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'''A.F. Budge''' was a British civil engineering and construction company based in [[Nottinghamshire]]. It built many sections of motorway in [[Yorkshire]] and the [[north Midlands]].
'''A.F. Budge''' was a British civil engineering and construction company based in [[Nottinghamshire]]. It built many sections of motorway in [[Yorkshire]] and the [[north Midlands]].


==History==
==History==
Tony Budge went to [[Boston Grammar School]], where he gained O-levels in English, English Literature, French, German, History, Geography,
Tony Budge went to [[Boston Grammar School]], where he gained O-levels in English, English Literature, French, German, History, Geography,
Maths, and Physics with Chemistry in 1955.<ref>''Boston Guardian'', Saturday 10 September 1955, page 11</ref>
Maths, and Physics with Chemistry in 1955.<ref>''Boston Guardian'', Saturday 10 September 1955, page 11</ref> He lived at 122 Tower Road in Boston.<ref>''Louth Standard'' Friday 30 October 1959, page 3</ref>


It was established by Tony Budge (August 1939 - 3 February 2010) in December 1962.<ref>[https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/00743959 Companies House]</ref> He was the older brother of [[Richard Budge]], who established his coal mining business RJB Mining, also based in Bassetlaw. Richard Budge joined the company in 1966. Another director of the company was Janet Budge, Tony's wife.
It was established by Tony Budge (9 August 1939 - 3 February 2010) in December 1962.<ref>[https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/00743959 Companies House]</ref> He was the older brother of [[Richard Budge]], who established his coal mining business RJB Mining, also based in Bassetlaw. Richard Budge joined the company in 1966. Another director of the company was Janet Budge, Tony's wife. Tony had trained as a civil engineer with [[Holland County Council]].<ref>''Newark Advertiser'' Friday 10 June 1988, page 40</ref> He had three daughters and a son, and married Janet Cropley, from Frith Bank, near Boston. He was a fellow of the [[Institution of Civil Engineers|ICE]] and [[Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation|IHT]].<ref>''Nottingham Evening Post'' Friday 3 April 1987, page 59</ref> In the 1970s he lived at Meed House on North Road in Retford. In July 1984 his daughter Elizabeth married Christian Brash at Retford church.<ref>''Retford Times'' Friday 17 February 1984, page 8</ref><ref>''Retford Times'' Friday 10 August 1984, page 7</ref>


The company turned over £1.5m in 1968. In January 1969, the Charterhouse Group bought 23% of the company. The company hoped to go public in the early 1970s. Tony Budge was given an OBE in the [[1985 New Year Honours]].
The company turned over £1.5m in 1968, when the company moved Retford to a former [[London and North Eastern Railway|LNER]] engine depot. In January 1969, the Charterhouse Group bought 23% of the company. The company hoped to go public in the early 1970s. Tony Budge was given an OBE in the [[1985 New Year Honours]]. In 1990, Tony Budge was Chairman of the Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors.<ref>[https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/archive/13apr90-uk-environment-90-key-industry-figures-give-their-own-agenda-for-environmental-change-in-the-90s-5-of-5-12-04-1990/ ''Construction News'' 1990]</ref>


RJB Mining was formed from a management buyout in February 1992 for £107m.
RJB Mining was formed from a management buyout in February 1992 for £107m.
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===Horseracing===
===Horseracing===
Anthony Frederick Budge<ref>[https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/ofo_kdZKtTYS_8JUSOg4xihcoK8/appointments Companies House]</ref> liked racehorses, and his company invested in [[Doncaster Racecourse]]. The company owned [[Retford Gamston Airport]]. Tony Budge lived at Osberton Hall at [[Scofton]] (in Worksop), the former home of [[Francis Ferrand Foljambe]], near the [[River Ryton]], off the B6079 between Worksop and Retford.
Anthony Frederick Budge<ref>[https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/ofo_kdZKtTYS_8JUSOg4xihcoK8/appointments Companies House]</ref> liked racehorses, and his company invested in [[Doncaster Racecourse]]. ''Danish Flight'' won the [[Arkle Challenge Trophy]] at Cheltenham in 1988; ''Rock City'', ridden by [[Willie Carson]], won the [[Coventry Stakes]] at Ascot in 1989; ''Sharp N' Early'' won the [[Gimcrack Stakes]] at York in 1988 and the [[Leisure Stakes]] at Windsor in 1990; ''Rock City'' with Willie Carson won the Gimcrack Stakes in 1989 and ''River Falls'' won the race in 1991; ''Uncle Ernie'' won the [[Lightning Novices' Chase]] at Doncaster in 1991; ''Showbrook'' won the [[Woodcote Stakes]] at Epsom in 1991. In the early 1990s, he had 20 horses with trainer [[Jimmy FitzGerald]].

The company owned [[Retford Gamston Airport]]. Tony Budge lived at Osberton Hall at [[Scofton]] (in Worksop), the former home of [[Francis Ferrand Foljambe]], near the [[River Ryton]], off the B6079 between Worksop and Retford.


[[Image:Owner A F Budge (equine) Limited.svg|thumb|right|150px|The company's horse-racing colours]]
[[Image:Owner A F Budge (equine) Limited.svg|thumb|right|150px|The company's horse-racing colours]]


===Receivership===
===Receivership===
A.F. Budge (Road Materials) Ltd went into well-publicised [[receivership]] on 9 December 1992, undertaken by [[Cork Gully]], with £96.6m debts, under the [[Insolvency Act 1986]].<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/burning-questions-on-mr-coal-as-richard-budge-prepares-to-find-pounds-1bn-to-buy-privatised-mines-1444321.html Independent October 1994]</ref> As a road construction company, it was profitable, but the company made some disastrous investments in other areas in the late 1980s. During 1992 the company had reduced its debt by £30m, but blamed [[Barclays]] Bank for forcing it into receivership.
A.F. Budge (Road Materials) Ltd went into well-publicised [[receivership]] on 9 December 1992, undertaken by [[Cork Gully]], with £96.6m debts, under the [[Insolvency Act 1986]].<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/burning-questions-on-mr-coal-as-richard-budge-prepares-to-find-pounds-1bn-to-buy-privatised-mines-1444321.html Independent October 1994]</ref> As a road construction company, it was profitable, but the company made some disastrous investments in other areas in the late 1980s. During 1992 the company had reduced its debt by £30m, but blamed [[Barclays]] Bank for forcing it into receivership.


The company was bought by Alfred McAlpine Construction of Chester on Monday 4 January 1993, with 26 outstanding road contracts, according to its managing director Peter Hulmes. 250 of the 370 road-building employees were kept.<ref>''Nottingham Evening Post'' Tuesday 5 January 1993, page 8</ref><ref>''Newark Advertiser'' Friday 8 January 1993, page 69</ref>
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The company, and RJB Mining, were investigated in an edition of ''[[Panorama (TV series)|Panorama]]'' on 1 May 1995. The civil engineering business was bought by [[Alfred McAlpine]] in January 1993.

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The company, and RJB Mining, were investigated in the ''King Coal'' edition of ''[[Panorama (TV series)|Panorama]]'' on 1 May 1995. The civil engineering business was bought by [[Alfred McAlpine]] in January 1993.


==Structure==
==Structure==
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==Products==
==Products==
[[File:Newcastle Technopole Business Centre from New Bridge Street (geograph 2159254).jpg|thumb|right|Newcastle Technopole Business Centre, built by AF Budge (Estates), it now forms part of the [[Newcastle Helix]] ]]
[[File:Newcastle Technopole Business Centre from New Bridge Street (geograph 2159254).jpg|thumb|right|Newcastle Technopole Business Centre, built by AF Budge (Estates), it now forms part of the [[Newcastle Helix]] ]]
It built the Central Business and Technology Park in central Newcastle next to the A167(M) and the A193 junction; this became King’s nor Central Business and Technology Park, on the site of a former railway station. [[Universal Building Society]] moved its HQ there in June 1992.
It built the Central Business and Technology Park in central Newcastle next to the A167(M) and the A193 junction; this became King's nor Central Business and Technology Park, on the site of a former railway station. [[Universal Building Society]] moved its HQ there in June 1992.
It built the [[Eureka! (museum)]] in [[West Yorkshire]] in the early 1990s.


===Universities===
===Universities===
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===Roads===
===Roads===
It built many bypasses including the [[A46 road|A46]] bypasses for [[Newark-on-Trent]] and [[Lincoln, England|Lincoln]].
It built many bypasses including the Lincoln Relief Road

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* A47 Norwich bypass, [[Trowse]] to [[Postwick with Witton|Postwick]] section
* [[A19 road|A19]] south of Clack Lane End to north end of [[Borrowby, west North Yorkshire|Borrowby]] diversion, five miles, £956,000 to finish in 1971<ref>''Retford Times'' Friday 31 January 1969, page 1</ref><ref>''Retford Times'' Friday 13 March 1970, page 1</ref>
* [[Willen Lake]] H5 in [[Milton Keynes]]
* A638 2-mile [[Ossett]] bypass,<ref>''Retford Times'' Friday 4 February 1972, page 6</ref> £950,000
* A1174 [[Beverley]] eastern bypass, opened 1 March 1973
* [[A610 road|A610]] [[Kimberley, Nottinghamshire|Kimberly]]-[[Eastwood, Nottinghamshire|Eastwood]] bypass (1974, started March 1973) £2,324,519<ref>''Retford Times'' Friday 23 March 1973, page 4</ref>
* [[A1(M) motorway|A1(M)]] [[Lemsford]] - Welwyn (to the south end of the [[Stevenage]] bypass), 3.75 miles £2m, opened at 12pm on Friday 10 August 1973, nine months early, with dinner in the Heath Lodge Hotel<ref>''Retford Times'' Friday 17 August 1973, page 9</ref>
* [[Rotherham]] inner bypass Stage 3 £1.15m<ref>''Retford Times'' Friday 1 March 1974, page 1</ref>
* [[Middleton, Greater Manchester|Middleton]] inner ring road £0.7m<ref>''Retford Times'' Friday 10 May 1974, page 1</ref>
* [[Queen's Medical Centre]] access roads with Clifton Boulevard (A52), £760,000 Trent Regional Health Authority<ref>''Retford Times'' Friday 18 October 1974, page 18</ref>
* [[M621 motorway|M621]] Leeds South West Urban Motorway and Ingram Road Distributor £5.5m, connecting the M621 motorway spur to the north end of the [[M1 motorway|M1]], 4 km, five interchanges, to take 27 months, for [[West Yorkshire County Council|West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council]]; work began on Monday 9 December 1974<ref>''Retford Times'' Friday 6 December 1974, page 5</ref><ref>''Retford Times'' Friday 14 February 1975, page 13</ref>
* [[A15 road (England)|A15]] [[Humber Bridge]] north approach road, and [[Tollhouse|toll plaza]] (1978, started 1975) £2,880,804, to take 117 weeks<ref>''Grimsby Evening Telegraph'' Wednesday 3 September 1975, page 5</ref><ref>''Retford Times'' Friday 12 September 1975, page 9</ref>
* A61 [[Barnsley]] Eastern Relief Road, £2.5m, opened Monday 15 September 1975<ref>''Retford Times'' Friday 31 October 1975, page 19</ref>
* [[M180 motorway|M180]] Trent to Scunthorpe 1.3 miles, 2.5 miles of [[M181 motorway|M181]] Brumby Common Link (1978, started 1976) £4,442,567<ref>''Grimsby Evening Telegraph'' Friday 25 June 1976, page 1</ref><ref>''Retford Times'' Friday 2 July 1976, page 16</ref>
* A1 and [[A638 road|A638]] £2.4m [[Adwick le Street|Redhouse]] grade separation,<ref>''Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph'' Monday 26 September 1977, page 6</ref> opened July 1979
* A1 [[Darrington, West Yorkshire|Darrington]] grade separation (1978)
* [[A180 road (England)|A180]] [[Brigg]]-[[Ulceby, North Lincolnshire|Ulceby]] (1983, started Tuesday 5 May 1981) 7.75 miles,<ref>''Retford Times'' Friday 8 May 1981, page 1</ref><ref>''Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph'' Tuesday 11 August 1981, page 6</ref> opened in late March 1983
* Retford Eastern Relief Road, £2m, took 11 months, opened four months early on Friday 26 June 1981<ref>''Retford Times'' Friday 19 June 1981, page 1</ref>
* [[A61 road|A61]] Stores Road diversion £3m, opened 14 October 1981, six months early<ref>''Derby Evening Telegraph'' Friday 25 September 1981, page 3</ref>
* [[A56 road|A56]] [[Accrington]] Easterly By-Pass, southern section £8.5m<ref>''Retford Times'' Friday 3 February 1984, page 7</ref>
* [[A43 road|A43]] [[Bulwick]] bypass 1.7 miles £2m, work started 24 June 1985, to take 18 months<ref>''Stamford Mercury'' Friday 14 June 1985, page 3</ref><ref>''Stamford Mercury'' Friday 26 July 1985, page 2</ref>
* A15 [[Lincoln, England|Lincoln]] [[Canwick]] Road [[Reversible lane|tidal flow]] £490,000, work started Monday 8 July 1985<ref>''Lincolnshire Echo'' Saturday 6 July 1985, page 7</ref>
* [[A57 road|A57]] [[Worksop]] bypass, was opened on Thursday 1 May 1986, by [[Michael Spicer]], and the Chairman of Bassetlaw council; was due to open in October 1986<ref>''Retford Times'' Thursday 1 May 1986, page 18</ref>
* [[A52 road|A52]] [[Bingham, Nottinghamshire|Bingham]] bypass £2.2m, opened ten months early, by [[Kenneth Clarke]] on Monday 8 December 1986<ref>''Grantham Journal'' Friday 12 December 1986, page 17</ref>
* Castle Bridge Road in central [[Nottingham]] (now the [[Castle Marina Retail Park]])<ref>''Nottingham Evening Post'' Thursday 6 August 1987, page 10</ref>
* [[A46 road|A46]] Newark Relief Road £31.6m, work started Monday 18 April 1988<ref>''Newark Advertiser'' Friday 1 April 1988, page 1</ref><ref>''Newark Advertiser'' Friday 8 April 1988, page 20</ref><ref>''Newark Advertiser'' Friday 24 November 1989, page 38</ref>
* [[A38 road|A38]] [[Sutton-in-Ashfield]] bypass (1989)
* [[A42 road (England)|A42]] [[Castle Donington]] North section, final section, £24m, to take 21 months<ref>''Nottingham Evening Post'' Wednesday 12 July 1989, page 12</ref>
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* [[A47 road|A47]] Norwich bypass, [[Trowse]] to [[Postwick with Witton|Postwick]] section
* [[A60 road|A60]] Mansfield inner relief road
* [[A650 road|A650]] [[Drighlington]] bypass (1991)
* [[A52 road|A52]] Sherwin Arms Junction improvement (1991/92)
* [[A516 road|A516]] [[Etwall]] bypass (1992, work started Monday 14 January 1991), £2.66m, 1.25 miles, to take fifteen months,<ref>''Derby Evening Telegraph'' Saturday 12 January 1991, page 9</ref> opened two months early at 12.55pm on Thursday 6 February 1992 by [[Patrick McLoughlin]], with [[Edwina Currie]] in attendance<ref>''Derby Evening Telegraph'' Friday 7 February 1992, page 3</ref>
* [[A41 road|A41]] [[Kings Langley]] bypass (1993, after bankruptcy)
* [[A611 road|A611]] [[Hucknall]] Bypass stage 2 (southern section, went bankrupt in December 1992, completed by [[Alfred McAlpine]]), opened Tuesday 23 February 1993<ref>''Nottingham Evening Post'' Tuesday 23 February 1993, page 5</ref>


==References==
==References==
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A.F. Budge was a British civil engineering and construction company based in Nottinghamshire. It built many sections of motorway in Yorkshire and the north Midlands.

History

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Tony Budge went to Boston Grammar School, where he gained O-levels in English, English Literature, French, German, History, Geography, Maths, and Physics with Chemistry in 1955.[1] He lived at 122 Tower Road in Boston.[2]

It was established by Tony Budge (9 August 1939 - 3 February 2010) in December 1962.[3] He was the older brother of Richard Budge, who established his coal mining business RJB Mining, also based in Bassetlaw. Richard Budge joined the company in 1966. Another director of the company was Janet Budge, Tony's wife. Tony had trained as a civil engineer with Holland County Council.[4] He had three daughters and a son, and married Janet Cropley, from Frith Bank, near Boston. He was a fellow of the ICE and IHT.[5] In the 1970s he lived at Meed House on North Road in Retford. In July 1984 his daughter Elizabeth married Christian Brash at Retford church.[6][7]

The company turned over £1.5m in 1968, when the company moved Retford to a former LNER engine depot. In January 1969, the Charterhouse Group bought 23% of the company. The company hoped to go public in the early 1970s. Tony Budge was given an OBE in the 1985 New Year Honours. In 1990, Tony Budge was Chairman of the Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors.[8]

RJB Mining was formed from a management buyout in February 1992 for £107m.

Mining

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The company had an opencast mine in the 1970s at Esh Winning and West Chevington (Northumberland). In the early 1990s, it opened the Whitehouse Colliery, near the former Fontburn Halt railway station.

In 1991, it operated nine opencast mines. In August 1991, British Coal Opencast gave the company a £16m contract for its Colliersdean site in Northumberland.

Horseracing

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Anthony Frederick Budge[9] liked racehorses, and his company invested in Doncaster Racecourse. Danish Flight won the Arkle Challenge Trophy at Cheltenham in 1988; Rock City, ridden by Willie Carson, won the Coventry Stakes at Ascot in 1989; Sharp N' Early won the Gimcrack Stakes at York in 1988 and the Leisure Stakes at Windsor in 1990; Rock City with Willie Carson won the Gimcrack Stakes in 1989 and River Falls won the race in 1991; Uncle Ernie won the Lightning Novices' Chase at Doncaster in 1991; Showbrook won the Woodcote Stakes at Epsom in 1991. In the early 1990s, he had 20 horses with trainer Jimmy FitzGerald.

The company owned Retford Gamston Airport. Tony Budge lived at Osberton Hall at Scofton (in Worksop), the former home of Francis Ferrand Foljambe, near the River Ryton, off the B6079 between Worksop and Retford.

The company's horse-racing colours

Receivership

[edit]

A.F. Budge (Road Materials) Ltd went into well-publicised receivership on 9 December 1992, undertaken by Cork Gully, with £96.6m debts, under the Insolvency Act 1986.[10] As a road construction company, it was profitable, but the company made some disastrous investments in other areas in the late 1980s. During 1992 the company had reduced its debt by £30m, but blamed Barclays Bank for forcing it into receivership.

The company was bought by Alfred McAlpine Construction of Chester on Monday 4 January 1993, with 26 outstanding road contracts, according to its managing director Peter Hulmes. 250 of the 370 road-building employees were kept.[11][12]

The company, and RJB Mining, were investigated in the King Coal edition of Panorama on 1 May 1995. The civil engineering business was bought by Alfred McAlpine in January 1993.

Structure

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The company, also known as A. F. Budge (Contractors), was based in Retford (Ordsall) in Bassetlaw, north Nottinghamshire, directly west of Retford railway station.

Products

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Newcastle Technopole Business Centre, built by AF Budge (Estates), it now forms part of the Newcastle Helix

It built the Central Business and Technology Park in central Newcastle next to the A167(M) and the A193 junction; this became King's nor Central Business and Technology Park, on the site of a former railway station. Universal Building Society moved its HQ there in June 1992. It built the Eureka! (museum) in West Yorkshire in the early 1990s.

Universities

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In January 1991, it had a £14m contract for Newcastle Science Park (5.5 acres), which is next to Manors Metro station and Manors railway station, with a 284-vehicle car park; it received £2.5m from the Tyne and Wear Development Corporation, with the Chief Executive being Alastair Balls; Michael Portillo dug the first section on Thursday 21 February 1991.

Roads

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It built many bypasses including the Lincoln Relief Road

References

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  1. ^ Boston Guardian, Saturday 10 September 1955, page 11
  2. ^ Louth Standard Friday 30 October 1959, page 3
  3. ^ Companies House
  4. ^ Newark Advertiser Friday 10 June 1988, page 40
  5. ^ Nottingham Evening Post Friday 3 April 1987, page 59
  6. ^ Retford Times Friday 17 February 1984, page 8
  7. ^ Retford Times Friday 10 August 1984, page 7
  8. ^ Construction News 1990
  9. ^ Companies House
  10. ^ Independent October 1994
  11. ^ Nottingham Evening Post Tuesday 5 January 1993, page 8
  12. ^ Newark Advertiser Friday 8 January 1993, page 69
  13. ^ Retford Times Friday 31 January 1969, page 1
  14. ^ Retford Times Friday 13 March 1970, page 1
  15. ^ Retford Times Friday 4 February 1972, page 6
  16. ^ Retford Times Friday 23 March 1973, page 4
  17. ^ Retford Times Friday 17 August 1973, page 9
  18. ^ Retford Times Friday 1 March 1974, page 1
  19. ^ Retford Times Friday 10 May 1974, page 1
  20. ^ Retford Times Friday 18 October 1974, page 18
  21. ^ Retford Times Friday 6 December 1974, page 5
  22. ^ Retford Times Friday 14 February 1975, page 13
  23. ^ Grimsby Evening Telegraph Wednesday 3 September 1975, page 5
  24. ^ Retford Times Friday 12 September 1975, page 9
  25. ^ Retford Times Friday 31 October 1975, page 19
  26. ^ Grimsby Evening Telegraph Friday 25 June 1976, page 1
  27. ^ Retford Times Friday 2 July 1976, page 16
  28. ^ Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph Monday 26 September 1977, page 6
  29. ^ Retford Times Friday 8 May 1981, page 1
  30. ^ Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph Tuesday 11 August 1981, page 6
  31. ^ Retford Times Friday 19 June 1981, page 1
  32. ^ Derby Evening Telegraph Friday 25 September 1981, page 3
  33. ^ Retford Times Friday 3 February 1984, page 7
  34. ^ Stamford Mercury Friday 14 June 1985, page 3
  35. ^ Stamford Mercury Friday 26 July 1985, page 2
  36. ^ Lincolnshire Echo Saturday 6 July 1985, page 7
  37. ^ Retford Times Thursday 1 May 1986, page 18
  38. ^ Grantham Journal Friday 12 December 1986, page 17
  39. ^ Nottingham Evening Post Thursday 6 August 1987, page 10
  40. ^ Newark Advertiser Friday 1 April 1988, page 1
  41. ^ Newark Advertiser Friday 8 April 1988, page 20
  42. ^ Newark Advertiser Friday 24 November 1989, page 38
  43. ^ Nottingham Evening Post Wednesday 12 July 1989, page 12
  44. ^ Derby Evening Telegraph Saturday 12 January 1991, page 9
  45. ^ Derby Evening Telegraph Friday 7 February 1992, page 3
  46. ^ Nottingham Evening Post Tuesday 23 February 1993, page 5
  • Times 9 February 1995, page 5
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