Britain and the World 1988 Australia's bicentennial anniversary-parade of tall ships in Sydney Harbour Feb17 Lieutenant Colonel William Higgins, an American officer serving with a United Nations truce monitoring group, was kidnapped in southern Lebanon (he was later slain by his captors). Feb21 The grave of Boadicea, the warrior queen who fought the Romans almost 2,000 years ago, was located by archaeologists under Platform 8 at King's Cross railway station. Feb23 The fifteenth Winter Olympic Games opened in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Feb25 Sinner and US TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart is suspended by the elders of the church for his descent into immorality Feb29 Nazi document implicates Kurt Waldheim in WW II deportations. He is also accused of criminal involvement in the execution of seven British Commandos Mar6 Three IRA terrorists were shot dead by SAS men in Gibraltar. The circumstances surrounding their deaths formed the basis of a controversial TV documentary "Death On The Rock" Mar11 The one pound note (introduced 12th March 1797) ceased to be legal tender, and was replaced by the pound coin.

Apr4 The ITV soap opera Crossroads ended after 24 years and 4510 episodes Apr10 The world's longest double-decker bridge opened to traffic,carrying cars and trains. The 7-9 mile long 'Great Seto Bridge' crossed the Inland Sea and liked the islands of Honshu and Shikoku. It had taken 10 years to build and cost ï¿½4.9 billion. Apr16 PLO military chief Khalil Wazir (Abu Jihad) is gunned down by Israeli commandos in Tunisia. Apr18 Israeli court convicted John Demjanjuk of Nazi war crimes, saying he was the gas chamber operator "Ivan The Terrible" at the Treblinka death camp in World War 11 May15 Soviet troops began leaving Afghanistan after eight years of occupation Jun2 In Canberra, the High Court unanimously rejected Britain's bid to ban further publication in Australia of the "Spycatcher" memoirs of former secret agent Peter Wright. Jun6 The Queen stripped imprisoned jockey Lester Piggott of his OBE.

He was jailed earlier for repeated tax evasion Jul3 American warship Vincennes shot down an Iran Airbus A300 over the Gulf in the last weeks of the Iran-Iraq war, killing all 290 aboard. Jul6 167 men die in an explosion on the Piper Alpha oil rig in the North Sea. Aug19 Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their eight year-old war Oct19 British government banned broadcast interviews with groups which expressed support for violence in Northern Ireland, provoking opposition charges it was handing a propaganda coup to the outlawed Irish Republican Army. Nov8 George Bush (Republican) beats Mike Dukakis (Democrat) for Presidency of the USA Dec1 Benazir Bhutto named first female Prime Minister of a Moslem country (Pakistan) Dec6 Honours stripped: Who else has lost out? - BBC News BBC News Honours stripped: Who else has lost out? 31 January 2012 Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Anthony Blunt was revealed as a spy in 1979 Former RBS boss Fred Goodwin has been stripped of his knighthood in what the Cabinet Office has called an "exceptional case".

The Honours Forfeiture Committee considers cases where a recipient's actions "raise the question of whether they should be allowed to continue to be a holder of the honour". Mr Goodwin has been criticised over his role in the bank's near-collapse in 2008. But in the past, only those convicted of an offence, accused of criminal behaviour or struck off professional bodies are thought to have had honours taken away. So who else has been cast out? The former spy Anthony Blunt was stripped of his knighthood in 1979 for the treachery of supplying hundreds of secret documents to the Soviets while a wartime agent for MI5. Blunt was part of the infamous Cambridge spy ring, with Kim Philby, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, but was also the Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures. English jockey Lester Piggott was stripped of an OBE after he was jailed in 1987 for tax fraud. He had held the award since 1975. He won over 5,300 races and was champion jockey 11 times before retiring at the end of the 1985 season to become a racehorse trainer.

Almost 12 months ago a former head teacher who was made a dame for services to education had her honour revoked, two years after being found guilty of misconduct. Jean Else, 59, was given the title in 2001 after transforming Manchester's Whalley Range High School. She was banned from running a school in 2009 by the General Teaching Council after a misconduct hearing. Boxer's downfall Former world boxing champion Naseem Hamed was stripped of his MBE after being jailed over a high-speed crash in his sports car, which left the person in the other car with fractures to every major bone in his body. The crash happened in May 2005, and the honour was removed in 2007 - nine years after he received it. Jack Lyons, one of the so-called Guinness Four who were convicted in 1990 of illegally boosting the price of shares four years earlier, was stripped of his knighthood. Lyons escaped jail because of ill health but was fined £3m. On appeal, one count of conspiracy was quashed and his fine was cut to £2.5m.

Joseph Jonas, the former Lord Mayor of Sheffield, was stripped of his knighthood in 1918 after being convicted of a misdemeanour, relating to contacts with a German a year before World War I. And Irish-born colonial officer Roger Casement forfeited his honour when he was convicted of treason for aiding those involved in Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising and executed. The Queen annulled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's honorary Knighthood in 2008. Mr Mugabe was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1994. But with mounting international condemnation over violence ahead of a presidential run-off election that year, and calls from MPs for the honour to be withdrawn, Britain took action. Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu and Italy's Fascist leader Benito Mussolini were also stripped of honorary knighthoods in the past.

Super head Jean Else honoured by Queen loses her title in nepotism disgrace | Daily Mail Online comments Glory days: 'Super-head' Jean Else, who was then a Dame, with former Whalley Range pupil Estelle Morris in 2001 A former headmistress, made a Dame for turning around one of England’s worst schools, has become the first woman to have the honour annulled. Jean Else, 59, had been feted for transforming sink comprehensive Whalley Range High School, in Manchester, where former Labour education secretary Estelle Morris was once a pupil. And Miss Else was rewarded in 2001, when she was made a Dame of the British Empire for services to education. But less than two years later, the £140,000-a-year headmistress fell from grace after a whistleblower accused her of nepotism. She had promoted her twin sister Maureen Rochford from the post of part-time clerical assistant to deputy head, with a salary of £58,000.

She also paid another staff member what was described as a ‘questionable’ sum, hired a personal friend for ‘consultancy’ work costing £13,200 and spent £3,300 of school funds to celebrate her DBE. And now, the London Gazette – the official journal of record – has announced that Miss Else’s honour has been withdrawn. She is the first woman in history to have her honour revoked – and joins the ranks of a small handful of men, including the shamed double agent Anthony Blunt, the Queen’s art historian who lost his knighthood after he was exposed as working for the Soviet Union. During her ten years as headmistress at Whalley Range, Miss Else turned the school from one with the worst truancy record in England into one at which more than half of the pupils gained more than five GCSEs with A-C grades. But a whistleblower accused her of wrongdoing in 2002. She was suspended on full pay in 2004 and sacked by Manchester City Council in 2006 after a lengthy investigation. In 2009, she was banned from running any state school after a General Teaching Council hearing.

The panel criticised Miss Else for the manner in which she promoted her twin sister. And it found her guilty of failing to observe minimum standards in recruiting and promoting staff, ruling that she had potentially deprived good candidates of the opportunity to contribute to the school. At the hearing, Miss Else apologised for not following procedures and acknowledged that she had not observed minimum recruitment standards when making several appointments at the school, including that of her twin. Transformed: Jean Else taught at Whalley Range High School in Manchester where she gave her twin sister a job The notice in the London Gazette, says: ‘The Queen has directed that the appointment of Jean Else to be a Dame Commander of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, dated 30 December 2000, shall be cancelled and annulled and that her name shall be erased from the Register of the said Order.’ A spokesman for Debrett’s expressed surprise at the announcement. ‘This is very, very rare. She is the first Dame to lose a title. And only a handful of men have had theirs revoked. ‘It is only in recent history that titles have been revoked. In the past, those with knighthoods were untouchable.

Now there is much more public scrutiny.’ Those who have had their honours revoked include British financier Jack Lyons, who died in 2008. He was stripped of his knighthood and of his CBE in 1991 for his part in the Guinness share trading fraud. Jockey Lester Piggott lost his OBE in 1988 after he was jailed for three years for tax evasion. In 1621 the philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon was charged with taking bribes, stripped of his title and fined. Sir Roger Casement, the Irish nationalist hero, lost his title before he was hanged for treason in 1916. The world darts champion Phil Taylor was relieved of his MBE after being convicted of assaulting two female fans. And the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was stripped of his honorary Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath the day before his execution on Christmas Day 1989. Worcestershire businessman could be stripped of CBE over sex convictions - Birmingham Mail News Worcestershire businessman could be stripped of CBE over sex convictions A MIDLAND businessman could be stripped of his CBE after he was jailed for a string of sexual offences.

Share Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email A MIDLAND businessman could be stripped of his CBE after he was jailed for a string of sexual offences. Edward Roberts, 72, of Grafton Flyford, Worcestershire, was jailed for two years after being convicted of two counts of indecency with a child and two counts of indecent assault at Aylesbury Crown Court. He committed the offences against a girl in South Buckinghamshire more than 30 years ago, starting when she was aged just 12. Roberts, who was awarded the CBE for services to industry in 1991, had been described as one of the region’s top industrialists. He is former CBI West Midlands regional chairman and went on to work for Pertemps in 2002. He was also previously chairman and chief executive of Redditch-based Peterson Spring UK Ltd, a global supplier to the automotive market. But on Thursday, Judge Joanna Cutts QC told him: “You used every moment of stolen time when your family were elsewhere. The abuse was regular and whenever you saw her, you took your opportunity.

“She made clear in her evidence she adored you and the attention you gave her, and didn’t believe she was being abused, but abuse it was. “The fact it wasn’t forced is of limited mitigation. You took advantage of that young girl’s vulnerability. “She has been affected throughout her life by what you did.” Judge Cutts said she had to sentence Roberts, a treasurer at a church near his home, using guidelines that were in place at the time the offences were committed. She said the maximum sentence then was five years’ imprisonment, whereas today it was ten years. Roberts, who had no previous convictions, was jailed for a total of two years for the offences, half of which will be served on licence. It was not yet known whether the industrialist would lose his CBE, but only a handful of men have ever had their honours revoked.

They include Jack Lyons, the British financier stripped of his knighthood and CBE in 1991 for his part in the Guinness share trading fraud; jockey Lester Piggott, whose OBE was withdrawn in 1988 following his jailing for tax evasion, and philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon, who was stripped of his title after being charged with taking bribes in 1621. Like us on Facebook BBC ON THIS DAY | 23 | 1987: Lester Piggott jailed for three years About This Site | Text Only 1987: Lester Piggott jailed for three years Former champion jockey, Lester Piggott, has been sentenced to three years imprsionment after being found guilty of an alleged tax fraud of over �3m. The 51-year-old remained stony-faced as he was sentenced by Mr Justice Farquharson at Ipswich Crown Court. But his wife, Susan, collapsed in tears as he was taken to Norwich prison. Piggott was jailed after failing to declare income to the Inland Revenue of �3.25m.

The biggest sum on the charge sheet relates to an alleged omission of �1,359,726 from additional riding income. Another alleged that for 14 years, from 1971, he omitted income of �1,031,697 from bloodstock operations. False declarations Piggott, whose personal fortune is estimated at �20m, is said to have used different names to channel his earnings in secret bank accounts in Switzerland, the Bahamas, Singapore and the Cayman Islands. The nine times Derby winner has been prosecuted in the biggest individual income tax-dodging case ever brought in Britain and the sentence is the highest to be passed for a personal tax fraud. Piggott was charged after a joint Customs and Inland Revenue investigation, codenamed Centaur after the halfman, half-horse beast of mythology, into his affairs. The jockey was said to have signed false declarations to the Inland Revenue during three successive inquiries into his tax affairs between 1970 and 1985. The judge remarked that Piggott even misled his own accountants "until the matter was forced out of you" last year.

Other leading jockeys and racing figures were also questioned during the inquiry but the Inland Revenue said it was "too early to say" whether more prosecutions will follow. Top racing figures have been left stunned by the punishment imposed on Piggott, who has become a household name throughout the world. The champion jockey, Pat Eddery said: "I am shocked and very sad. I did not think he would get three years, but the law is the law." The sentence was condemned as a "terrible injustice" by the Newmarket trainer, David Thom, who said Piggott had put "more money in the taxman's coffers than any 100 people could have done." But appeals for leniency by Mr John Mathew, QC, Piggott's counsel, had been rejected by the judge, who said he could not "pass over" the scale of Piggott's VAT and income tax evasion without an invitation to others tempted to cheat. He will be eligible for parole after one year or if early release is refused, could earn remission of one year for good behaviour.

Sleaze scandal strips Dame Shirley Porter of her title | The Independent This Britain Sleaze scandal strips Dame Shirley Porter of her title Despite owing Westminster council Â£37m over the 'homes for votes' scandal, the former Tory grande dame is still living the good life Saturday 5 July 2003 23:00 BST Click to follow The Independent Online Shirley Porter, the central figure in the "homes for votes" corruption scandal, is to be stripped of the title of Dame, awarded 12 years ago for "services to local government". It is an unprecedented move for such a senior local politician. Lady Porter (she has the title by virtue of her marriage to Sir Leslie Porter), heiress to the Tesco fortune, was appointed a Dame of the British Empire by John Major, after she had delivered a spectacular victory for the Tories in the 1990 elections in Westminster, where she was council leader. That victory, achieved at the height of the poll tax riots, later developed into the biggest local government corruption scandal of the decade, when a district auditor accused Lady Porter and others of using council funds to rig the vote.

For several years, they had been systematically moving council tenants out of marginal wards to replace them with owner-occupiers, who were assumed to be more likely to vote Tory. Mavis McDonald, Permanent Secretary in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, has been told by John Prescott to prepare a submission which will open the way to removing her title of Dame. Nick Raynsford, the minister for local government, dropped a heavy hint of what was in store for Lady Porter when he said: "Given the fact that she was convicted of scandalous behaviour and corrupt practices, it might appear curious for her still to hold a damehood for her services to local government." The move is a reminder of the sleaze allegations that enmeshed the dying Conservative administration. Despite the succession of court findings against her, Lady Porter has never been condemned by any Tory leader. It is not difficult to track Shirley Porter down. She may be unwilling to set foot in Britain, but she is so far from being hounded in Israel, where she now lives, that her number is in the telephone book and directory inquiries will happily give you her address in Herzliya Pituach.

Herzliya Pituach is the favourite retreat of Israel's rich, a few miles up the coast from the bustle of Tel Aviv. A soporific place, with its neat lanes of villas, it is more like some exclusive Hollywood neighbourhood than the Middle East. Apartments here sell for millions. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict came crashing up against Herzliya once, in a suicide bombing. But generally the place feels a long way from the tensions that beset the region. The Independent on Sunday telephoned Dame Shirley in Herzliya Pituach. A woman answered. "Can I speak to Dame Shirley?" "Yes of course. I'll just get her. Who's calling?" "The Independent on Sunday." "I'm sorry. I'll take a message." Click brrrr. A short walk down the street from their freestanding apartment block are the immaculate green asphalt tennis courts of the Arcadia Hotel, where Dame Shirley likes to get a game in. Beyond that, her husband Sir Leslie's yacht is one of those bobbing in the Herzliya marina, a forest of masts, where Israel's well-heeled sit sweating at the expensive cafés.

Dame Shirley is not trying to hide here. On the contrary, she and Sir Leslie have been dispensing their largesse to several charitable causes. He is the Chancellor of Tel Aviv University. There's the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics, the Shirley and Leslie Porter School of Cultural Studies, the Cohen-Porter Family Swimming Pool and the Porter Senior Citizen Centre in Jaffa, down the coast. But the British authorities are not exactly hounding her. She was entertained to dinner at the British Embassy in November last year. Dame Shirley has said she did not come to Israel to escape the British authorities but because she wanted to live near her daughter Linda, who already lived in Israel, after her grandson, Daniel, was killed in a car crash in 1993. But if she is easy to find, her fortune is not. The source of the Porters' wealth is clear. Her father, Sir John Cohen, founded Tesco, which he named after his wife, Tessa Cohen. Her husband took over as chairman of Tesco. He was knighted 20 years ago, so Shirley Porter will still be able to call herself a Lady even if she is no longer a Dame.

Even her son, John Porter, is a multimillionaire in his own right, as a former chairman of Redbus International, which was once seen as the biggest success story from the internet boom. Yet Westminster council, which is owed £37m by Lady Porter, has so far managed to seize about £7,000-worth of her belongings, including a portrait and a gold-plated lavatory seat. Last year she caused amazement by declaring that her assets were worth only £300,000 - about one-thousandth of what she was thought to be actually worth. That claim has now been blown apart after her son was one of the instigators of a boardroom coup that ousted the founder of Redbus International, Cliff Stanford. Stanford fought a ferocious battle to have himself reinstated and the entire board, headed by Mr Porter, sacked. Private detectives snooping around Mr Porter appear to have come upon e-mails from his mother implying that she was bankrolling him with huge sums of money. The e-mails suggested that her fortune was concealed in offshore investments in Guernsey and the British Virgin Islands, and in Swiss bank accounts.

The e-mail that perhaps revealed most about Lady Porter was one about a surprise party for her son. She told him: "You appeared to be totally surprised unless, of course, you've inherited my genes and know how to lie?" Yet with access to the vast wealth generated by the Tesco empire, it seems incredible that Lady Porter could not lay hands on enough to make an out-of-court settlement with Westminster council. Instead, her refusal to admit there was any wrongdoing has seemingly condemned her to self-imposed exile for the rest of her life. Honours removed The traitor, Anthony Blunt The Surveyor of the Queen's pictures and former MI5 agent was stripped of his knighthood in 1979 after being exposed as a Soviet spy of 40 years standing. The fraudster, Jack Lyons Stripped of his knighthood after being convicted in 1990 of conspiracy, theft and false accounting for his part in the Guinness shares fraud scandal. The lying minister 1, John Profumo The Secretary of State for War in Macmillan's Tory government lost his status as a Privy Councillor for lying to Parliament over his affair with Christine Keeler in 1963.

The lying minister 2, Jonathan Aitken The former Chief Secretary to the Treasury was jailed for lying under oath in the High Court over a stay at the Paris Ritz. He 'resigned' from the Privy Council when his libel action failed. The tax avoider, Lester Piggott Sentenced to three years in prison in 1987 for a £2.8 million tax fraud, the legendary jockey served 366 days and was stripped of his OBE by the Queen in June 1988. Sex offender has CBE taken off him - Birmingham Mail News Sex offender has CBE taken off him A MIDLAND businessman who was jailed for a string of sex offences has been stripped of his CBE. Share Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email A MIDLAND businessman who was jailed for a string of sex offences has been stripped of his CBE. Edward Roberts, 72, of Grafton Flyford, Worcestershire, was jailed for two years after being convicted of two counts of indecency with a child and two counts of indecent assault at Aylesbury Crown Court.

He committed the offences against a girl in South Buckinghamshire more than 30 years ago, starting when she was aged just 12. Roberts, who was awarded the CBE for services to industry in 1991, had been described as one of the region’s top industrialists. Now his gong has been revoked after the sickening attacks. Cancelled A Cabinet Office spokesman said: “A notice has appeared in the London Gazette explaining the appointment of Mr Edward John Roberts to CBE has been cancelled and annulled.” The awards can be removed when a person has brought the honours system into disrepute by being sentenced to more than three months in prison. Roberts is a former CBI West Midlands regional chairman and went on to work for Pertemps in 2002. He was also previously chairman and chief executive of Redditch-based Peterson Spring UK Ltd, a global supplier to the automotive market. But in January when sentencing Roberts, Judge Joanna Cutts QC, said: “You used every moment of stolen time when your family were elsewhere. “The abuse was regular and whenever you saw her, you took your opportunity.

“She made clear in her evidence she adored you and the attention you gave her, and didn’t believe she was being abused – but abuse it was. “The fact it wasn’t forced is of limited mitigation. You took advantage of that young girl’s vulnerability. “She has been affected throughout her life by what you did.” Judge Cutts said she had to sentence Roberts, a treasurer at a church near his home, using guidelines that were in place at the time the offences were committed. She said the maximum sentence then was five years’ imprisonment, whereas today it is ten years. Roberts, who had no previous convictions, was jailed for a total of two years for the offences, half of which will be served on licence. Only a handful of men have ever had their honours revoked. They include Jack Lyons, the British financier stripped of his knighthood and CBE in 1991 for his part in the Guinness share trading fraud; and jockey Lester Piggott, whose OBE was withdrawn in 1988 following his jailing for tax evasion.

Like us on Facebook Fred Goodwin 'should never have been knighted', says Labour leader Ed Miliband - Mirror Online Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email Labour leader Ed Miliband believes Fred Goodwin should never have been given the knighthood. Disgraced banker Fred “the Shred” was publicly humiliated yesterday after he was stripped of the honour by the Queen. Mr Miliband said: “It is right Fred Goodwin has lost his knighthood, but it’s only the start of the change we need in our boardrooms.” David Cameron added: “I welcome the Forfeiture Committee’s decision. “The FSA report into what went wrong at RBS made clear where the failures lay and who was responsible.” The fatcat banker was given the humiliating news by telephone at 3pm by Sir Bob Kerslake, the head of the civil service. He was seen leaving his lavish Edinburgh home in his Jaguar 30 minutes later. The decision to take away the knighthood he received in 2004 for services to banking was made by the secretive Forfeiture Committee and approved by Her Majesty. There is no right to appeal.

He had been accused by the Financial Services Authority of carelessly pushing ahead with a deal to take over the ABN AMRO bank without “a sufficient understanding of the risks involved”. (Photo: Getty) Royal Bank of Scotland was only kept afloat thanks to £45billion of taxpayers’ cash and is still 83% owned by the state. Simon Chouffot, of the anti-poverty Robin Hood Tax campaign, declared: “This is clearly the right decision, but removing one man’s gong won’t repair the damage done to our economy by the financial sector. “We need our leaders to move beyond tokenism, tackle the unjust financial rewards still rampant in the City, and ensure the sector pays its share to help people hit by the economic crisis.” Tory MP Mark Field called for a review of Mr Goodwin’s lucrative pension pay-off. He said: “He’s still earning £370,000 a year, essentially, for failure.” The man who took RBS to the brink of collapse and cost taxpayers billions of pounds was given the slap in the face in a call by the head of the civil service.

In a damning verdict of his reckless leadership of the bank, a special committee declared Fred the Shred had brought the honours system into disrepute. He is one of just a few people to have their honour taken away despite not being convicted of a crime. The Cabinet Office said: “The scale and severity of the impact of his actions as CEO of RBS made this an exceptional case. “The failure of RBS played an important role in the financial crisis of 2008 to 2009 which, together with other macroeconomic factors, triggered the worst recession in the UK since the Second World War. “Fred Goodwin was the dominant decision maker at RBS at the time.” RBS last night declined to comment. MPs who are jailed for more than 12 months must give up their seat and knighthoods can be withdrawn, but a life peerage cannot be taken away. So a lord may remain in government despite a criminal conviction. Fred Goodwin timeline AUGUST 1958: Born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. 1983 Qualifies as a chartered accountant at Touche Ross. 1988 Becomes a partner at accountants Touche Ross.

1990 Marries Joyce McLean. 1995: Oversees the National Australia Bank takeover of Clydesdale Bank 1995: Appointed Deputy Chief Executive of Clydesdale Bank. 1996: Promoted to Chief Executive of National Australia’s British division. 1996: Dubbed “Fred the Shred” by City financiers for ruthlessly generating cost savings. 1998: Joins RBS as deputy CEO. 2000: Plays major role in RBS’s £23.6bn takeover of Natwest. 2001: Promoted to CEO of RBS. Cuts 18,000 jobs by merging parts of RBS and Natwest. 2002: Forbes magazine’s Businessman of the Year. 2004: Knighted for services to banking. 2008: Resigns as Chief Executive of RBS, which is in severe financial difficulty. RBS is bailed out and he is replaced by Stephen Hester. 2009: RBS reports that while Goodwin was at the helm it posted a loss of £24.1bn, the UK’s biggest ever.

Emerges that Goodwin is drawing £555,000 a year from his £16m pension pot, after taking an estimated £2.7m tax-free lump sum. He refuses to reduce his pension but RBS cuts it to £342,500 a year. 2011: Lib-Dem MP John Hemming reveals that Goodwin has taken out a super-injunction preventing him from being identified and an extra-marital affair being reported. 2012: Stripped of his knighthood. Others to be stripped of their titles ● ROBERT MUGABE: The Zimbawean tyrant had his Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath annulled in June 2008 after pre-election violence. ● LESTER PIGGOTT: The champion jockey lost his OBE in 1988 after being jailed for tax fraud. ● PRINCE NASEEM HAMED: The former world boxing champion was stripped of his MBE in 2007 after a dangerous-driving conviction.

● NICOLAE CEAUSESCU: The Romanian dictator lost his Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath the day before he was executed on Christmas Day 1989. ● JEAN ELSE: The Manchester head lost the title of dame in 2011, after being found guilty of misconduct by the General Teaching Council. Like us on Facebook Lester Piggott - WikiHorseWorld Horse Articles Lester Piggott Jockey Lester Keith Piggott (born 5 November, 1935) is a retired English professional jockey , popularly known as "The Long Fellow". [1] [2] He is considered to be the best of his generation and the greatest English flat jockey of all time, with 4,493 career wins, including nine Derby victories. Contents 11 External links Family background and personal life Lester Piggott was born in Wantage to a family that could trace its roots as jockeys and trainers back to the 18th Century.

[3] His grandfather Ernie Piggott (1878-1941) owned a racehorse stable at The Old Manor in Letcombe Regis and his father Keith Piggott (1904-1993) another at South Bank in Lambourn , where Lester lived until 1954. [4] Ernie Piggott rode three Grand National winners, in 1912, 1918 and 1919 and was married to a sister of the jockeys Mornington Cannon and Kempton Cannon, who both rode winners of the Derby, in 1899 and 1904 respectively. Keith Piggott was a successful National Hunt jockey and trainer, winning the Champion Hurdle as a jockey in 1939 and the Grand National as a trainer in 1963 with Ayala, becoming the British jump racing Champion Trainer of the 1962-63 season. Lester Piggott is the cousin, through his mother Iris Sargent, of two other jockeys, Bill and Fred Rickaby.

Fred Rickaby was British flat racing Champion Apprentice in 1931 and 1932. Piggott is married to Susan Armstrong. Her father Sam Armstrong and Robert Armstrong were both racehorse trainers. They have two daughters, Maureen, an ex- eventer (married to Derby-winning trainer William Haggas) and Tracy (a sports presenter on Irish television station RTÉ). He also has a son, Jamie, from a relationship with Anna Ludlow. [5] His house is named after a famous racehorse from history - Florizel . Career as a jockey Piggott began racing horses from his father's stable when he was 10 years old and won his first race in 1948, aged 12 years, on a horse called The Chase at Haydock Park . A teenage sensation, he rode his first winner of the Epsom Derby on Never Say Die in 1954 aged 18 years and went on to win eight more, on Crepello (1957), St.

Paddy (1960), Sir Ivor (1968), Nijinsky (1970), Roberto (1972), Empery (1976), The Minstrel (1977) and Teenoso (1983). He was stable jockey to Noel Murless and later to Vincent O'Brien and had a glittering career of unparalleled success. Known as the "housewives' favourite", Piggott had legions of followers and did much to expand the popularity of horse racing beyond its narrow, class-based origins. Famously tall for a jockey (5 ft 8 in/1.73 m), hence his nickname of "The Long Fellow", Lester Piggott struggled to keep his weight down and for most of his career rode at little more than 8 stone (112 lb/51 kg). He pioneered a new style of race-riding that was subsequently widely adopted by colleagues at home and abroad and enabled him to become Champion Jockey 11 times. There can be little doubt that had he not chosen after the 1971 season to ride more selectively that he would have won more championships.

In 1980 his relationship with the Sangster — O'Brien combination came to an end and in a jockeys' merry-go-round he was appointed as stable jockey to Noel Murless's son-in law Henry Cecil , the British flat racing Champion Trainer , at Murless's old stables, Warren Place. He was again champion jockey in 1981 and 1982. However, as the result of a dispute in late 1983 as to whether he had reneged on an agreement to ride Daniel Wildenstein 's All Along the ride went to young Walter Swinburn in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe , Wildenstein refused to allow him to ride any more of his horses. It was costly for Piggott, as All Along won the Arc and a string of other international races in an autumn campaign that ended with her being named U.S. Horse of the Year . Further, as Wildenstein was one of Cecil's principal owners, this placed a strain on the relationship, and in 1984 Cecil and Piggott split, with Steve Cauthen taking over at Warren Place.

Like many other jockeys and trainers Lester lives near the Home of Racing at Newmarket in Suffolk. Later career and conviction for tax evasion After he retired from riding horses at the end of the 1985 flat season, Piggott became a racehorse trainer. At its peak, his Eve Lodge stables had housed 97 residents and sent out 34 winners. In 1987 he was jailed for 3 years, of which he served 366 days, for tax irregularities. The following year he was stripped of his OBE (which he had been awarded in 1975) because of tax evasion. He resumed his career as a jockey in 1990 following his release from jail, winning the Breeders' Cup Mile on Royal Academy within ten days of his return, and riding another Classic winner, Rodrigo de Triano, in the 1992 2000 Guineas . He rode his last winner in October 1994 and officially retired, this time for good, in 1995.

Illness On Tuesday 15 May 2007 he was admitted to intensive care in a Swiss hospital following a recurrence of a previous heart problem. His wife stated that this illness is not life-threatening and that he was recovering in intensive care as a precaution. [1] He attended Royal Ascot in June 2007 [6] and the Epsom Derby in June 2008 where he tipped the winner, New Approach, during a BBC television interview. He was also present for Gold Cup day at the Cheltenham Festival in March 2009, where he was interviewed in the parade ring. Recognition The annual jockey awards The Lesters , inaugurated in 1990, are named in his honour. Major wins Breeders' Cup Mile - (1) - Royal Academy (1990) Washington, D.C. International - (3) - Sir Ivor (1968), Karabas (1969), Argument (1980) In popular culture The British music band James recorded a song named "Sometimes (Lester Piggott)" on their album Laid. It has a beat which is like a horse galloping.

The outro on the original 12" of Sit Down also featured a falsetto voice singing the jockey's name. The Hope and Anchor pub in Margate, Kent has been restyled with a horse racing theme and renamed Lester's after the famous jockey. The Van Morrison song "In the Days Before Rock 'n Roll" also mentions Piggott by name: "When we let, then we bet / On Lester Piggott when we met [ten to one] / And we let the goldfish go" In 1992, the Queen agreed, under pressure, to pay taxes. One satirical magazine showed a picture of her talking on a telephone. According to the magazine, she requested to be put through to Lester Piggot. See also Retrieved from " " The above article was imported from Wikipedia.org on 08/24/2010 and may be a modified version of the Original Wikipedia article . See this article's history page for a list of revisions which may have occurred after import. This article is displayed here courtesy of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia, and its authors/contributors in compliance with the Wikimedia Terms of Use Agreement.

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Question: In June 1988, which British jockey was stripped of his OBE after he was jailed for tax evasion?
Answer: Lester Piggott