Rod Petrie, SPL board director and chairman of Gold's former club, Hibernian, praised the departing official.

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But Rod Booth, who chairs the Independent Monitoring Board, denied there were full scale riots.

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Rod Morgan, a former chair of the Youth Justice Board and a professor at the University of Bristol, said that children should not face a court if they cannot understand what is happening.

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Nadal joins Roger Federer, Andre Agassi, Roy Emerson, Rod Laver, Don Budge and Fred Perry in having swept the board, and also becomes the first man since Laver in 1969 to win the French Open, Wimbledon and US Open in the same year.

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Rod Bristow, president of Pearson UK, which owns the Edexcel exam board, said there was "much to be learned from the events of this summer", but said he was pleased that the courts had "found that our awarding processes were rigorous and fair".

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