Otto Georg Schily (born 20 July 1932) is a German politician. He was the Federal Minister of the Interior of Germany from 1998 to 2005 in the cabinet of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
Heinz Riesenhuber
Heinz Friedrich Ruppert Riesenhuber (born 1 December 1935) is a German politician. He is a member of the CDU. He was Minister of Scientific Research under Chancellor Helmut Kohl from 1982 to 1993.
David Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn
David Clive Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn, (born 14 February 1935) is a retired Scottish administrator, diplomat and Sinologist. He was the 27th Governor of Hong Kong (from 1987 to 1992). He was Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the British Monarch's representative to the Assembly, in 2010 and 2011.
Béla Turi-Kovács
Béla Turi-Kovács (born 2 December 1935) is a Hungarian politician. He was Minister of Environment between 2000 and 2002. He is a member of the National Assembly since 1998.
He is the Father of the House (oldest sitting MP) since 2014 thus he opened the inaugural session of the National Assembly in 2014.
Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah
Tan Sri Tengku Razaleigh bin Tengku Mohd Hamzah (Jawi: تڠكو غزالي بن تڠكو محمد حمزه; born 13 April 1937) is a Malaysian politician. He is a Member of Parliament.
He was the Minister of Finance (1976–1984), Minister of International Trade and Industry (1984–1987), former chairman of Asian Development Bank, former chairman of Islamic Development Bank, founding Chairman and Chief Executive of Malaysian oil company, PETRONAS, and chairman of the 33rd Board of Governors of the World Bank and IMF. He is now the longest serving member of parliament in Malaysia.
Jonathan Hunt (New Zealand politician)
Jonathan Lucas Hunt (born 2 December 1938) is a New Zealand politician. He was New Zealand's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2005 to March 2008. He was Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives. He is a member of the Labour Party.
Hunt is a member of the Order of New Zealand, New Zealand's highest civilian honour. Hunt was given the nickname the "Minister for Wine and Cheese" after his well-known liking of the combo.
Robin Gray (New Zealand politician)
Sir Robert "Robin" McDowall Gray (born 2 July 1931) is a New Zealand politician. He was an MP from 1978 to 1996, and was Speaker of the House of Representatives between 1990 and 1993.
Russell Marshall
Cedric Russell Marshall (born 15 February 1936), known as Russell Marshall, is a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party and diplomat.
He represented the Wanganui electorate from 1972 to 1990, when he retired.
In the 2001 New Year Honours, Marshall was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for public services.
Vladimir Dolgikh
Vladimir Ivanovich Dolgikh (; 5 December 1924 – 8 October 2020) was a Russian politician. He was born in Ilansky, Yeniseysk Governorate, Soviet Union. He was head of the Metallurgical Department of the Central Committee Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
He was a candidate member (non-voting) of the Politburo from 1982 to 1988. From 2013 to 2018, Dolgikh was the Senator from Moscow.
Dolgikh died on 8 October 2020 in Moscow at the age of 95.
Dragoljub Mićunović
Dragoljub Mićunović ( ; born 14 June 1930) is a Serbian politician and philosopher.
He was one of the founders of the modern Democratic Party (DS) in 1989, and its first President (1990-1994). He left DS in 1996 to form Democratic Centre.
As a member of Democratic Opposition of Serbia, he was speaker of the Parliament of Serbia and Montenegro between 2000 and 2004. In 2004, he rejoined DS and has been an active member of the party and member of the Assembly of Serbia since.
He was a candidate at the 2003 Serbian presidential election, winning 35.42% of the popular vote, but the election was canceled due to low turnout.
Manolis Glezos
Manolis Glezos (; 9 September 1922 – 30 March 2020) was a Greek left-wing politician and guerilla. Glezos was best known for his participation in the World War II resistance. He was a MEP from 1984 to 1985 and again from 2014 to 2015.
In March 2010, Glezos was participating in a protest demonstration in Athens, when he was hit in the face by a police tear gas canister. He was carried away injured.
In February 2012, Glezos was arrested by riot police while protesting in Athens.
Glezos died on 30 March 2020 of heart failure in Athens at the age of 98.
Leyland Motors
Leyland Motors Limited (later known as the Leyland Motor Corporation) started in the town of Leyland, Lancashire, England. It started as a bus manufacturing company but soon started to make trucks too. The factory locations included Spurrier Works in Leyland. A new factory was opened in Workington where the Leyland National Bus was produced from 1972 to 1985.
Leyland, Lancashire
Leyland () is a town in the South Ribble borough, in the county of Lancashire, England. It is about six miles (10 km) south of the city of Preston. The population of the town was about 35,600 in 2011.
The name of the town is of old Anglo-Saxon origin, meaning ""untilled land"".
English Leyland was an area of fields, with Roman roads passing through, from ancient Wigan to Walton-le-Dale.
The town is famous primarily for the bus and truck manufacturer Leyland Motors, which between the 1950s and 1970s expanded and grew to own several British motor manufacturers, including British Motor Corporation, Standard-Triumph and Rover, culminating in the massive British Leyland company. The truck business still operates today as Leyland Trucks, and is owned by Paccar.
Leyland railway station is on the West Coast Main Line and is run by Northern. There is one train an hour between Liverpool Lime Street and Preston. There is also one train an hour between Manchester Victoria/Hazel Grove to Blackpool North.
To the east of Worden Park is Runshaw College. The college received the best Ofsted report, for any further education college in the United Kingdom in 2005.
Leyland is made up by six different areas, the town centre itself as the main retail side, with the railway station, library and shops nearby. The other areas include Broadfield, Moss Side, Worden Park, Turpin Green and the Wade Hall estate.
Famous people who have grown up or lived in Leyland include:
Alistair Browning
Alistair Browning (8 February 1954 – 2 June 2019) was a New Zealand actor. He was born in Dunedin. He most notably played the role of Damrod in Peter Jackson's "" (2002) and "" (2003). He won Best Supporting Actor in a Feature Film at the 2001 New Zealand Film and Television Awards for his role in "Rain". He also had TV roles in series such as "Power Rangers Ninja Storm", "Power Rangers Dino Thunder" and "Shortland Street".
Browning died of cancer on 2 June 2019 in Palmerston North. He was 65.
Ang Mo Kio MRT station
Ang Mo Kio MRT station (NS16/CR11) is an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the North South Line in Ang Mo Kio, Singapore.
Ang Mo Kio station is the only above-ground and non-interchange MRT station to have a middle train track. The middle track can be used during track/train faults, and certain train services that start from Marina South Pier MRT Station or Jurong East MRT Station end here.
The station opened on 7 November 1987, and will become an interchange station with the Cross Island MRT line when the first part, or stage, of the line opens in 2029.
The station was opened on 7 November 1987, and was one of the five stations that together were the first MRT stations to open.
Nitcharee Peneakchansak, a 14-year-old Thai, was badly injured and lost both her legs after she fell onto the track and was hit by a train at the station on 3 April 2011.
On 25 January 2019, Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan announced that the first stage of the Cross Island Line will open in 2029, with Ang Mo Kio being one of the stations along the line.
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