Three Scouts visited the Top Gear track to award The Stig with his instructor badge for his work on the BBC2 programme.

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Once all of the engineering and configuration work was done, Rummel had to fill out forms attesting that he had followed the STIG procedures to a T.

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The award, founded in 1989 by the late Stig Anderson, manager of Swedish pop group ABBA, has been handed out every year since 1992 and is typically shared by a pop artist and a classical musician.

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The Polar Music Prize was founded by Stig Anderson, the manager of Swedish pop group ABBA, in 1989.

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Comedies Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Goodness Gracious Me and Alistair McGowan's Big Impression join dramas Carrie's War and Blackpool and children's classics Stig of the Dump and The Secret Garden on the free service, which can be accessed online at www.clubcardtv.com.

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Stig Larsson, author of the Millennium trilogy, became the first writer to sell 1 million e-books in 2010.

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In the afternoon, he met with Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller, before departing Copenhagen for Geneva.

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One sunny evening in early August, Stig Jansson is rinsing fishing nets at his boathouse on the island, while his son-in-law Jarmo Ylitelo cuts perch fillets to be smoked and sold.

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Dinah and Stig Mason were refused planning permission to build a house on the four-acre site in Willand, classified as open countryside.

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Armadillo Aerospace announced that they have a license to lauch their STIG B-1 rocket on August 25 or 26, 2012 at the SpacePort American in New Mexico.

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