Well-known catering lecturer at Derry college hangs up his apron for the final time
Douglas Walker has helped train hundreds of chefs
Douglas Walker, with his former students Noel Ward, who has been head chef of the White Horse Hotel for 20 years, and Andrew Taylor, junior sous chef at the hotel.
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A well-known lecturer at the North West Regional College has hung up his chef s apron for the last time.
Douglas Walker has worked as a hospitality and catering lecturer at the local college for 30 years.
He spent his final day working for the college being reunited with two of his former students, Noel Ward and Andrew Taylor, based at the White Horse Hotel in Campsie.
BRADFORD Libraries are working with BookTrust to help gift 2,000 copies of the picture book My Pet Star by Corinne Averiss in celebration of this year’s Pyjamarama Day which takes place on Friday. To celebrate the day, which promotes BookTrust’s free national book-gifting scheme Bookstart, there will be a read along story time on Bradford Library webpages www.bradford.gov.uk/libraries at 9am - booking is not needed. This will be followed by an interactive online session with rhyme time favourite Noel Ward. Noel will be taking the children on an adventure through song, rhyme and stories. Booking is essential for this session which starts at 10am on Friday and is live on zoom.
IF you presented Noel Ward’s soccer career in script form to a Holywood producer, they would probably laugh you out of their office.
The Dunamanagh native was plucked from obscurity to play for Derry City before moving to Portadown, then on to Aberdeen and then Wigan Athletic where he seemed destined for the top.
He played at Molineux, scored on his international debut, rearranged his wedding to play against Kenny Daglish and was part of the first ever Wigan team to play in the Football League, all before injury ended his career at the age of just 26.
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Ward comes from a sporting family. His dad was a good footballer, he had uncles who played cricket and he played gaelic football at county level, winning the All Ireland Vocational Schools’ Championship with Tyrone. But it was on the soccer pitch that he made his name, although he would say older brother Brian, who also played for Derry City, was the pick of the siblings, who included the youngest, Peter, who playe