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14th December 2012 Washington DC, USA

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by James Barbour

Press Secretary and Head of Communications

GREAT British boxer Amir Khan in Los Angeles

The following is a guest post by Dame Barbara Hay, British Consul-General in Los Angeles. They used to say Amir Khan was the best thing to happen to race relations in Britain. The son of Pakistani immigrants and a practising Muslim, he made all of Britain proud by winning silver at the 2004 Olympics and […]

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16th August 2012

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by Peter Beckingham

Former governor in Turks and Caicos Islands

Olympics Indian style

Although for millions of Indians visiting London is not even a remote possibility,  everyone here with access to a television, radio or newspaper will have been aware, however vaguely, of the 2012 Olympic Games going on in a city far away. It may  have been difficult for many to comprehend the exhilaration of the 16 days’ […]

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