Bruce travels to races with two suitcases, one for clothes and another for food and a hot plate.

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That led to four years with the station in question before making a new year's resolution for the new millennium to try out everything she had learned on a bigger scale - and she moved to the UK in 2000 armed with two suitcases and a demo tape.

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The rivalry between the two retail giants would make a book in itself, with Branson turning up with suitcases of cash to try and gazump HMV for prime city centre shop locations.

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