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A171 road
The A171 is a road in England that links the Yorkshire towns of Middlesbrough and Scarborough. Locally it is known as The Moors Road.
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A172 road (England)
The A172 is a major road in North Yorkshire, England. It runs from Ingleby Arncliffe to Middlesbrough.
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A174 road
The A174 is a major road in North Yorkshire, England. It runs from Thornaby-on-Tees to Whitby.
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A19 road
The A19 is a major road in England running approximately parallel to and east of the A1 road, although the two roads meet at the northern end of the A19, the two roads originally met at the southern end of the A19 in Doncaster but the old route of the A1 was changed to the A638.
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A66 road
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Acklam Hall
Acklam Hall is a Restoration mansion in the former village, and now suburb, of Acklam in Middlesbrough, in the borough of Middlesbrough and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building.
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Acklam Park
Acklam Park on Green Lane in Acklam, Middlesbrough, Cleveland held 45 first class and 24 list A limited overs matches between 1956 and 1996.
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Bedale
Bedale is a market town and civil parish in the district of Hambleton, North Yorkshire, England. It lies north of Leeds, southwest of Middlesbrough, and southeast of the county town of Northallerton. It was originally in Richmondshire and listed in the Domesday Book as part of Catterick wapentake, which was also known as Hangshire (so named from Hang Bank in Finghall and because of the many gallows used to execute marauding Scots); it was split again and Bedale remained in East Hang. Bedale Beck is watered by the River Swale in the Yorkshire Dales, helping the predominance of agriculture and its related small traditional trades, although tourism is increasingly important.
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Berwick Hills
Berwick Hills is a neighbourhood in east Middlesbrough, England with a population of 4,465.
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Billingham
Billingham is a civil parish and town in the Borough of Stockton on Tees in North East England with a population of 35,765 (2006). It was founded circa 650 by a group of Saxons known as Billa's people, which is where the name Billingham is thought to have originated. In modern history, the chemical industry and in particular the company ICI played an important role in the growth of Billingham. Today ICI no longer operates in Billingham, although other chemical companies are working in the area.
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Blackpool
Blackpool () is a seaside town and unitary authority in Lancashire, England. Situated along the coast of the Irish Sea, it has a population of 142,900, making it the third-largest settlement in North West England behind Manchester and Liverpool. It lies 40 miles (64 km) north-west of the city of Manchester, and less than north of Liverpool City centre. Blackpool is the fourth most densely populated local authority district of England & Wales outside Greater London.
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Boroughbridge
Boroughbridge is a small town and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated
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Bracknell Forest
Bracknell Forest is a unitary authority and borough in Berkshire in southern England. It covers the towns of Bracknell, North Ascot, Sandhurst, Crowthorne and surrounding villages and hamlets.
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Brambles Farm
Brambles Farm is a small housing estate in east Middlesbrough, England with a population of 3,200. It lies to the north of Thorntree and east of Pallister.
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Bristol
Bristol () is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone (LUZ) with an estimated 1,006,600 residents, it is England's sixth, and the United Kingdom's eighth most populous city, one of the group of English Core Cities and the most populous city in South West England.
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Carlton, Hambleton
Carlton-in-Cleveland is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England, on the edge of the North York Moors National Park. It is about 12 miles south of Middlesbrough. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 301. It has a school, Carlton and Faceby Primary School, and a pub, the Blackwell Ox, but no longer has a post office or shop.
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Catterick Garrison
Catterick Garrison is a major Army base located in Northern England. It is the largest British Army garrison in the world with a population of around 12,000, plus a large temporary population of soldiers, and is larger than its older neighbour
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Central Bedfordshire
Central Bedfordshire is a unitary authority in the ceremonial county of Bedfordshire, England. It was created from the merger of Mid Bedfordshire and South Bedfordshire on 1 April 2009. In addition to taking over the powers of the two district councils, it has also taken over the powers previously exercised by Bedfordshire County Council in the two districts.
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Cleveland, England
Cleveland () is an area in the north of England. Its name means literally "cliff-land", referring to its hilly southern areas, which rise to nearly . Historically Cleveland, a part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, was located entirely to the south of the River Tees and its largest town was Guisborough.
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Cornwall
Cornwall (; ) is a ceremonial county and unitary authority of England, United Kingdom, forming the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain. It is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Taken with the Isles of Scilly, Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of . The administrative centre and only city is Truro.
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Craven
Craven is a local government district in North Yorkshire, England.
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Darlington (borough)
Darlington is a local government district and borough in North East England. In 2008 it had a resident population of 100,500 It borders County Durham to the north and west, North Yorkshire to the south along the line of the River Tees, and Stockton-on-Tees to the east.
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Derby
Derby ( ), is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands region of England. It lies upon the banks of the River Derwent and is located in the south of the ceremonial county of Derbyshire. In the 2001 census, the population of the city was 233,700, whilst that of the Derby Urban Area was 229,407. According to the 2001 census, Derby was at that time the 18th largest settlement in England, measured by urban area.
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Diocese of York
The Diocese of York is an administrative division of the Church of England, part of the Province of York. It covers the city of York, the eastern part of North Yorkshire, and most of the East Riding of Yorkshire.
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Dorman Museum
Dorman Museum is a general museum located in Linthorpe within the borough of Middlesbrough and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. From its establishment in 1904 initial thematical leanings were towards the natural sciences, although galleries of the local Linthorpe Pottery, and of the history of industrial and wartime Middlesbrough, have since encroached on this emphasis. The remains of the original Victorian/Edwardian collection of stuffed and mounted animals is now in a single room, the Nelson Room, and appears to consist of the insect collections in the original cabinets, and various stuffed and mounted birds.
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Durham
Durham (, locally ) is a city in the North East of England. It is within the County Durham local government district, and is the county town of the larger ceremonial county. It lies to the south of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Chester-le-Street and Sunderland and to the north of Darlington.
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Eaglescliffe
Eaglescliffe is a small town in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees in North East England. It is on the north bank of the River Tees and for ceremonial purposes is in County Durham. The bridge at Eaglescliffe on the border with Yarm marked the last crossing point of tidal section of the River Tees until the Tees Barrage in Stockton made the section non-tidal. The town is divided by railway lines which lead from Yarm to Stockton and can only be crossed by vehicles at the North and South of the town, although there are two pedestrian bridges and an underpass.
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Easingwold
Easingwold is a small market town and a civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It has a population of 4,233.
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Easterside
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England
England () is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental Europe. Most of England comprises the central and southern part of the island of Great Britain in the North Atlantic. The country also includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.
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Esk Valley Line
The Esk Valley Line is the railway line from Middlesbrough to Whitby in North Yorkshire, England. The route follows the course of the River Esk for much of its eastern half.
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Eston
Eston is a town within the Unitary Authority of Redcar and Cleveland, England. Within the Middlesbrough agglomeration it falls inside the Greater Eston initiative. It is also in the historic county of the North Riding of Yorkshire and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire.
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Filey
Filey is a small town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It forms part of the borough of Scarborough and is located between Scarborough and Bridlington on the North Sea coast. Although it started out as a fishing village, it has a large beach and is a popular tourist resort. Until 1974 it was an urban district in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
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France
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Germany
Germany (), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (, ), is a country in Western Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The territory of Germany covers 357.021 km2 and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state of the European Union, and home to the third-largest number of international migrants worldwide.
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Grassington
Grassington is a town and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England.
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Greenwich
Greenwich ( -itch, -idge by incomers and Americans, or -idge by locals) is a district of South East London, England, located in the London Borough of Greenwich.
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Hambleton
Hambleton is a local government district of North Yorkshire, England. The main town and administrative centre is Northallerton, and includes the market towns and major villages of Bedale, Thirsk, Great Ayton, Stokesley and Easingwold.
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Harrogate
Harrogate (or Harrogate Spa) is a spa town in North Yorkshire, England. The town is a tourist destination; its spa waters, RHS Harlow Carr gardens and Bettys Tearooms are visitor attractions, and the town serves as a location from which to explore the nearby Yorkshire Dales national park. The town originated in the 17th century, with High Harrogate and Low Harrogate as two separate settlements. It lies adjacent to Knaresborough, with which it forms a single urban area, and is in the Nidd valley.
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Harrogate (borough)
Harrogate is a local government district and borough of North Yorkshire, England. Its council is based in the town of Harrogate but it also includes surrounding towns and villages. The district is part of the Leeds City Region.
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Hartlepool
Hartlepool () is a town and port in North East England.
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Hartlepool (borough)
Hartlepool is a local government district and borough in the ceremonial county of County Durham, North East England. In 2003 it had a resident population of 90,161. It borders the non-metropolitan county of County Durham to the north, Stockton-on-Tees to the south and Redcar and Cleveland to the south-east along the line of the River Tees. It is centred around the town of Hartlepool and forms part of the Tees Valley area.
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Haxby
Haxby is a town and civil parish in the unitary authority of City of York, on the River Foss, to the north of York and south of Strensall, in North Yorkshire, England.
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Hemlington
Hemlington is a settlement within the town of Middlesbrough, in the borough of Middlesbrough and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. In 2005, it had a population of approximately 4,200. The estate has its own local shops: the main shopping centre is called Viewley Hill Shopping Centre, The Parkway Centre is a short walk/drive/bus journey from Hemlington and has a wider range of stores and facilities including a leisure centre, fast food restaurants, and DIY stores.
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Herefordshire
Herefordshire () is a historic and ceremonial county in the West Midlands region of England. It also forms a unitary district known as the County of Herefordshire. It borders the English ceremonial counties of Shropshire to the north, Worcestershire to the east, Gloucestershire to the south-east, and the Welsh preserved counties of Gwent to the south-west and Powys to the west. Hereford is a cathedral city and is the county town; with a population of approximately 55,700 inhabitants it is also the largest settlement.
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Ingleby Barwick
Ingleby Barwick () is a large private residential estate and civil parish built on what was the southern perimeter of Thornaby airfield in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees and ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. The estate is enclosed by water to the west, north and east. It was officially opened in 1981 by the mayor of Langbaurgh.
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Isle of Wight
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Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull ( usually referred to as Hull, is a city and unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It stands on the River Hull at its junction with the Humber estuary, 25 miles (40 km) inland from the North Sea. Hull has a resident population of ().
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Kirkbymoorside
Kirkbymoorside is a small market town and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England which lies approximately 25 miles north of York midway between Pickering and Helmsley, and has a population of approximately 3,000.
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Knaresborough
Knaresborough is an old and historic market town, spa town and civil parish in the Borough of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, located on the River Nidd, four miles east of the centre of Harrogate.
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Lackenby
Lackenby is a small village in the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland and ceremonially in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated to the immediate east of Eston and Middlesbrough and immediately to the west of Lazenby.
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Lake District
The Lake District, also known as The Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region in North West England. A popular holiday destination, it is famous for its lakes and its mountains (or fells), and its associations with the early 19th century poetry and writings of William Wordsworth and the Lake Poets.
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Lazenby
Lazenby is a village in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England.
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Leeds
Leeds () is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city had a population of (). Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial heart of the West Yorkshire Urban Area, which at the 2001 census had a population of 1.5 million, and the Leeds city region, an economic area with Leeds at its core, had a population of 2.9 million. Leeds is the UK's largest centre for business, legal, and financial services outside London, and according to the most recent Office for National Statistics estimates, Leeds is the fastest growing city in the UK.
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Leicester
Leicester (, ) is a city and unitary authority area in the East Midlands area of England. It is also the county town of Leicestershire. The city lies on the River Soar and at the edge of the National Forest. In 2006, the population of the Leicester unitary authority was estimated at 289,700, the largest in the East Midlands, whilst 441,213 people lived in the wider Leicester Urban Area. Eurostat's Larger Urban Zone listed the population of the area at 772,400 people as of 2004. Leicester is the 10th most populous settlement in the United Kingdom using the 2001 census definitions and the urban area is the fifteenth largest conurbation in the UK, the second largest in the region behind the Nottingham Urban Area.
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Leyburn
Leyburn is a busy market town and civil parish in the borough of Richmondshire, North Yorkshire, England sitting above the northern bank of the River Ure in Wensleydale. Historically within the North Riding of Yorkshire, the name was derived from 'Ley' or 'Le' (clearing), and 'burn' (stream), meaning clearing by the stream. The town boasts two markets, several pubs, two banks with cash machines, and many small specialty stores. Market day is Friday. It is served by local buses that connect to Richmond, Hawes, and Bedale. The local Rotary Club sponsors the annual Wensleydale Wander in March or April. The Wander is an organised walk with two options; a shorter walk of 12 miles and a longer walk of 22 miles.
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Liverpool
Liverpool () is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880. Liverpool is the fourth largest city in the United Kingdom (third largest in England) and has a population of 435,500, and lies at the centre of the wider Liverpool Urban Area, which has a population of 816,216.
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Luton
Luton ( or locally ) is a large town and unitary authority of Bedfordshire, England, 30 miles (51 kilometres) north of London. Luton and its near neighbours, Dunstable and Houghton Regis, form the Luton/Dunstable Urban Area with a population of over 240,000.
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Manchester
Manchester () is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. In 2009, the population of the city was estimated to be 483,800, making it the seventh-most populous local authority district in England. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas; the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester had an estimated population of 2,600,100, the Greater Manchester Urban Area a population of 2,240,230, and the Larger Urban Zone around Manchester, the second-most-populous in the UK, had an estimated population in the 2004 Urban Audit of 2,539,100. The demonym of Manchester is Mancunian.
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Marton Grove
Marton Grove is an area in the town of Middlesbrough in the borough of Middlesbrough and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It is to the east side of the town and home of Marton Grove Primary School
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Masham
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Masvingo
Masvingo is a town in south-eastern Zimbabwe and the capital of Masvingo Province. The town is close to Great Zimbabwe, the national monument from which the country takes its name.
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Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough () is a large town situated on the south bank of the River Tees in North East England, that sits within the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire. The local authority is Middlesbrough Borough Council.
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Netherfields
Netherfields is a small housing estate in East Middlesbrough within the borough of Middlesbrough and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. Located in the TS3 Postcode area, it has 3 schools: Ormesby Comprehensive School, Priory Woods School and Pennyman Primary School. The main road going through the estate is Fulbeck Road.
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Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne (locally ) (often shortened to Newcastle) is a city and metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England. Situated on the north bank of the River Tyne, the city developed in the area that was the location of the Roman settlement called Pons Aelius, though it owes its name to the castle built in 1080, by Robert II, Duke of Normandy, the eldest son of William the Conqueror. The city grew as an important centre for the wool trade and it later became a major coal mining area. The port developed in the 16th century and, along with the shipyards lower down the river, was amongst the world's largest shipbuilding and ship-repairing centres. These industries have since experienced severe decline and closure, and the city today is largely a business and cultural centre, with a particular reputation for nightlife.
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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Newport
Newport () is a city and unitary authority area in Wales. Standing on the banks of the River Usk, it is located about east of Cardiff and is the largest urban area within the historic county boundaries of Monmouthshire and the preserved county of Gwent. The City of Newport, which includes rural areas as well as the built up area, is governed by the unitary Newport City Council, and has a population of 140,200, making it the seventh most populous unitary authority in Wales.
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North Somerset
North Somerset is a unitary authority in England. Its area covers part of the ceremonial county of Somerset but it is administered independently of the non-metropolitan county. Its administrative headquarters are in the town hall in Weston-super-Mare.
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North Tyneside
North Tyneside is a metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear in the North East of England. Its seat is at the Town Hall, Wallsend.
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North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire is a non-metropolitan or shire county located in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, and a ceremonial county primarily in that region but partly in North East England. Created in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972 it covers an area of , making it the largest ceremonial county in England. The majority of the Yorkshire Dales and all of the North York Moors lie within North Yorkshire's boundaries, and around 40% of the county is covered by National Parks.
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Northallerton
Northallerton () is a market town and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. It lies in the Vale of Mowbray and at the northern end of the Vale of York. It has a population of 15,741 according to the 2001 census. It has served as the county town of the North Riding of Yorkshire and since 1974, of North Yorkshire.
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Northumberland
Northumberland () is the northernmost ceremonial county and a unitary district in the North East of England. It borders Cumbria to the west, County Durham to the south and Tyne and Wear to the south east, as well as having a border with the Scottish Borders council area to the north, and a North Sea coastline of outstanding natural beauty with a 103 km long distance path. Since 1981, the county council has been located in Morpeth, situated in the east of the county.
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Norton-on-Derwent
Norton-on-Derwent, commonly referred to as 'Norton', is a town and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. Norton borders the market town of Malton, and is divided by the River Derwent. The 2001 census gave the population of the parish as 6,943.
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Nottingham
Nottingham () is a city and unitary authority area in the East Midlands region of the United Kingdom. It is located in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire, and is one of eight members of the English Core Cities Group. Whilst the City of Nottingham has a historically tightly drawn boundary which accounts for its relatively small population of 288,700, the wider Nottingham Urban Area has a population of 667,000 and is the seventh-largest urban area in the United Kingdom, ranking between those of Liverpool and Sheffield.
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Nunthorpe
Nunthorpe is a small outer suburb and civil parish of the town of Middlesbrough and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. Nunthorpe is served by Nunthorpe and Gypsy Lane railway stations, both of which are on the Esk Valley Line from Middlesbrough to Whitby. The railway line here forms the border between the boroughs of Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland. Nunthorpe civil parish is west of the railway line, in Middlesbrough, whilst the area east of the railway line forms part of the Ormesby ward of Redcar and Cleveland.
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Ofsted
The '''Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted''') is the non-ministerial government department of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools In England (HMCI).
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Ormesby
Ormesby is a former village, and now suburb spanning the Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland Unitary Authorities in North East England, within the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire. It forms part of the Middlesbrough urban agglomeration. It has a population of approximately 6,500 residents.
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Pallister
Pallister is a housing estate in east Middlesbrough in the borough of Middlesbrough and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. Located within the TS3 postcode area, it is also known as Pallister Park or Pally Park because of the public park located at the estates northern edge. There are two primary schools on the estate - Pallister Park Primary School, on Gribdale Road and Corpus Christi RC Primary School, on Cargo Fleet Lane.
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Perth, Scotland
Perth () is a town and former city and royal burgh in central Scotland. Sitting on the banks of the River Tay, it is the administrative centre of Perth and Kinross council area and the historic county town of Perthshire. According to an estimate taken in 2008, Perth has a population of 44,820.
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Peterborough
Peterborough ( or ) is a cathedral city and unitary authority area in the East of England, with an estimated population of as of June 2007. For ceremonial purposes it is in the county of Cambridgeshire. The Town Hall is north of Charing Cross, London. The city stands athwart the River Nene, which flows into the North Sea approximately to the north-east, and the East Coast Main Line railway.
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Plymouth
Plymouth () is a city and unitary authority area on the coast of Devon, England, about south-west of London. It is built between the mouths of the rivers Plym to the east and Tamar to the west, where they join Plymouth Sound. Since 1967 the City of Plymouth has included the suburbs of Plympton and Plymstock, which are on the east side of the River Plym.
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Poole
Poole () is a large coastal town and seaport in the county of Dorset, on the south coast of England. The town is east of Dorchester, and Bournemouth adjoins Poole to the east. The Borough of Poole was made a unitary authority in 1997, gaining administrative independence from Dorset County Council. The town had a population of 138,288 according to the 2001 census, making it the second largest settlement in Dorset.
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Port Clarence
Port Clarence is a small village now within the borough of Stockton-on-Tees and ceremonial county of County Durham, England. It is situated on the north bank of the River Tees, and hosts the northern end of the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge.
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Portsmouth
Portsmouth () is a city located in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Portsmouth is the United Kingdom's only island city, being mainly located on Portsea Island. The City of Portsmouth and Portsmouth Football Club are both nicknamed Pompey. As a significant naval port for centuries, Portsmouth is home to the world's oldest dry dock still in use and also home to some famous ships, including HMS Warrior and Lord Nelson's flagship HMS Victory. Although smaller than in its heyday, the naval base remains a major dockyard and base for the Royal Navy and Royal Marine Commandos whose Headquarters resides there. There is also a thriving commercial ferryport serving destinations on the continent for freight and passenger traffic. The nickname Pompey is thought to have derived from shipping entering Portsmouth harbour making an entry in their logs as Pom. P. in reference to Portsmouth Point. Navigational charts also use this abbreviation.
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Reading, Berkshire
Reading ( ) is the largest town in England, located at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, and on both the Great Western Main Line railway and the M4 motorway, some west of London. For ceremonial purposes it is in the Royal County of Berkshire and has served as the county town since 1867.
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Redcar
Redcar is a seaside resort in the North East of England, and the principal town in the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire. It lies east-northeast of Middlesbrough by the North Sea coast. The combined population of the wards of Coatham, Dormanstown, Kirkleatham, Newcomen, West Dyke and Zetland was 36,610 in the 2001 census.
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Redcar and Cleveland
The borough of Redcar & Cleveland is a unitary authority in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England consisting of Redcar, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Guisborough, and small towns such as Brotton, Eston, Skelton and Loftus. It had a resident population of 139,132 in 2001, and is part of the Tees Valley economic area. It is represented in Parliament by Ian Swales (Liberal Democrat) for the Redcar constituency and by Tom Blenkinsop (Labour) for the Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency.
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Richmondshire
Richmondshire is a local government district of North Yorkshire, England. It covers a large northern area of the Yorkshire Dales including Swaledale and Arkengarthdale, Wensleydale and Coverdale, with the prominent Scots' Dyke and Scotch Corner along the centre. Teesdale lies to the north.
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Ripon
Ripon is a cathedral city, market town and successor parish in the Borough of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, located at the confluence of two streams of the River Ure in the form of the Laver and Skell. The city is noted for its main feature the Ripon Cathedral which is architecturally significant, as well as the Ripon Racecourse and other features such as its market. The city itself is just over 1,300 years old. It is one of only two cities in North Yorkshire, the other being York.
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River Aire
The River Aire is a major river in Yorkshire, England of length . Part of the river is canalised, and is known as the Aire and Calder Navigation.
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River Foss
The River Foss is an improved river in North Yorkshire, England, and a tributary of the River Ouse. It rises at Oulston reservoir at Yearsley and runs south through the Vale of York to York itself, which stands at the confluence of the Ouse and the Foss.
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River Ribble
The River Ribble is a river that runs through North Yorkshire and Lancashire, in the North of England. The river's drainage basin also includes parts of Greater Manchester around Wigan.
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River Swale
The River Swale is a river in Yorkshire, England and a major tributary of the River Ure, which itself becomes the River Ouse, emptying into the North Sea via the Humber Estuary. The name Swale is Old English and means "swilling, fast flowing".
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River Tees
The Tees is a river in Northern England. It rises on the eastern slope of Cross Fell in the Pennines, and flows eastwards for about 85 miles (137 km) to reach the North Sea between Hartlepool and Redcar. It drains an area of 708 square miles (1834 square km) and subsumes no important tributaries. Before the reorganization of the historic English counties, the river formed the boundary between County Durham and Yorkshire. In its lower reaches it now forms the boundary between the ceremonial counties of County Durham and North Yorkshire, while in the highest part of its course it forms the boundary between the historic counties of Westmorland and Durham. The head of the valley, whose upper portion is known as Teesdale, has a desolate grandeur, surrounded by hills, some exceeding 2500 feet (762 m), and bleak moorland. This area is part of the North Pennine Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, recently designated a geological Europark, the first in the UK.
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River Wharfe
The River Wharfe is a river in Yorkshire, England. For much of its length it is the county boundary between West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire. The name Wharfe is Celtic and means "twisting, winding".
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Rutland
Rutland () is a landlocked county in central England, bounded on the west and north by Leicestershire, northeast by Lincolnshire, and southeast by Peterborough (a unitary authority ceremonially in Cambridgeshire) and Northamptonshire.
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Ryedale
Ryedale is a non-metropolitan district of the shire county of North Yorkshire in England. Settlements include Helmsley, Kirkbymoorside, Malton, Norton-on-Derwent, Pickering, and Terrington.
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Saltburn-by-the-Sea
Saltburn-by-the-Sea is a seaside resort in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. The town is around east of Middlesbrough, and had a population of 5,912 at the 2001 Census.
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Saltersgill
Saltersgill, is a residential area within the Beechwood ward situated in the town of Middlesbrough in the borough of Middlesbrough and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. The local school is Newlands Secondary school. There is also St Marys Sixth Form College. The local pub is the Saltersgill Hotel.
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Selby
Selby is a town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. Situated south of the city of York, along the course of the River Ouse, Selby is the largest and, with a population of 13,012, most populous settlement of the wider Selby local government district.
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Selby (district)
Selby is a local government district of North Yorkshire, England. The local authority, Selby District Council, is based in the town of Selby and provides services to an area which includes Tadcaster and a host of villages.
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Settle
Settle is a small market town and civil parish within the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. It is served by the Settle railway station, which is located near the town centre, and Giggleswick railway station which is a mile away. It is 29 miles from Leeds Bradford International Airport. The main road running through Settle is the B6480, which links to the A65, connecting Settle to Skipton. The town has a population of 2,421 according to the 2001 Census.
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Shropshire
Shropshire ( or ; alternatively Salop; abbreviated, in print only, Shrops) is a county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Wales to the west. Shropshire is one of England's most rural and sparsely populated counties with a population density of 91/km2 (337/sq mi). The shire county and its districts were replaced by a unitary authority on 1 April 2009. The borough of Telford and Wrekin, included in Shropshire for ceremonial purposes, has been a unitary authority since 1998.
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Skelton-in-Cleveland
Skelton-in-Cleveland is a small town in the civil parish of Skelton and Brotton in the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire in the North East of England. It is situated at the foot of the Cleveland Hills and about east of Middlesbrough. Skelton is made up of North Skelton, Skelton Green, Old Skelton and New Skelton. The first real mention of Skelton is in the Domesday Book, which talks about taxes collected. Skelton Castle was built in 12th century by the
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Skipton
Skipton (also known as Skipton-in-Craven) is a market town and civil parish within the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. It is located along the course of both the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and the River Aire, on the south side of the Yorkshire Dales, northwest of Bradford and west of York. At the time of the United Kingdom Census 2001, Skipton had a population of 14,313.
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Slough
Slough () is a borough and unitary authority within the ceremonial county of Berkshire, England. The town stands athwart the Great West Road and the Great Western Main Line, west of central London. At the 2001 census, the population of Slough was 119,070 (est. 122,000 in 2006) and the borough area was the most ethnically diverse local authority area outside London in the United Kingdom. Slough has the highest proportion of religious adherents in England.
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South Shields
South Shields is a coastal town in Tyne and Wear, England, located at the mouth of the River Tyne to Tyne Dock, and about downstream from Newcastle upon Tyne. The town has a population of 82,854, and is part of the metropolitan borough of South Tyneside, which includes the riverside towns of Jarrow and Hebburn and the villages of Boldon, Cleadon and Whitburn. South Shields is represented in parliament by Labour MP David Miliband.
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South Tyneside
South Tyneside is a metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear in North East England.
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Southampton
Southampton () is the largest city in the county of Hampshire on the south coast of England, and is situated south-west of London and north-west of Portsmouth. Southampton is a major port and the closest city to the New Forest. It lies at the northernmost point of Southampton Water at the confluence of the River Test and River Itchen, with the River Hamble joining to the south of the urban area. The local authority is Southampton City Council, which is a unitary authority.
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Southend-on-Sea
Southend-on-Sea () is a unitary authority area, town, and seaside resort in Essex, England. The district has Borough status, and comprises the towns of Chalkwell, Eastwood, Leigh-on-Sea, Prittlewell, Shoeburyness, Southchurch, Thorpe Bay, and Westcliff-on-Sea. The district is situated within the Thames Gateway on the north side of the Thames estuary 40 miles (64 km) east of central London. It is bordered to the north by Rochford and to the west by Castle Point.
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Stockton-on-Tees
Stockton-on-Tees is a market town in North East England. It is the major settlement in the unitary authority area and borough of Stockton-on-Tees. For ceremonial purposes, the borough is split between County Durham and North Yorkshire as it also incorporates a number of smaller towns including Billingham, Yarm and Thornaby. The combined size of the borough equates to approx 180,000 people and makes it larger than Middlesbrough in terms of population and area.
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Stokesley
Stokesley is a small market town and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Leven. Stokesley is located about two miles south of the boundary of the borough of Middlesbrough and ten miles south of Middlesbrough town centre. Stokesley is located between Middlesbrough, Guisborough and Northallerton, in a farming area. Local attractions for visitors include nearby Great Ayton, Captain Cook's monument, Roseberry Topping and the North York Moors.
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Tees Valley
The Tees Valley is an area in the North East of England. It can be described as "greater Teesside" and consists of the four unitary authorities created by the breakup of the County of Cleveland in 1996: Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland, and Stockton-On-Tees along with the borough of Darlington which became a unitary authority in 1997.
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Tees Valley Giants
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Tees Viaduct
The A19 Tees Viaduct or Tees Flyover is a six-lane dual carriageway road bridge in the North East of England carrying the main A19 trunk road north-south across the River Tees. It is situated between Middlesbrough and borough of Stockton-on-Tees just north of the A19's interchange with the A66 trunk road. The Teesdale Way long-distance footpath, the Tees Valley Line, the B6541 (Old A66/A67, Stockton Road) and the A66 pass under the bridge on the southern bank of the Tees. The bridge was built with sufficient clearance to allow ships to pass, although the port of Stockton-on-Tees up-river was virtually redundant by then. Since the Tees Newport Bridge had its lifting deck permanently fixed in the down position in 1990, large shipping can no longer reach the Tees viaduct, further reducing the need for such a high structure.
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Teesside
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Teesside Park
Teesside Park is a retail superstore and leisure development in North East England.it was built in 1988. Located just off the A66 near the A66/A19 interchange, it is split between the boroughs of Stockton-on-Tees (retail park) and Middlesbrough (leisure park) with the line of the Old River Tees, which runs down the middle of the development, forming the boundary between the two unitary authorities. The development has an eye-catching central building.
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Teesside University
Teesside University is a university in Middlesbrough, England. It has a student body of 27,954 students as of the 2008-09 academic year. Recording rises in applications of 25.1 per cent and 23.5 per cent for degree courses beginning in 2010, the highest such percentage increases of any university in the North East of England. The University has a campus in Darlington named Teesside University Darlington.
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Teesville
Teesville is an area in the Middlesbrough agglomeration in the north east of England, and part of the Unitary Authority of Redcar and Cleveland and in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire. It has a population of approximately 7,000 residents. It is between South Bank and the River Tees, to the north, and Normanby, Eston and the Eston Hills, commanding an excellent view of the monument at Eston Nab, to the south.
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Thirsk
Thirsk is a small market town and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. The local travel links are located a mile from the town centre to Thirsk railway station and 20 miles to Teesside International Airport (Durham Tees Valley). Local bus services to and from York, Ripon and Northallerton and nearby villages and long distance National Express Coaches call at the bus stop in the market place. Also, the main road running through the town is the A61, connecting Thirsk to Ripon. The parish has a population of 4,703 according to the 2001 Census.
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Thornaby
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Thornaby-on-Tees
Thornaby-on-Tees is a town and civil parish within the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees, in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It is on the south bank of the River Tees, three miles (5 km) southeast of Stockton-on-Tees, and four miles (7 km) southwest of Middlesbrough town centre and has a population of 22,620.
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Thorntree
Thorntree is a housing estate in east Middlesbrough within the borough of Middlesbrough and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England.
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Thurrock
Thurrock is a unitary authority with borough status in the English ceremonial county of Essex. It is part of the London commuter belt and an area of regeneration within the Thames Gateway redevelopment zone.
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Tollesby
Tollesby, is a residential area within the Acklam ward situated in the town of Middlesbrough in the borough of Middlesbrough and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. The local school is Newham Bridge Primary school. There are also 3 secondary schools; King's Manor Specialist Sports College, Hall Garth Performing Arts College & St. Davids Roman Catholic Technology College. Although they are in close proximity to Tollesby they are considered to be Acklam/Acklam Hall area as they are directly opposite the old Hustler Mansion of Acklam Hall, which itself is now a campus of Middlesbrough College. It has 1 public House, The Endeavour (named after Captain Cook's famous vessel) situated on Newbridge court. The future of this pub is uncertain as the land on which the surrounding shops and flats occupy has been sold and is earmarked for demolition. It is uncertain what the land will then be used for.
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Tyne Bridge
The Tyne Bridge is a through arch bridge over the River Tyne in North East England, linking Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead. It was designed by the engineering firm Mott, Hay and Anderson, who later designed the Forth Road Bridge, and was built by Dorman Long and Co. of Middlesbrough. It was officially opened on 10 October 1928 by King George V and has since become a defining symbol of Tyneside. The Tyne Bridge is a landmark within Newcastle and currently stands as the tenth tallest structure in the city.
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United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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University of Leeds
The University of Leeds (informally Leeds University, or simply Leeds) is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Originally named The Yorkshire College, a successor to the Leeds School of Medicine, it became part of the Victoria University alongside Owens College (which eventually became the University of Manchester) and University College Liverpool (which became the University of Liverpool). In 1904, a royal charter was granted to the University of Leeds by King Edward VII.
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Warrington
Warrington is a large town, borough and unitary authority area of Cheshire, England. It stands on the banks of the River Mersey, which is tidal to the west of the weir at Howley. It lies 16 Miles east of Liverpool, 18.9 miles west of Manchester and 8 miles south of St Helens. The population of the town is 80,661, and the Borough of Warrington, including its 18 civil parishes, is around 194,000. Its population has more than doubled since its designation as a New Town in 1968.
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West Lane
West Lane is a neighbourhood in West Central Middlesbrough. Bounded by Whinney Banks to the south, Newport & Gresham to the north, Linthorpe to the east and the A19 to the west, it is within the Ayresome ward and within the TS5 postcode area. Along with Whinney Banks the Ayresome ward has just under 7,000 residents. Guitarist Micky Moody was born in Barnaby Avenue, which was later demolished to make way for the A19-A66 interchange.
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Whinney Banks
Whinney Banks is a neighbourhood in the west of Central Middlesbrough, England. Its is within the TS5 postcode area and part of the Ayresome ward and bounded by West Lane and Newport to the north, the A19 Dual-Carriageway to the west, Linthorpe to the east and Acklam and Beckfield to the south. As of 2001 the Ayresome ward had just under 7,000 residents
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Wiltshire
Wiltshire ( or , formerly ; or the County of Wilts) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It contains the unitary authority of Swindon and covers . The ancient county town was Wilton, but since 1930 Wiltshire County Council and its successor Wiltshire Council (from 2009) have been based at Trowbridge.
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Worcester
Worcester (, ), pronounced locally and in most parts of England as , is a city and county town of Worcestershire in the West Midlands of England. Worcester is situated some 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Birmingham and 29 miles (47 km) north of Gloucester, and has an approximate population of 94,000 people. The River Severn runs through the middle of the city, overlooked by the twelfth-century Worcester Cathedral.
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Yarm
Yarm is a small town and civil parish in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees in North East England. It is on the south bank of the River Tees and for ceremonial purposes is in North Yorkshire. The bridge at Yarm marked the last crossing point of tidal section of the River Tees until the Tees Barrage was built in Stockton. The oldest part of the town around High Street is situated in a loop of the river and the newer parts of the town extends to the point where the River Leven meets the River Tees.
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York
York () is a walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its two millennia of existence.
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Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe ( ; officially the Republic of Zimbabwe and formerly Southern Rhodesia, the Republic of Rhodesia, and Zimbabwe Rhodesia) is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the continent of Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three official languages: English, Shona (a Bantu language), and Ndebele (also a Bantu language).
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Adrian Bevington
Adrian Bevington (born c. 1971) is the director of communications for the Football Association (the FA), a position he has held since 2004.
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Adrian Warburton
Wing Commander Adrian "Warby" Warburton DSO & Bar, DFC & Two Bars (10 March 1918 - 12 April 1944) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot during World War II. He became legendary in the RAF for his role in the defence of Malta. His gallantry was recognised by the award of the Distinguished Service Order and Bar, the Distinguished Flying Cross and two Bars and an American Distinguished Flying Cross. His story has been retold in the book ''Warburton's War by Tony Spooner and in the BBC Timewatch documentary The Mystery Of The Missing Ace''. A more balanced book (The Maltese Spitfire) was written by Sqn Ldr Harry Coldbeck DFC, which has an illuminating introduction by Wg Cdr P B (Laddie) Lucas CBE, DSO, DFC, both knew Warburton extremely well.
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Alan Old
Alan Gerald Bernard Old (born 23 September 1945) is an English Rugby Union player who had 16 caps for England.
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Alan Peacock
Alan Peacock (born 29 October 1937 in Middlesbrough) is a former English footballer.
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Alec Guinness
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Alf Common
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Alistair Griffin
Alistair Richard Griffin, (born 1 November 1977 in Middlesbrough, England), is an English singer/songwriter and musician. Already an established songwriter, he first became famous as a solo artist through his appearances on the BBC television show Fame Academy 2 in 2003, where he was "spotted" and championed by Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees. He subsequently had two top twenty hit singles and a top twenty album in the UK. In 2007 he received worldwide press coverage for his adaptation of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" as a tribute to football player, Mark Viduka.
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Alyson Jones
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Andy Warhol
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Anglo-Saxons
Anglo-Saxons is the term usually used to describe the invading Germanic tribes in the south and east of Great Britain from the early 5th century AD, and their creation of the English nation, to the Norman conquest of 1066. The Benedictine monk, Bede, writing three centuries later, identified them as the descendants of three Germanic tribes:
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Ann Curry
Ann Curry (born November 19, 1956) is an American television news journalist and news anchor on NBC's morning television program Today since May 1997 and host of Dateline NBC since May 2005. Along with Lester Holt, she is the primary substitute for Brian Williams on NBC Nightly News.
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Benedict Carpenter
Benedict (Ben) Carpenter (born 1975) is a British sculptor and artist based in the West Midlands.
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Bill Athey
Bill Athey (born Charles William Jeffrey Athey on 27 September 1957 in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England) was an English cricketer who played for the English cricket team and played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, Yorkshire County Cricket Club and Sussex County Cricket Club; he also played a solitary one-day game for Worcestershire County Cricket Club.
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Bob Mortimer
Robert "Bob" Renwick Mortimer (born 23 May 1959 in Middlesbrough) is an English comedian and actor, who is best known for his double act with Vic Reeves (see Vic and Bob). He owns the independent production company Pett Productions with Vic Reeves and Lisa Clark.
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Brian Clough
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Chris Corner
Chris Corner (born January 23, 1974) is an English musician and songwriter. He was a founding member of the band Sneaker Pimps and is now active with the IAMX solo project.
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Chris Dooks
Chris Dooks (born 2 March 1971) is a Scottish-based artist and musician.
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Chris Kamara
Chris Kamara born 25 December 1957 in Middlesbrough is a retired English footballer. He ended his playing career in 1995 and last managed a club in 1998. He is now a presenter and football analyst on Sky Sports.
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Chris Newton
cyclist
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Chris Old
Christopher Middleton Old (born 22 December 1948 in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire) is a former English cricketer who played in 46 Tests and 32 ODIs from 1972 to 1981.
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Chris Rea
Chris Rea (, ) (born Christopher Anton Rea, 4 March 1951, Middlesbrough) is an English singer-songwriter, recognisable for his distinctive, husky voice and slide guitar playing. The British Hit Singles & Albums stated that Rea was "one of the most popular UK singer-songwriters of the late 1980s. He was already a major European star by the time he finally cracked the UK Top 10 with his 18th chart entry; "The Road to Hell (Part 2)".
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Chris Tomlinson
MedalCountry|
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Christopher Quinten
Christopher Quinten (born Christopher Bell on 12 July 1957, Middlesbrough) is a British actor, best known for his role as Brian Tilsley on Coronation Street, which he played from 1978 to 1989.
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Colin Osborne
Colin Osborne (born 19 June 1975 in Middlesbrough) is an English darts player who is nicknamed The Wizard. He is also known in the circuit, most notably by commentator Sid Waddell as Ozzy, in reference to The Wizard of Oz and to rock singer Ozzy Osbourne. Due to the latter, he used the song Paranoid by Ozzy's band Black Sabbath as his walk-on. He now uses Unbelievable by EMF.
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Damien Hirst
Damien Steven Hirst (born 7 June 1965) is an English artist and the most prominent member of the group known as "Young British Artists" (or YBAs), who dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s. He is internationally renowned, and has been claimed to be the richest living artist to date. During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003 and the relationship ended.
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Elizabeth Carling
Elizabeth Carling (born 20 October 1967) is an English actress and singer best known for her performances in Boon, Goodnight Sweetheart, Barbara, and Casualty. In 1991 Carling was briefly engaged to Neil Morrissey, whom she met while working on the ITV drama Boon and with whom she also appeared in an episode of BBC sitcom Men Behaving Badly.
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Ellen Wilkinson
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Florence Bell
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Florence Easton
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Ford Madox Ford
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Fred Appleyard
Fred Appleyard (1874 – 1963) was a British landscape artist. He had 41 works exhibited during his lifetime by the Royal Academy and painted the mural 'Spring driving out Winter' in the Academy Restaurant.
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Geoff Cook
Geoffrey Cook (born October 9, 1951, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire) is a former English cricketer who played in 7 Tests and 6 ODIs from 1981 to 1983.
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Gertrude Bell
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Glenn Moody
Glenn Moody (born 1964 in Middlesbrough) is an English darts player. Glenn is married to Lesley, a carer for the local council, and he is a house-husband who looks after four-year old George at home. Due to his skinny build he is ironically nicknamed Mr Muscle.
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Great War
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Hedley Verity
Hedley Verity (born 18 May 1905 at Headingley, Leeds; died 31 July 1943 at Caserta, Italy, of wounds received in action during World War II) was a professional cricketer who played first-class cricket for Yorkshire and England from 1930 to 1939. He was essentially a left-arm spinner of above average pace, but was a useful right-handed batsman and noted for his fielding at short leg. He was named as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1932.
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Henri Matisse
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Henry Bolckow
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Herbert McCabe
Herbert McCabe (1926–2001) was an English Dominican priest, theologian and philosopher, who was born in Middlesbrough in the North Riding of Yorkshire. After studying chemistry and philosophy at Manchester University, he joined the Dominicans in 1949, where under Victor White he began his life-long study of the works of Thomas Aquinas. He was also a student of Columba Ryan.
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Hilda of Whitby
Hilda of Whitby (c. 614–680) is a Christian saint and the founding abbess of the monastery at Whitby, which was chosen as the venue for the Synod of Whitby. An important figure in the conversion of England to Christianity, she was abbess at several monasteries and recognized for the wisdom that drew kings to her for advice.
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Isaac Lowthian Bell
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Jack Hatfield
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Jacky Carr
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Jade McSorley
Jade McSorley (born 1988) is a British female model, most notable for placing third on the fifth series of Britain's Next Top Model. McSorley's place in the competition sparked major media controversy, as she had previously suffered with the eating disorder, anorexia.
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James Cook
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Jamie Parker
Jamie Parker is an English actor and singer.
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Jeff Winter
Jeff Winter (born 18 April 1955) is a former FA Premier League referee from Middlesbrough in the north-east of England and a recruiter in San Francisco. Nicknames include "Jefe" and sometimes "Whiffer".
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Jerry Desmonde
Jerry Desmonde (20 July 1908 - 11 February 1967) was an English stage musical, film, and television actor principally in comedies and drama. He is probably best known as a straight man to Norman Wisdom. Jerry is sometimes credited as Jerry Desmond.
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Jonathan Woodgate
Jonathan Simon Woodgate (born 22 January 1980) is an English footballer who plays for Tottenham Hotspur as a defender. He has also played for Leeds United, Newcastle United, Middlesbrough and Real Madrid.
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Keith Houchen
Keith Morton Houchen (born 25 July 1960) is an English former footballer.
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Kirsten O'Brien
'''Kirsten O'Brien''' (born 23 February 1972 in Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough) is an English television presenter and stand-up comic.
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Lewis Bradley
Lewis Bradley (born 5 June 1989 United Kingdom) is a British musical theatre actor, who came third place in the BBC reality talent show Any Dream Will Do.
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Liam Donaldson
Sir Liam Joseph Donaldson (b. 3 May 1949, Middlesbrough, England, UK) is currently the Chief Medical Officer for England, the 15th occupant of the post since it was established in 1855. As such he is principal advisor to the United Kingdom Government on health matters and one of the most senior officials in the National Health Service (NHS).
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Liam Plunkett
Liam Edward Plunkett (born 6 April 1985 in Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough), is an English cricketer who plays for Durham and England. In the 2005 season he was Durham's leading first-class wicket-taker, with 51 wickets at a bowling average of 30.84, including eight for 88 in his first game of the season against Leicestershire.
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Lillie Langtry
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Mackenzie Thorpe
Mackenzie Thorpe (born 1956 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire) is a British artist.
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Mark Benton
Mark Benton (born 16 November 1965) is an English actor, perhaps most famous for his roles as Eddie in Early Doors and Howard in Northern Lights.
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Martin Narey
Martin Narey (born 1955 in Middlesbrough) has been the Chief Executive Officer of Barnardo's since October 2005. However, he will leave the charity in January 2011 to spend more time with his family (The Guardian, 14 April 2010). He is a member of the UK Government's Child Protection Review Panel (The Guardian, 7 July 2010), led by Eileen Munro and a Visiting Professor at [http://www.shu.ac.uk/research/hccj/sp_martin_narey.html Sheffield Hallam University]. He holds two Honorary Doctorates, one from Sheffield Hallam and one from Teesside University.
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Matt Jarvis
Matthew Thomas Jarvis (born 22 May 1986) is an English football midfielder, who plays for Premier League team Wolverhampton Wanderers.
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Micky Moody
Michael Joseph "Micky" Moody (born 30 August 1950) is an English guitarist, and a former member of the rock bands Juicy Lucy and Whitesnake. He was also a founder-member of Snafu. Together with his former Whitesnake colleagues Bernie Marsden and Neil Murray, he has founded several bands (The Snakes, Company of Snakes and M3 Classic Whitesnake with which they mainly performed early Whitesnake songs. More recently, he has been working with Murray, guitarist Laurie Wisefield, drummer Harry James, singer Chris Ousey and keyboard player Michael Bramwell in Monsters of British Rock.
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Neil Grainger
Neil Grainger (born 18 June 1979) is an English actor and comedian. Appearing in television and theatre, Grainger first rose to prominance after appearing as a main character in the soap opera Crossroads. As well as acting, Grainger performs stand-up comedy, and co-runs a comedy club in London.
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Pablo Picasso
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Paul Daniels
Paul Daniels, born Newton Edward Daniels on 6 April 1938, is a British magician and television performer. He achieved international fame through his television series The Paul Daniels Magic Show, which ran on the BBC from 1979 to 1994.
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Paul Rodgers
Paul Bernard Rodgers (born 17 December 1949, Middlesbrough) is an English rock singer-songwriter, best known for being a member of Free and Bad Company. Both bands experienced international success in the 1970s. Before establishing a career as a solo artist, he was also a member of The Firm and The Law. He has recently toured and recorded with Queen. Rodgers goes by the nickname "The Voice". He is ranked number 55 on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". Rodgers was also ranked by Hit Parader as the ninth greatest heavy metal singer of all time.
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Paul Truscott
Paul Truscott is an English professional boxer from Middlesbrough in the United Kingdom. He is a former Commonwealth featherweight champion.
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Pete Firman
Pete Firman (born 26 April 1980) is an English magician and television presenter.
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Peter Beagrie
Peter Sidney Beagrie (born 28 November 1965 in Middlesbrough) is a former English footballer who played as a left-winger. He played for ten different clubs at professional level notably Everton, Manchester City, Bradford City and Scunthorpe United. He also played as a professional for Middlesbrough, Sheffield United, Stoke City, Sunderland and Wigan Athletic before ending his career in 2006, with a brief stint at Grimsby Town aged 40. He is well remembered for his somersault goal celebration.
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Phil Stamp
Phillip "Phil" Stamp (born 12 December 1975 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire) is an English football midfielder. He made his first-team league debut, aged 17 for Middlesbrough on 10 October 1993, in a 2–0 defeat to Watford. He started for Middlesbrough in the 1997 FA Cup Final. After Middlesbrough he played for Hearts and Darlington, scoring a superb free kick for the latter against Shrewsbury Town.
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Philip Webb
Another Philip Webb — Philip Edward Webb was the architect son of leading architect Sir Aston Webb. Along with his brother, Maurice, he assisted his father towards the end of his career.
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Preeti Desai
Preeti Desai (born 29 September) Is a model and actress and was Miss Great Britain 2006.
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Redcar
Redcar is a seaside resort in the North East of England, and the principal town in the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire. It lies east-northeast of Middlesbrough by the North Sea coast. The combined population of the wards of Coatham, Dormanstown, Kirkleatham, Newcomen, West Dyke and Zetland was 36,610 in the 2001 census.
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Richard Milward
Richard Milward is an English writer born in Middlesbrough in 1984. His debut novel Apples was published by Faber and Faber in 2007 to great acclaim. He has also recently published his 2nd novel Ten Storey Love Song.
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Ridley Scott
Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English film director and producer known for his stylish visuals and an obsession for detail. His films include The Duellists (1977), Alien (1979), Blade Runner (1982), Legend (1985), Thelma & Louise (1991), Gladiator (2000), Black Hawk Down (2001), Hannibal (2001), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), American Gangster (2007), Body of Lies (2008), and Robin Hood (2010).
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Rory Underwood
Rory Underwood MBE (born 19 June 1963 in Middlesbrough, England) is a former English rugby union footballer who played wing for, most notably, Leicester Tigers and Bedford. He represented England and the British Lions and is a former Royal Air Force pilot. He was educated at Barnard Castle School and RAF College Cranwell.[http://www.uphltd.com/pdf/RAF_RU.PDF] Having first laced up his rugby boots as a youngster at Middlesbrough Rugby Club (with Rob Andrew and Bernie Coyne) he went on to become one of the greatest wings in rugby union. Underwood is the top leading try scorer of England in international match and he is of Chinese-English parentage.
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Roy Chubby Brown
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Sir Peter Vardy
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Sir Raylton Dixon
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Spender
Spender is a BBC television drama set in Newcastle upon Tyne, written by Ian La Frenais and Jimmy Nail, who also starred. The series was produced by Martin McKeand (1-14). The series was broadcast on BBC between 1991 and 1993. In all, 21 episodes were produced.
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Stanley Hollis
Stanley Elton Hollis VC (September 21, 1912 - February 8, 1972) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
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Stephen Mark Barchan
Stephen Mark Barchan (born 1 October 1982 in Middlesbrough) is a British composer and music copyist.
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Stewart Downing
Stewart Downing (born 22 July 1984) is an English footballer who plays for Premier League club Aston Villa and the England national football team. Primarily a left winger, Downing has previously played for Middlesbrough, with whom he won the Football League Cup, and Sunderland.
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Stuart Ripley
Stuart Edward Ripley (born 20 November 1967) is a retired English footballer, who played as a winger.
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Thelma Barlow
Thelma Barlow (born Thelma Pigott; on 19 June 1929) is an English television actress and writer, most famous for her roles as Mavis Wilton in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street and as Dolly Bellfield in the sitcom dinnerladies.
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Tim Rodber
Timothy Andrew Keith Rodber (born 2 July 1969) formerly a rugby union footballer who played at Number eight, flanker or lock for Northampton Saints, England, and the British and Irish Lions. He was previously a Captain in the Green Howards infantry regiment of the British Army.
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Tommy Mooney
Thomas John Mooney (born 11 August 1971 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire) is a former professional English football player who played as a striker.
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Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007; he resigned from all these positions in June 2007.
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Vin Garbutt
Vin Garbutt (born Vincent Paul Garbutt, 20 November 1947, in South Bank, Middlesbrough), though second generation Irish, is an English folk singer and songwriter. A significant part of his repertoire consists of protest songs covering topics such as "the Troubles" in Northern Ireland (Troubles of Erin), unemployment, and abortion.
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Wally K Daly
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Wilf Mannion
Wilfred ("Wilf") James Mannion (16 May 1918 - 14 April 2000) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward, making over 350 senior appearances for Middlesbrough. He also played international football for England. With his blond hair, he was nickamed "The Golden Boy".
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Will Alsop
Will (William) Allen Alsop, OBE RA (born 12 December 1947) is a British architect based in London. He is responsible for several distinctive and controversial modernist buildings, most in the United Kingdom. Alsop's buildings are usually distinguished by their use of bright colour and unusual forms. While Alsop has won praise from some critics and fans of avant-garde architecture, he has also faced criticism from fellow architects and some segments of the general public.
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Winston Churchill
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Crossbar Challenge - Middlesbrough!
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- Duration: 2:00
- Published: 03 Dec 2011
- Updated: 18 Jun 2012
Middlesbrough take on Soccer AM's Crossbar Challenge. socceram.com
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Middlesbrough, the town that never was!
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- Duration: 9:43
- Published: 08 Nov 2011
- Updated: 22 Jun 2012
THIS IS NOT MY VIDEO... I THINK THIS WAS RECORDED FROM TV SOME YEARS AGO! Mini Documentary on the non-benefits of living in Middlesbrough. The drugs, Chavs, Prostitutes, Sex, Filth, Drunks and how Ray Mallon plans on resolving all of this!
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The Middlesbrough Parmo
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- Duration: 8:57
- Published: 28 May 2012
- Updated: 05 Jun 2012
A look at the history behind boro delicacy "The Parmo". Presented by Comedian Patrick Monahan. Lighting Cameraman Phil Putnam Spencer.
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Middlesbrough 1-2 Sunderland - Official Goals & Highlights | FA Cup 4R Replay 08-02-12
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- Duration: 5:50
- Published: 09 Feb 2012
- Updated: 26 Jun 2012
Middlesbrough 1-2 Sunderland (AET) The FA Cup with Budweiser Fourth Round Proper replay 7.45pm, Wednesday 8 February 2012 Riverside Stadium, Middlesbrough FC Live on ITV1 Live TV broadcast fee - £62000 Winning club will receive £90000 from The FA prize fund Stephane Sessegnon scored Sunderland's extra-time winner to secure a memorable FA Cup with Budweiser triumph in this Tees-Wear Fourth Round derby clash. Sunderland will now host Arsenal in a Fifth Round tie. Championship side Middlesbrough gave as good as they got against the Premier League's form team and pushed Martin O'Neill's men all the way after coming back from a goal down. Overall, Sunderland were probably good value for their win, however, and seemed set for victory after Jack Colback gave them the lead shortly before half-time with a great striker from the edge of the penalty area in the 42nd minute. Middlesbrough bounced back, though, and equalised in impressive fashion in the 57th minute through Lukas Jutkiewicz. Curtis Main got the assist with a superb header to Jutkiewicz, who found the space to finish strongly past Mignolet with a headed effort of his own. O'Neill said: "Middlesbrough did very well, but I felt we were better and I am delighted we won the game. It was a fantastic effort and how many times have I said that in the last two months or so? It was a fantastic Cup tie." O'Neill was right as the Riverside rocked to a cracking soundtrack of two sets of passionate fans as the match went into extra <b>...</b>
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Tyne Tees TV report on Middlesbrough FC plans to build new football stadium
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- Duration: 4:44
- Published: 30 Dec 2011
- Updated: 22 Apr 2012
December 1993, Tyne Tees TV report that Middlesbrough FC will build a new £16m football stadium to be ready in time for the 1995-96 season. Featuring Steve Gibson, Duncan Wood, Lennie Lawrence, Keith Lamb, Ron Norman, Ayresome Street residents and the one and only Boro Legend - Ayresome Eric.
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Mowbray's Middlesbrough
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- Duration: 3:45
- Published: 19 Sep 2011
- Updated: 22 Jun 2012
I know the quality isn't great, but hope you like it, a tribute to the improved Boro!
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Jeff Stelling (Soccer Saturday) - Middlesbrough
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- Duration: 2:09
- Published: 09 Nov 2007
- Updated: 10 Jun 2012
Jeff Stelling going crazy about a survey ranking Middlesbrough as the worst place to live in England (though he's from Hartlepool, several miles away). Credit is due to two other versions of this: uk.youtube.com uk.youtube.com I took (most of) the audio from one and the video from the other and made a better quality version of the clip.
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Middlesbrough crackhead needs his fix!
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- Duration: 3:29
- Published: 25 May 2009
- Updated: 27 Jun 2012
Got woke up at 1am this morning by a gaunt chav trying to break the door down; he thought his dealer lived here and refused to leave after multiple warnings, so the police were called. I got to see him up close when he knocked on the door while the police were here (apparently the large van parked outside wasn't enough of a hint), then asked the male officer if he knew where he could find some crack or smack, since his dealer wasn't living here. I really wish I had recorded the conversations (both the ones he had with the house - yes, he thought it was the house talking to him, not me shouting through the window - and the ones with myself and the officers) - amusing snippets: "I'm not fucking talking to myself! ...am I? Or... ...or am I...?" "Alright, mate! I've had enough of this! We're not mates anymore! I'm going! *he stands by the window, staring at the door, then runs at the window and headbutts it* FUCK YOU!!! FUCKING GLASS!!!" "I'm so sorry mate, I thought I could get some smack here mate. *he turns to the police officer* 'ere, mate. Do you know where I can get any?" (the female officer interjects with "If we see you in an hour's time, be sure to remind us to search you for drugs.", to which he replies "Oh! I don't want drugs! I'm wanting to report a dealer for selling drugs to me!") After a warning from the police he was on his way, and didn't disturb us again. Was filmed on a Panasonic Wireless Network Camera, model BL-C131, mounted in the front window of the <b>...</b>
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Middlesbrough 8 vs Man City 1 11/05/2008
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- Duration: 6:30
- Published: 24 Sep 2011
- Updated: 30 Jun 2012
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ENGLISH DEFENCE LEAGUE IN MIDDLESBROUGH
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- Duration: 10:35
- Published: 09 Jul 2011
- Updated: 08 Jun 2012
AS Roma v Middlesbrough Boro 2006 UEFA Cup
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- Duration: 12:07
- Published: 17 Mar 2012
- Updated: 29 Jun 2012
Extended highlights of Middlesbroughs never-to-be-forgotten trip to Rome to knock AS Roma out of the 2006 UEFA Cup. Feauring Goals, Fouls, Yellow cards, Cattermole, Jimmy, Ultras and Frankie Bam Bam. No commentary, just some gladitorial music to bring back great memories for Boro fans who lived to tell the tale!
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BBC Olympic Torch Relay Durham to Middlesbrough
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- Duration: 5:56
- Published: 25 Jun 2012
- Updated: 25 Jun 2012
ROBERT ELLIS: 17TH JUNE 2012: 14:51, BISHOP AUCKLAND, CARRYING THE OLYMPIC TORCH
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Rod Liddle's Got Issues: Middlesbrough
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- Duration: 6:51
- Published: 10 Mar 2012
- Updated: 17 Jun 2012
The Sunday Times columnist wades into deepest Middlesbrough to see if the town can be saved. See more Rod Liddle videos at www.thesundaytimes.co.uk
http://wn.com/Rod_Liddle's_Got_Issues_Middlesbrough
VP - Boca Juniors vs. Middlesbrough
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- Duration: 5:50
- Published: 25 Jun 2012
- Updated: 25 Jun 2012
Game 3 - BC vs. MB
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357 Accent Tag - Middlesbrough
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- Duration: 3:52
- Published: 10 Nov 2011
- Updated: 15 Jun 2012
I'M SAT SO CLOSE TO THE CAMERA HAHA my accent ain't too strong though. hope you enjoy this. personal channel: www.youtube.com
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The Centenary of Middlesbrough Central Library
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- Duration: 2:44
- Published: 09 May 2012
- Updated: 09 May 2012
Celebrations were held on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 to mark the centenary of Middlesbrough Central Library. The library was opened in 1912 by Alderman Amos Hinton. The 100th birthday celebration included songs, poems, a speech by Mayor Ray Mallon and more than 100 members of the public hugged the building.
http://wn.com/The_Centenary_of_Middlesbrough_Central_Library
Middlesbrough Swoop For Jonjo Shelvey
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- Duration: 4:05
- Published: 24 Feb 2012
- Updated: 04 May 2012
Liverpool midfielder Jonjo Shelvey looks set to join Middlesbrough. Click on 'Show More' below to see this description fully: To have your comments approved automatically when comment approval is on, make sure you 'friend' this channel. Comment approval prevents spam and keeps the channel free of idiots. Check out www.koptalk.co.uk for the latest Liverpool FC news. You do not have to be a member to enjoy KopTalk. Also check out the following links twitter.com - my personal twitter twitter.com - Liverpool FC news updates from KopTalk www.youtube.com - my personal YouTube acc www.facebook.com - KopTalk on Facebook www.facebook.com - My KopTalk account www.duncanoldham.com - my personal blog http - Google+
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Middlesbrough Tees Newport Bridge Last Lift
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- Duration: 4:34
- Published: 23 May 2011
- Updated: 18 Apr 2012
The last lift of Middlesbrough Tees Newport Bridge recorded in 1990. New Re-Edit Version now uploaded.
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Sunderland 1-1 Middlesbrough - Official Highlights and Goals | FA Cup 4th Round Proper 29-01-12
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- Duration: 3:43
- Published: 29 Jan 2012
- Updated: 26 Jun 2012
Fraizer Campbell made a goalscoring return after 18 months out injured to earn Sunderland an FA Cup fourth-round replay with Middlesbrough. After coming on at half-time, Campbell scored on the break to cancel out Barry Robson's superb first-half strike. Sunderland's Craig Gardner saw an effort controversially ruled out for offside late in the first half. And James McClean fired wide for the home side in injury time to ensure the sides will meet again at the Riverside. With Nicklas Bendtner out injured, Sunderland gave a start up front to teenager Connor Wickham, only his sixth since an £8m move from Ipswich Town in the summer. Middlesbrough also fielded a recent arrival up front with Lucas Jutkiewicz, a £1.3m transfer window buy from Coventry City, leading their line. The visitors had already signalled their attacking intent when Scott McDonald's shot was well held by the masked Simon Mignolet in the Sunderland goal, while Sebastian Larsson headed wide at the other end. Robson made his mark on 16 minutes, expertly volleying in after John O'Shea had failed to head away Faris Haroun's right-wing cross. Sunderland responded well, forcing Danny Coyne into two good saves, both from winger McClean. They also had an effort ruled out when Gardner, recalled in place of injured hamstring victim Lee Cattermole, collected Kieran Richardson's long pass before firing home. Gardner had clearly handled the ball as it reached him, but the strike was overruled for offside against Wickham <b>...</b>
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Retro Easter Ball at the Middlesbrough Empire
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- Duration: 10:18
- Published: 23 Apr 2012
- Updated: 22 Jun 2012
The Annual Retro Easter Ball at the Middlesbrough Empire featuring Paul Taylor, Ricky Isted, Matt Peverell, Mark Threlfall, Elly Thompson & Luke Bentley.
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Sunderland v Middlesbrough - 1996 Last Wear/Tees derby at Roker Park
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- Duration: 1:44
- Published: 17 Dec 2011
- Updated: 30 May 2012
October 1996, Boro face Sunderland at Roker Park in the last ever Wear Tees derby at the old stadium. Boro take the lead with a spectacular long range shot from Emerson only for Sunderland to equalise with a penalty from Kevin Ball. Boro again went in front with a goal by Ravanelli in front of the Fulwell End before Sunderland equalised with half an hour left with a goal from Craig Russell.
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Fan tackles player Middlesbrough vs Sunderland 08.02.12
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- Duration: 0:22
- Published: 08 Feb 2012
- Updated: 15 May 2012
Two people run onto the pitch in the football FA cup game 8.2.12 I do not own the video I use it for entertainment only it belongs to the FA
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Middlesbrough FC Tribute
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- Duration: 10:00
- Published: 26 Oct 2011
- Updated: 23 Jun 2012
Just A Completion I Shot Together For My Home Team The Boro... Enjoy And For Those Who Dont Know Some Words From Wikipedia... Middlesbrough Football Club also known as Boro, are an English football club based in Middlesbrough, who play in the Football League Championship. Formed in 1876, they have played at the Riverside Stadium since August 1995, their third ground since turning professional in 1889. Their longest-serving home was Ayresome Park, where they played for 92 years, from 1903 to 1995. They were one of the founding members of the Premier League in 1992. The club's main rivals are Newcastle United and Sunderland. The club also take part in Yorkshire derbies with several other Yorkshire clubs, most notably Leeds United. The club's highest league finish to date was third in the 1913--14 season and they have only spent two seasons outside of the Football League's top two divisions. The club came close to folding in 1986 after experiencing severe financial difficulties before the club was saved by a consortium led by then board member and later chairman Steve Gibson. Middlesbrough were controversially deducted three points for failing to fulfil a fixture against Blackburn Rovers during the 1996--97 Premier League season and were subsequently relegated. They were promoted the following season and spent eleven consecutive seasons in the top division before relegation. Middlesbrough won the League Cup in 2004, the club's first and only major trophy. They reached the <b>...</b>
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This article is about the town in North East England. For other uses, see Middlesbrough (disambiguation).
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| Borough of Middlesbrough | |
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| Nickname(s): Boro (current), Ironopolis (obsolete) |
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| Coordinates: 54°34′31″N 1°14′03″W / 54.57528°N 1.23417°W / 54.57528; -1.23417Coordinates: 54°34′31″N 1°14′03″W / 54.57528°N 1.23417°W / 54.57528; -1.23417 | |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Constituent country | England |
| Region | North East England |
| Ceremonial county | North Yorkshire |
| Founded | 1830 |
| Admin. HQ | Middlesbrough |
| Government | |
| • Type | Middlesbrough Borough Council |
| • Leadership: | Mayor & Cabinet |
| • Executive: | Independent Mayor / Labour, Independent Executive |
| • Mayor | Ray Mallon (Independent) |
| • MPs: | Stuart Bell (L) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 20.80 sq mi (53.88 km2) |
| Area rank | 268th |
| Population (2010 est.) | |
| • Total | 142,400 |
| • Rank | Ranked 134th |
| • Density | 6,800/sq mi (2,600/km2) |
| Time zone | Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+0) |
| • Summer (DST) | British Summer Time (UTC+1) |
| Postcode | |
| ISO 3166-2 | |
| ONS code | 00EC |
| OS grid reference | |
| NUTS 3 | |
| Ethnicity | 93.7% White 1.1% Mixed Race 5.1% S.Asian 1.0% Black |
| Website | middlesbrough.gov.uk |
Middlesbrough (
i/ˈmɪdəlzbrə/ MID-əlz-brə) is a large town situated on the south bank of the River Tees in north east England, that sits within the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire. The local authority, a unitary authority, is Middlesbrough Borough Council.
Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, in 1968 the town became the centre of the County Borough of Teesside, which was absorbed by the non-metropolitan county of Cleveland in 1974. In 1996 Cleveland was abolished, and Middlesbrough became a unitary authority, within the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire.
It is locally regarded that the town exceeds the confines of the Middlesbrough Borough to include the areas of Eston, Grangetown, Normanby, Ormesby, and South Bank which are wards of the neighbouring unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland.[citation needed][by whom?]
To the northeast of Middlesbrough lies the Tees Estuary, approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) away. A few miles to the south lies the edge of the North York Moors National Park.
Teesport,[1] the UK's third largest port,[2] lies 3 miles (4.8 km) to the east, and Durham Tees Valley Airport[3] lies 8 miles (13 km) to the west, near Darlington.
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History[link]
Toponymy[link]
Mydilsburgh is the earliest recorded form of the name. The element '-burgh', from the Old English burh (meaning 'fort') denotes an ancient fort or settlement of pre-Anglian origin.[4] The spelling brough sets Middlesbrough apart from other English towns, which typically use the spelling borough.
It is not certain if Mydil was someone's name or a reference to its position (middle) in between the centres of Durham and Whitby. The burgh, though, may have included a monastic cell and was probably situated on the elevated land where the Victorian church of St Hilda's (demolished in 1969) was later built.[4]
The town and its sporting teams are commonly referred to as the Boro, which is a common abbreviation for borough despite the fact that the name is spelled with a single "o".[5]
Early history[link]
In 686, a monastic cell was consecrated by St. Cuthbert at the request of St. Hilda, Abbess of Whitby and in 1119 Robert Bruce, 1st Lord of Cleveland and Annandale, granted and confirmed the church of St. Hilda of Middleburg to Whitby.[6] Up until its closure on the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII in 1537,[7] the church was maintained by 12 Benedictine monks, many of whom became vicars or rectors of various places in Cleveland. The importance of the early church at “Middleburg”, later known as Middlesbrough Priory, is indicated by the fact that in 1452 it possessed four altars.[citation needed]
After the Angles the area became home to Viking settlers and it is argued by some that 'old' Cleveland has the highest density of Scandinavian parish names in Britain.[citation needed] Names of Viking origin (with the suffix by) are abundant in the area – for example, Thornaby, Ormesby, Stainsby, Lackenby, Maltby and Tollesby were once separate villages that belonged to Vikings called Thormad, Orm, Steinn, Hlakkande, Malti and Toll, but now form suburbs of Middlesbrough. Lazenby was the village belonging to a Leysingr – a freeman; Normanby, a Norseman's village and Danby, a Dane's village. The name Mydilsburgh is the earliest recorded form of Middlesbrough's name and dates to Anglian times (400 to 1000 AD), while many of the aforementioned villages appear in the Domesday Book of 1086.
Other links persist in the area, often through school and/or road names, to now-outgrown or abandoned local settlements, such as the medieval settlement of Stainsby, deserted by 1757, which amounts to little more today than a series of grassy mounds near the A19 road.[8] In 1952 Stainsby Secondary Modern School, now renamed Acklam Grange Secondary School, was named after this village.
Industrial history[link]
Further information: Bolckow Vaughan
In 1801 Middlesbrough was a hamlet with a population of just 25 people living in four farmhouses. During the latter half of the 19th century, however, it experienced a growth unparalleled in England. Development began with the purchase of the farm in 1829 by a group of Quaker businessmen, headed by Joseph Pease the Darlington industrialist, who saw the possibilities of Middlesbrough becoming a port for the transport of northeast coal. Four initial streets, leading into the market square, were duly laid out. This cause was facilitated by an 1830 extension of the Stockton and Darlington Railway to the site, which all but erased the logistical obstacles to ongoing development of the town. Before this, the shipment of coal had been problematic owing to the shallow waters around Stockton-on-Tees. The opening of the Clarence Railway, in 1833, which shared some of the Stockton and Darlington Railway's track, also provided the stimulus for the growth of Port Clarence on the opposite side of the river to Middlesbrough.
From 1840 to 1842 the civil engineer George Turnbull built Middlesbrough Dock which was then bought by the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company.
When Prime Minister William Gladstone visited the town, he stood under the roof of the original (1846) town hall and famously dubbed Middlesbrough 'an infant Hercules' in 'England's enterprise'.
At the very moment when early fortunes showed signs of giving way to decline, another great leap forward took place, with the discovery of ironstone in the Eston Hills in 1850. In 1841, Henry Bolckow, who had come to England in 1827, formed a partnership with John Vaughan, originally of Worcester, and started an iron foundry and rolling mill at Vulcan Street in the town. It was Vaughan who realised the economic potential of local ironstone deposits. Pig iron production rose tenfold between 1851 and 1856.
The importance of the area to the developing iron and steel trade gave it the nickname Ironopolis.[9][10] Also, a local football team playing in the late 19th century (now defunct), called itself Middlesbrough Ironopolis F. C.
| Year | Name of Mayor |
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| 1853 | Henry William Ferdinand Bolckow |
| 1854 | Isaac Wilson |
| 1855 | John Vaughan |
| 1856 | Henry Thompson |
| 1858 | John Richardson |
| 1859 | William Fallows |
| 1860 | George Bottomley |
| 1861 | James Harris |
| 1862 | Thomas Brentnall |
| 1863 | Edgar Gilkes |
On 21 January 1853, Middlesbrough received its Royal Charter of Incorporation,[12] giving the town the right to have a mayor, aldermen and councillors. Bolckow became mayor in 1853 and Middlesbrough's first Member of Parliament (MP).
On 15 August 1867, a Reform Bill was passed, making Middlesbrough a new parliamentary borough, Bolckow was unanimously elected member for Middlesbrough the following year.
The population of Middlesbrough, as county borough, peaked at almost 165,000 in the late 1960s but has been in decline since the early 1980s. From 2001 to 2004, however, the recorded population jumped significantly, from 134,000 to 142,000, then to 147,000 in 2005. The current population, as of mid 2010, is approximately 142,400.
The Bell brothers opened their great ironworks on the banks of the Tees in 1853. Steel production began at Port Clarence in 1889 and an amalgamation with Dorman Long followed. After rock salt was discovered under the site in 1874, the salt-extraction industry on Teesside was founded. By now Bell Brothers had become a vast concern employing some 6,000 people. Isaac Lowthian Bell's own eminence in the field of applied science, where he published many weighty papers, and as an entrepreneur whose knowledge of blast furnaces was unrivalled, led to universal recognition. He was the first president of the Iron and Steel Institute, and the first recipient of the Bessemer Gold Medal in 1874. Bell was Lord Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1854–1855, and again in 1862–1863. He served as MP for Hartlepool in 1875–1880.
For many years in the 19th century Teesside set the world price for iron and steel. The steel components of the Sydney Harbour Bridge (1932) were engineered and fabricated by Dorman Long of Middlesbrough. Fittingly, the words MADE IN MIDDLESBROUGH are stamped on the Bridge. "The golden rivet" was hammered in by Kenneth Johnson Esq, Mechanical Engineer, whose son Christopher was later a pioneer in the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry[citation needed]. The company was also responsible for the earlier New Tyne Bridge across the river at Newcastle.
Via a 1907 Act of Parliament the Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Company also built the great Transporter Bridge (1911) which spans the Tees itself between Middlesbrough and Port Clarence. At 850 feet (260 m) long and 225 feet (69 m) high, is one of the largest of its type in the world, and one of only two left in working order in Britain (the other being in Newport). The bridge remains in daily use and it is worth noting that, contrary to what is suggested by the plot of popular BBC drama/comedy Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, the bridge was not at any point dismantled and removed to Arizona. It is, indeed, a Grade II* listed building. Another landmark, the Tees Newport Bridge opened further along the river in 1934. Newport bridge still stands and is passable by traffic but it no can longer lift the centre section.
Several large shipyards also lined the Tees including the Sir Raylton Dixon & Company which produced hundreds of steam freighters including the infamous SS Mont-Blanc, the steamship which caused the 1917 Halifax Explosion in Canada.
The great steelworks, chemical plants, shipbuilding and offshore fabrication yards that followed the original Middlesbrough ironworks, have in the recent past contributed to Britain's prosperity in no small measure and still do to this day.
Second World War[link]
Middlesbrough was the first major British town and industrial target to be bombed during the Second World War. The Luftwaffe first visited the town on 25 May 1940 when a lone bomber dropped 13 bombs between South Bank Road and the South Steel Plant. One of the bombs fell on the South Bank football ground making a large crater in the pitch. The bomber was forced to leave after RAF night fighters were scrambled to intercept. Two months after the first bombing Prime Minister Winston Churchill visited the town to meet the public and inspect coastal defences.[13]
German bombers often flew over the Eston Hills while heading for targets further inland, such as Manchester. On 30 March 1941 a Junkers Ju 88 was shot down by two Spitfires of No. 41 Squadron, piloted by Tony Lovell and Archie Winskill, over Middlesbrough. The aircraft dived into the ground at Barnaby Moor, Eston; the engines and most of the airframe were entirely buried upon impact.[14]
On 5 December 1941 a Spitfire of No. 122 Squadron, piloted by Sgt Hutton, crashed into rising ground near Mill Farm, Upsall, on the lower slopes of Eston Hills. Poor visibility due to bad weather and low cloud is believed to have been the cause of the crash.[15]
On 15 January 1942, minutes after being hit by gunfire from a merchant ship anchored off Hartlepool, a Dornier Do 217 collided with the cable of a barrage balloon over the River Tees. The blazing bomber plummeted onto the railway sidings in South Bank leaving a crater twelve feet deep. In 1997 the remains of the Dornier were unearthed by a group of workers clearing land for redevelopment; the remains were put on display for a short while at Kirkleatham museum.
On 4 August 1942 a lone Dornier Do 217 picked its way through the barrage balloons and dropped a stick of bombs onto the railway station. One bomb caused serious damage to the Victorian glass and steel roof. A train in the station was also badly damaged although there were no passengers aboard.[16]
By the end of the war over 200 buildings had been destroyed within the Middlesbrough area. Areas of early and mid-Victorian housing were demolished and much of central Middlesbrough was redeveloped. Heavy industry was relocated to areas of land better suited to the needs of modern technology. Middlesbrough itself began to take on a completely different look.[17]
Origin of motto "Erimus"[link]
The rapid growth of the town saw the prophetic words (probably spoken by Pease), 'Yarm was, Stockton is, Middlesbrough will be' come true. Indeed, the motto chosen by the first body of town councillors was in fact 'Erimus'; Latin for 'We shall be'. (See also the Pearson family grave at Crambe, which uses the motto "ERIMUS".)
“Erimus” or “We shall be”, in Latin was chosen as Middlesbrough’s motto to signify the town’s will to grow and become great from its foundation in 1830. The arms of Middlesbrough were designed by W. Hylton Longstaffe in 1853, the year of incorporation. The arms were modified in 1911. They show an azure (blue) lion beneath a row of 2 ships to represent the shipping trade of Middlesbrough. The design is based on that of the Brus family who owned the site on which Middlesbrough is built. Their motto “Fuimus” means “We have been”.
Green Howards[link]
Main article: The Green Howards
The Green Howards was a British Army infantry regiment very strongly associated with Middlesbrough and the area south of the River Tees. Originally formed at Dunster Castle, Somerset in 1688 to serve King William of Orange, later King William III, this famous regiment became affiliated to the North Riding of Yorkshire in 1782. As Middlesbrough grew, its population of men came to be a group most targeted by the recruiters. The Green Howards were part of the King's Division. On 6 June 2006, this famous regiment was merged into the new Yorkshire Regiment and are now known as 2 Yorks – The 2nd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards). There is also a Territorial Army (TA) company at Stockton Road in Middlesbrough, part of 4 Yorks which is wholly reserve.
One of the most well-known soldiers of this historic regiment was WO2 (Company Sergeant Major) Stanley Hollis. He was the only soldier in all of the British and Empire armies to be awarded a Victoria Cross (VC) in the D-Day landings at Normandy, France in June 1944. Other well-known Green Howards have included the TV magician Paul Daniels, Middlesbrough F.C.'s Wilf Mannion, General Sir Richard Dannatt (who was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the British Army in August 1996), former England rugby player Tim Rodber, and Yorkshire and England cricketer Hedley Verity, killed in action in 1943.
Governance[link]
Middlesbrough was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1853. It extended its boundaries in 1866 and 1887, and became a county borough under the Local Government Act 1888. A Middlesbrough Rural District was formed in 1894, covering a rural area to the south of the town. It was abolished in 1932, partly going to the county borough; but mostly going to the Stokesley Rural District.[18]
In 1968 Middlesbrough became part of the County Borough of Teesside, and in 1974 it became part of the non-metropolitan county of Cleveland until the county's abolition in 1996, when Middlesbrough became a unitary authority.
Middlesbrough gained a "twin" in 1890 when the town of Middlesboro, Kentucky was incorporated in the United States; it was named after its English namesake due to the discovery of ironstone deposits in the region.
Middlesbrough is twinned with Oberhausen in Germany, Masvingo in Zimbabwe and Dunkerque ('Dunkirk' in English) in France. This last association resulted from the Dunkirk evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force during World War II, in which one quarter of the ships involved were from Teesport.
The district in England and Wales with the lowest healthy life expectancy, according to the Office for National Statistics study, is Middlehaven, the dockside area of Middlesbrough, which is currently undergoing major regeneration and will soon become a flagship regeneration project in the UK, with plans from the architect Will Alsop.[19]
City status[link]
Middlesbrough has bid for city status on three occasions. The first occasion was in 2000 to celebrate the new millennium and the second in 2002 to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, both bids being unsuccessful. The town submitted its latest bid for city status in March 2011, this time to celebrate the occasion of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. It was announced on 14 March 2012 that this bid was also unsuccessful, the winning bids coming from Chelmsford, Perth and St Asaph.[20]
Crime[link]
Middlesbrough uses combined installations of CCTV cameras and loudspeakers to reprimand citizens when they are committing infringements (throwing cigarette ends on the ground, littering etc.). Middlesbrough was the first place in the UK to install CCTV with loudspeakers which inspired other towns to use this idea. The crime rate in Middlesbrough is nearly twice the UK average and was 4th highest in England in 2007 despite seeing year on year reductions according to the Cleveland Police crime statistics.[21]
Politics[link]
The MP for Middlesbrough is Sir Stuart Bell. Middlesbrough has been a traditionally safe Labour seat, largely due to its industrial, working class history. The first Conservative MP for Middlesbrough was Sir Samuel Alexander Sadler, elected in 1900.
In 2002, Middlesbrough voted to have a directly elected mayor as head of the council. The current mayor is Ray Mallon (independent), formerly a senior officer in Cleveland Police. Mallon was voted in as the first directly elected mayor in 2002; he was re-elected in 2007 and 2011.
Geography[link]
The following is a table of the different wards, districts and suburbs in the Middlesbrough area.
| Acklam | Ayresome | Beckfield | Beechwood | Berwick Hills | Brambles Farm |
| Brookfield | Clairville | Coulby Newham | Easterside | Eston | Gresham |
| Grangetown | Grove Hill | Hemlington | Kader | Ladgate | Lazenby |
| Linthorpe | Marton-in-Cleveland | Marton Grove | Marton West | Middlehaven | Netherfields |
| Normanby | North Ormesby | Nunthorpe | Ormesby | Pallister | Park End |
| Priestfields | Saltersgill | South Bank | St. Hilda's | Stainton-in-Cleveland | Thorntree |
| Teesville | Tollesby | Town Farm | University | West Lane | Whinney Banks |
Middlesbrough's contemporary townscape is largely workaday, it being no longer a heavy industrial town, though there are areas around which still support chemical, fertiliser and iron and steel production.
Street layout[link]
Unlike some English towns where there was an older market town around which a larger industrial town grew, Middlesbrough was laid out starting from scratch. The result of this can be seen in the grid-like pattern of streets. Although there is no overall grid plan of the sort found in many American cities, there are areas in which side streets are laid out at right angles to major thoroughfares, with other side streets crossing them at right angles. These streets are continuous over three or four blocks of buildings. In the main shopping area, and on the east side of Linthorpe Road, streets were laid out in rectangular grid which seems to be based on Corporation Road, which runs from east to west. To the west of Linthorpe Road a grid pattern is based on Linthorpe Road itself, but after a few blocks the layout changes to a grid based on Newport Road, which runs north-east to south-west. South of Albert Park there are other smaller grids, but the long continuous streets are all north of Parliament Road and Albert Park. Further out of town there are more recent suburban streets with various layouts.
Climate[link]
Middlesbrough has an oceanic climate typical for the United Kingdom. Being sheltered by both the Lake District and Pennines to the west, Middlesbrough is in one of the relatively drier parts of the country, receiving on average 25 inches (643mm) of rain a year. It has more of a continental climate than other parts of the UK, with above average summer temperatures, and below average winter temperatures. Summer highs typically reach around 20°C (68°F), while winter lows can fall to several degree's below 0°C (32°F).
| Climate data for Middlesbrough | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 6 (43) |
7 (44) |
9 (48) |
11 (52) |
14 (58) |
17 (63) |
20 (68) |
19 (67) |
17 (62) |
13 (55) |
9 (48) |
7 (45) |
12 (54) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 1 (34) |
1 (34) |
2 (36) |
3 (37) |
6 (43) |
8 (46) |
11 (52) |
11 (52) |
9 (48) |
6 (43) |
3 (37) |
2 (36) |
6 (42) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 56.1 (2.21) |
38.9 (1.53) |
51.1 (2.01) |
52.1 (2.05) |
49.5 (1.95) |
54.9 (2.16) |
44.5 (1.75) |
61.2 (2.41) |
57.4 (2.26) |
56.9 (2.24) |
61.5 (2.42) |
59.2 (2.33) |
643.1 (25.32) |
| Source: [22] | |||||||||||||
Transport[link]
File:Middlesbrough Bus Shelter 1.JPG
A Travel Information Display at a Middlesbrough Bus Shelter
Middlesbrough is served well by public transport. The Arriva North East, Stagecoach on Teesside, Leven Valley, Alrite Travel and Go North East bus lines provide local transport mainly in Middlesbrough and to Durham Tees Valley Airport, Sunderland, Stockton-on-Tees, Darlington and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. National Express and Megabus operate long distance coach travel from the bus station. Middlesbrough has recently benefited from an upgrade in bus services; with digital displays having been fitted at selected bus shelters in the town and many bus shelters being renovated.
Until the 1970s Middlesbrough bus services consisted of the blue buses of Middlesbrough Corporation Transport, or the red buses of the United Bus Company, with an occasional green bus from Stockton Corporation Transport. The merger to form Teesside resulted in a unified Teesside Corporation Transport, with Stockton's green merging with Middlesbrough's blue to give a turquoise-liveried fleet, a colour which was not universally popular. The United Bus Company, which had operated fewer services than the other two, but tended to cover longer distances, began operating under the National Bus Company brand at about the same time.
Train services are operated by Northern Rail and Transpennine Express, the latter of which provides direct rail services to cities such as Leeds, York, Liverpool and Manchester, departing from Middlesbrough railway station. Currently there are no direct rail services to London King's Cross from Middlesbrough, however, open access operator Grand Central Trains operate four weekday return journeys from nearby Eaglescliffe. Northern Rail connect with the East Coast Main Line at Darlington providing an interchange for direct services to many areas of the UK. Northern also operate the Saltburn route as well as the beautiful Esk Valley Line to Whitby. The Tees Valley Metro scheme intends to improve railway services from Middlesbrough to Darlington, Saltburn, Nunthorpe and Hartlepool and open new stations at Teesside Park, Middlehaven, James Cook University Hospital and Nunthorpe Parkway. The first stages of the scheme were approved by the Department for Transport in 2009.
Roads[link]
Middlesbrough is served by the A19 (North / South) and A66 (East / West) dual carriageways which link up with the national motorway network. Other major roads into the town include the A171, A172, A174, A178 and A1085.
Landmarks[link]
Located in the suburb and former village of Acklam and by some distance Middlesbrough's oldest domestic building is Acklam Hall of c.1680–83. Built by Sir William Hustler, it is also Middlesbrough's sole Grade I listed building.[23][24] The Restoration mansion, accessible through an avenue of trees off Acklam Road, has seen progressive updates through the centuries, such that it makes for a captivating document of varying trends in English architecture.
There is also a group of interesting churches, for example at Acklam, Marton and Stainton (c. 12th century), as well as the modern St. Mary's R.C. Cathedral at Coulby Newham, replacing in the 1980s the previous structure on Sussex Street that was left gutted and at the mercy of arsonists in 2000.[25]
A modest tally of pre-1900 buildings remain in the town centre, however; the priory, farmhouse and any other elements of the town's pre-industrial landscape (such as the Restoration Newport House and its associated Hustler Granary, which submitted to demolition in the 1930s by virtue of its vicinity to the then-recently opened Tees Newport Bridge, and the locally famous "White Cottages" on St. Barnabas Road in Linthorpe) have long since been banished to history.[26] Indeed, incorporation of the town itself did not occur until 1853. Even so, the urban centre remains home to a variety of architecture ranging from the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, opened in January 2007 to replace a number of former outlying galleries; and Centre North East, formerly Corporation House, which opened in 1971. Many believe that there is a beauty to be found in the surrounding landscape of industry along the River Tees from Billingham to Wilton. The terraced Victorian streets surrounding the town centre are characterful elements of Middlesbrough's social and historical identity, and the vast streets surrounding Parliament Road and Abingdon Road a reminder of the area's wealth and rapid growth during industrialisation.
The town hall, designed by George Gordon Hoskins and built between 1883 and 1887 is a Grade II listed building, and a very imposing structure. Of comparable grandeur alongside these municipal buildings is the erstwhile Empire Palace of Varieties of 1897, the finest surviving theatre edifice designed by Ernest Runtz in the UK. The first artist to star there in its guise as a music hall was Lillie Langtry. Later it became an early nightclub (1950s), then a bingo hall and is now once again a nightclub in the form of 'The Empire'. It has recently, as of 2005, had the missing ornate glass and steel over-canopy to the front entrance fully restored. Further afield, in Linthorpe, can be found the Middlesbrough Theatre (formerly the Little Theatre), which was opened by Sir John Gielgud in 1957 and was one of the first new theatres built in England after the Second World War.
The town can also boast this country’s only public sculpture by the celebrated modern American artist Claes Oldenburg, the "Bottle O' Notes" of 1993, which relates to Captain James Cook. Based alongside it today in the town's Central Gardens is the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), the successor to previous art galleries on Linthorpe Road and Gilkes Street. Refurbished in 2006 is the Carnegie library dating from 1912. The Dorman Long office on Zetland Road, constructed between 1881 and 1891, is the only commercial building ever designed by Philip Webb, the great architect who worked for Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell.
The town centre has been undergoing modernisation in recent years; this includes the addition in 2004 of 'Spectra-txt,' a 10-metre (33 ft) high interactive tower of metal and fibre-optics inspired by Blade Runner (whose own industrial scenery was inspired by that of Teesside, by virtue in part of the experiences of its director, the South Shields-born Ridley Scott, a former art college student up the coast in nearby industrialised West Hartlepool). 'Spectra-txt' allows a member of the public to send an SMS (text) message via a mobile phone to change the colours of the lights. Texting various codes, such as 'Chromapop' produce a display of changing colour lights.
Economy[link]
There is a large and comprehensive shopping district made up of several separate shopping centres, which include 'The Mall Middlesbrough' renamed in 2005 from 'Cleveland Shopping Centre,' which has undergone a major refurbishment, it was renamed back to 'Cleveland Shopping Centre' in 2012. 'Dundas Street Shopping' renamed in 2005 from 'Dundas Shopping Arcade', 'Hill Street Shopping Centre' and 'Captain Cook Square'. Linthorpe Road is home to several independent and national fashion shops. A four-part BBC3 documentary "The Secret Life of the Shop" was made in 2005 about the clothing store Psyche, which highlighted how seriously some Teessiders take fashion.
Major employment in the area is supplied by the chemical and steel industries. The large A&E James Cook University Hospital, located in the south of the town on the A172 is also a major employer.
Future developments[link]
As part of its £1.5 billion investment programme, Tees Valley Regeneration has started work on reclaiming Middlesbrough Docklands with the £500 million Middlehaven scheme to bring new business and homes to a 250 acres (1.0 km2) area.[27] The first phase around the former docklands has already begun and is visible from the Riverside Stadium. The master plan drawn up by Will Alsop in 2004, includes proposals for the relocation of Middlesbrough College and the building of a virtual reality centre by Teesside University as part of the DigitalCity development, in addition to numerous offices, hotels, bars, restaurants and leisure attractions. Tees Valley Regeneration now has a shortlist of five developers seeking to build at Middlehaven, the list includes some of the most prestigious and groundbreaking names in development and regeneration, and a decision on the chosen developer is due to be made in the next few months.[when?]
The Stockton-Middlesbrough Initiative is a 20 year vision for regenerating the urban core of the Tees Valley, the main focus being the 30 km² area along the banks of the River Tees between the two centres of Stockton and Middlesbrough. The master plan has been drawn up by environmental design specialists Gillespies, the eventual aim being to bring distinctive high-quality city-scale assets to the centre of the Tees Valley, including the town centres of Stockton and Middlesbrough. The project will include not only the existing developments at North Shore[dead link], Stockton and Middlehaven[dead link], Middlesbrough, but many others over a 15-20 year period.
Private local developers have recently announced plans to build a 360-foot (110 m) tower on the site of the old Odeon Cinema (more recently a nightclub named "Jumpin' Jaks") which collapsed during demolition work in July 2006. The site is in central Middlesbrough at the eastern end of Newport Road and was proposed to be the tallest building in the North East, although the plan was later, as of 2007, downscaled.
One of Middlesbrough's finest buildings, Kirby College, set in the inner suburb of Linthorpe is currently in the process of being brought back to life by local developer Green Lane Capital. The building will become known as The Old College.
Middlesbrough, along with other towns and cities in the UK, will be granted a licence to build a new large casino. Manchester won the bid to host the 'Super Casino'.[28]
Just announced is a plan to turn one of the area's most impressive yet under-used buildings into a top specification office location. Cleveland House on Cleveland Street was built in 1872 by John Gibson – a renowned architect who worked with Sir Charles Barry designing the Houses of Parliament. The building's new owners have renamed it Gibson House and plan to spend £1m on the grade II listed construction. It is thought that the developers are planning to capitalise on the success of the huge regeneration project at nearby Middlehaven district of town.
Culture and leisure[link]
The long-awaited flagship art gallery project, the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art opened its doors in January 2007. It currently holds the second largest collection of Picassos in the United Kingdom. It also holds works by Andy Warhol, Henri Matisse and Damien Hirst among others. Its considerable arts and crafts collections span from 1900 to the present day. Surrounding it is the town's overhauled Victoria Square and Central Gardens, in tandem producing "the largest civic space in Europe".[29]
Middlesbrough also has a healthy musical heritage. A number of bands hail from the area, including Chris Rea, Journey South and Collectors Club.
Middlesbrough has two major recreational park spaces in Albert Park and Stewart Park, Marton. The former, originally hailed as the 'People's Park', was donated to the town by Bolckow in 1866. It was formally opened by Prince Arthur, youngest son of the monarch, on 11 August 1868 and comprises a 30 hectare (70 acre) site accessible from Linthorpe Road. The park underwent a considerable period of restoration from 2001 to 2004, during which a number of the park's most well-known landmarks, including a fountain, bandstand and sundial saw either restoration or revival. The latter park was donated to the people of Middlesbrough in 1928 by Councillor Thomas Dorman Stewart and encompasses Victorian stable buildings, lakes and animal pens. During 2011 and 2012, the park is to undergo major refurbishment of many of its features. Alongside these two parks are two of the town's premier cultural attractions, the century-old Dorman Memorial Museum and the Captain Cook Birthplace Museum. In March 2011, the Dorman Memorial Museum was given the honour of displaying the Middlesbrough meteorite (loaned from the Yorkshire museum). This was the first time the 1.5 kg meteorite had been put on display in the town since it fell to Earth in March 1881. Close to the Captain Cook Birthplace museum is a granite urn, marking the approximate location of the world famous explorer's birthplace.
Newham Grange Leisure farm in Coulby Newham, one of the most southerly districts of the town, has operated continuously in this spot since the 17th century, becoming a leisure farm with the first residential development of the suburb in the 1970s. It is now a burgeoning tourist attraction: the chance to view its cattle, pigs, sheep and other farm animals is complemented by exhibitions of the farming history of the area.
Back in the 'Old Town' or St Hilda's, is the Transporter Bridge Visitor Centre, opened in 2000 and offering its own exhibitions charting the stirring past of the surrounding industrial powerhouse, as well as that of the singular structure it commemorates.
Sport[link]
Middlesbrough is home to the Championship football team, Middlesbrough F.C., owned by local haulage entrepreneur Steve Gibson. The club is based at the Riverside Stadium on the banks of the River Tees, where they have played since relocating from Ayresome Park, their home for 92 years. Founder members of the Premier League in 1992, Middlesbrough are winners of the 2004 Football League Cup,[30] and were beaten finalists in the 2005-06 UEFA Cup.[31] In 1905 they made history with Britain's first £1,000 transfer when they signed Alf Common from local rivals Sunderland.[32] Another league club, Middlesbrough Ironopolis F.C., was briefly based in the town during the 1890s, but folded within a few years.
Speedway racing was staged at Cleveland Park Stadium from the pioneer days of 1928 until the 1990s. The post-war team, known as The Middlesbrough Bears, and for a time, The Teessiders, the Teesside Tigers and the Middlesbrough Tigers operated at all levels. The immediate post war Bears team, which operated between 1945 and 1948, was reputed to be a victim of its own success. The track operated for amateur speedway in the 1950s before re-opening in the Provincial League of 1961. The track closed for a spell later in the 1960s but returned in as members of the Second Division as The Teessiders. Speedway returned to the Middlesbrough area in 2006 and the team is known as the Redcar Bears.
Middlesbrough is also represented nationally in Futsal. Middlesbrough Futsal Club play in the FA Futsal League North, the national championship and their home games are played in Thornaby at Thornaby Pavilion.
Middlesbrough hosts several road races through the year. In September, the annual Middlesbrough Tees Pride 10k road race [33] is held on a one lap circuit round the south part of the town. First held in 2005, the race now attracts several thousand competitors, from the serious club athlete to those in fancy dress raising money for local charities.
Education[link]
Middlesbrough became a university town in 1992, after a concerted campaign for a distinct 'Teesside University' which had run since the 1960s. Prior to its establishment, extramural classes had been provided by the University of Leeds Adult Education Centre on Harrow Road, from 1958 to 2001.[34] Teesside University has more than 20,000 students. It dates back to 1930 as Constantine Technical College (although teaching formalities had begun in the then-new building as early as September 1929). Current departments of the university include Teesside University Business School as well as the Schools of Arts and Media, Computing, Health and Social Care, Science & Engineering and Social Sciences & Law. The university is internationally recognised as a leading institute for computer animation and games design and along with Arc arts centre at Stockton-on-Tees, Cineworld cinema in Middlesbrough, and the Riverside Stadium, hosts the annual Animex International Festival of Animation.
The university is not alone in providing further and higher education in the town. There are also a number of modern schools, colleges and sixth forms, the largest of which is Middlesbrough College with 16,000 students, which once covered the four campuses of Acklam, Kirby, Longlands and Marton, including the one-time Acklam Hall until July 2008. From September 2008 Middlehaven is now the new home of further education in the town. Others include Trinity Catholic College in Acklam[35] and Macmillan Academy on Stockton Road. Two of three campuses of Cleveland College of Art and Design are also based in Middlesbrough, with its primary site on Green Lane having been officially opened in 1960. It remains the only such college remaining in the North East, and one of only four specialist art and design further education colleges in the United Kingdom, the others being in Herefordshire, Leeds and Plymouth.
Secondary schools[link]
Middlesbrough also includes some secondary schools.
- Acklam Grange Secondary School is also a specialist mathematics and computing college. Its also home to the Acorn Sports Centre and Middlesbrough City Learning Centre. It opened its new school building in September 2010. In July 2011 the long time headteacher of the school, John Bate, retired, after over 2 decades of service.
- Oakfields Community College Speciality Sports And Arts College is open as of September 2010 due to be rebuilt elsewhere on site and open in September 2012, with a multi-million pound college building located in Acklam on Hall Drive opposite Acklam Hall.
- The King's Academy, in Coulby Newham, was opened in 2003 by Tony Blair and is part of a group of schools built by Peter Vardy (businessman). It has a sixth form, and the total number of students the school has at the moment is 1000, with roughly 150–200 staff. It has a high pass rate at both GCSE and A-level. The academy specialises in business, but has excellent sport facilities. It is the top school in Middlesbrough for its teaching of deaf and visually impaired students.
- The £17 million Unity City Academy, which replaced the Langbaurgh and Keldholme schools in east Middlesbrough, was one of the first schools to open as part of the government's £5 billion City Academy programme for failing comprehensives. In 2005, an unusually large proportion of pupils gained no GCSEs, and only 14% of pupils gained 5 A*–C grades, compared with a national average of 51%.[36] However, in 2006 the school had new management in place, and achieved pass rates of 33%.[37] In 2009, Unity City Academy was named the most improved school in Middlesbrough by Ofsted.
- In 2007, Ofsted reported that Macmillan Academy was grade 1, outstanding, in overall effectiveness.[38]
Religion[link]
Christianity[link]
Middlesbrough is a deanery of the Archdeaconry of Cleveland, a subdivision of the Church of England Diocese of York in the Province of York. It stretches west from Thirsk, north to Middlesbrough, east to Whitby and south to Pickering.
Middlesbrough is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Middlesbrough, which was created on 20 December 1878 from the Diocese of Beverley. Middlesbrough is home to the Mother-Church of the diocese, St. Mary's Cathedral, which is located in the suburb of Coulby Newham. The present bishop is the Right Reverend Terence Patrick Drainey, 7th Bishop of Middlesbrough, who was ordained on Friday 25 January 2008.
St. Stephen's, Middlesbrough, near the university campus, is an evangelical congregation, worshipping in the style of the Church of England, but which is in the Evangelical Connexion.[39]
Islam[link]
The Islamic community is represented in several mosques in Middlesbrough. Muslim sailors visited Middlesbrough from about 1890.[40] and, in 1961, Azzam Din opened the first Halal butcher’s shop.[40] The first mosque was a house in Grange Road in 1962.[40] The Al-Madina Jamia Mosque, on Waterloo Road, the Dar ul Islam Central Mosque, on Southfield Road, and the Abu Bakr Mosque & Community Centre,[41] which is on Park Road North, are among the best known mosques in Middlesbrough today.
Sikhism[link]
The Sikh community established their first Temple, or Gurdwara, in Milton Street, in 1967.[40] After a time in Southfield Road, the centre is now in Lorne Street and was opened in 1990.[40]
Hinduism[link]
There is a Hindu Cultural Centre in Westbourne Road, North Ormesby, which was opened in 1990.[40]
Television and filmography[link]
Middlesbrough has featured in many television programmes, including The Fast Show, Steel River Blues, Spender, Play for Today (The Black Stuff; latterly the drama Boys from the Blackstuff) and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
Some of the Movie Billy Elliot was filmed on the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge.
Tyne Tees Television used to broadcast its news for the South regions from its studios located at the base of Corporation House (now Walkabout bar), before moving to its new premises in Billingham.
On 17 December 2007, at about 1 p.m. local time, the American television network NBC broadcast live from the Transporter Bridge, where presenter Ann Curry performed a bungee jump above the river, as part of a fundraising effort for charities such as Save the Children and United Way. Despite advance publicity in the Evening Gazette[42] and the BBC, the occasion did not attract many spectators other than the members of the UK Bungee Club supervising the jump, and the recovery party in a river boat. Despite recent adverse publicity for the town, including a poll conducted by a Channel 4 television programme, Location, Location, Location, making use of criteria questioned by the mayor Ray Mallon,[43] which listed Middlesbrough as the country's supposed 'worst place to live' in 2007,[44] no local politicians attempted to capitalise on the occasion.
In May 2008 Middlesbrough was chosen as one of the sites in the BBC’s Public Space Broadcasting Project. Like other towns participating in the project, Middlesbrough was offered a large 27 m2 (290 sq ft) television screen by the BBC and the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games. The screen was installed on 11 July 2008 and is located at the western end of Centre Square.
In November 2009, the mima art gallery was used by the presenters of Top Gear as part of a challenge. The challenge was to see if car exhibits would be more popular than normal art.[45]
Middlesbrough is also the home of the award-winning series of short films called Cold Up North. Made by local people, with no formal training and with local bands providing the soundtrack, they have won two Best Film Awards at film festivals, two awards on YouTube, numerous awards and accolades from Middlesbrough Council and recently worked with the North East Film Council. There is a story attached to the film crew that they once received an e mail from Sir Ridley Scott (who has connections to the area) complimenting their work and encouraging them into the future. Some of their short films are available on YouTube.[citation needed]
Notable people[link]
The world-famous explorer, navigator, and map maker Captain James Cook was born in Marton, which is now a suburb in the south-east of Middlesbrough.
Other famous people from Middlesbrough include:
- Sports
- Rob Smedley, Formula One race engineer for Felipe Massa
- Footballers Brian Clough, Wilf Mannion, Jacky Carr, Don Revie, Alan Peacock, Peter Beagrie, Chris Kamara, Mark Proctor, Stuart Ripley, Gary Gill, Phil Stamp, Tommy Mooney, Keith Houchen and Jonathan Woodgate, as well as current England players Stewart Downing and Matt Jarvis.
- Middlesbrough Football Club Chairman Steve Gibson
- Rugby union players Rory Underwood and Alan Old
- Cricketers Liam Plunkett, Geoff Cook, Bill Athey and Chris Old
- Boxer Paul Truscott
- Darts players Glenn Moody and Colin Osborne
- Billiards players Mike Russell and Dave Causier.
- Olympic swimmer Jack Hatfield and Commonwealth Games swimmer Alyson Jones
- Olympic cyclist Chris Newton
- Former British long jump record holding athlete Chris Tomlinson
- Former Premiership referee Jeff Winter
- Junior World and European Track Cycling Champion David Daniell
- The Football Association's Director of Communications Adrian Bevington
- The Arts
- Models Jade McSorley and Preeti Desai, who was Miss Great Britain 2006
- Comedians Dave Morris, Bob Mortimer, Roy Chubby Brown and Kevin Connelly
- Musicians Cyril Smith, Chris Rea, Paul Rodgers, Micky Moody, Alistair Griffin, Vin Garbutt, Chris Corner and Stephen Mark Barchan
- Actors Wendy Richard, Thelma Barlow, Christopher Quinten, Elizabeth Carling, Mark Benton, Jerry Desmonde, Jamie Parker and Neil Grainger.
- Writers Ann Jellicoe – playwright and theatre director, novelists Ernest William Hornung, Richard Milward and Wally K Daly, TV and radio scriptwriter
- Visual artists Fred Appleyard, Robert Nixon, Mackenzie Thorpe, Chris Dooks and William Tillyer
- Author, educator, historian and lecturer Paul C. Doherty
- Roman Catholic and Dominican priest, theologian and philosopher, Herbert McCabe[46]
- Antiques Expert David Harper
- Other Entertainers:
- Magician Paul Daniels, Pete Firman
- TV Presenter Kirsten O'Brien
- X Factor third place contestants Journey South
- X Factor finalist Amelia Lily
- Any Dream Will Do third place contestant Lewis Bradley
- Magician ** Magician/Comedian John Archer
Other eminent sons and daughters of Middlesbrough and its environs include Martin Narey (1955–present), chief executive of Barnardo's, Professor Sir Liam Donaldson,[47] Chief Medical Officer for England, E. W. Hornung, the creator of the gentleman-crook Raffles (who was fluent in three Yorkshire dialects), and Naomi Jacob novelist. Florence Easton, the Wagnerian soprano at the New York Met and Cyril Smith (1909–1974), the concert pianist, were also natives. The famous M.P. Ellen Wilkinson wrote a novel Clash (1929) which paints a very positive picture of ‘Shireport’ (Middlesbrough). The classic study, At The Works (1907), by Florence Bell (1851–1930), gives a striking picture of the area at the turn of the 19th to 20th century. She also edited the letters of her stepdaughter Gertrude Bell (1868–1926), which has been continuously in print since 1927. Pat Barker's debut novel Union Street was set on the thoroughfare of the same name in the town, its central theme of prostitution still associated with the area around it to this day. The Jonny Briggs series of books, written by Joan Eadington (and later to become a BBC Children's TV series of the same name, was also based in the town.
Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939) was billeted in Eston during the Great War (1914–18) and his great novel sequence Parade's End is partly set in Busby Hall, Carlton-in-Cleveland.
Adrian 'Six Medals' Warburton, air photographer, was played by Alec Guinness in 'Malta Story'.
The great model maker Richard Old (1856–1932) resided for most of his life at 6 Ruby Street.
Image gallery[link]
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The Bottle of Notes sculpture by
Claes Oldenburg -
Teesside Crown Court, Middlesbrough
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40,000 Years of Modern Art, at Middlehaven by
Benedict Carpenter -
Mimabro.jpg
The Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art circa 2007
Twin towns[link]
Middlesbrough is twinned with the following places:[48]
Middlesboro, Kentucky, USA
Dunkirk, France, since 12 April 1976
Oberhausen, Germany, since 1974
Masvingo, Zimbabwe, since 1990
See also[link]
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- Middlesbrough travel guide from Wikitravel
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- "Pioneers of the Cleveland iron trade" by J. S. Jeans 1875
- This is Middlesbrough – Visitor and leisure guide for Middlesbrough.
- Official Middlesbrough Council Website
- Unofficial Middlesbrough Town Hall website
- Visitmiddlesbrough – the official visitor and leisure guide for Middlesbrough
- "At the works, a study of a manufacturing town (Middlesbrough, Yorkshire)" by Florence Bell, 1907* BBC Tees – the latest local news, sport, entertainment, features, faith, travel and weather.
- Genuki – History of Eston parish & District Descriptions from Bulmer's History and Directory of North Yorkshire (1890)
- "How Boro will lose its "crap town" image" – Stephen Bayley, the Observer
- "Introducing mima – Middlesbrough's Moma" – Ian Herbert, the Independent
- "Mima – painting a pretty picture" – Channel 4 News
- Tide times for Middlesbrough Dock entrance.
- Kirby College – development plans.
- Middlesbrough's Claes Oldenburg sculpture is featured in this short film by Ian Robinson.
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| Jeff Stelling | |
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| Born | Robert Jeffrey Stelling (1955-03-18) 18 March 1955 (age 57) Hartlepool, County Durham, England |
| Occupation | Journalist, Radio/Television presenter |
| Spouse | Liz Stelling (m. 1998–present) |
| Children | 3 (two sons and one daughter) |
Robert Jeffrey "Jeff" Stelling (born 18 March 1955, Hartlepool, County Durham) is an English sports journalist and sport television presenter. He currently presents Gillette Soccer Saturday for Sky Sports and other programming for the satellite broadcaster. In January 2009 he took over as host of the Channel 4 quiz show Countdown, but in May 2011 it was announced that he would leave the show at the end of the year due to his commitments with Sky Sports.
Contents |
Early life[link]
Stelling was brought up in a council house in Hartlepool.[1] He attended Rift House Primary School and West Hartlepool Grammar School. After leaving school his first job was as a journalist at the Hartlepool Mail where he remained for four years.[2]
Career[link]
Radio[link]
His first broadcasting position was as a reporter on Middlesbrough F.C. on Radio Tees in the late 1970s.[3] He was a sports presenter on London's LBC Radio Sportswatch programme in the early 1980s before moving to BBC Radio 2's weekend sports programme Sport On 2, covering the Los Angeles and Seoul Olympic games.
Television[link]
He later spent time as a sports newsreader at TV-am, Channel 4, Eurosport and British Satellite Broadcasting before moving to Sky in 1992 to present coverage of horse racing, snooker and darts. In 2003 he won a sports presenter special edition of The Weakest Link. In 2004, Stelling was offered but rejected an offer from the BBC to front Score--their new Saturday results service. Stelling rejected the offer and the job was given to Ray Stubbs.
[edit] Sports Saturday
In 1994 Stelling became presenter of Sports Saturday, which became Gillette Soccer Saturday in 1998, hosting a programme lasting up to six hours of football discussion and live reports on the afternoon's games with a panel of pundits including Frank McLintock, Chris Kamara, Rodney Marsh and the late George Best. Much of the programme's popularity is put down to Stelling, The Guardian praising him for "exceptional professionalism and élan"[4] and When Saturday Comes describing him as "perhaps the best sports presenter on British TV".
At the start of the 2005-06 Premiership football season, Stelling replaced Ian Payne as the host of Sky Sports' Ford Monday Night Football programme. However, Stelling's appointment coincided with a new, shorter format of the programme, with Stelling presenting the show live from the ground of that evening's game. Previously, the show had been presented from a studio, and had featured some coverage of the prior weekend's games. Moreover, in previous years on Monday nights without a live game, a Monday Night Football Special would be broadcast, which included only the analysis from the weekend's games. This appears to have been dropped from the 2005-06 season, indicating that Stelling's appointment is to a smaller role than that held by his predecessors.
Stelling made a brief appearance in an episode of Mike Bassett: Manager where he played as himself in the episode "Abide with me".[5]
In 2011, when presenting Gillette Soccer Saturday, Stelling unbeknowingly got tongue-tied when saying the name of Scottish First Division football team "Raith Rovers". He mispronounced it as "Roath Ravers". The gaffe was subsequently mocked by Sky Sports' satirical live football-based show, Soccer AM. Two of its crew dressed up and danced like night club 'ravers'. Stelling's mistake was turned into a soundbite and remixed to make the music that they danced to. The gaffe also helped inspire a new football club to be set up in the Roath area of Cardiff called Roath Ravers FC.
In 2011 he replaced the departed Richard Keys as the main presenter of Sky's live Champions League coverage.
[edit] Countdown
On 21 November 2008, it was reported that Stelling had been confirmed as the new host of the Channel 4 game show Countdown following the departure of Des O'Connor. He had reportedly also been approached for the role following the death of long-time host Richard Whiteley, but the role was given to Des Lynam instead.[6] Stelling began recording Countdown in December 2008, with the show's new assistant Rachel Riley, and started broadcasting in January 2009. He also appears during an episode of The IT Crowd in the same role. However, it was announced on 25 May 2011 that Stelling would be stepping down as presenter of Countdown at the end of the year, after three years at the helm, to concentrate on football, including his new Champions League role.[7][8]
Recognition[link]
On 23 November 2007 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Professional Studies by the University of Teesside.[9]
Stelling has been named as Sports Broadcaster of the Year for five successive years by the Sports Journalists' Association of Great Britain, based on a poll of its members. He has so far been the only broadcaster to win the award.
On 12 March 2010 he was granted the title of honorary freeman of his hometown of Hartlepool, along with the town's former MP Lord Mandelson.[10]
Personal life[link]
Stelling lives in Bishop's Waltham in south Hampshire with his wife Liz and two sons Robbie (born September 1998) and Matthew (born December 1999) and a daughter Olivia (born July 2003). They were married in November 1998 in Richmond upon Thames. He has completed the London Marathon on eight occasions and his best time is 3 hours and 28 minutes.[11] He is a well-known supporter of Hartlepool United F.C., in which during the 2008-09 season, he would use a singing toy figure of the singer James Brown singing "I Feel Good" every time the player of the same name scored. He has also hummed the theme of The Sweeney when Anthony Sweeney has scored.
References[link]
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- ^ Weaver, Paul (17 January 2001). "Grandstand for the information age". The Guardian. http://football.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,4284,423387,00.html. Retrieved 3 March 2007.
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- ^ Rollo, Sarah (16 October 2008). "Jeff Stelling turns down 'Countdown'". Digital Spy. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/a132820/jeff-stelling-turns-down-countdown.html. Retrieved 17 October 2008.
- ^ "Countdown host Jeff Stelling to leave show". BBC News. 25 May 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13538749. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
- ^ "Countdown presenter Jeff Stelling quits show". Daily Telegraph. 25 May 2011. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8534800/Countdown-presenter-Jeff-Stelling-quits-show.html. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
- ^ The Northern Echo Ranting Jeff Gets a Degree From Town University
- ^ The Daily Telegraph,Lord Mandelson and Jeff Stelling made honorary freemen
- ^ Countdown, Jeff Stelling and Rory McGrath discuss the London Marathon
External links[link]
- University of Teesside
- Hartlepool Mail June 2008
- Interviewed by Ron Aitken, Independent on Sunday
- Guardian interview
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| Name | Stelling, Jeff |
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| Date of birth | 6 December 1955 |
| Place of birth | Hartlepool, County Durham, England |
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| Rod Liddle | |
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| Born | April 1960 Abbey Wood, London |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | B.A. in social psychology |
| Alma mater | London School of Economics |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Known for | Former editor of BBC Radio 4 Today Programme |
| Political party | Labour Party[1] |
| Spouse | Rachel Royce (m. January 2004), Alicia Monckton (m. September 2008) |
| Children | Tyler, Wilder, and Emmeline |
Roderick E. L. Liddle (born April 1960) is an English print, radio, and television journalist.
He is an associate editor of The Spectator, and former editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he is the author of Too Beautiful for You (2003), Love Will Destroy Everything (2007), and co-author of The Best of Liddle Britain (2007). He has presented several television programmes, including The New Fundamentalists, The Trouble with Atheism, and Immigration Is A Time Bomb.
Liddle began his career at the South Wales Echo, then worked for the Labour Party, and later joined the BBC. He become editor of Today in 1998, resigning in 2002 after his employers objected to one of his articles in The Guardian. He has also written for The Sunday Times and The Sun among other publications.
His comments regularly cause controversy in the media, and his acrimonious divorce in 2004 from Rachel Royce received much attention. He was accused of racism for making remarks about the African-Caribbean community and for the content of his posts to an online forum. A November 2011 article by Liddle in The Spectator about the trial of two individuals involved in the murder of Stephen Lawrence led to a decision to prosecute the magazine for breaching reporting restrictions. A court hearing will be held in June 2012.[2]
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Early life and education[link]
Liddle was born in Abbey Wood, south London, the son of a train driver. From the age of eight, he was brought up in Nunthorpe, a suburb of Middlesbrough, in north east England.
He was educated at the comprehensive Laurence Jackson School in nearby Guisborough and the adjacent sixth form college, where he formed a punk band called Dangerbird.
He attended the London School of Economics (LSE) as a mature student, where he read Social Psychology.[3][4]
Career[link]
His early career in journalism was with the South Wales Echo in Cardiff where he was a general news reporter and, for a time, the rock and pop writer. He was a member of the Socialist Workers Party in his early youth, but worked between 1983 and 1987 as a speechwriter and researcher for the Labour Party.[5]
BBC[link]
He returned to journalism after graduating from the LSE, and was taken on as a trainee producer by the BBC.[3] Liddle was appointed editor of the Today programme in 1998.[6] The programme had an unrivalled reputation for its political interviews, but Liddle tried, with considerable success, to improve the programme's investigative journalism. To this end he hired journalists from outside the BBC. Among the most controversial was Andrew Gilligan, who joined from The Sunday Telegraph in 1999. Gilligan's 29 May 2003 report on Today—that the British government had "sexed up" the intelligence dossier on Iraq, a report broadcast after Liddle had left the programme—began a chain of events that included the death in July that year of David Kelly, the weapons inspector who was Gilligan's source, and the subsequent Hutton Inquiry, a public inquiry into the circumstances of Kelly's death. Liddle defended Gilligan throughout the controversy.[7]
Under Liddle's editorship, Today won a number of awards: a Sony Silver in 2002 for reports by Barnie Choudhury and Mike Thomson into the causes of race riots in the north of England; a Sony Bronze in 2003 for an investigation by Angus Stickler into paedophile priests; and an Amnesty International Media Award in 2003 for Gilligan's investigation into the sale of illegal landmines, an investigation that attracted a lengthy legal action.
While working for Today, Liddle also wrote a column for The Guardian. On 25 September 2002, referring to a march organized by the Countryside Alliance in defence of fox hunting, Liddle wrote that readers may have forgotten why they voted Labour in 1997, but would remember once they saw the people campaigning to save hunting.[8] His column led The Daily Telegraph to accuse Liddle of bias and of endangering democracy.[9] The BBC concluded that Liddle's comments breached his commitment to impartiality as a BBC editor, and gave him an ultimatum to stop writing his column or resign from his position on Today. He resigned on 30 September 2002.[10] He said later that when he was editor he was ordered by BBC management to sack Frederick Forsyth from the show, and speculated that it was because of Forsyth's rightwing political views.[11] The BBC replied that the decision was made for editorial reasons.[12]
[edit] The Spectator
With Kate Silverton he presented the short-lived BBC2 political show Weekend—described by The Independent on Sunday as "The worst programme anywhere, ever, in the history of time"—and BBC4's The Talk Show. He continued to write for The Guardian, and became a team captain on Call My Bluff. He became an associate editor with The Spectator. He also writes for the men's magazines, GQ and Arena, and a weekly column for The Sunday Times.[3]
Controversies[link]
In August 2009, in his Spectator blog he wrote about Harriet Harman, deputy leader of the Labour Party, in unflattering terms. Liddle began the article by asking: "So — Harriet Harman, then. Would you? I mean after a few beers obviously, not while you were sober."[13] Liddle asserted two months later: "It was supposed to be a parody of guttural, base sexism", a joke he assumed readers would understand. Surprised by a negative response from a number of female journalists he continued: "And then I suppose I came to the conclusion - gradually - that I must have got it wrong."[14]
In November 2009, again for The Spectator website, he offered "a quick update on what the Muslim savages are up to," a brief article about the stoning to death of a 20-year-old woman in Somalia after she was accused of adultery, and the similar death of a 13-year-old the year before. He made remarks, considered sarcastic, that read: "Incidentally, many Somalis have come to Britain as immigrants recently, where they are widely admired for their strong work ethic, respect for the law and keen, piercing, intelligence."[15][16]
In December 2009, on his Spectator blog, Liddle referred to two black music producers, Brandon Jolie and Kingsley Ogundele, who had plotted to kill Jolie's 15-year-old pregnant girlfriend, as "human filth" and said the incident was not an anomaly. He continued:
The overwhelming majority of street crime, knife crime, gun crime, robbery and crimes of sexual violence in London is carried out by young men from the African-Caribbean community. Of course, in return, we have rap music, goat curry and a far more vibrant and diverse understanding of cultures which were once alien to us. For which, many thanks.[17]
When he was accused of racism, Liddle said he was instead engaging in a debate about multiculturalism.[18][19] In March 2010 the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) upheld a complaint against Liddle, who became the first journalist to be censured over the contents of a blog, because he had not been able to prove his claim about the crime statistics.[20] After the publication of London crime figures in June 2010, The Sunday Telegraph suggested Liddle was largely right on some of his claims, but that he was probably wrong on his claims about knife crimes and violent sex crimes.[21]
In January 2010, the Mail on Sunday and The Observer drew attention to allegedly racist and misogynist comments posted under the username "monkeymfc"—a name Liddle has used—on Millwall Online, a fan club web forum with no official connection to the Millwall Football Club. Liddle at first attributed some of the comments to opposition fans logging in under his name to embarrass him. He later admitted he had written some of the posts that were being criticized, including one in support of the BNP excluding Black and Asian people from the party.[22] Another post, in which he joked about not being able to smoke at Auschwitz, led to his being forced to explain what he meant in The Jewish Chronicle.[23]
The Guardian reported on 8 January 2010 that the expected purchase of The Independent by Alexander Lebedev, a Russian billionaire, would be followed by the appointment of Liddle as editor.[24] Roy Greenslade wrote on 11 January that the reports were provoking a "major internal and external revolt" by The Independent's staff and readers.[25] The stories about Liddle's posts on Millwall Online apparently further reduced the likelihood of him being offered the job.[23] Finally, on 19 February, Stephen Brook of The Guardian reported that Liddle was no longer in the running for the post.[26] Tim Luckhurst, Professor of Journalism at the University of Kent, argued that Liddle's chance of editing The Independent was removed "by the people behind a viciously intolerant campaign of liberal bigotry".[27]
In November 2011 an article[28] by Liddle for The Spectator suggested the trial of two men accused (and later convicted) of murdering Stephen Lawrence would not be fair. It was referred to the Attorney General (Dominic Grieve) by the judge for possible contempt of court,[29] and he ordered the jurors not to read it. Having decided that it may have breached a court order, Grieve passed the case on to the Crown Prosecution Service and the Director of Public Prosecutions.[30] The decision that The Spectator is to be prosecuted by the CPS for breaching reporting restrictions was announced on 9 May, with a court hearing scheduled for 7 June 2012, although Liddle as the author is not himself liable for prosecution.[2] Fraser Nelson, the magazine's editor, has announced that the prosecution will not be contested.[31]
In January 2012 Liddle claimed that many people in the UK were "pretending to be disabled" in his column for The Sun,[32] an opinion defended by James Delingpole who thought "Rod's point is well made".[33]
Political views[link]
Liddle is a member of the Labour Party.[1] His political views are sometimes questioned by those on both left and right.[34][35] He stated his beliefs on his Spectator blog:
I'm not sure why it puzzles people, although I assume it’s something to do with what the Labour Party has become. I am pretty much of the left, but loathe the censoriousness, arrogance, self-righteousness and political correctness of the left, or London faux-left, as I would describe it. I sign up to most of the stuff which used to be considered left – decent minimum wage, redistributive tax policy, social ownership of those things which as a society we need but which the market struggles to provide (trains, utilities, council housing and the like). My worries about immigration, meanwhile, are twofold; that as a country we have become too crowded, and that the free movement of labour has made it harder for indigenous working class people to earn a decent wage, rent a decent house, get their kids educated in schools where the other kids speak the same language and so on and so on. My dislike of multiculturalism stems not simply from the belief that competing cultures undermine a sense of national identity and shared aspiration, but that some of the cultures we have encouraged, or made allowances for, are profoundly illiberal and penalize the most vulnerable sectors of society. And when that happens – either with the more rigorous strictures of Islam, or the low educational achievement and predilection towards crime of young African Caribbean men (© Diane Abbott), we should say so, and say so forcefully. I suppose on these latter points it has largely been the right-wing doing most of the running – but I do not see why it is right wing per se to object to the authoritarianism of Islam, or a culture which leads black kids towards crime. Quite the reverse, I would have thought. But there we are. I hope this has helped.[36]
He said in 2009: "I got a reputation three or four years ago for being very right wing. This was always bollocks, I've never been right wing", and that "The truth is I'm a fundamentalist liberal, I'm probably worse than all those other people." He is a critic of Islam, and sees the religion as oppressive. However, he says it is the Christians who are more offended by his views: "When I write things about Islam I get letters and emails from Muslims, which with great politeness and erudition explain why they think I'm wrong and wish me the best. When I write about evangelical Christianity I get death threats, I get told that I'm going to burn in hell for all eternity and so are all my children."[37]
Television[link]
[edit] The New Fundamentalists
In The New Fundamentalists, a programme in the Dispatches strand broadcast in March 2006, Liddle, a member of the Church of England, condemned the rise of evangelicalism and Christian fundamentalism in Britain, especially the anti-Darwinian influence of such beliefs in faith schools; and criticised the social teaching and cultural influence of this strand of Christianity. The documentary was criticised by David Hilborn of the Evangelical Alliance,[38] and by Rupert Kaye of the Association of Christian Teachers.[39]
[edit] The Trouble with Atheism
In The Trouble with Atheism, Liddle argued that atheists can be as dogmatic and intolerant as the adherents of religion. Liddle said, "History has shown us that it's not religion that's the problem, but any system of thought that insists that one group of people are inviolably in the right, whereas the others are in the wrong and must somehow be punished."[40] Liddle argues, for example, that eugenic policies are the logical consequence of dogmatic adherence to Darwinism.
[edit] Immigration Is A Time Bomb
Liddle's Immigration Is A Time Bomb was broadcast by Channel 4 in 2005. The complaints that followed it included that he should not have allowed British National Party leader Nick Griffin to speak unchallenged. Ofcom adjudicated that the programme was fair, and the complaints were dismissed. Liddle subsequently argued, after Griffin was acquitted in February 2006 of two charges of inciting racial hatred, that the charges were "too ephemeral, too dependent upon the mindset and political disposition of the juror, and upon what is happening outside of the courtroom, on the streets."[41]
Other work[link]
In April 2007, Liddle presented a two-hour long theological documentary called The Bible Revolution where he looked back in history to William Tyndale's translation of the Bible in English and the effect this had upon the English language.[42] On 21 May 2007, he presented an hour long documentary, Battle for the Holy Land: Love Thy Neighbour, about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. He visited Bethlehem, Hebron and the Israeli settlement of Tekoa. Liddle sought to examine whether Israel was a true liberal democracy in light of its treatment of the Palestinians. He also appeared in Channel 4's alternative election night episode of Come Dine With Me along with Edwina Curry, Derek Hatton and Brian Paddick. He surprised his fellow guests by serving jerk chicken sourced from a halal butcher.
In 2003 Liddle wrote a collection of short stories, Too Beautiful For You.[43] He said he has always wanted to be a writer, and saw journalism as a cop-out.[7] He is also the author of Love Will Destroy Everything (2007) and the co-author of The Best of Liddle Britain (2007).
Personal life[link]
Liddle married his longtime partner, Rachel Royce, a television presenter, in January 2004 at a ceremony in Malaysia. They had been living in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, and had two sons together, Tyler and Wilder.[44] Six months later, Liddle moved in with Alicia Monckton, a 22-year-old receptionist at The Spectator. It transpired that he had cut his honeymoon with Royce short so that he could be with Monckton. Following their divorce, Liddle and Royce exchanged attacks in the media. Liddle called her a "total slut and slattern", and Royce wrote an article in the Daily Mail titled "My cheating husband Rod, 10 bags of manure and me the bunny boiler. As for The Slapper... she's welcome to him".[45] As of 2011 Royce was still writing about her ex-husband in the Mail.[46] On 5 May 2005, he was arrested for common assault against Monckton, who was 20 weeks pregnant at the time. He admitted the offence and accepted a police caution, but said later that he only did so because it was the quickest way for him to be released, and that he had not assaulted her.[47] The couple's daughter, Emmeline, named after the suffragette, Emmeline Pankhurst, was born in October 2005.[14] The couple married in September 2008.[48]
Liddle has supported Millwall Football Club since the age of seven. He frequently attends home and away games. He has written several articles lamenting the demise of football as the people's game.[49]
References[link]
- ^ a b Liddle, Rod. "So some people actually voted for Abbott?", The Spectator, 26 September 2010
- ^ a b Owen Boycott "Spectator magazine to face charge over article on Stephen Lawrence trial",The Guardian, 9 May 2012
- ^ a b c "Profile: Rod Liddle: How to sex up – and mess up – your life", The Times, 11 July 2004.
- ^ Leapman, Michael. "The New Statesman Interview – Rod Liddle", New Statesman, 30 July 2001.
- ^ "Rod Liddle", BBC News, 29 September 2005.
- ^ "This week's panel", BBC News, 2 April 2008.
- ^ a b Barber, Lynn. "Liddle at large", The Observer, 5 October 2003.
- ^ Liddle, Rod. "Marching back to Labour", The Guardian, 25 September 2002
- ^ Day, Julia. "Telegraph accuses Liddle of political bias", The Guardian, 26 September 2002.
- For the Telegraph report, see: "Slanted thought on Today", The Daily Telegraph, 26 September 2002.
- ^ "BBC editor steps down", BBC News, 30 September 2002.
- See also: Higham, Nick. "How Today's editor went", BBC News, 30 September 2002.
- ^ Wilson, Jamie. "Liddle 'ordered to sack Forsyth'", The Guardian, 3 February 2003.
- ^ "BBC rejects Liddle comments", BBC News, 3 February 2003.
- ^ Rod Liddle "Harriet Harman is either thick or criminally disingenuous", The Spectator, 19 November 2009
- ^ a b Viv Groskop "Rod Liddle: Maybe I was wrong to say I wouldn't sleep with Harriet Harman", Evening Standard (This is London website), 2 October 2009
- ^ Hughes, Mark. "Liddle under fire over 'racist' blog", The Independent, 7 December 2009.
- ^ Liddle, Rod. "Muslim savages update", The Spectator, 19 November 2009.
- ^ Liddle, Rod. "Benefits of a multi-cultural Britain", The Spectator, 5 December 2009.
- For a report of the incident, see: "Music pair jailed over death plot", BBC News, 4 December 2009.
- ^ Irvine, Chris. "Rod Liddle accused of racism for blog", The Daily Telegraph, 7 December 2009.
- ^ West, Ed. By talking frankly about black crime, Rod Liddle is combatting racism, not causing it, The Daily Telegraph, 7 December 2009.
- ^ Plunkett, John. "Rod Liddle censured by the PCC", The Guardian, 29 March 2010.
- ^ Alderson, Andrew. "Violent inner-city crime, the figures, and a question of race", The Daily Telegraph, 26 June 2010.
- ^ Owen, Glen. "Former Today editor Rod Liddle under fire over 'racist' posts on football supporters' website", Mail on Sunday, 17 January 2010; Preston, Peter. "Liddle plus Lebedev hardly adds up to Independent thinking", The Observer, 17 January 2010.
- ^ a b Robinson, James. "Rod Liddle defends quip about Auschwitz on Millwall fans' forum", The Guardian, 22 January 2010.
- ^ Sweney, Mark and Brook, Stephen. "Rod Liddle lined up to edit Independent", The Guardian, 8 January 2010.
- ^ Greenslade, Roy. "Independent faces revolt from staff and readers if Liddle becomes editor", The Guardian, 11 January 2010
- ^ Brook, Stephen. "Rod Liddle no longer in running for Independent editor", The Guardian, 19 February 2010
- ^ Tim Luckhurst "How the 'liberal' mob did Rod Liddle in", The Guardian, 19 February 2012
- ^ Dominic Ponsford "The Rod Liddle article which threatened Stephen Lawrence trial as it had barely begun", Press Gazette (blog), 4 January 2012
- ^ "Spectator referred for 'contempt'", BBC News, 17 November 2011
- ^ Jason Deans "Spectator article on Stephen Lawrence trial referred to DPP", The Guardian, 29 November 2011
- ^ "Spectator charged over Stephen Lawrence article", BBC News, 9 May 2012
- ^ 'Monkey' "A Liddle more controversy as Rod's Sun column angers the disabled", The Guardian (Media Monkey blog), 26 January 2012
- ^ James Delingpole "The fake disabled are crippling our economy", Telegraph (blog), 26 January 2012
- ^ Hundal, Sunny. "Campaign on Rod Liddle moves into final stage", Liberal Conspiracy, 16 February 2010.
- ^ Hannan, Daniel. "Has the time come to emigrate?", The Daily Telegraph, 19 June 2010.
- ^ Liddle, Rod. "Hope this helps, Dan", The Spectator, 7 July 2010.
- ^ "Rod Liddle: 'I've never had a go at Muslims, only Islam'", The Independent, 5 January 2009.
- ^ 'Dispatches: The New Fundamentalists', Evangelical Alliance, 9 March 2006.
- ^ Kaye, Rupert. "The New Fundamentalists", Association of Christian Teachers, 7 March 2006.
- ^ Busfield, Steve. "The pronouncements of Rod Liddle", The Guardian, 8 January 2010.
- ^ Liddle, Rod. "Alas, I must defend the BNP", The Times, February 5, 2006.
- ^ "The Bible Revolution", Channel 4. Archived by the Internet Archive on 13 February 2007.
- ^ Jeffreys, Susan. "Too Beautiful For You By Rod Liddle", The Independent, 3 October 2003.
- ^ Burleigh, James. "The cheating, the rows, the revenge: Liddle and Royce spill their vitriol (and manure) in public", The Independent, 12 July 2004.
- ^ Smith, David. "The bitter fallout from a media divorce", The Observer, 11 July 2004.
- See also: Cole, Peter. "Peter Cole: Welcome to the Rod, Rachel and Alicia show. But who's it aimed at?", The Independent, 18 July 2004.
- ^ Royce, Rachel. "How can the swine Rod Liddle, who cheated on me within days of our wedding, set himself up as a champion of marriage?", Daily Mail, 14 July 2011.
- ^ Bloomfield, Steve. "Oh dear, the telephone puts poor Rod on the hook again", The Independent, 8 May 2005.
- Sanderson, David. "Liddle gets caution for row with girlfriend", The Times, 7 May 2005.
- ^ Todd, Ben. "'Why I love marriage' by serial philanderer Rod Liddle", Daily Mail, 13 July 2011.
- ^ Liddle, Rod. "We love you, Millwall, we do", The Guardian, 29 January 2003
External links[link]
- Spectator blog
- Profile at The Guardian
- Articles written by Rod Liddle at The Spectator
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| Date of birth | April 1960 |
| Place of birth | Abbey Wood, London |
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Jonjo Shelvey[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1992-02-27) 27 February 1992 (age 20) | ||
| Place of birth | Romford, England | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Liverpool | ||
| Number | 33 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2008–2010 | Charlton Athletic | 42 | (7) |
| 2010– | Liverpool | 28 | (1) |
| 2011 | → Blackpool | 10 | (6) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2007–2008 | England U16 | 6 | (3) |
| 2008–2009 | England U17 | 7 | (1) |
| 2010– | England U19 | 4 | (4) |
| 2011– | England U21 | 4 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16:50, 13 May 2012 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). |
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Jonjo Shelvey (born 27 February 1992)[2] is an English footballer who plays for Liverpool as a midfielder. He has represented and also captained England at Under-19 level.[3] He previously played for Charlton Athletic, being their youngest-ever first-team player, making his first appearance at the age of 16 years and 59 days.[2] He made a £1.7 million move to Liverpool in the summer of 2010.
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Club career[link]
Charlton Athletic[link]
Born in Romford, London, Shelvey was in the youth setups of Arsenal and West Ham United the club he supports before moving on to Charlton.[4] Shelvey made his breakthrough in the 2007–08 season after scoring 14 goals in 23 appearances for Charlton's Under 18s. When making his first-team debut in April 2008, against Barnsley, he became Charlton's youngest-ever player, at the age of 16 years and 59 days — beating the previous holder, Paul Konchesky.[5]
On 3 January 2009, Shelvey became Charlton's youngest-ever goal-scorer, with a strike against Norwich City in the FA Cup, 54 days before his 17th birthday,[2] breaking the previous record held by Peter Reeves who was aged 17 years and 100 days when he scored – also against Norwich – in May 1966, He picked the ball up just outside the box, before striking it right footed into the corner of the net. Shelvey had a lively first half, but tired as the game drew on. Despite interest from several Premier League clubs, on the morning of 27 February, his 17th birthday, Shelvey signed his first professional contract with Charlton. On 9 September he signed a one-year contract extension until 2012. He scored his first league goal in the 3–2 win against Southampton on 4 April 2009.[6][7]
Liverpool[link]
Shelvey signed for Liverpool in May 2010, for an initial fee of £1.7 million.[8] He made his debut for the club as an extra-time substitute on 22 September in The Reds' shock League Cup third-round defeat against League Two side Northampton Town at Anfield, with Liverpool losing 4–2 on penalties (with Shelvey scoring in the shootout) after a 2–2 draw.[9] Shelvey started his first game for the club in Liverpool's UEFA Europa League group game against Napoli on the 21 October 2010, playing the whole 90 minutes match in a 0–0 draw.[10] On 24 October, Shelvey made his Premier League debut against Blackburn Rovers at Anfield, coming on in the 87th minute in the Reds' 2-1 win.
Shelvey joined Championship club Blackpool on loan on 30 September 2011.[11] The following day he scored on his debut, in a 5–0 win against Bristol City at Bloomfield Road.[12] He also scored his first professional hat-trick in a 5–0 win away at Leeds United in November 2011.[13]
On 30 November, he was recalled by Liverpool due to injury problems within the team, mainly surrounding Steven Gerrard and Lucas Leiva, Lucas was later ruled out for the remainder of the season.[14] He made his first ever Premier League start the following weekend against Aston Villa.[15]
On 6 January 2012, he scored his first senior goal for Liverpool in a 5–1 win in a third round FA Cup tie against Oldham Athletic at Anfield. [16]
On 8 May 2012, he scored his first Premier League goal for Liverpool from 30 yards in a 4–1 win over Chelsea at Anfield.[17]
International career[link]
Shelvey captained the England Under 16s as they won the 2007 Victory Shield scoring three goals in three games.[18] He also played a key role in the Montaigu Tournament, which England won for the first time in seven years, playing in all four games and scoring a free kick in the final against France.[19] In October 2008, he made his debut for the England Under 17s and scored in a 7–0 win over Estonia.[20]
On his debut for the England Under 19s, in September 2010, he captained and scored a free-kick in a 2–0 win over Slovakia,[21] and followed up by scoring on his following two appearances for the side.[22][23] He won his first Under-21 cap coming on as substitute in a 6–0 win against Azerbaijan in September 2011.[24]
Shelvey is also eligible to play for Scotland[25] and the Republic of Ireland.[26] He is eligible to play for Scotland through his Scottish grandfather.[27]
Career Statistics[link]
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| Season | Club | Loan | Division | League | FA Cup | League Cup | FL Trophy | Play-Offs | Europe | Total | Discipline | ||||||||
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |  |
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| 2012–13 | Liverpool | Premier League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2011–12 | Premier League | 13 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 16 | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 2011–12 | Blackpool | Loan | Championship | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | – | – | 10 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| 2010–11 | Liverpool | Premier League | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 4 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Liverpool Total | 28 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 37 | 1 | 3 | 0 | |||
| 2009–10 | Charlton Athletic | League One | 24 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 27 | 4 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2008–09 | Championship | 16 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 20 | 4 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 2007–08 | Championship | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Charlton Athletic Total | 42 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 8 | 8 | 0 | |||
| Career Total | 80 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 96 | 15 | 12 | 0 | |||
Correct as of 13th May 2012.
References[link]
- ^ "Premier League clubs submit squad lists". premierleague.com (Premier League). 2010-09-01. http://www.premierleague.com/page/Headlines/0,,12306~2142220,00.html. Retrieved 2010-09-01.
- ^ a b c Who is Jonjo Shelvey? Top five things to know about Liverpool new signing www.metro.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-08-30.
- ^ "Shelvey aiming high". The Football Association. http://www.thefa.com/England/mens-u19s/News/2010/shelvey-141210.
- ^ "Shelvey hopes to copy pal Jack". Liverpool.tv. 13-09-2010. http://www.Liverpool.tv/news/latest-news/shelvey-hopes-to-copy-pal-jack. Retrieved 2010-09-13.
- ^ "Record-breaker Shelvey starts at Oakwell". Charlton Athletic F.C.. 26 April 2008. http://www.cafc.co.uk/newsview.ink?nid=32338. Retrieved 26 April 2008.
- ^ "Southampton v Charlton". Sky Sports. 4 April 2009. http://www.skysports.com/football/match_facts/0,19762,11065_3005256,00.html. Retrieved 26 April 2010.
- ^ "Southampton 2–3 Charlton". BBC Sport. 4 April 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/7972861.stm. Retrieved 26 April 2010.
- ^ "Liverpool sign Charlton's Jonjo Shelvey". BBC Sport. 28 April 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/liverpool/8647872.stm. Retrieved 28 April 2010.
- ^ "Liverpool 1- 2 Northampton". BBC Sport. 22 September 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/league_cup/9010076.stm. Retrieved 22 September 2010.
- ^ "Napoli 0 - 0 Liverpool". BBC Sport. 2010-10-21. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/9109871.stm. Retrieved 2010-10-28.
- ^ "Seasiders land Shelvey" - Sky Sports, 20 September 2011
- ^ "Blackpool 5 – 0 Bristol City" - BBC Sport, 1 October 2011
- ^ "Leeds 0-5 Blackpool". BBC News. 3 November 2011. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/15457090.stm.
- ^ Blackpool | News | Latest News | Latest News | SHELVEY RETURNS TO LIVERPOOL
- ^ Nursey, James (19 December 2011). "Shelvey: Dalglish has saved my Kop career". Daily Mirror. http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Liverpool-midfielder-Jonjo-Shelvey-grateful-to-Kenny-Dalglish-for-rescuing-his-Kop-career-article844696.html. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
- ^ "Liverpool 5 Oldham Athletic 1: match report". Daily Telegraph. 7 January 2012. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/fa-cup/8999315/Liverpool-5-Oldham-Athletic-1-match-report.html. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
- ^ "Liverpool 4-1 Chelsea". BBC. 8 May 2012. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17904221. Retrieved 8 May 2012.
- ^ "Seventh Heaven for Lions". The Football Association. 26 November 2007. http://www.thefa.com/England/U16s/NewsAndFeatures/Postings/2007/11/U16s_SeventhHeaven.htm. Retrieved 28 April 2008. [dead link]
- ^ "Lions win French tournament". The Football Association. 26 March 2008. http://www.thefa.com/England/U16s/NewsAndFeatures/Postings/england_france_report.htm. Retrieved 28 April 2010. [dead link]
- ^ "Lions Hit Seven". The Football Association. 24 April 2008. http://www.thefa.com/England/Mens-u17s/news/2009/u17s_estonia_report. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
- ^ "Liverpool lads fire Lions to victory". The Football Association. 2 September 2010. http://www.thefa.com/England/mens-u19s/News/Match%20Centre/England%20v%20Slovakia. Retrieved 10 November 2010.
- ^ "Six of the best". The Football Association. 8 October 2010. http://www.thefa.com/England/mens-u19s/News/Match%20Centre/England%20v%20Albania. Retrieved 10 November 2010.
- ^ "Shelvey on target for England". Liverpool FC. 10 October 2010. http://www.Liverpool.tv/news/latest-news/shelvey-on-target-for-england. Retrieved 10 October 2010.
- ^ Campbell, Al. "Henderson scores for Under 21's". www.lfconline.com. http://www.lfconline.com/news/tmnw/henderson_scores_for_under_21s_698655/index.shtml. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
- ^ Craig Levein wants Liverpool starlet to switch to Scotland | Football | STV Sport
- ^ Shelvey spurns Ireland despite promise of cap O'Shea happy at Blues - Soccer, Sport - Herald.ie
- ^ http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/12016/7314304/Shelvey-wants-Scotland-switch
External links[link]
- Jonjo Shelvey profile at the Liverpool website
- Jonjo Shelvey career stats at Soccerbase
- ESPN Profile
- LFCHistory Profile
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| Place of birth | Romford, England |
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