Alan Milburn is a British politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Darlington from 1992 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party,he served for five years in the Cabinet,first as Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 1998 to 1999,and subsequently as Secretary of State for Health until 2003,when he resigned. He briefly rejoined the Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in order to manage Labour's 2005 re-election campaign. He did not seek re-election in the 2010 election. Milburn was chair of the Social Mobility Commission from 2012 to 2017. Since 2015,he has been Chancellor of Lancaster University.
Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson is an English television presenter,journalist,and writer who specialises in motoring. He is best known for the motoring programmes Top Gear and The Grand Tour alongside Richard Hammond and James May. He also currently writes weekly columns for The Sunday Times and The Sun. Since 2018,Clarkson has hosted the ITV game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.
Patricia Hope Hewitt is a British government adviser and former politician who served as Secretary of State for Health from 2005 to 2007. A member of the Labour Party,she previously served as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry from 2001 to 2005.
Ramsgate is a seaside town and civil parish in the district of Thanet in east Kent,England. It was one of the great English seaside towns of the 19th century. In 2021 it had a population of 42,027. Ramsgate's main attraction is its coastline,and its main industries are tourism and fishing. The town has one of the largest marinas on the English south coast,and the Port of Ramsgate provided cross-channel ferries for many years.
Paul Kenneth Burstow is a British former politician who served as the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Sutton and Cheam for 18 years,from 1997 to 2015,when he was defeated by Paul Scully.
Christopher David Mole is a British Labour Party politician,who was the Member of Parliament for Ipswich from a by-election in 2001,after the death of Jamie Cann,and was re-elected in 2005. He was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport,until his defeat in the 2010 general election by Ben Gummer of the Conservative Party.
Sir Robert Andrew Raymond Syms is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Poole in Dorset since 1997. He received a knighthood in 2017.
Andrew Francis Slaughter is a British Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Hammersmith,previously Ealing,Acton and Shepherd's Bush,since 2005. Prior to his election to Parliament,he had served as Leader of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Council. On 15 November 2023 Slaughter voted for an SNP amendment to the King's Speech,demanding an immediate Ceasefire in Gaza,contrary to the Labour Party's official stance to support HM Government line on the 2023 Israel-Hamas conflict. He was sacked by Sir Keir Starmer from his position as Shadow Solicitor General.
Stephen William Hammond is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wimbledon since 2005. He is a member of the Conservative Party.
John David Penrose is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Weston-super-Mare since 2005. A member of the Conservative Party,he was the United Kingdom Anti-Corruption Champion at the Home Office from 2017 until 2022. He resigned on 6 June 2022 as the United Kingdom Anti-Corruption Champion due to the Boris Johnson Partygate scandal.
Laura Jane Sandys is a former chair of the European Movement UK,and a British Conservative Party politician,who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Thanet between 2010 and 2015.
Claughton is a village and suburb of Birkenhead,on the Wirral Peninsula,Merseyside,England. It is situated approximately 3 km (1.9 mi) to the west of Birkenhead town centre,adjacent to Birkenhead Park. Administratively,Claughton is a ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral. Before local government reorganisation on 1 April 1974,it was part of the County Borough of Birkenhead,within the county of Cheshire.
The Top Gear test track is used by the BBC automotive television programme Top Gear. It is located at Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey,United Kingdom. The track was designed by Lotus Cars as a testing facility,with many of its Formula One cars tested there. It is used to test both cars and drivers seen on the programme,mainly in Power Laps and Star in a ... Car.
Series 10 of Top Gear,a British motoring magazine and factual television programme,was broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two during 2007,consisting of ten episodes that were aired between 7 October and 23 December. This series saw the props used on the programme being changed from car-based seating and a wide-screen monitor in the main set space,to wingback chairs and an old TV screen;although attributed to a fire caused by Top Gear's rival programme,it later was exposed as a publicity stunt,with the props replaced the following series. This series' highlights included the presenters crossing Botswana on a road trip,a race between a car and a fighter jet,fording amphibious cars across the English Channel,and competing in a 24-hour endurance race using home-made bio-diesel.
David Robert Harris is an Australian politician. He has served as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Treaty,Gaming and Racing,Veterans,Medical Research and the Central Coast since April 2023. He has been a Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly since 2015,representing the electorate of Wyong. He previously represented the same electorate from 2007 to 2011.
The M4 bus lane was a 3.5-mile (5.6 km) bus lane on the eastbound (London-bound) carriageway of the M4 motorway between Heathrow Airport and central London. It operated between junction 3 (A312) to the start of the elevated 2-lane section near Brentford. The lane,which had no intermediate junctions,was reserved for buses,coaches,motorbikes,emergency vehicles and licensed taxis.
Angela Rayner is a British politician serving as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party since 2020 and Shadow Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up,Housing and Communities since 2023. Rayner has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashton-under-Lyne since 2015. She ideologically identifies as a socialist and as being part of Labour's soft left.
Top Gear is a British motoring magazine and entertainment television programme. It is a revival by Jeremy Clarkson and Andy Wilman of the 1977–2001 show of the same name for the BBC,and premiered on 20 October 2002. The programme focuses on the examination and reviewing of motor vehicles,primarily cars,though this was expanded upon after the broadcast of its earlier series to incorporate films featuring motoring-based challenges,special races,timed laps of notable cars,and celebrity timed laps on a course specially-designed for the relaunched programme. The programme drew acclaim for its visual and presentation style since its launch,which focused on being generally entertaining to viewers,as well as criticism over the controversial nature of its content. The show was also praised for its occasionally-controversial humour and lore existing in not just the automotive community but in the form of internet memes and jokes. The programme was aired on BBC Two until it was moved to BBC One for its twenty-ninth series in 2020.
Christopher Patrick James Green is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolton West since 2015. He was elected again in 2017 and 2019,increasing his majority and vote share at both general elections.
The inaugural West of England mayoral election was held on 4 May 2017 to elect the Mayor of the West of England metropolitan area. The area is made up of Bath and North East Somerset,Bristol and South Gloucestershire. Subsequent elections will be held every four years. The election was won by Conservative Tim Bowles. The overall turnout for the election was low,with only 29.7% of the electorate voting.
