For his colleagues, Mike Baker was known for his generosity and his deep knowledge of his subject.

BBC: Mike Baker, 2001

Education ministers were ready to admit that sometimes Mike Baker knew more about their policies than they did.

BBC: Mike Baker, 2001

However, Mike Baker, regional representative of the Motorcycle Action Group, said bikers should not be used as scapegoats for any increase in accidents.

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Mike Baker has been one of the first television correspondents to write a regular column for the emerging BBC News website - long before anyone had coined the word "blog".

BBC: Mike Baker, 2001

Mike Baker is a freelance education journalist.

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Twice winner of the education journalist of the year award, Mike Baker had covered the upheavals in schools and universities for the BBC from 1989 to 2007 - from the days of Margaret Thatcher through to Tony Blair.

BBC: Mike Baker, 2001

Later on, the committee took evidence from Transport ministers Mike Penning and Norman Baker, who are responsible for the government's policies on road safety and cycling.

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We remember the profound impact of Lyndon Johnson, Mike Mansfield, Everett Dirksen and Howard Baker on the Senate.

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He knew the names of all the Mexican fighters as if they lived here, as if they were Dodgers players, like Steve Sax or Steve Yeager, Dusty Baker, Kenny Landreaux or Mike Marshall, Pedro Guerrero.

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