The protest has been organised by several local groups including Save Newcastle Libraries, the Walker Action Group and the Anti-Cuts Network.

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The singer and songwriter Scott Walker was one-third of the sixties British pop group the Walker Brothers, who were not British, not brothers, and not really named Walker (Scott was born in Ohio, as Noel Scott Engel).

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Mr Walker added the group decided to "call everyone's bluff" and call in PWC in a attempt to rekindle negotiations.

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The growing use of English courts by foreign litigants is arousing increasing concern among free-speech campaigners such as Chris Walker of Freedom House, an American lobby group.

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The government's main experiment so far, cutting welfare benefits for lone parents, may cause more couples to stay together: Robert Walker, of Loughborough University, studied a group of lone mothers and concluded that welfare benefits had made it easier for them to decide to leave their partners.

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Anthony Jenkins, group chief executive of Barclays, and Sir David Walker, chairman of Barclays, appear before the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards (at 9.45am).

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Jim Walker, the aptly named chief executive of the walking-advocacy group Walk England, says times appear most crucial at the moment someone is deciding to walk.

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Walker is also the Chief Reconnaissance Officer for Summit Series, which is a group of young entrepreneurs who have set out to change the world, putting on annual events with an exclusive, invite-only list of executives and philanthropists from around the world.

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One Koch-funded group, tea party booster Americans for Prosperity, has vigorously campaigned for Walker in Wisconsin.

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Alissa Walker, a blogger who wrote about her experience Monday, said she has been among a group of enthusiasts who have taken illegal trips down the river just to prove it was safe.

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But Walker and Hook made sure it was the Welsh region who were the ones to go through as Group C winners.

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Fellow Americans Jimmy Walker and Nick Watney finished joint fourth on 279, while Australia's Aaron Baddeley was in a group tied for sixth another shot back.

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