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It’s been nearly two years since it shut its doors for the final time, but today we’ve been reminiscing about the opening of the Lakeside superbowl. ....
Lord Walpole, descendant of Britain’s first prime minister and Norfolk public figure – obituary A modest and unassuming custodian of his estates, he served as a councillor and was actively involved in arts and community organisations Lord Walpole outside Mannington Hall Credit: Martin Pope Lord Walpole, who has died aged 82, was a descendant of Britain’s first prime minister, a custodian of his family estates in Norfolk, and an active figure in public life in the county. A charming, unassuming man who wore his hair in an extravagant ponytail and liked to be called “Robin”, he was born Robert Horatio Walpole on December 8 1938, the son of Robert Walpole, the 9th and 7th Baron Walpole (from two different creations) and Nancy, nee Jones. ....
From the NS archive: The Major/Lamont relationship 4 October 1999: They never liked each other and had little in common. Could this be a lesson for Blair and Brown? By 1999, Tony Blair’s Labour Party had been in power for two years, with Gordon Brown as chancellor. Blair and Brown’s relationship was notoriously difficult for the duration of their time in office. In this piece from around the middle of New Labour’s first term, Julia Langdon considers another recent pairing of previous prime minister and chancellor: John Major and Norman Lamont. She recalls a conversation she had with Lamont nine years previously, in which she’d clocked his bitterness to Major, three years before his resignation from Major’s government in 1993. As she contemplates their differences and the eventual disintegration of their relationship, she wonders: could Blair and Brown learn from this? ....