Gerald Holtham's work was apparently respected within Whitehall and even if he doesn't chair the Welsh Calman his previous reports could form part of the new commission's report.

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The iPad, as Steve Jobs told us from his comfy leather chair at Macworld, represents a new computing form factor that falls squarely between the laptop and the smartphone.

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Next, pause for free-form reverie in the designated Poet's Chair upstairs at City Lights, the bookstore owned by Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who won a landmark 1957 free-speech case over the publication of Allen Ginsberg's incendiary epic poem Howl.

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"I think it would be logical and sensible for both parties to be able to present their separate vision to the public in time for the public to form a clear view before the election, " Graham Brady, chair of the influential 1922 backbench committee, told BBC Radio 4's The Westminster Hour.

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For Leighton Andrews, the jagged edge has just been delivered in the form of a stinging slap around the cheeks from Amanda Spielman, the chair of Ofqual.

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But Lady Campbell has a severe form of spinal muscular atrophy, a condition that means she uses a wheel chair and is reliant on a ventilator to breathe for much of the day.

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