Over the meal Birt, who had devised a programme called "Weekend World, " which went out at Sunday lunchtime, told me that his interviewer, Peter Jay, was going to become British ambassador to Washington.

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Breakfast Time trumped the rival ITV offering in the early ratings battle, which led to a cull of employees at TV-am including Peter Jay, Anna Ford and Angela Rippon in favour of "people-next-door" Anne Diamond and Nick Owen.

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He offered me Peter Jay's job.

BBC: By Brian Walden

But Ramsey's arrival adds further expectation for the Bluebirds boss to secure promotion to the top-flight this season as Ramsey would join a star-studded squad that includes Craig Bellamy, Jay Bothroyd, Michael Chopra, Peter Whittingham and Seyi Olofinjana.

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They have people like Chopra and Peter Whittingham, as well as Ross McCormack and Jay Bothroyd, so they are a real threat at that level.

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After a really successful partnership syndicating gdgt's product database to tens of millions of Engadget pages per month, Peter and I were approached by a whip-smart guy by the name of Jay Kirsch, who runs the group Engadget, TechCrunch, Joystiq, and TUAW are a part of.

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