Carillion plc (LSE: CLLN) is a multinational construction-services company headquartered in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.

History[link]

Carillion was created in July 1999 by a demerger from Tarmac, which was founded in 1903.^[3]

In September 2001, Carillion acquired the 51% of GT Rail Maintenance it did not already own thereby creating Carillion Rail.^[4] In August 2002, Carillion bought Citex Management Services for £11.5 million.^[5] Then in March 2005, it acquired Planned Maintenance Group for circa £40 million.^[6] After that, in February 2006, Carillion went on to acquire Mowlem, another UK support-services firm, for circa £350 million^[7] and in February 2008, it acquired Alfred McAlpine, yet another UK support-services firm, for £572 million.^[8] Then in October 2008 Carillion bought Van Bots Construction in Canada for £14.3 million^[9] and went on in April 2011 to buy Eaga, an energy efficiency business, for £306 million.^[10]

Operations[link]

the Yas Viceroy Abu Dhabi Hotel built by Carillion

Carillion provides facilities management services and also undertakes a range of construction projects including roads and hospitals. Most of its business is in the United Kingdom, but it also operates in several other regions, such as Canada and the Middle East.^[11]

Carillion Rail carries out track renewals on the UK rail network and contract work for Network Rail.

Major projects[link]

Major projects involving Carillion have included new facilities for the Royal Opera House (completed in 2000),^[12] the Tate Modern (completed in 2000),^[13] the Grand Mosque in Oman (completed in 2001),^[14] the Copenhagen Metro (completed in 2002),^[15] Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) (completed in 2003),^[16] the M6 Toll (completed in 2003),^[17] Beetham Tower Manchester (completed in 2006),^[18] new facilities for the John Radcliffe Hospital (completed in 2006),^[19] the Sheppey Crossing (completed in 2006),^[20] High Speed 1 (completed in 2007),^[21] Aylesbury Vale Parkway (completed in 2008),^[22] the new facilities at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth (completed in 2009),^[23] the Yas Viceroy Abu Dhabi Hotel in Abu Dhabi (completed in 2009)^[24] and the London Olympics Media Centre (completed in 2011).^[25]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official site
• Yahoo profile

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Michel Corrette

Michel Corrette (10 April 1707 – 21 January 1795) was a French organist, composer and author of musical method books.

Life[link]

Corrette was born in Rouen, Normandy. His father, Gaspard Corrette, was an organist and composer. Corrette served as organist at the Jesuit College in Paris from about 1737 to 1780. It is also known that he traveled to England before 1773. In 1780 he was appointed organist to the Duke of Angoulême and some 15 years later died in Paris at the age of 87.

Music[link]

Corrette was prolific. He composed ballets and divertissements for the stage, including Arlequin, Armide, Le Judement de Midas, Les Âges, Nina, and Persée. He composed many concertos, notably 25 concertos comiques. Aside from these works and organ concertos, he also composed sonatas, songs, instrumental chamber works, harpsichord pieces, cantatas and other sacred vocal works.

His teaching[link]

Aside from playing the organ and composing music, Corrette organized concerts and taught music. He wrote nearly twenty music method books for various instruments—the violin, cello, bass, flute, recorder, bassoon, harpsichord, harp, mandolin, voice and more—with titles such as l'Art de se perfectionner sur le violon (The Art of Playing the Violin Perfectly), le Parfait Maître à chanter (The Perfect Mastersinger) and L′école d′Orphée (The School of Orpheus), a violin treatise describing the French and Italian styles. These pedagogical works by Corrette are valuable because they "give lucid insight into contemporary playing techniques."[1]

See also[link]

• French baroque harpsichordists
• French organ school

External links[link]

• Corrette : Offertoire la St-Dominique, by Jean-Luc Perrot, organ Callinet, church Notre-Dame to Saint-EtienneYouTube
• Corrette : Offertoire la St-Benoist, by Jean-Luc Perrot, organ Callinet, church Notre-Dame to Saint-Etienne YouTube
• Corrette : Noël provençal, by Jean-Luc Perrot, organ Callinet, church Notre-Dame to Saint-Etienne [2]
• Corrette Noël Je me suis levé, by Jean-Luc Perrot, organ Callinet, church Notre-Dame to Saint-Etienne YouTube

• Corrette: Tous les bourgeois de Chastres [3]
• Corrette: Noël provençal [4]
• YouTube Basse de trompette, from 3rd Organ Book, Pastór de Lasala.
• YouTube L’Éclatante, from 3rd Organ Book, Pastór de Lasala.
• YouTube Grand Jeu from Magnificat in A major (Premier Livre d’Orgue, 1737), by André Isoir.
• Michel Corrette (1707 - 1795), biographical sketch on Here of a Sunday Morning website.
• Michel Corrette More complete text from the French Wikipedia.

Free scores[link]

• Free scores by Michel Corrette in the Werner Icking Music Archive (WIMA)
• Free scores by Michel Corrette at the International Music Score Library Project
• e-Partitions Organ music.
• Les pantins (from Maîtres français du clavecin des XVIIme et XVIIIme siècles) From Sibley Music Library Digital Scores Collection

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The Right Honourable Hazel Blears MP
Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
In office 27 June 2007 – 5 June 2009
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Ruth Kelly
Succeeded by	John Denham
Minister without Portfolio
In office 5 May 2006 – 27 June 2007
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Ian McCartney
Labour Party Chair
In office 5 May 2006 – 24 June 2007
Leader	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Ian McCartney
Succeeded by	Harriet Harman
Member of Parliament for Salford and Eccles Salford (1997–2010)
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 May 1997
Preceded by	Stanley Orme
Majority	5,725 (13.8%)
Personal details
Born	(1956-05-14) 14 May 1956 (age 56) Salford, England
Political party	Labour
Spouse(s)	Michael Halsall
Alma mater	Nottingham Trent University
Profession	Solicitor
Religion	Roman Catholicism[1]
Website	www.hazelblears.co.uk

Hazel Anne Blears (born 14 May 1956) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Salford and Eccles since 2010 and was previously the MP for Salford since 1997. She served in the Cabinet as Minister without Portfolio and Labour Chair between 2006 and 2007, and Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government from 2007 to 2009, when she resigned. Commenting on the announcement, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, said that Blears had made an "outstanding contribution" to public life.^[2][3]

Early life and education[link]

Hazel Blears was born in Salford on 14 May 1956, the daughter of a maintenance fitter.^[4] As a young child, Hazel and her brother Stephen both played street urchins in the film A Taste of Honey which was filmed in Salford in 1961, when Blears was aged five.^[5] Blears was educated at Worsley Wardley Grammar School in Salford and then Eccles College on Chatsworth Road in Ellesmere Park, Eccles. She went to Trent Polytechnic in Nottingham (now known as Nottingham Trent University), graduating with a BA (Hons) degree in Law, and later, the Chester College of Law in 1977.^[6][7]

Career outside Parliament[link]

Hazel Blears started her career in Salford as a trainee solicitor with Salford City Council in 1978. After two years, she went into private practice for a year, before joining Rossendale Borough Council as a solicitor in 1981 and in the same year she was elected as a Branch Secretary in NALGO. In 1983 she became a solicitor for Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council and later became Manchester City Council's education solicitor. In the following year, she was elected as a councillor to Salford City Council and she served on the council until 1992. She was Chair of the Salford Community Health Council for several years.

Parliamentary career[link]

She stood in Tatton in 1987 against Neil Hamilton and in 1992 in Bury South where she lost by 788 votes. At the 1997 general election she was elected as the Labour MP for Salford, her home seat.

After the election she became the Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Minister of State at the Department of Health Alan Milburn until 1998. She spent ten months in 1999 as PPS to then Chief Secretary to the Treasury Andrew Smith.

In the run-up to the 2001 General Election, Blears was a member and later deputy head of the Labour Party campaign team, a group of backbenchers tasked with campaigning around the country. This raised her national profile.

At the 2010 general election, parliamentary constituencies for Salford and Eccles were restructured, with Blears's constituency being abolished. She defeated Ian Stewart in the selection contest to be the Labour Parliamentary Candidate for the new parliamentary constituency of Salford and Eccles, and was elected.

During her parliamentary career, she has acquired the nickname "Chipmunk".^[1] Fraser Kemp, writing in The Spectator, has subsequently dubbed her "the Iron Chipmunk", a play on the phrase "Iron Lady", often used to describe Margaret Thatcher.^[8]

Ministerial career[link]

After the 2001 General Election, Blears entered Tony Blair's government as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Health, responsible for Public Health. In this job she launched the Government's "5-a-day" campaign to get people to eat more fruit and vegetables.

Blears was promoted in 2003 to Minister of State at the Home Office, with responsibilities for policing, crime reduction and counter terrorism. She was elected to the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party in 2003. After the 2005 General Election, on 7 June 2005 she became a Member of the Privy Council. In a cabinet reshuffle following Council Elections on 4 May 2006 Tony Blair appointed her Party Chair replacing Ian McCartney.

Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government[link]

On 28 June 2007 the new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown appointed Blears as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, replacing Ruth Kelly.^[9] In April 2008 it was rumoured that Brown was planning a summer reshuffle in which Blears would be demoted.^[10] However, when the reshuffle occurred in the autumn, it was confirmed she was to retain her position.^[11]

In May 2008 Blears mistakenly commented on BBC's Question Time that there were 3 million people unemployed in the United Kingdom when Labour came to power in 1997 (the official figure was 1,602,500).^[12]

Deputy Leadership candidate[link]

On 24 February 2007 she announced her candidacy for the election for Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, making her one of six candidates for the job formerly held by John Prescott.^[13] She came last out of six candidates. Harriet Harman won the election on 24 June 2007.^[14]

Resignation from the cabinet[link]

On 3 June 2009, the day before the 2009 European and local elections, Blears announced she would resign from the cabinet at the next reshuffle.^[3] The media noted how, on the day her resignation was announced, she wore a brooch bearing the message "rocking the boat"^[15][16] On 12 June 2009, she expressed her regret at the manner and timing of her resignation in an interview with the Manchester Evening News.^[17] Her resignation was one of several from the Labour cabinet that summer, with the government's difficulties compounded by poor results in the European elections and poor opinion poll results which were largely blamed on the recession and rising unemployment.^[18]

Ethnic minorities[link]

In March 2005, while Home Office minister with responsibility for counter-terrorism, Blears implied that section 44 of the terrorism act would dis-proportionally affect the Muslim community. In response to this and to her seeming endorsement of it, Ray Powell, President of the National Black Police Association, described the minister's language as "intemperate and inconsiderate". "I think it is wrong of her to say they should accept it is used disproportionately. That comment would not be helpful and does not instill confidence within the Muslim community,".^[19]

In August 2005 Blears said the 'rebranding' of ethnic minorities in favour of adopting US-style hyphenated titles such as Asian-British or Indian-British was "among a range of ideas" brought up in meetings with Muslim and other community groups.^[20] This proposal was quickly withdrawn by the Home Office, as the government moved to distance itself from the idea.

Hospital closures[link]

In 2006 Blears joined in protests against the closure of hospital departments in her constituency, even though these closures were consistent with the policies of the government of which she was a senior member. Health Emergency's head of campaigns Geoff Martin said, "there are 29 hospitals up and down the country facing the immediate threat of cuts and closure to key services in 2007. Will Hazel Blears be joining demonstrators on the streets in each of those areas or is this just a classic case of 'not in my back yard'"?^[21]

Expenses[link]

In May 2009 The Telegraph reported that Blears had claimed he maximum allowable expenses, within one pound, for three properties, as well as for stays in hotels, £4,874 on furniture, £899 on a new bed and £913 on a new TV, the second such TV in under a year, and the maximum £400 a month in groceries. Further, Blears had not paid capital gains tax on profit from the sale of a London flat. The property was registered as her main residence with HM Revenue and Customs, but Blears had been claiming MPs' second home expenses relating to the flat. She had made a £45,000 profit on its sale without paying capital gains tax.^[22] On 12 May she volunteered to pay the £13,332 capital gains tax she had avoided on the sale of her 'second home.^[23] It was subsequently claimed that Gordon Brown had ordered her to repay the sum.^[24] The Daily Mail printed allegations that Blears 'flipped' her homes in London three times in one year. Flipping is the practice of switching which of two or more properties is designated an MP's second home. This allowed her to maximise her taxpayer-funded allowances.^[25]

In Salford she was met by a number of angry protesters and stayed in a local hotel rather than at home. ^[26]

In June 2009 the Police at Scotland Yard and the Crown Prosecution Service issued a statement regarding MPs' expenses, which stated that they had not found evidence of criminal activity and that it was 'highly unlikely' that MPs would face charges. The Police said that the incidents of flipping second homes to avoid paying capital gains tax was not a matter for Police investigation.^[27] Following an investigation by Sir Thomas Legg, Blears was told to repay £225 in expenses in relation to a glass shelving unit for her London flat.^[28]

Personal life[link]

She married solicitor Michael Halsall on 21 October 1989 in Salford. They have no children. Halsall introduced Blears to motorcycling.^[29]

In 2005 Blears was a member of a parliamentary tap-dancing troupe known as the Division Belles. Other members included Caroline Flint, Beverley Hughes, Laura Moffatt, Meg Munn, Joan Ryan and Dari Taylor .^[30]

Although brought up as a Methodist, she attends the Roman Catholic SS Peter & Paul Church in Pendleton, as her husband is Roman Catholic.^[31]

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References[link]

External links[link]

• Hazel Blears MP official constituency website
• Profile at Parliament of the United Kingdom
• Contributions in Parliament at Hansard 1803–2005
• Current session contributions in Parliament at Hansard
• Electoral history and profile at The Guardian
• Voting record at PublicWhip.org
• Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou.com
• Profile at Westminster Parliamentary Record
• Profile at BBC News Democracy Live
• Articles authored at Journalisted
• Home Office – Hazel Blears MP Official biography (archived)
• Communities Department profile (archived)

Audio clips

• WPRadio Online interview on Women's Parliamentary Radio just before taking over role as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

v t e Brown Cabinet Cabinet Members Lord Adonis • Bob Ainsworth • Douglas Alexander • Baroness Ashton • Ed Balls • Hilary Benn • Hazel Blears • Ben Bradshaw • Gordon Brown • Des Browne • Liam Byrne • Andy Burnham • Yvette Cooper • Alistair Darling • John Denham • Peter Hain • Harriet Harman • Geoff Hoon • John Hutton • Alan Johnson • Tessa Jowell • Ruth Kelly • Lord Mandelson • David Miliband • Ed Miliband • Jim Murphy • Paul Murphy • James Purnell • Baroness Royall • Jacqui Smith • Jack Straw • Shaun Woodward Also Attended Meetings Margaret Beckett • Nick Brown • Lord Drayson • Caroline Flint • Lord Grocott • John Healey • Jim Knight • Lord Malloch-Brown • Pat McFadden • Tony McNulty • Baroness Scotland Attended While on Agenda Beverley Hughes • Sadiq Khan • Dawn Primarolo • Rosie Winterton

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