function validate_form()
	{
	var name=document.getElementById("name").value
	var Address=document.getElementById("Address").value
	var Town=document.getElementById("town").value
	var County=document.getElementById("County").value
	var PostCode=document.getElementById("PostCode").value
	var PhoneNo=document.getElementById("PhoneNo").value
	var Email=document.getElementById("EMail").value
	var Request=document.getElementById("Request").value

	submitOK="true"
	alertstr="The following input errors have been detected on the form:"


	if (name.length<4)
	 {
	 alertstr= alertstr + "\nYour Name is not valid (too short)"
	 submitOK="false"
	 }


	if (checkPostCode (PostCode))
	 {}
	else
	 {
    	  alertstr= alertstr + "\nInvalid PostCode"
	  submitOK="false"
	 };


	if (PhoneNo.length<6)
	 {
	 alertstr= alertstr + "\nInvalid Phone number"
	 submitOK="false"
	 }


	if (/^\w+([\.-]?\w+)*@\w+([\.-]?\w+)*(\.\w{2,3})+$/.test(Email)) 
	 {}
	else
	 {
    	  alertstr= alertstr + "\nInvalid Email Address"
	  submitOK="false"
	 };


	if (Request.length<6)
	 {
	 alertstr= alertstr + "\nInsufficient detail in the Comments/Request field"
	 submitOK="false"
	 }


	if (submitOK=="false")
	 {
	 alertstr=alertstr + "\n\nPlease correct and Re-Send"
 
	 alert(alertstr) 
	 return false
	 }
	}