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This message is intended for RSS members who live or work in the Reading area and are interested in attending local group meetings. After a break of a couple of years, the Reading Local Group of the RSS is up and running again. We have already had one meeting (June) and have another planned for next Wednesday (22 October). The local group exists to enable RSS members to benefit from membership without the need to travel to meetings in London. In the Reading Group we try to arrange meetings that will appeal to both academic statisticians and to more applied statisticians who work in government, industry and commerce, although we have found that selecting topics that have such a wide appeal is quite difficult. In order to put together a successful programme we therefore need to know what types of meetings local members want and what type of topics they want covered. You can help us by coming along to meetings and telling us what you want. To facilitate dialog we have also set up a discussion group: http://www.lists.rdg.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/rss-local-group. Please use this discussion group to comment on past meetings, to suggest future meetings and topics, and to recommend speakers. The Reading Local Group now has its own web site that can be accessed via the RSS web site: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/RSSlocal/. This site gives details of forthcoming meetings and other information of interest to local members. We are now actively thinking about the programme for 2004 and you can help us by completing a questionnaire. It only takes a couple of minutes to complete. Tabulation of results is done electronically and can be done very quickly so, if enough people complete it, we may show some preliminary results at next weeks meeting. The questionnaire can be found at: http://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~snsgrubb/questionr/form.php?code=rsslg1. The next meeting of the local group takes place on Wednesday 22 October at 4 pm in the Nike Lecture Theatre, Agriculture Department, Reading University. The subject is Credit Scoring and it is a joint meeting with the Business and Industrial Section. To find out more go to http://www.rdg.ac.uk/RSSlocal/Synopses/2003october.html. With Regards Peter Chapman Chairman, Reading Local Group