CNN's Dana Bash, Rich Barbieri, Charles Riley, Dana Ford, Holly Yan, Josh Levs, Jessica Yellin, Deirdre Walsh and Ted Barrett contributed to this report.

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You could also throw in Alf Sherwood, Trevor Ford, Mel Charles, John Toshack, Mark Hughes and Bale for good measure.

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Warwickshire Police said that Charles was driving a blue Ford Fiesta when the collision with a grey Land Rover Freelander took place at the junction with Welford Road on 22 December at 19:00 GMT.

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Ontario Superior Court Justice Charles Hackland on Monday found Mr Ford's "ignorance of the law" amounted to "wilful blindness".

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Instead, seated near but not blocking the door was Lincoln's valet, Charles Forbes, who had ridden to Ford's atop the coach beside the driver.

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Julie Logan, of the Cass Business School in London, found in separate surveys in 2001 and 2007 that 20% of the British entrepreneurs and 35% of the American entrepreneurs she studied were dyslexic. (By contrast, only 1% of corporate managers are similarly afflicted.) Famous dyslexic businessmen include Richard Branson, Charles Schwab, Ted Turner, John Chambers and Henry Ford.

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Prince Charles visited the Jaguar Land Rover production plant at Halewood, marking the start of the former Ford plant's 50th anniversary celebrations.

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In addition to those cited in this report, the author is particularly grateful for the insights, many of them off the record, of Hal Sirkin, Nandan Nilekani, Alvaro Rodriguez Arragui, Bernard Charles, Joshua Ramo, Michelle Guthrie, Arjun Divecha, Len Blavatnik, Viktor Vekselberg, Malvinder Singh, Bill Ford, Michael Green, Lord John Browne, John Studzinski, Bill Rhodes, Diana Farrell, Mikhail Fridman, Graham Mackey, Thor Bjorgolfsson, Ram Charan, Nabil Habayeb, Diana Glassman, David Rubenstein, Eli Jacobs, Dambisa Moyo, Alastair Newton and Michael Patsalos Fox.

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