IT was bewildering to learn this week that double Olympic gold- medal yachtsman Rodney Pattisson does not consider himself to be Scottish. He made no move to reject the honour when he was inducted into the Scottish Sport Hall of Fame in the National Museum of Scotland at a glittering ceremony in 2002. He informed sportscotland that, like some other inductees, he would be unable to be present, but thus far there is no record of him having declined. Now he claims, in a soon-to-be published book, that it's all a terrible mistake. Pattisson, first British yachtsman to win two Olympic gold medals, was born in Campbeltown in 1943 while his father was a RAF gunnery instructor at Machrihannish. Both parents were English and the family moved south when he was just months old. That has never been...
...Any withdrawal of candidacy would have been eagerly seized upon. ...
THERE will always be an England. It is no country for football's old men, geriatric gang bosses engorged by the Viagra of power.
...-needed light relief with the simpering withdrawal of his candidacy to be the new FA chairman. It was...
IT is hugely ironic that the people most dismissive of Margaret Thatcher's relationship with Ireland are those for whom she became perhaps the greatest recruitment tool. Her intransigence over the 1981 hunger strikes, the defining moment of the Troubles for a generation, politicised many who were otherwise antipathetic about the North and its governance - and it made many others take up arms and join a terrorist campaign she might just as easily have neutralised by showing a semblance of humanity. In every area of her political life, Mrs Thatcher seemed so determined not to be judged by the traditional strengths of her sex - intuition, empathy, nurturing - and she abandoned them altogether. This may indeed have made her the Iron Lady of legend, but it left her relationship with Ireland ...
...She temporarily abandoned political candidacy after giving birth to twins Mark and Carol in 1953... resolution demanding the immediate withdrawal of Argentinian forces. At the time, Ireland had a ...
... the guardian too quickly dismissed the candidacy of the grandmother as a carer for J in the light o... did not understand it to amount to a withdrawal by the aunt of an offer of support, in principle, ...
FORMER Fianna Fail deputy leader Mary Hanafin is the latest high- profile candidate to throw her hat in the ring for the President's job. Following the withdrawal of David Norris last week, a host of celebrities have been linked to the post.
... Late Late show host to declare his candidacy since a 4FM poll last Wednesday put him on 46 per ...
FORMER Fianna Fail deputy leader Mary Hanafin is the latest highprofile candidate to throw her hat in the ring for the President's job. Following the withdrawal of David Norris last week, a host of celebrities have been linked to the post.
... Late Late show host to declare his candidacy since a 4FM poll last Wednesday put him on 46 per ...
...12-15, prior to Huntsman's withdrawal on Monday. This is the first update on positive in... down to +9 just before he suspended his candidacy. . Notably, Romney's score has not improved since ...
SIMON THOMAS yesterday dropped out of the Plaid Cymru leadership race and threw his weight behind Elin Jones. The Mid and West Wales AM, widely seen as the outsider in the contest among both commentators and bookmakers, withdrew his candidacy and announced he would be campaigning as Ms Jones' deputy on a joint leadership ticket.
...His withdrawal leaves Ms Jones, Ms Wood and Lord Elis-Thomas the ...
Sir Anthony Bamford, the most prominent private industrialist in Britain, turned 65 last weekend but clearly still digs every bit of his family construction equipment business; JCB is monogrammed on his tie and the teacups at his headquarters, and even on the antimacassars in his helicopter. 'I am very, very proud of our company, that we are British and are a world-beater. I believe in hard work and am here every day. I could have done nothing but I enjoy going to work,' he says. A Catholic who wears his faith lightly, but met Pope Benedict XVI on his recent visit to London, he has led an unsalacious life. 'The devil makes work for idle hands... we all know many examples of that,' he chuckles. The golden glow around him and his family only seemed to brighten last October when David Came...
...In retrospect his withdrawal as a candidate may have been unwise as it allowed ...
The future of any privatisation plans for Cornwall Council services must be a decision for the newly-elected council of 2013, a key meeting to debate the proposals will hear. Opponents of the shared services plans, who united this week to topple leader Alec Robertson in such dramatic circumstances, say the joint venture requires a radical rethink.
The shock withdrawal of US giant CSC left BT as the only remaining cand..., when securing their support for his candidacy at Tuesday's leadership vote. Mr Rowe added: "One ...
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