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Looked at from the outside, the Duke of Edinburgh was a kind of living model of the British establishment – ever-present at all those State ceremonial occasions, Trooping the Colour, openings of Parliament.
Lean, imperious, with an eagle’s stare and a hawk nose, dressed in the bearskin and scarlet of colonel of the Grenadier Guards, or the gold and dark navy of Lord High Admiral; and caught when in mufti, perhaps carriage-driving, in tweeds and bowler, even a top hat.
Standing more or less to attention at the Queen’s side across nine decades, rigid with duty, terse with words, with the grimace of a man unlikely to suffer fools gladly, Prince Philip looked the part of the insider’s insider.
Paul Laidler had secret fling with former Warminster School, Wiltshire pupil
Tribunal heard he plied girl with drinks and was intimate with her at his home
Allegations kept quiet for 11 years before the victim broke her silence in 2018
The 42-year-old resigned from Gresham s School, Norfolk, following allegations
Laidler was struck off teaching register after admitting misconduct for which he was not remorseful
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Stella Kyriakides, the EU s health commissioner, who said of AstraZeneca s vaccine supply: We reject the logic of first come, first served. That might work at the neighbourhood butchers but not on our contracts
Credit: Johanna Geron /Reuters
SIR – Reading between the lines, it looks as though the AstraZeneca plant in Belgium is having scale-up problems. Hence its “best efforts” fall well short of the EU’s belated order.
With our astounding success at securing supplies of vaccines, why don’t we offer to divert any excess UK-made supplies to the EU – provided it cuts the unnecessary bureaucracy on our exports?
Top private school accused of tarnishing its own history with move to honour Cambridge Five spy with blue plaque
An alumnus of Gresham s School in Norfolk is Donald Mclean, a member of the infamous Soviet spy ring during the Cold War
Russian spy, double agent and Old Greshamian Donald MacLean
One of the country’s leading private schools has been accused of “tarnishing” its own history by seeking to erect a commemorative plaque to a Cold War double agent with a plaque.
Gresham s School is seeking permission from North Norfolk District Council to mount a series of plaques on its Old School House, a Grade Two listed building, to recognise its celebrated alumni.