The Brummie comic's most recent success is the police spoof The Detectives, in which he co-stars with Robert Powell.

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Robert Powell and Coronation Street stars Trevor Dwyer-Lynch and Alan Halsall will be among the actors taking to the fairways at the Ballymena club.

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Robert Powell at MarketWatch tackled that issue recently.

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Mafeking remained famous because the commander of the besieged garrison, Colonel Robert Baden-Powell, went on to found the scouting movement.

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The organization takes its name from Robert Baden-Powell, whose initiatives in Britain in starting in 1907 launched the international Scouting movement.

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The Scouts was established by Robert Baden-Powell on 1 August 1907.

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But the grandson of Scouts founder Robert Baden-Powell told the BBC that the words of the oath provide a "sense of purpose to cling on to".

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And then look at the staunch defenders of Hagel's nomination: Republican Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Republican Secretary of State Colin Powell, Reagan's respected Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci and the first President Bush's national security adviser Brent Scowcroft.

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Contrary to Enoch Powell's gloomy crack that all political careers end in failure, Mr Robert's main contention is that Salisbury's was crowned with success.

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