• Robert Gibson, a British associate of Tappin who agreed to co-operate, was jailed for 24 months after pleading guilty to conspiracy to export defence articles.

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  • In a paper last year for the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, Robert Cooper, a veteran British diplomat and European official, said insisted that a currency is too important to be left to technocrats, arguing also that politics must be allowed its space.

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  • The event was started "about five years ago" by British actor Craig Robert Young and a group of fellow British expats living in Los Angeles.

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  • "Downton Abbey" centers on a British aristocrat, Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham, who has three daughters but no sons to whom he can leave his estate, as required under British property rules at the time.

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  • In the 17th century British scientist Robert Hooke took a crack at taxonomy, but his clumsy cloud names ("water'd, " "lowring, " "hairy") failed to fly.

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  • Mr Howard will make his speech during a visit to support Tory Parliamentary hopefuls Robert Light and Sayeeda Warsi - "the first British Muslim woman" selected to run for MP as a Conservative candidate.

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  • Cavendish, 25, becomes the first British rider to lead the Vuelta a Espana since Robert Millar in 1986.

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  • In the former, Robert and Edward Skidelsky, a father-and-son pair of British academics, take as their text an essay written in 1930 by John Maynard Keynes.

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  • The BBC's business editor, Robert Peston, called it the most radical reform of British banks in a generation, and possibly ever.

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  • Meanwhile, British author Robert Harris - who had been working with Mr Polanski on a film adaptation of his novel The Ghost - said he was taken aback by the weekend's events.

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  • Robert Hardman, a royal correspondent for the Daily Mail, offers a convincing tour of the British monarchy as an institution, apeing the vantage point of the fly-on-the-wall documentary.

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  • This British true-crime drama, directed by Peter Medak from a script by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, has a satisfying gravity and solidity.

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  • He suggested reaching out to Abdel Barri Atwan, a leading Palestinian journalist based in London, as well as the veteran Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk of the British Independent newspaper, both of whom had done interviews with bin Laden in the past.

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