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	Geoffrey Howe biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Geoffrey Howe was born in 1926 at Port Talbot in Wales.
		Howe's position was made difficult by significant differences between his views and those of his Prime Minister, especially on relations between the UK and the European Commmunity.
		Howe retired from the Commons in 1992 and was made a life peer as Baron Howe of Aberavon, of Tandridge in the County of Surrey.
	geoffrey-howe.biography.ms (561 words)

	Elspeth Howe, Baroness Howe of Idlicote - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elspeth Rosamund Morton Howe, Baroness Howe of Aberavon and Baroness Howe of Idlicote (born 8 February 1932), wife of Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon, was born Elspeth Rosamond Morton Shand, daughter of the writer Philip Morton Shand (or P. Morton Shand, or Morton Shand) by his fourth wife Sybil Mary Shand.
		Elspeth Shand was well-educated for her times, studying at Wycombe Abbey, a leading private school for girls in the United Kingdom.
		Elspeth Howe served as deputy chairman of the Equal Opportunites Commission from 1975 to 1979, and in various other capacities from 1980.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elspeth_Howe (276 words)

	Articles - Geoffrey Howe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Howe represented Bebington in the British House of Commons from 1964 to 1966, Reigate from 1970 to 1974, and Surrey East from 1974 to 1992.
		Howe's move back to domestic politics was generally seen as a demotion, especially after Thatcher's press secretary, Bernard Ingham, belittled the significance of the DPM appointment at his morning lobby briefing the following day.
		Lord Howe is a patron of the UK Metric Association, a pressure group which argues for the full implementation of the metrication programme in the UK, begun in 1965.
	lastring.com /articles/Geoffrey_Howe?mySession=30996e162a8f42dab612e... (1030 words)

	Geoffrey_Howe
		Howe's position was made difficult by significant differences between his views and those of his Prime Minister, especially on relations between the UK and the European Community.
		In his resignation speech on November 13, he offered a cricket metaphor for British negotiations with Europe: "It is rather like sending your opening batsmen to the crease, only for them to find, as the first balls are being bowled, that their bats have been broken before the game by the team captain".
		Lord Howe is a patron of the UK Metric Association, a pressure group which argues for the full implementation of the metrication programme begun in 1965.
	www.hatwholesalers.com /search.php?title=Geoffrey_Howe (605 words)

	ipedia.com: Geoffrey Howe Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon, PC, usually known before 1992 as Sir Geoffrey Howe, is a senior British Conservative politician.
		Howe retired from the Commons in 1992 and was made a life peer.
		His wife Elspeth Howe, a former Chair of the Broadcasting Standards Commission, was made a life peer in 2001.
	www.ipedia.com /geoffrey_howe.html (605 words)

	--[ Libertarian International. Network of liberty-minded individuals and organizations in Europe. ]--
		The purpose of this manifesto is to discuss how England might be taken over and indefinitely held by the political right.
		This being said, it would be interesting to see how long The Guardian stayed in business without its daily subsidy from advertising jobs in the public sector.
		There will be no law to stop anyone from claiming how many Sikh leather fetishists die from drinking unpasteurised milk, and how this is somehow the fault of capitalism and racism.
	www.libertarian.to /NewsDta/templates/news1.php?art=art542 (6420 words)

	The Observer \| Review \| Observer review: Edwina Currie - Diaries 1987-92
		She has portrayed political life as a whirligig of pettiness, vacuousness and viciousness, certainly an occupation to be avoided at all costs.
		Betrayal is her subject: how she felt let down by Major and how she eventually skewered him.
		How much damage will it cause me and my old flame B? She coquettishly called John Major B because he was the second person in her life, just as B is the second letter in the alphabet.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,805350,00.html (1104 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Lords: business as usual
		Lady Elspeth Howe is among them, along with the former commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Paul Condon (Labour has apparently forgotten the debate over whether Sir Paul should have resigned for presiding over a force branded "institutionally racist" by Sir William Macpherson after the Stephen Lawrence inquiry).
		How imaginative of the commissioners to find that unsung, unheralded talent.
		It says it wants the upper house to be more representative of the wider nation (which this group is not) and to be free of the direct patronage of the prime minister.
	www.guardian.co.uk /leaders/story/0,3604,479133,00.html (577 words)

	BBC - South West Wales - Hall of Fame
		Trivia: Geoffrey Howe was the longest survivor of Margaret Thatcher's original 1979 cabinet.
		Retiring from the Commons in 1992, he was awarded a Life Peerage, becoming Baron Howe of Aberavon and he entered the House of Lords.
		He is married to Lady Elspeth Howe - one of the first 'People's Peers'.
	www.bbc.co.uk /wales/southwest/halloffame/public_life/Lordhowe.shtml (427 words)

	The Scotsman - S2 Weekend - BOOK REVIEW: Edwina Currie's Diaries 1987- 1992 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It is curious to recall how John Moore, health minister and Mrs Currie’s chief, was once seen as a future Tory leader.
		Her pen portrait of Geoffrey Howe’s wife Elspeth is deadly: "I think his missus is a poisonous character - snob both intellectually and socially, very Hampstead...
		Her analysis of colleagues such as Peter Lilley and John Redwood is ruthless and will strike a resonance with many people: "Those staring eyes, those faces inappropriately young … without smile lines or wrinkles, those unlived-in bodies." Such comments make the book eminently readable.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /s2.cfm?id=1128742002 (722 words)

	Euro fault linesEuropean Economic and Monetary Union
		The Broadcasting Standards Commission - led by Lady Elspeth Howe, wife of Lord Geoffrey Howe (once considered the No 1 monetarist before Gordon Brown, the banker's friend, came along) accused Channels 4 and 5 of showing programmes with "gratuitous" nudity.
		The old girl was happy as Larry with multinationals having their wanton way, but dead keen to tell people what to watch in their own homes - so you can see why the commission appeals so much to new Labour.
		No doubt they were told that if they did not cover themselves by taking expert advice and setting up a quango to ensure we are all hygienically correct then they could be held responsible.
	website.lineone.net /~mjb22/politicsplus16.htm (1236 words)

	Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Aiming to get young people to think about how they behave towards people of their own age with mental health problems and to make them aware of the hurt and harm which stigmas causes.
		It aims to be a step-by-step guide to the process of stress risk assessment, covering how to conduct an assessment and sources of stress.
		This conference proposes that bullying is a whole community issue, and will look at why a school needs to involve the wider community in their anti-bullying policy, and explore why and how the community can get involved.
	members.aol.com /vonef/network.htm (1522 words)

	Open Letter to Len Masterman
		It encapsulates the crucial principles that have driven the way I have tried to shape educational policy at the bfi: that what really matters in media education is how we establish it as a right for everyone, not only for a few; and that educators’ first responsibility is to learners, not only to their teachers.
		It was far harder for them to dismiss the views of people such as Mary Warnock, Elspeth Howe of the Broadcasting Standards Commission, and of one of its own educational consultants, Robin Alexander.
		I would like to hear how you think these quotations bear out your argument that "the bfi’s approach to studying the media was now one which could equally well be applied to wallpaper" (p33).
	www.mediaed.org.uk /posted_documents/openletter.html (4169 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Debates for 5 Jul 1990
		Last week, we had three very late nights, and on Tuesday morning this week some of us were wakened in the small hours of the morning in the middle of our legitimate sleep.
		Gentleman, that proposal is one of a number now being studied by the Select Committee on Procedure, which has taken evidence and is still taking evidence on that matter.
		Would not it be a good idea to have a debate on behaviour and the procedure of the House, as suggested by my hon.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm198990/cmhansrd/1990-07-05/Debate-1.html (4138 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Debates for 28 Oct 1993
		How can our police be responsive to local needs when their hands are tied at every turn?
		Greater Manchester police produced a document charting the period from 1981 -91 in relation to the use of heroin and the increase in crime, which purports to show how the average daily intake of heroin by addicts is necessarily linked to the inexorable rise in crime.
		In July, the new chairman of the BSC, Lady Elspeth Howe, confirmed that the number of complaints about violence from members of the public had trebled in the preceding 12 months.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm199293/cmhansrd/1993-10-28/Debate-5.html (7107 words)

	Media quotations: H
		The young generation, the buyers of the late 70s and 80s, will be more international in their taste than our generation is, let alone the generation of our parents.
		How typically English it is that an epithet at first devised for something threatening and hateful should have been transferred to one of the most welcome and most lovable of men.
		It is for you indeed to say what they shall be like and how far forward they may go toward their limitless possibilities.
	www.terramedia.co.uk /quotations/Quotes_H.htm (1976 words)

	The Virtual Stoa
		Under this system, if the political parties did just put up lists of dreary party hacks, they would effectively be inviting voters to vote for the supposedly independent (in fact, of course, centrist and middle-class) peers which the appointments commission would generate.
		Notice that this doesn't answer all of the questions one might have: how long should Lords be elected for?, how often should elections be held?, and so on.
		Appended to her message is a a summary of Gore Vidal's essay on the war against terrorism, published in last Sunday's Observe.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~magd1368/weblog/2002_11_01_archive.html (3630 words)

	LRB \| Peter Clarke : On the Blower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		'It is strange how so many of the old are determined to do good for a future they will never see,' he muses, like Candide at accountancy college.
		His desire to shock retains an undergraduate freshness, overlaid with a worldliness which left him determined never to be out-trumped in cynicism.
		What redeems these journals is that they have some good stories to tell and that Wyatt remained a good enough journalist to know how to tell them.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v21/n04/clar03_.html (1872 words)

	University of Glasgow Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Last month Lady Elspeth Howe, chair of Opportunity 2000, paid her first visit to the University to deliver her lecture Towards a Balanced Workforce as part of the Women's Centenary Series.
		The membership of Opportunity 2000 employs 25% of the nation's workforce and it claims that in member companies and organisations women have increased their representation at all levels of management so that 31% of management positions are now held by women, compared with 25% in 1994.
		Lady Howe chairs the Hansard Society which published the report Women at the Top which highlighted the low representation of women in senior managerial positions in universities.
	www.gla.ac.uk:443 /newsdesk/newsletter/177/News/equality.htm (245 words)

	A Manifesto for the Right [Free Republic]
		And I can't see how they can really be beaten in this way, because they have such a grip on most people's sources of information that truth will rarely get through.
		Anyone proposing Gabb's program will be universally demonised in virtually all the press and media and by most establishment figures, as "racist", "fascist", "nationalist", and all the other slurs routinely thrown at the right by the left establishment (sorry, that's the "enemy class" - I have to get used to the new terminology).
		I hope that a miracle happens in the Isles, and it is good to know that there are at least some who are wanting to fight for it.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3a6b6bff4594.htm (10508 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - This Is Local London
		However, unlike Sir Paul Condon, former commissioner of the Metropolitan police, Sir Herman Ouseley, former chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, and Lady Elspeth Howe to name but three, they are not heading for the Lords.
		Tellingly a spokesman for the House of Lords appointments commission this week refused to say how many of the more than 3,000 aspiring peers had indeed made it to interview.
		The commission was chaired by Lord Stevenson, an Oxbridge graduate who owes his success to the City and sitting on Government quangos.
	www.thisislocallondon.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=36806 (827 words)

	Resources for parents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		These media literacy tools are helpful to understanding the power of television and how to deal with its harmful effects.
		These booklets, published by Health Canada, provide information on how television violence affects children and include tips on how parents can positively influence how and what their children watch on television.
		These fact sheets will help the reader to understand the media, how it works, and how a message is conveyed.
	www.crtc.gc.ca /ENG/SOCIAL/RESOURC.htm (1151 words)

	Spectator, The: All knickers and knockers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		the "Gawlly, gawsh, how rarely lovely, Mummy" sort of noise you would imagine postwar children with plums in their mouths making in the summer holidays.' And so on.
		'When a boy hove into view she could turn on the headlights - and how!' said another someone, or rather 'yelped', as though the information was being drawn under torture.
		Mrs PB seems to come from an extraordinary family (her father was 38 before he actually met his own father, a serial bolter, who had married four times, in the course of which, remarkably, he fathered Dame Elspeth Howe, that queen of the quangoes).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200310/ai_n9341006 (992 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Could you be the nation's nanny?
		The government has the ideal job for someone keen to clamp down on rude words and unpleasantness on the airwaves and TV screens - chairman of the Broadcasting Standards Commission.
		The media watchdog's top job has been vacant since April, when Lady Elspeth Howe's term came to an end.
		The job was advertised, a successor was chosen, and an announcement expected any day _ but then the unnamed chosen one backed out.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/uk/newsid_419000/419375.stm (383 words)

	Politics \| The people's peers: seven knights, a lord's wife and three professors
		The former chief of the defence staff Sir Charles Guthrie is to become a life peer, following a direct recommendation to the Queen by the prime minister.
		The new appointments include the former commissioner of the Metropolitan police Sir Paul Condon, Lady Elspeth Howe, wife of former Tory foreign secretary Lord Howe and a former chairman of the Broadcasting Standards Commission, and Sir David Hannay, Britain's former permanent representative to the UN.
		Married to Lord Howe of Aberavon, former Tory chancellor and foreign secretary.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4176594-103685,00.html (1150 words)

	English Department
		You will learn the functions and phases of book publishing: how manuscripts are acquired and the role of the literary agent in the process; get “hands on” practice in copyediting some pages from a real manuscript; learn how publishers market their books by writing an advertisement for a published book.
		The final session is a symposium designed especially for this class held at the Tattered Cover Book Store on “How a Book is Born.” It features a New York editor along with a well-known author discussing how editor and author work together to bring a book to successful publication.
		The course, that is, grows out of the question of defining an ontology of the present and how that is related to modernism/postmodernism as ideological constructs in the arts.
	www.du.edu /english/winter2004cd.html (3027 words)

	BBC News \| UK POLITICS \| MP attacks people's peers 'pantomime'
		More than 3,000 people applied to become peers when the posts were advertised earlier this year.
		Lord Stevenson refused to say how many nominees they had interviewed.
		Fifteen per cent of the applications came from ethnic minorities, 19% from women, 61% from people under 60 and 98% from British citizens.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1296000/1296945.stm (810 words)

	Lincolnshire Post-Polio Network - NewsBites Archive September 2000
		Polio is an example of how immunisation has revolutionised medicine and childhood.
		The prevailing theory is that a hunter became infected after being scratched by a chimp when trying to capture it or after cutting himself while butchering the animal.
		A shy, sensitive boy, he was much bullied at Brockhurst preparatory school, where he developed a lifelong phobia of water as a result of being constantly ducked on the end of a rope by a master who believed it was the way to teach timid pupils how to swim.
	www.ott.zynet.co.uk /polio/lincolnshire/archive/nbit200009.html (7339 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		About 1,000 books were bought and rooms were rented on the second floor of the Pierpont building at the corner of Howe Avenue and White Street.
		Although the rooms served the purpose, Plumb felt the library should have its own building and began making plans to secure some centrally located land toward that goal.
		At the end of 1991, the Huntington Branch Library opened at the Shelton Community Center.
	www.plumblibrary.org /history.htm (412 words)

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