bloom calendar is certainly a sight to behold. Not only have the Calendar Girl councillors stripped off [tastefully, of course – Ed] for a 12-pic parade through the seasons, but they are also strewn invitingly over the sofas and armchairs of the authority's chintzy 1970s-style offices. And in true 1970s pin-up fashion, these femmes fatales have already got their claws into a celebrity fella. Okay, he's not quite a Warren Beatty-style Hollywood star. Let's be honest. He's not even a predatory footballer hunting for WAGs at a ‘vajazzle' disco. But ‘rail enthusiast and former Pop Idol judge, Pete Waterman' – the local newspaper's quite brilliant description, not ours – has clearly seen something he likes. ‘Pete bought one at the Warley National Model Railway Exhibition at the NEC. I believe he was very impressed,' said one of the models, Cllr Linda Horton. Pete knows how to impress the ladies. But did anybody explain to him exactly what sort of ‘models' he had gone to see? Regardless, at a mere £6, the calendar is a must-buy for 2012 – even for penny-pinching council officials – and not only because the proceeds will go to local diabetes and cancer charities. Have a wonderful festive season, readers!

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The Sandwell's Women In Bloom calendar

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