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Currie (Scottish Gaelic: Currach) is a civil parish and suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, situated 10 kilometres south west of the city centre. A former village within the County of Midlothian, it lies to the south west of the city, between Juniper Green (NE) and Balerno (SW) on the Lanark Road. Administratively, Currie falls within the jurisdiction of the City of Edinburgh Council.
In 1995 the population of Currie was 6,343 and it contained 2,300 houses, 850 of them less than 20 years old.
There is no accepted derivation of the name Currie but it is possibly from the Scottish Gaelic word curagh/curragh, a wet or boggy plain, or from the Brythonic word curi, a dell or hollow. The neighbouring suburb of Balerno derives its name from Scottish Gaelic, whilst the nearby Pentland Hills derive their name from Brythonic, so either is possible.
The earliest record of a settlement in the Currie area is a Bronze Age razor (1800 BC) found at Kinleith Mill and the stone cists (500 BC) at Duncan's Belt and Blinkbonny. There are a few mentions of this area in mediaeval and early modern documents. One of the first is when Robert of Kildeleith became Chancellor of Scotland in 1249. Kildeleith means Chapel by the Leith, and survives today as Kinleith. Robert the Bruce gave Riccarton as a wedding present in 1315 and in 1392 the land passed to the family of Bishop Wardlaw. In 1612 the land went to Ludovic Craig, a Senator of the College of Justice. In 1818 it passed to the female line and became the property of the Gibson-Craigs.
Edwina Jones (born 13 October 1946), born Edwina Cohen and commonly known by her first married name, Edwina Currie, is a former British Member of Parliament. First elected as a Conservative Party MP in 1983, she was a Junior Health Minister for two years, before resigning in 1988 over the controversy over salmonella in eggs. By the time Currie lost her seat in 1997, she had begun a new career as a novelist and broadcaster.
Currie was born in South Liverpool, England to an Orthodox Jewish family and has identified herself as Jewish, although she has stated: "I find religious mumbo jumbo hard to swallow in any faith." A pupil at Liverpool Institute High School for Girls, Liverpool's Historic Canning area, she studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St Anne's College, Oxford University where she was taught by Gabriele Taylor; subsequently, she gained a MA in economic history from the London School of Economics.
From 1975 until 1986, she was a Birmingham City Councillor for Northfield. In 1983, she stood for parliament as a Conservative Party candidate, and was elected as the member for South Derbyshire. Frequently outspoken, she was described as "a virtually permanent fixture on the nation's TV screen saying something outrageous about just about anything" and "the most outspoken and sexually interested woman of her political generation."
John McCririck (born 17 April 1940) is an English television horse racing pundit. He is notable not only for his racing opinions but also for his old-fashioned style of dress and mannerisms. With his trademark deerstalker hat, tweed jacket and large sideburns, which he calls his wackers, he affects the part of either Sherlock Holmes or a well-dressed gamekeeper, and he happily acts the role of a country gentleman. He also uses the traditional tic-tac signals when commenting on odds before a horse race. His public comments have often been attended by controversy, and have occasionally been interpreted as derogatory and offensive, particularly towards women.
McCririck was educated at Victoria College, Jersey and Harrow School. He was originally a racing journalist with The Sporting Life and also wrote for Grandstand; he began his career as a television pundit on ITV's horse racing coverage in 1981 although he did appear in a debate about fox hunting on the ITV children's programme Saturday Banana in 1978. During 1984 and 1985, horse racing moved to Channel 4 as referred to as Channel 4 Racing. In 2002, Channel 4 launched its own digital television racing channel, attheraces, which was sold to BSkyB in 2003. He is famous for his outspoken opinions; in particular, he has risen to the defence of punters when he thinks they are being given bad value[clarification needed]' and is highly critical of jockeys when he doesn't think they have ridden well. He is best known to American racing audiences for his annual appearance on the Breeders' Cup telecast, in which he invariably touts British horses over their American rivals. During the 2009 Breeders' Cup telecast on ESPN, McCririck said that Conduit had no chance to win the Turf, and that people betting on Zenyatta in the Breeders' Cup Classic were "giving your money away". Both horses proceeded to win in dramatic fashion.
Das österreichische Duo Attwenger ist eines der lebendigsten Originale im
deutschsprachigen Popgeschäft, auch wenn ihr Ruhm längst schon bis nach Sibirien, wo
Attwenger einige Konzerte spielten, vorgedrungen ist. Auch der legendäre englische
Radio DJ John Peel, der in den nach ihm benannten Sessions alles, was im Indie- und
Alternative-Bereich Rang und Namen hat, vor die Mikrofone der Londoner BBC-Studios
geholt hat, ist auf die kuriosen Österreicher aufmerksam geworden. Seiner
Faszination für die Musik von Texter und Schlagzeuger Markus Binder sowie
Akkordeonspieler Hans-Peter Falkner hat John Peel in folgende Worte gefasst, denen
nichts hinzuzufügen ist: "I have no idea what it's all about, but I like the
general noise a great deal." Das erste Mal live in Erscheinung getreten sind
Attwenger, deren Name sich von einem Gstanzl, einem spontan gereimten Sprechgesang,
ableitet, im April 1990 in der Wiener Arena um drei Uhr morgens, so zumindest will
es der Bandmythos. Kaum ein Jahr darauf reiten Attwenger mit "Most" auch
schon ihre erste Attacke gegen überkommene Hörgewohnheiten. Mit erfrischender
Unbeschwertheit schaffen sich Attwenger ihr eigenes, etwas verrücktes Universum. In
dem darf im Dialekt gereimt und gerapt werden, Gitarrenverzerrer werden zur
Veredelung des Akkordeons gerne verwendet und der Schlagzeugpart würde jeder
Hardcore Band zu lebenslangem Ruhm verhelfen. Der Widerspruch nährt Attwenger bis
zum heutigen Tag. "Pflug" und "Luft", ihre Alben aus den Jahren
'92 beziehungsweise '93 stehen noch deutlich in der Tradition des Debuts. Doch mit
dem 97er Album "Song" werden die attwengerschen Textkapriolen in ein
repetitives musikalisches Gewand gekleidet, dessen Nähe zu zeitgenössischer
elektronischer Musik sicherlich nicht zufällig ist. Ob es die auf einer Konzertreise
im Sommer 1995 erlebten Weiten Sibiriens sind, die für "Song" als
Inspirationsquelle dienten, spart der Bandmythos leider aus. Nach fünfjähriger
Abstinenz ist Österreichs heimtückischste Droge wieder im Handel erhältlich.
"Sun" steht vielversprechend darauf, und wer sich auf den Trip einlässt,
wird sicher nicht enttäuscht werden. Die punkige Energie früherer Alben ist einer
minimalistischen Liebe zu Sounds gewichen, vor deren Hintergrund Attwenger als die
eigentlichen Reimkünstler des deutschsprachigen Raumes
erscheinen.2002 Sun1997 Song1993 Luft1992 Pflug1991 Most