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15th March 2013

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by Peter Beckingham

Former governor in Turks and Caicos Islands

Gas fields, gels and gin – mixing it with the PM’s visit

The Prime Minister’s visit to India in February set a number of firsts: the first by a British PM to Mumbai for 20 years, the first by a PM to Amritsar, and the first to India (or anywhere) to be joined by over 120 businesspeople. The size of the business group set us in Mumbai […]

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27th June 2012 Washington DC, USA

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by Eric Hepburn

HM Consul General and Counsellor for Corporate Services

Olympians get a star send off from Washington

I was fifteen years old when I watched Edwin Moses become an Olympic champion in the 400 metres hurdles, breaking both the Olympic and world records with a time of 47.63 seconds. After those 1976 Montreal Olympics, I followed his progress from afar as he re-wrote the record books in a fashion that no-one would […]

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