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Cherie Blair Biography
Saturday 28 February 2009
Cherie Blair, known professionally as Cherie Booth QC, is a barrister. She is married to the former prime minister, Tony Blair, and is a practising Catholic.
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Ann Widdecombe Biography
Sunday 08 February 2009
Ann was born on in Bath, Somerset in 1947. Her family moved around, following her father's work in the Navy, first to Portsmouth, then to Singapore, before returning to England.
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Rageh Omaar
Friday 30 January 2009
Rageh Omaar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1967, and moved to Britain as a child. He was educated at Cheltenham Boys College and later Oxford University where he gained a BA Honours in Modern History.
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Robert Beckford
Friday 23 January 2009
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Michael Portillo Biography
Friday 16 January 2009
Michael Portillo was born in North London in 1953. His father, Luis, came to Britain as a refugee at the end of the Spanish Civil War, and his mother, Cora, was brought up in Fife, in Scotland.
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Howard Jacobson Biography
Friday 09 January 2009
Prizewinning novelist and broadcaster Howard Jacobson was born in Manchester in 1942. After studying at Cambridge University he worked as a lecturer at the University of Sydney then at Selwyn College, Cambridge [CHK]. His first novel, Coming from Behind (1983), was inspired by his experience of teaching English at Wolverhampton Polytechnic in the 1970s.
