Queen's We Are The Champions completes the eight - though creative director Mark Fisher has promised to consider other suggestions.

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Musician Jools Holland, English National Opera boss Paul Daniel, and dome party organisers Mark Fisher and Michael Lockett will have the final say.

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So far, however, Mark Fisher, the arts minister, is refusing to countenance the book leaving the British Library for good he says more people can see it there.

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Hopes that Star Wars actors Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill will reprise their roles on screen have been raised by the saga's creator.

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Pratt departed just before the close, sweeping left-arm spinner Fisher to Mark Alleyne at square leg but Brad Hodge helped Gough to make sure the contest remained evenly poised.

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One has to wonder if his star wattage would have sucked attention from the other unknown actors like Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher, and essentially altered the iconic sci-fi film.

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The original Star Wars film, released in the UK in 1977, starred Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford as they took on the evil Empire "in a galaxy, far, far away".

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George Lucas, who recently sold Lucasfilm to Disney and is involved in the ongoing development of new Star Wars movies, told Bloomberg Businessweek that Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Mark Hamill are in talks to reprise their roles as (respectively) Han Solo, Princess Leia, and Luke Skywalker.

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However, Mark Stewart QC, defending, argued that, in the situation, Fisher was entitled to use his baton to take control.

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