People from Newport Pagnell: George Walters, Gordon Moakes, Steve Brooker, Chris Horsman, Lawrence Humphrey, Nigel Benson, John Harley

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: George Walters, Gordon Moakes, Steve Brooker, Chris Horsman, Lawrence Humphrey, Nigel Benson, John Harley, Bruce Turner, Jack Ansell, Andrew Pakes, Sunil Sawney. Excerpt: Andrew Pakes (born 24 April 1973 as Andrew Stone ) is a British politician in the Labour Party . Pakes is the Labour and Co-operative parliamentary candidate for Milton Keynes North . Pakes grew up in Newport Pagnell, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, and studied at the University of Hull . An active member of Labour Students, Pakes was elected twice as President of the National Union of Students as the Labour Students candidate from 1998 to 2000, having previously served as National Treasurer. He then worked for the Association of University Teachers (AUT, now part of the University and College Union ), and for Nicky Gavron, then Deputy Mayor of London . He currently works as a consultant on environmental and transport policy, and is Chair of SERA - the Labour Environment Campaign . He is a councillor in the London Borough of Southwark . References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) Political offices A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Malcolm Bruce Turner (July 5, 1922, Saltburn November 28, 1993, Newport Pagnell ) was an English saxophonist, clarinetist, and bandleader. Turner learned clarinet as a schoolboy and began playing alto sax while serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II . He played with Freddy Randall from 1948-53, and worked on the Queen Mary in a dance band and in a quartet with Dill Jones and Peter Ind . He studied under Lee Konitz in New York City briefly in 1950. His first period with Humphrey Lyttelton ran from 1953 to 1957, but began inauspiciously. At a concert in 1953 at Birmingham's Town Hall, Lyttelton's more literal traditionalist fans displayed a banner instruc... View Less