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Wild Geese II is a 1985 British action-thriller film directed by Peter Hunt,based on the 1982 novel The Square Circle by Daniel Carney,in which a group of mercenaries are hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin. The film is a sequel to the 1978 film The Wild Geese,which was also produced by Euan Lloyd and adapted from a novel by Carney. Richard Burton,who starred in the first film as Colonel Allen Faulkner,was planning to reprise his role,but died days before filming began. Faulkner is replaced by his brother played by Edward Fox as one of the mercenaries. No characters from the original are featured in the sequel.
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Andrew Haigh is an English filmmaker. He is best known for writing and directing the films Weekend (2011),45 Years (2015),Lean on Pete (2017),and All of Us Strangers (2023). He also wrote and directed the HBO series Looking (2014–2015) and its film sequel Looking:The Movie (2016),as well as the BBC Two limited series The North Water (2021).
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Louise Margaret Haigh is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Transport from July to November 2024. A member of the Labour Party,she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Heeley since 2015. She has held various shadow ministerial and shadow cabinet portfolios between 2015 and 2024.
Haigh is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan,Greater Manchester,England. It contains 30 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these,one is listed at Grade II*,the middle grade,and the others are at Grade II,the lowest grade. The parish contains the village of Haigh,the estate of Haigh Hall,and the surrounding countryside. The most important building in the parish is Haigh Hall;this and a number of buildings in the estate are listed. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal runs through the parish,and three bridges associated with it are listed. The other listed buildings include farmhouses,farm buildings,a set of stocks,houses,workers' cottages,a church and associated structures,a school,and a bridge over a disused railway.
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- ↑ "Kathy Haigh". votesmart.org. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
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