(1) From St Bede's college , a Roman Catholic grammar school, he went to study for two years at Ushaw College in Durham, a seminary for trainee priests, and then at Birmingham Polytechnic, now Birmingham City University , where in 1976 he received a certificate in residential care of children and young people.
(2) "Do I really expect Americans to sit down with Adam Bede or Clarissa after all the professional and domestic hurly-burly of their day?
(3) You might just as well find a sharp contrast between the sexual standards in Shakespeare and the Venerable Bede.
(4) Those delights include a colony of puffins on the beautifully named Coquet Island ; powdery sand on a beach straight outta Bermuda via the North Sea, and not another soul to share it with; ancient fragments from the age of the Venerable Bede; craggy castles lorded over by the Percys of Northumberland; tight-knit towns of huddled stone cottages and Norman churches; and, best of all, Spurelli’s ice-cream parlour in Amble.
(5) CV Date of birth 27 October 1949 Education St Bede's Grammar, Bradford Career Joined Yorkshire Co-op as a management trainee in the food division, which included a stint stacking shelves.