"a result of their picketing activities. The longest sentences were given to Ricky Tomlinson, a plasterer and TGWU strike leader, and Des Warren, a steel fixer and leading lay official of UCATT, who became known as the ""Shrewsbury Two"". At Shrewsbury Crown Court, they refused to testify against fellow strikers. Charges of affray were dropped, but they were found guilty of ""conspiracy to intimidate"" under the Conspiracy Act 1875, which had not been used for 98 years. Warren was sentenced to three years in prison, and Tomlinson to two. The whole UK trade union movement saw common cause with the"
"on Birmingham on 3 November, but which ultimately failed. In November 2001, three men – Noel Maguire, Robert Hulme and his brother Aiden Hulme – were arrested in connection with the Ealing, BBC and Birmingham bomb attacks. They were all later convicted at the Old Bailey on 8 April 2003. Robert and Aiden Hulme were each jailed for 20 years. Noel Maguire, who the judge said played ""a major part in the bombing conspiracy"", was sentenced to 22 years. Two other men, James McCormack, of County Louth, and John Hannan, of Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh, had already admitted the charge at"
"Matthew Lewis (actor) Matthew David Lewis (born 27 June 1989) is an English film, television and stage actor, best known for playing Neville Longbottom in the ""Harry Potter"" films, Jamie Bradley in ""The Syndicate"" and Corporal Gordon ""Towerblock"" House in the BBC Three comedy drama ""Bluestone 42"". The son of Adrian Lewis and Lynda Needham, Lewis was born in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, and raised in the nearby town of Horsforth. He was born the youngest of three boys, and has two brothers: Chris Lewis and actor Anthony Lewis. He attended St Mary's Menston Catholic Voluntary Academy. Lewis"
"actors to help raise funds for a much needed parish hall. He died in London in 1952, aged 85. Lyn Harding David Llewellyn Harding (12 October 1867 – 26 December 1952), known professionally as Lyn Harding, was a Welsh actor who spent 40 years on the stage before entering British made silent films, talkies and radio. He had an imposing and menacing stage presence and came to be cast as the villain in many films, notably Professor Moriarty in dramatisations of the Sherlock Holmes stories. He was born in 1867 at St. Brides Wentloog, in Monmouthshire, into a strict Congregationalist"
"at Shrewsbury Abbey. Classicist Mary Beard was educated in Shrewsbury and her father was a prominent Shrewsbury architects. In the early years of the 18th century, the Irish dramatist George Farquhar resided in the town while acting as a recruiting officer for the Army. He drew on this experience in writing the comedy The Recruiting Officer. The romantic novelist Mary Webb lived in and around Shrewsbury and was buried there upon her death. Other actors with associations with the town include Nick Hancock, presenter of ""They Think It's All Over"", who, like Palin, was educated at Shrewsbury School. Actor Jason"
"suspicious circumstances in Lurgan. Miami Showband bomber Harris Boyle was one of those arrested with him. Kerr was later found guilty of having participated in an armed robbery on 10 March 1973. The following year, on 29 January 1974, he was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for assaulting and intimidating two men seven months before. Kerr was named by RUC Special Patrol Group (SPG) officer John Weir as having been one of the two gunmen who shot Catholic chemist William Strathearn to death at his home in Ahoghill, County Antrim on 19 April 1977. Strathearn, who lived above his chemist"
"at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships, lives in Sedgefield. Mark Gatiss – (born 17 October 1966) Actor and writer for the BBC show Doctor Who and co-creator (with Steven Moffat) of the popular BBC series Sherlock, in which he also acted, was born in Sedgefield and lived opposite to Winterton hospital where his parents worked. Peter Willey – (born 6 December 1949) Peter Willey is a former English cricketer and Umpire, who played as a right-handed batsman and right-arm off break bowler was born in Sedgefield. According to an urban myth, it was during a Test match between the"
"intact. An officer from the West Midlands Police said the bomb, if fully detonated, could have caused a ""very serious loss of life"" on the busy road. The attack came during a tense period of the Northern Ireland peace process. In November 2001, three men – Noel Maguire, Robert Hulme and his brother Aiden Hulme – were arrested in connection with the bomb attacks in Birmingham and London that year. They were all later convicted at the Old Bailey on 8 April 2003. Robert and Aiden Hulme were each jailed for 20 years. Noel Maguire, who the judge said played"
"Lyn Harding David Llewellyn Harding (12 October 1867 – 26 December 1952), known professionally as Lyn Harding, was a Welsh actor who spent 40 years on the stage before entering British made silent films, talkies and radio. He had an imposing and menacing stage presence and came to be cast as the villain in many films, notably Professor Moriarty in dramatisations of the Sherlock Holmes stories. He was born in 1867 at St. Brides Wentloog, in Monmouthshire, into a strict Congregationalist Welsh-speaking family. He started his career as an apprentice draper in Newport, Wales and but he was drawn to"
"Celia Fiennes, the Shrewsbury School-educated Arthur Mainwaring and Ambrose Phillips and playwright George Farquhar whose 1706 play 'The Recruiting Officer' was set in the town. The town appears in the ""Brother Cadfael"" novels by Ellis Peters (pen name of Edith Pargeter). The novels take Shrewsbury Abbey for their setting, with Shrewsbury and other places in Shropshire portrayed regularly, and have made Medieval Shrewsbury familiar to a wide worldwide readership. Later, in the 18th and 19th centuries, the likes of John Wesley, Thomas de Quincey and Benjamin Disraeli the latter of which was MP for Shrewsbury 1841–47, would visit the town."
"television writer Graham Linehan; and the comedian and television presenter Stephen Fry, who offered to pay Chambers' fine and subsequent legal bills. Chambers lost an appeal against his conviction. Judge Jacqueline Davies, sitting with two magistrates, heard his appeal in Doncaster Crown Court; she judged that the tweet contained ""menace"" and that Chambers must have known that it might be taken seriously. Thousands of Twitter users responded by reposting Chambers' Tweet including the hashtag #iamspartacus, in reference to the climactic ""I am Spartacus!"" scene in the 1960 film ""Spartacus"". A further appeal to the High Court was heard on 8"
"Leonard Sachs Leonard Meyer Sachs (26 September 1909 – 15 June 1990) was a South African-born British actor. Of Jewish heritage, Sachs was born in the town of Roodepoort, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. He emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1929 and had many television and film roles from the 1930s to the 1980s, including Mowbray in the 1950 version of ""Richard II"", John Wesley in the 1954 film of the same name and Lord Mount Severn in ""East Lynne"" from 1976. He founded an Old Time Music Hall, named the Players' Theatre, in Villiers Street, Charing Cross, London."
"Graham Hamilton Graham Hamilton (born 27 November 1944 in Leeds, West Yorkshire) is a British stage and television actor who was the 15th President of Equity, the actors' trade union, between 2008 and 2010. Formerly Vice-President for ten years, Hamilton has been involved in Equity's ruling Council since 1973, during his acting career in plays and musicals in the West End. He is known chiefly for his portrayal of Fagin in Oliver! After working in the West End, he became famous for playing the villain in over twenty-one pantomimes, appearing at major theatres throughout the UK. In 2007, he was"
"Richard Harrington (actor) Richard Harrington is a Welsh actor. Harrington was born in Gurnos and brought up in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil. He has had starring roles in the Welsh show ""Hinterland"" (known as ""Y Gwyll"" in Welsh), ""Bleak House"", Jimmy McGovern's ""Gunpowder, Treason & Plot"", and Gavin Claxton's comedy feature film ""The All Together"". He has also had roles in ""Coronation Street"", ""Spooks"", ""Casualty"", ""Holby City"", ""Hustle"", ""Dalziel and Pascoe"", ""Silent Witness"", and ""Lark Rise to Candleford"". He won a BAFTA Cymru Award for his portrayal of a young gay hustler in the BBC film ""Dafydd"", part of the ""Wales"
"Bernard Cribbins Bernard Joseph Cribbins, OBE (born 29 December 1928) is an English character actor, comedy actor, voice-over artist and musical comedian with a career spanning over seventy years. He came to prominence in films of the 1960s, and has been in work consistently since his professional debut in the mid-1950s. Cribbins narrated ""The Wombles"", a BBC children's television programme that ran for 60 episodes between 1973 and 1975, and played the pretentious guest Mr. Hutchinson in ""The Hotel Inspectors"" episode of ""Fawlty Towers"" (1975), and the belligerent barman in Alfred Hitchcock's ""Frenzy"" (1972). He also recorded several successful novelty"
"in 2016. His last scene, aired on 20 January 2017, saw him being supposedly killed by Pat Phelan (Connor McIntyre). However, on 18 August 2017, Farnworth made an unexpected and unannounced return; revealing that Phelan was in fact, holding him captive in the cellar of an abandoned house until his death on 27 October 2017. Oliver Farnworth Oliver Farnworth (born 5 August 1982) is an English actor. Farnworth was brought up just outside Halifax in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, but moved to Sidmouth in Devon when he was fifteen. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He first"
"Antony Sher Sir Antony Sher, KBE (born 14 June 1949) is a British actor of South African origin, a two-time Laurence Olivier Award winner and four-time nominee, who joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982 and toured in many roles, as well as appearing on film and TV, and working as a writer and theatre director. In 2001, he starred in his cousin Ronald Harwood’s play ""Mahler's Conversion"", and said that the story of a composer sacrificing his faith for his career echoed his own identity struggles. Sher and his partner and collaborator Gregory Doran became one of the first"
"(1982), ""Terry and June"" (1985), ""Rumpole of the Bailey"" (1987), ""Yes, Prime Minister"" (1987), ""Bread"" (1987), ""'Allo 'Allo!"" (1991), ""Heartbeat"" (2003). and ""The Witness for the Prosecution"" (2016). He made a brief appearance as a soldier in the film ""Figures in a Landscape"" (1970). Robert East (actor) Robert Gwyn East (born 7 July 1943) is a Welsh theatre and TV actor. He also wrote ""Incident at Tulse Hill"", first produced at the Hampstead Theatre in December 1981 under the direction of Harold Pinter. He is perhaps best known for playing Harry, the Prince of Wales, in BBC comedy series ""The"
"Martin Delaney (actor) Martin Delaney is a British actor, best known for his work from ‘Renford Rejects’ to ‘Now You See Me 2’ ""Zero Dark Thirty"", ""Judas Ghost"" and his lead role in British comedy film ""Amar Akbar & Tony"". Martin Delaney was born in Kent, England. His father is from a large Irish family and his mother was born in Burma (Myanmar), moving to the UK at a young age. Martin is one of four children. His sister Jennie is a singer and performer and his brothers Mike Delaney and Pat Delaney are both heavily involved in football across"
"intent to endanger life, and later a 15-year-old and another 25-year-old male. On 13 August Gordon Thompson, aged 33, was arrested in Surrey Street after he was recognised from his picture on the front page of the ""Croydon Advertiser"". He was charged on 14 August. During his trial in February 2012, he changed his plea to guilty at the end of the case for the prosecution. At the Old Bailey on 11 April 2012, Judge Peter Thornton sentenced Thompson to eleven and a half years in prison. The surviving (southern) property was subsequently refurbished, and was the location of the"
"Michael Gwynn Michael Gwynn (30 November 1916 in Bath, Somerset – 29 January 1976 in London) was an English actor. He attended Mayfield College near Mayfield, Sussex. During the Second World War he served in East Africa as a major and was adjutant to the 2nd (Nyasaland) Battalion of the King's African Rifles. Gwynn is perhaps best remembered for his role in the first episode of the BBC comedy ""Fawlty Towers"" ""A Touch of Class"" (1975) as the conman ""Lord"" Melbury who eventually humiliates Basil Fawlty. For Hammer Films, he performed in several productions including the war film ""The Camp"
"the Nursing Memorial Appeal. Julian Fellowes Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford (born 17 August 1949) is an English actor, novelist, film director and screenwriter, and a Conservative peer of the House of Lords. Lord Fellowes is primarily known as the author of several ""Sunday Times"" best-seller novels; for the screenplay for the film ""Gosford Park"", which won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2002; and as the creator, writer and executive producer of the multiple award-winning ITV series ""Downton Abbey"" (2010–2015). Fellowes was born in Cairo, Egypt, the youngest son of Peregrine Edward Launcelot Fellowes,"
"Companion"", ""Between Mouthfuls"", ""Gosforth’s Fete"" and ""Widows Might"") were written for ""Confusions"", first performed in 1974. The other three one-act plays were: Plays adapted as films include: Alan Ayckbourn Sir Alan Ayckbourn, (born 12 April 1939) is a prolific British playwright and director. He has written and produced more than seventy full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their first performance. More than 40 have subsequently been produced in the West End, at the Royal National"
"Brendan Coyle Brendan Coyle (born David Coyle; 2 December 1962) is a British actor. He won the Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role for ""The Weir"" in 1999. He also played Nicholas Higgins in the miniseries ""North & South"", Robert Timmins in the first three series of ""Lark Rise to Candleford"", and more recently Mr Bates, the valet, in ""Downton Abbey"", which earned him a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actor Coyle was born in Corby, Northamptonshire, to an Irish father"
"awarded Honorary Life Membership of Equity by its governing Council for distinguished service to the union. Graham Hamilton Graham Hamilton (born 27 November 1944 in Leeds, West Yorkshire) is a British stage and television actor who was the 15th President of Equity, the actors' trade union, between 2008 and 2010. Formerly Vice-President for ten years, Hamilton has been involved in Equity's ruling Council since 1973, during his acting career in plays and musicals in the West End. He is known chiefly for his portrayal of Fagin in Oliver! After working in the West End, he became famous for playing the"
"an oath of loyalty to one another. In 1686, Thomas Erle hosted a secret meeting in the ice house at Charborough Park. The discussion led directly to the Glorious Revolution of 1688. The Soviet spy Anthony Blunt was born in Bournemouth in 1907. He was stripped of his knighthood in 1979 for treason. Dorset has produced two archbishops: John Morton and William Wake. Dorset is a popular home for performing artists. Those who have moved to or own second homes in Dorset include the director Guy Ritchie, actors Martin Clunes and Edward Fox; singer-songwriters Billy Bragg and Noel Gallagher; and"
"became a mainstay of the British film industry. He made 57 film appearances as an actor between 1930 and 1967. He collaborated with his second wife on several plays, such as ""The Grass is Greener"" and the screenplay for the subsequent film ""The Grass is Greener"". He died from throat cancer, aged 65, in London. He was married twice: and his grandchildren included: Hugh Williams Hugh Anthony Glanmore Williams (6 March 1904 – 7 December 1969) was an English actor, playwright and dramatist of Welsh descent. Born in Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex as Hugh Anthony Glanmor Williams, his nickname was ""Tam"". He"
"Park General Hospital in Oldham, Lancashire, on 28 January 1944, to May (née Savage) and Bob Harper. He attended High Crompton Secondary, Shaw, Oldham. Ball, later went to work in a factory as a welder, where he also met his future partner, Thomas Derbyshire (Tommy Cannon). Ball is one half of comedy duo Cannon and Ball, opposite his friend and colleague Tommy Cannon. The duo's primetime Saturday night television series ""The Cannon and Ball Show"", was one of LWT's most successful series, with consistently high viewing ratings that lasted for twelve years. They starred in the film ""The Boys in"
"two years, for criminal damage. Stephens, a resident of the High Street, Edenbridge, Kent, was ordered to undergo rehabilitation, perform 150 hours of unpaid work, pay compensation of £1,000 to each victim, and an extra £120 to Mr Manley for his damaged helmet. Harvey Spencer Stephens Harvey Spencer Stephens (born 12 November 1970) is an English former actor. He became world famous when he took on the role of devil child Damien Thorn in the 1976 film ""The Omen"", which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Acting Debut in a Motion Picture – Male. Stephens is now a"
"Jamie Dorrington Jamie Dorrington (born 1984 in Leeds) is a British actor who is best known for his role in the English crime drama ""Happy Valley"" alongside Sarah Lancashire He also features in BBC's To Walk Invisible Playing Enoch Thomas and Channel 4 Drama Series Ackley Bridge(2017) Plus many other British films. Sky drama ""The Endz"" debuted Jamie in 2011, followed by features in various British films including ""Weekender"" (based on the 1990s rave scene in ""Manchester""), ""Airborne"" (UK horror movie) and football focused ""Hooligan"" alongside Sean Bean and Tamer Hassan . More recently Jamie has just starred in the"
"Jonathan Watson Jonathan Watson is a Scottish actor best known for his comedy sketch show Only an Excuse?, which parodies people and events from the world of Scottish football, and the BBC comedy Bob Servant Independent in which he appears with Brian Cox. Watson was born in Glasgow and was educated at Hillhead High School. He trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and graduated in 1979. He joined the TAG Theatre Company then followed this with a season with the company. He had a part in Bill Forsyth's 1983 film ""Local Hero"". He moved to London"
"Russell Geoffrey Banks Russell Geoffrey Banks (born November 13, 1981) is an English actor and writer best known for appearances in horror films such as Ghost House, Pernicious, Cam2Cam, and, most recently, Who's Watching Oliver. Russell Geoffrey Banks was born in Northampton, and grew up in London At the age of twelve the family moved to the Isle of Wight Banks started his film career as an extra, later transitioning to a stand in on such movies as """", ""Formosa Betrayed"", ""Shanghai (2010 film)"" starring John Cusack and then ""The Hangover Part II"", standing in for Bradley Cooper. After playing"
"Seagrove reached the final and won the Pointless trophy, but gave three incorrect answers and missed out on the £2,500 jackpot. Bill Kenwright William Kenwright, CBE (born 4 September 1945) is a British West End theatre producer and film producer. He has also been the chairman of Everton Football Club since 2004. Kenwright was born in Liverpool and attended Booker Avenue County Primary School, and then Liverpool Institute High School from 1957 to 1964. He appeared in school productions (including Shylock in ""The Merchant of Venice"") on the stage in the Mount Street building (predecessor to LIPA). He was also"