The talk of manifestos, pledges, gaffes and u-turns has started. As an election year begins, iPM is offering a new service to help you through it.

Is there a question you'd like to ask or something you'd like explained? Send it to us and we'll see if we can find an answer for you.

It may be about transport, schools, hospitals, childcare, taxes, Europe, MP expenses, whatever, we don't want to be prescriptive, but do keep it succinct.

We'll try and invite the relevant politician or a panel of politicians on to answer it, or perhaps one of our correspondents could explain whatever it is you'd like explained - we can't promise we'll be able to get hold of them, but we'll do our best.

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Email ipm [at] bbc.co.uk putting Election Questions in the title and the best way for us to contact you

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Huge congratulations to our winner Delma Hughes who was nominated by Janet Rich, she wrote:

"Delma is a fifty-year-old mum of two who was brought up in care in Wales in the seventies. Like for many children in care at that time, life was often harsh and there was no rights for children to know who they were or what their family circumstances were.

Delma was one of seven siblings but knew nothing about them until later in her life when she tracked all of them down....Delma has campaigned to end the way that sibling groups are split up in care and often never have any further contact with each other.

She has created the charity Siblings Together and has run summer sibling camps to enable a small number of children, separated across the country, to have high quality and fun time together."

Listen to Delma talking on the programme

So, um, Delma was out when we called....but hopefully she'll want to talk to us in the new year, if Eddie's message hasn't put her off.

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A fresh-faced Eddie Mair, whose head is in fact larger than a microphone, will be looking back over the last year on iPM in tonight's show.

We've been arguing over what to include and what to leave out, food was thrown, producers stormed out, tempers are frayed. But a shortened version of 'The Yes/No Challenge for Politicians' did make it in, which IS very funny. You can listen to the full item here if you so fancy it.

Join Eddie at 5.30pm if you can still move from the sofa...

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