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Oh I didn't see that, I'm sorry that this reply is so late. All of the colours that you selected were correct :) thanks!

 * Concerning "DOUBLE" - yes, it was a triple A-side in the way that all 3 tracks on the release was considered equal, but also - as you wrote - the title of the release is only "DOUBLE", and the tracklist and information about the triple A-side should be reserved for a future entry on the release. chsf, 19 December 2005

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Towards Zero

Towards Zero is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in June 1944, and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in July of the same year. The first US edition of the novel retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6).

Lady Tressilian invites her ward for his annual visit at Gull's Point. He insists on bringing both his former wife and his present wife, though Lady Tressilian finds this awkward. Her old friend Treves dies, then she is murdered as well; Superintendent Battle and his nephew are called in. The book is the last to feature Superintendent Battle.

The novel was well received at publication, noted for the well-developed characters. A later review called it superb as to the plot, noting also how well the novel depicted the gentlemanly behaviour expected at the main tennis tournament in 1944.

Plot summary
Lady Tressilian is now confined to her bed, but still invites guests to her seaside home at Gull's Point during the summer. Tennis star Nevile Strange, former ward of Lady Tressilian's deceased husband, incurs her displeasure when he proposes to bring both his new wife, Kay, and his former wife, Audrey, to visit at the same time – a change from past years. Lady Tressilian grudgingly agrees to this set of incompatible guests. A long time family friend, Thomas Royde, home after a long stretch working overseas and still faithfully waiting on the sidelines for Audrey, is also a guest. Staying in hotels nearby are Kay's friend, Ted Latimer, and Mr Treves, an elderly former solicitor and long time friend of the Tressilians.

The house party feels uncomfortable, as Lady Tressilian had predicted. Invited to a dinner party, Mr Treves relates a story of an old case, where a child killed another with an arrow, which was ruled an accident, although a local man reported seeing the child practising with a bow and arrow. The child was given a new name and a fresh start. Mr Treves remembers the case and the child because of a distinctive physical feature which he does not reveal. The next morning, Treves is found dead in his hotel room and his death is attributed to heart failure from climbing up the stairs to his room the previous night, greatly upsetting Lady Tressilian. Thomas and Ted are mystified, as they saw a note stating that the lift was out of order when they walked Treves back. They learn from hotel staff that the lift was in working order that night. His death is ruled to be from natural causes.

When Lady Tressilian is found brutally murdered in her bed, and her maid drugged a few days later, evidence points to Nevile Strange as the murderer as one of his golf clubs is found at the scene with his fingerprints on it. Her heirs are Nevile and Audrey. Nevile's quarrel with Lady Tressilian was also overheard. However, when the maid wakes up, she tells Superintendent Battle that she saw Lady Tressilian alive after Nevile's visit to her room, before he left for Easterhead Bay to find Ted. The evidence then points to Audrey: a bloodied glove belonging to her is found in the ivy below her window together with the real murder weapon, fashioned from the handle of a tennis racket and the metal ball from the fireplace fender in Audrey's room. Mary Aldin relates the story told by Mr Treves, and his claim that he could recognise that child with certainty; Battle is certain that the lift sign was placed in order to silence Mr Treves.

Angus MacWhirter is standing at the cliff where, a year earlier, he had attempted suicide, when Audrey attempts to run off the same cliff. He grabs her before she can jump. She confesses her fear, and he promises that she will be safe. The local drycleaners inadvertently give MacWhirter an uncleaned jacket belonging to someone else. Though he is not one of the party at Gull's House, he is aware of the progress of the investigation, well reported in the local newspapers. He realises why the jacket has stains in a certain odd pattern. He visits Gull's Point, and requests Mary Aldin's help to find a rope in the house. They find a large damp rope in an otherwise dusty attic, and she locks the door until the police come.

Battle arrests Audrey on the evidence and her ready admission of guilt. However, he suspects that Audrey is in a similar situation to that of his daughter when she had previously confessed under pressure to a theft she did not commit. MacWhirter meets Battle and tells him what he has learned about this case, including his observation of a man swimming across the creek on the night of the brutal murder, and climbing into the house on a rope. Then, Thomas reveals that Audrey had ended their marriage, not Nevile, as she had grown afraid of him. She had left Nevile and was about to marry Adrian Royde, Thomas's brother, when Adrian was killed in a road accident. With the parties on a motor launch, Battle uses this information to force a confession from Nevile Strange. He was the mastermind behind all the events and circumstances that should have converged into "zero" – the hanging of his first wife for the murder of Lady Tressilian.

Nevile may have been behind two other deaths (Mr Treves and Adrian Royde) but there is insufficient evidence to prosecute. With his confession, the rope, and the ruse with the bell pull explained, Battle charges him with the murder of Lady Tressilian. Audrey seeks out MacWhirter to thank him, and they decide to marry. They will travel to Chile where he begins his new job. Audrey expects that Thomas will come to realize that he really wants to marry Mary Aldin instead.

Characters

 * Camilla, Lady Tressilian: chatelaine of her seaside home at Saltcreek, Gull's Point; a widow in her early seventies.
 * Mary Aldin: Lady Tressilian's companion, in her mid-thirties.
 * Nevile Strange: a handsome athlete and tennis player, 33 years old, former ward of Lady Tressilian's late husband. (It is unaware if it's intentional but when you remove the first and last letter of his first name, it spells “evil”, acknowledging his true identity)
 * Kay Strange: his beautiful, sometimes mercurial and hot-tempered, second wife, 23 years old.
 * Audrey Strange: Strange's first wife, age 32. So cool and quiet, it is almost impossible to know what she is thinking. (The polar opposite of Kay.) She was orphaned young, raised with her cousins and aunt, the Roydes.
 * Ted Latimer: a friend of Kay since they were in their mid-teens.
 * Thomas Royde: Audrey's cousin, on vacation from his work in Malaysia. Like Audrey, he is introverted and a person of few words.
 * Mr Treves: solicitor, an old friend of Lady Tressilian, about 80 years old.
 * Angus MacWhirter: man who attempted suicide from the cliff near Lady Tressilian's home, and survives to become a part of the solution to the crime.
 * Inspector James Leach: Battle's nephew, assigned to the Saltcreek area.
 * Superintendent Battle: Vacationing with his nephew, he is assigned to the case with him; husband and father of five children, the youngest of whom gives him an insight useful to solving this case.

Reception
The review by Maurice Willson Disher in The Times Literary Supplement of 22 July 1944 was overwhelmingly positive: "Undiscriminating admirers of Miss Christie must surely miss the thrill of realizing when she is at her best. If this argument is sound then Towards Zero is for the critical. By virtue of masterly story-telling it makes the welfare of certain persons at a seaside town seem of more importance at the moment than anything else in the world. Mechanized brains may object that the murderer "perfects" his mystery by methods imposed upon fiction's police, but even when the maze is vaguely recognised the tale still grips. The characters become so much a part of the reader's existence that he must know what their ultimate fate may be before he will rest satisfied. How alive they are is apparent when two men, both dogged, laconic, poker-faced, never seem alike. The wife and the ex-wife, who neither like nor dislike one another, also reveal creative power. As an exhibition of the modern brand of human nature, Towards Zero deserves higher praises than any that can be awarded to it as an excellent detective story."

Maurice Richardson in the 6 August 1944 issue of The Observer wrote, "The new Agatha Christie has a deliciously prolonged and elaborate build-up, urbane and cosy like a good cigar and red leather slippers. Poirot is absent physically, but his influence guides the sensitive inspector past the wiles of the carefully planted house party, and with its tortuous double bluff this might well have been a Poirot case. How gratifying to see Agatha Christie keeping the flag of the old classic who-dun-it so triumphantly flying!"

Robert Barnard: "Superb: intricately plotted and unusual. The murder comes later, and the real climax of the murderer's plot only at the end. The ingenuity excuses a degree of far-fetchedness. Highly effective story of the child and the bow-and-arrow (part II, chapter 6) and good characterization of the playboy-sportsman central character – very much of that era when one was expected to behave like a gentleman at Wimbledon."

Publication history

 * 1944: Dodd Mead and Company (New York), June 1944, Hardcover, 242 pp
 * 1944: Collins Crime Club (London), July 1944, Hardcover, 160 pp
 * 1947: Pocket Books (New York), Paperback, 210 pp (Pocket number 398)
 * 1948: Pan Books, Paperback, 195 pp (Pan number 54)
 * 1959: Fontana Books (Imprint of HarperCollins), Paperback, 192 pp
 * 1972: Ulverscroft Large-print Edition, Hardcover, 347 pp; ISBN 0-85456-126-9
 * 1973: Greenway edition of collected works (William Collins), Hardcover, 224 pp
 * 1974: Greenway edition of collected works (Dodd Mead), Hardcover, 224 pp; ISBN 0-00-231827-X
 * 1977: Penguin Books, Paperback, 192 pp
 * 2012: Center Point USA hardcover edition, ISBN 1611734584 / 9781611734584, 292 pp

In 2010, two Kindle editions were issued: one from HarperCollins, ISBN B0046A9MV8, and one from William Morrow Paperbacks, ISBN B005CL8DA6. Numerous editions of audio books have been issued from May 2004 to February 2010.

The novel was first serialised in Collier's Weekly in three instalments from 6 May (Volume 113, Number 19) to 20 May 1944 (Volume 113, Number 21) under the title Come and Be Hanged! with illustrations by Charles La Salle.

In October and November 1944, it was serialized with illustrations under that same title as a supplement to The Mail (Adelaide), in Australia. Portions are missing from the newspapers scanned by Trove, so the exact dates are not certain, save for the start on 7 October 1944.

Stage
In 1956, Christie adapted the book into a play with Gerald Verner. It was first published by Samuel French Ltd. in 1957. The play was first staged in September 1956 at the St James Theatre in the West End of London. Christie first wrote a stage play under this title in 1945, with one week of performances in Martha's Vineyard in the US. The script was uncovered in 2015 by Julius Green.

Towards Zero was included in the 1978 Christie play collection, The Mousetrap and Other Plays.

It was performed in 2019 at The Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich, England, using the play as written by Agatha Christie in 1945 and recently "unearthed by author Julius Green." As the only prior staging using this script was in Martha's Vineyard, the theatre claims this as the first performance of this version of the 1945 stage play in Europe.

Film
In 1995, a film adaptation lost its support from Agatha Christie's estate. When Rosalind Hicks, Christie's daughter and controller of her estate, reviewed the script, with such issues as incest in the script, she ordered that the name of the film be changed as well as the names of the characters. The film became Innocent Lies and met with mediocre success.

In 2007, French filmmakers adapted the novel to Towards Zero, titled in French as L'Heure Zéro.

Television
In 2007, the novel was adapted as part of the third season of the Agatha Christie's Marple television series produced by ITV. Geraldine McEwan plays Miss Marple. The novel did not include Miss Marple; other characters are changed as well for this adaptation to fit the series approach. Superintendent Battle is replaced by Superintendent Mallard played by Alan Davies.

In 2019, the novel was again adapted as an episode of French television series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie. In 2024, the BBC commissioned Mammoth Screen and Agatha Christie Limited to reimagine Towards Zero as a limited series. The series is co-produced by Britbox International.

Radio
In 2010, Joy Wilkinson adapted Towards Zero as a radio play, first transmitted in January 2010, in four parts, each 30 minutes by BBC Radio 4. The cast includes:

 * Nevile – Hugh Bonneville
 * Lady Tressilian – Marcia Warren
 * Tom MacWhirter – Tom Mannion
 * Audrey – Claire Rushbrook
 * Mary – Julia Ford
 * Kay – Lizzy Watts
 * Latimer – Joseph Kloska
 * Royde – Stephen Hogan
 * Treves, Constable – David Hargreaves
 * Umpire/Butler, Inspector Leach – Philip Fox
 * Receptionist – Annabelle Dowler
 * Porter, Doctor Lazenby – Benjamin Askew
 * Sergeant – Matt Addis

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Talk:Ikezukuri

I put in the bit about Ikezukuri of shrimp only being banned in Germany because of what Revth said on my talk page on the subject. While I haven't been able to verify that it is permissible to cut apart a living fish according to German laws, I have not found any evidence to the contrary on a cursory browse of German animal protection laws. However, most German cooking websites that mentioned lobster included a cautionary notice that crustaceans must not be cut apart while they are alive under German law. Strangely I haven't found any reference to that in the law resources I searched either. Maybe some reference to this apparent legal situation should be included in the article, even though I've been unable to verify it so far. -- Cohen the Bavarian 10:20, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Hmmm.., I would ask Revth for (his?) source, but I believe he is inactive at the moment; there's an edit on the soba page that I wanted to ask him about.  But I have more problems with the sentence about shrimp feeling pain, but not fish.  That seems dubious to say the least. Dforest 12:56, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

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Hinckley United F.C.

Hinckley United Football Club was an English football club, from Hinckley, Leicestershire, which last played in the Southern Football League Premier Division during the 2013–14 season. They were formed in 1997 as the result of a merger between Hinckley Athletic and Hinckley Town. The club latterly played their home games at De Montfort Park, having moved to the purpose-built football stadium in March 2005.

On 7 October 2013 Hinckley United were wound up in the High Court.

After the club was dissolved, two clubs were formed to replace them; Hinckley AFC and Leicester Road.

History
The town of Hinckley had an established football team for over one hundred years. The earliest recorded team was Hinckley Town, formed in 1889 and competed in the Leicestershire Senior League, playing their games at the Holywell Ground, behind the Holywell Inn pub. A short spell in the Midland League in 1900 was followed by a name change to Hinckley United and a return to the Leicestershire Senior League in 1905, where the club remained until the outbreak of the First World War. After the war Hinckley United competed in the Birmingham Combination, becoming champions twice in 1923–24 and 1926–27.

After the war, the brewery owners of the Holywell Ground decided they wanted the land for other uses and the football club found themselves without a ground. The club managed to purchase land on Middlefield Lane, for the sum of £500, in August 1946, and following a name change to Hinckley Athletic in September 1946, the club resumed playing in the Nuneaton Combination league.

Hinckley Athletic subsequently competed in the Birmingham Combination again, the Southern League and West Midlands League before becoming founder members of the Midland Alliance. At the height of their success manager Dudley Kernick took the club into the Southern League Premier Division in 1964, before a financial crisis led to a relegation and eventual resignation from the Southern League. The club struggled to survive in the West Midlands League for the next 25 years. The early 1990s saw a turn around in fortunes for Hinckley Athletic and manager John Hanna saw the club become founder members of the Midland Alliance.

Meanwhile, in 1958 Westfield Wanderers were formed and played in the Hinckley District League. In 1972 they changed their name to Hinckley Town and joined the Leicestershire Senior League, before their successful period in the 1980s with a switch to the Central Midlands League, then the West Midlands (Regional) League and gaining promotion to the Southern League in 1990.

Hinckley United, was formed on Wednesday 18 June 1997. A meeting on that date saw shareholders of Hinckley Athletic approve a merger with neighbours Hinckley Town. Merger moves were made immediately at the end of the 1996–97 season when Athletic narrowly missed out on promotion to the Southern League for the third consecutive campaign following finishes of 2nd, 3rd and 2nd again. A meeting of the respective chairmen, Mick Voce (Athletic) and Kevin Downes (Town), established there was some common ground with each club having something positive to offer, and the merger was completed.

Consequently, the new club were to play at Middlefield Lane with Town's Leicester Road set up being used as a training ground, and once the FA and Southern League had approved the merger, United inherited Town's Southern League Midland Division place.

The aim was to provide better quality football in Hinckley and this success was achieved within four years. After a mid table finish in their first season, Hinckley United improved with finishes of fourth, third and then won the Southern League Midland/West Division in season 2000–01. That season saw Hinckley score 102 league goals and extend an unbeaten home record to 51 games.

This success was further compounded by becoming founder member of the Conference North. The first two seasons in the Southern League Premier Division Hinckley had mid-table finishes, but the following season finished in sixth place, also meaning they finished in a position to be accepted into the newly established Conference North division for 2004–05.

After two mid table finishes consolidating in Conference North, season 2006–07 was accepted as the season Hinckley would make a serious challenge for the title. However, after a good start tragedy struck the club when defender Matt Gadsby collapsed and died on the pitch at Harrogate on 9 September 2006. The practical response in the days following Gadsby's death included fans voluntarily organising bucket collections at games across the country to donate to Gadsby's widow and daughter. These events culminated in a memorial match at the Marston Stadium featuring a Legends XI and a Gadsby Select XI, featuring players from Gadsby's previous clubs. Hinckley players took a month away from football and spent the rest of the season playing catch up. When Hinckley returned to action the season was one of up and down, but held on to a play-off spot, eventually rallying on and off the field to secure fourth place in the league, reaching the play-off final, but missing out on promotion conceding a last minute penalty.

Off the pitch things gathered pace with the development of the club. Middlefield Lane was sold for £4 million which funded De Montfort Park, a purpose-built 4329-capacity football ground. The move away from Middlefield Lane happened on 5 March 2005 when the first game at the new De Montfort Park Stadium was played. Attendances increased at the new stadium and a home league attendance record was set for Hinckley when nearly 2900 watched Hinckley draw with Nuneaton on boxing day 2006.

Following from the play-off final defeat, Hinckley United struggled the following season and were involved in a relegation battle throughout. Despite being bottom of the league at Christmas, relegation was avoided by a nine-game unbeaten run at the end of the season, ensuring survival in the penultimate game.

The next few season were treated as consolidation, as financial hardship hit the club off the field. Lack of proper budgeting the previous seasons meant the club were unable to meet debts, and the HMRC petitioned the courts for a winding up order. The football club was also sanctioned with a registration embargo, limiting the number of players at the club to a maximum of 16. Over two years were spent with the club trying to finance and settle the debts, gaining adjournments from the courts, and the debt was finally settled in November 2010.

Players left the club, due to the financial issues, and season 2010–11 saw a virtual fresh team of players start for Hinckley. Again it was a battle against relegation, but after the registration embargo was lifted in November 2010, some new players were brought in and Hinckley dragged themselves away from the relegation zone towards a mid table finish.

Another season of struggle and financial hardship followed in season 2011–12 and the club were relegated on the final day of the season, though finished on 48 points, the highest points total to be relegated from the Conference North. On 25 May 2012, the F.A published their proposed club allocations for the 2012–13 non-league season proposing Hinckley United would be in the Conference North after both Darlington and Kettering Town were relegated further divisions after financial problems. In June this reprieve was officially confirmed at the Football Conference AGM.

On 10 October the only manager in the club's history, Dean Thomas, resigned following a poor start to the season and increasing financial restrictions and was replaced by assistant manager, Carl Heggs. The club were again playing under a transfer embargo, even having to postpone one home game due to lack of players, and in other matches playing Youth team players. The team went on a winless run and, following a 4–1 defeat at Gloucester City, they were relegated. Heggs resigned, and long-serving player and 1st team coach Stuart Storer became the new manager.

On 7 October 2013 Hinckley United were wound up in the High Court of Justice.

Successor clubs
After the club was dissolved, supporters of Hinckley United formed two clubs: Hinckley A.F.C. and Hinckley Leicester Road F.C. AFC was registered as a Community Trust football club. and accepted into the Midland Football League First Division for the 2014–15 season. Leicester Road were accepted into Division Two of the newly formed Midland League for the 2014–15 season.

Following their formation, both Hinckley AFC and Leicester Road attempted to secure the right to use Leicester Road Stadium. Leicester Road were ultimately successful in purchasing the stadium, with Hinckley AFC having to groundshare at Heather St John's.

The two played each other for the first time in November 2015.

Disputes over the legacy of the original United club and the stadium have led to numerous incidents and disagreements between the two clubs.

Managers
In August 1997 Dean Thomas became team manager with former Hinckley Athletic boss John Hanna being appointed general manager, although Hanna relinquished his position in the new year of 1998, leaving Thomas in sole charge. He won the Southern League Western Division championship with Hinckley United in season 2000–01, and guided the club to the FA Cup 2nd round in December 2001 and December 2004. His assistant manager during that time was former Notts County player Charlie Palmer, however at the start of the 2007–08 season Palmer was replaced by Nick Platnauer. Platnauer had previously managed Rothwell Town, Kettering Town and Bedford Town.

For the 2010–11 season Platnauer, took more of a coaching role, whilst first team coach Stuart Storer took over the role of assistant manager. In July 2011 Platnauer started the season again in the assistant manager's role, but left the club in August 2011, and was replaced by Mark Faulkner. In June 2012 Marc Faulkner was replaced as assistant manager by former Hinckley United striker Carl Heggs.

Following a very poor start to the 2012–13 season, and after an early exit in the FA Cup, Thomas resigned as manager on 10 October 2012. Thomas had been Hinckley United's manager for 16 years and was granted a testimonial season in 2007–08. Assistant manager Carl Heggs was placed in temporary charge and said on several occasions he would love the job on a permanent basis. On 15 November Heggs was offered the job on a permanent basis until the end of the 2012–13 season in a board meeting, but on a further reduced budget after the discovery of more debt being placed upon the club. On 28 February 2013, it was announced in the Hinckley Times that Heggs had signed a new contract until the end of the 2013–2014 season after being given the assurances he was looking for from the board. However, on 21 May 2013, Carl decided to resign as manager after being offered the chance to become a PE teacher at Ascot College, Derbyshire. The job was offered to long-serving first team coach, Stuart Storer, who accepted the offer on 27 May. Storer's first move as boss was to appoint former Knitters' defender Andrew Penny as his assistant. Penny had worked as reserve team manager at Chasetown since 2011.

Colours, crest and nickname
The club colours are red and blue, a blend of the main colours of the former clubs. Athletic played in red and Town played in blue. The original playing kit was red and blue stripes, blue shorts, blue socks – but that has evolved over the past 10 years. Now the playing kit is a solid blue body with red sleeves, and red flashes down the side of the body, blue shorts and red socks.

The original club crest for Hinckley United was the Arms of Honour of Hinckley, basically a red and white halved shield divided in half by a serrated line. The club crest was relaunched in 2004 still incorporating the Arms of Honour of Hinckley but also taking elements of the Borough of Hinckley and Bosworth crest and mascots of the two merged clubs Hinckley Athletic and Hinckley Town. The rams were added from the Borough crest signifying the hosiery industry in the town, and Hinckley Town's eagle plus Hinckley Athletic's robin were placed atop the crest.

At the formation of the club, a competition was held for fans to come up with a nickname and The Knitters was chosen. This reflects one of the longest standing industries associated with the town, the wool and hosiery trade, having been factories in Hinckley since the 17th century.

Stadium
Hinckley United began playing their games in 1997 at Middlefield Lane, former home to Hinckley Athletic. Although having the required grade for Southern League and Conference North, it was old and would take a lot of work to upgrade to a better level. Hinckley United spent two years financing, securing land and building a new ground, and in 2005 phase 1 of the stadium was completed. Phase 2 was finished by 2007 adding a full size all weather floodlit pitch and junior changing facilities to the complex.

Marston's Brewery signed a 10-year sponsorship of the ground and it became known as the Marston's Stadium. However, the deal ended early in December 2008 and the name reverted to the original De Montfort Park Stadium.

In January 2009 the club announced a deal for the stadium to be sponsored by the Greene King Brewery and the stadium was renamed the Greene King Stadium.

In total the complex covers 22 acre and includes 3 full-size pitches, 2 three-quarter-size pitches, 3 half-size pitches and an all-weather floodlit pitch. The flagship of the complex is the De Montfort Park Stadium, a 4329-capacity purpose-built football ground, also comprising gymnasium, sports injury clinic and a social club too.

The first match in the stadium was on 5 March 2005 when Stalybridge Celtic were the first team to play Hinckley United on the ground, and drew 1–1, in front of a crowd of over 2000.

The FA gave the stadium international recognition in July 2012 when it was selected for two international under-17 matches, alongside Burton's Pirelli Stadium and Northampton's Sixfields Stadium, as part of a friendly tournament involving England, Italy, Turkey and Portugal. The stadium hosted the Portugal U17s 1–0 Italy U17s, and Italy U17s 3–1 Turkey U17s matches.

After the end of the 2012–13 season, Hinckley chairman Mike Sutton confirmed that Greene King Brewery had decided not to renew their deal to sponsor De Montfort Park.

League position

 * 1997–98 Southern League Division One Midlands 12th position
 * 1998–99 Southern League Division One Midlands 4th position
 * 1999–2000 Southern League Division One Midlands 3rd position
 * 2000–01 Southern League Division One Midlands Champions
 * 2001–02 Southern Football League Premier Division 12th position
 * 2002–03 Southern Football League Premier Division 13th position
 * 2003–04 Southern Football League Premier Division 6th position, qualifying for Conference North
 * 2004–05 Conference North 12th position
 * 2005–06 Conference North 10th position
 * 2006–07 Conference North 4th position, losing play-off finalists
 * 2007–08 Conference North 19th position
 * 2008–09 Conference North 10th position
 * 2009–10 Conference North 7th position
 * 2010–11 Conference North 15th position
 * 2011–12 Conference North 20th position, saved from relegation by reprieve
 * 2012–13 Conference North 22nd position, relegated for the first time in the club's history

FA Cup
Hinckley United reached beyond the 1st round of the FA Cup on four occasions, both times losing to Football League opposition in the second round.

In 2001–02 Hinckley United beat Grays Athletic 1–2 at the New Recreation Ground in the First Round, then lost to Cheltenham Town 0–2 at Middlefield Lane.

In 2004–05 Hinckley United recorded one of their most famous victories by beating Torquay United 2–0 at Middlefield Lane. In the Second Round Brentford played at Middlefield Lane live on BBC TV as the match was scheduled to be shown on Match of the Day. The game finished 0–0 with Tommy Whittle, the then Hinckley goalkeeper facing a penalty that John Salako put wide of the post. The replay took place at Griffin Park and Brentford won 2–1, after Hinckley United defender Brad Piercewright was sent off for 'handling the ball on the line'.

in 2009-10 Hinckley lost 3–1 away at Rushden & Diamonds

in 2011-12 Hinckley lost 1–0 away to Tamworth in a replay after a 2–2 draw

FA Trophy
In the short history of Hinckley United the furthest progression has been to the 4th round. Yeovil Town beat Hinckley United 3–2 at Huish Park in 1998–99.

During the 2011–2012 season Hinckley had another successful cup run, beating Wrexham away in the 1st round, who at the time were top of the Conference National, and eventually bowing out after taking Luton Town to a replay in the 2nd round. Striker Andre Gray impressed in both games against Luton, later leading to the Conference Premier side to signing him on loan with a view to a £30,000 permanent transfer.

Rivals
Local rivals include Nuneaton Town, Shepshed Dynamo, Barwell and Bedworth United. Nuneaton Town and Barwell being the biggest rivals.

Honours

 * Southern League Western Division Champions 2000–01
 * Southern League Merit Cup Winners 2000–01 (Joint-winners)
 * Leicestershire Challenge Cup Winners 2006–07, 2003–04, 2001–02, 2000–01

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Administrative divisions of Singapore

Singapore is governed as a unitary state without provinces or states. However, for the purposes of administration and urban planning, it has been subdivided in various ways throughout its history.

As of 2022, Singapore has a total land area of about 753 km2, not including its sea area.

History
Historically, these subdivisions have been based on postal districts, especially during the colonial era. When local elections necessitated the setting up of electoral districts, however, it began to supplement postal districts as an alternative form of local governance, since each electoral district is headed by a member of parliament who represents and speaks for the respective electorates.

Community Development Council districts
Established in 1997 by the PA Act, there were 9 districts formerly, governed by 9 different Community Development Councils (CDCs). In 2001, the 9 districts and CDCs were then reformed into 5, namely the North East CDC, North West CDC, South East CDC, South West CDC and Central Singapore CDC. Each district is then further divided into electoral constituencies and town councils.

The council boundaries follow that of the existing political divisions, with each handling between four and six GRCs and SMCs and roughly dividing the country's population into equal parts. Each CDC is managed by a Council, which in turn is headed by a mayor and has between 12 and 80 members. The members are appointed by the Chairman or Deputy Chairman of the People's Association.

The role of the CDCs is to initiate, plan and manage community programmes to promote community bonding and social cohesion within local communities. The electoral boundaries of Singapore are relatively fluid, and are reviewed prior to each general election. The districts are composed of the constituencies and electoral districts (the latter as of the 2015 General Elections).

There are currently five CDCs, namely the
 * Central Singapore Community Development Council
 * North East Community Development Council
 * North West Community Development Council
 * South East Community Development Council
 * South West Community Development Council

Town councils
The first town councils were set up in September 1986 by the Town Councils Act, with the main purpose of estate management. Prior to the introduction of town councils, housing estates were managed by the Housing Development Board. As the estates were centrally managed, the standardised rules that the board had set for all housing estates made HDB towns monotonous in appearance and problems faced by residents in the different estates were not addressed fast enough.

Town councils boundaries are drawn based on electoral district boundaries. A town council area can consist of a Group Representation Constituency (GRC), a Single Member Constituency (SMC), or a collection of neighbouring GRCs and SMCs controlled by the same political party. The Members of Parliament head the town councils of their constituencies. Town councils boundaries do not correspond to new town boundaries; different parts of the same HDB town may be managed by different town councils. There are currently 17 town councils as of 2020:

Constituencies

Town councils are then further subdivided into different constituencies, which are classified as either Single Member Constituencies (SMCs) or Group Representation Constituencies (GRCs). The boundaries of the electoral constituencies are decided by the Elections Department, which is under the control of the Prime Minister's Office.

Regions
The five regions of Singapore are groupings of the planning areas.

Planning areas
In the 1990s, the Urban Redevelopment Authority carved up the country into 55 of planning areas. The Singapore Department of Statistics adopted these boundaries for the latest 2000 nationwide population census, and the Singapore Police Force uses them as an approximate guide when demarcating boundaries for its Neighbourhood Police Centres.

Survey districts
Singapore is divided into 64 survey districts, of which 34 are mukims (originally, rural districts) and 30 are town subdivisions.

Postal districts
Postal districts were numbered from 01 to 83 under the new system implemented on 1 September 1995. Census data and most forms of internal boundaries had been based on postal districts until the introduction of new planning boundaries in the 1990s.

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Sparkling Cyanide

Sparkling Cyanide is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1945 under the title of Remembered Death and in UK by the Collins Crime Club in the December of the same year under Christie's original title. The US edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at eight shillings and sixpence (8/6).

The novel features the recurring character of Colonel Race for his last appearance to solve the mysterious deaths of a married couple, exactly one year apart. The plot of this novel expands the plot of a short story, "Yellow Iris".

Plot summary
One year earlier, seven people sat down to dinner at the Luxembourg restaurant. One, Rosemary Barton, never got up; instead she collapsed and died. The coroner ruled her death suicide by poisoning, due to post-flu depression. However, each of the guests had reason to want her dead:
 * Iris, Rosemary's sister, had recently learned that she was the sole beneficiary of her sister's will.
 * George, Rosemary's husband, had discovered her love letter to another man and her plans to leave her marriage.
 * Anthony Browne was a friend of Rosemary who she had accidentally discovered had served time in prison. He was also briefly infatuated with her before becoming attracted to Iris.
 * Stephen Farraday had had an affair with Rosemary, but later grew to resent her attachment to him and feared she would destroy his career and his marriage.
 * Sandra, Stephen's wife, had learned of the affair and worried her husband would leave her for Rosemary.
 * Ruth Lessing, George's secretary, would have been free to marry him with his wife out of the way. She secretly hated Rosemary.

After Rosemary's death, her aunt Lucilla Drake moves in with George and Iris. She shows blind loyalty to her son, Victor, who is constantly requesting money from the family. Anthony returns to town from travel and forms a friendship with Iris. Six months later, George receives anonymous letters saying that Rosemary was murdered. George investigates and decides to repeat the dinner at the same restaurant, with the same guests, plus an actress who looks like his late wife, and who is meant to arrive late and startle the murderer into making a confession. A few days after the one-year anniversary of Rosemary's death, the dinner is held, ostensibly to celebrate Iris's eighteenth birthday. The actress does not arrive and George dies at the table – poisoned, like his wife, by cyanide in his champagne. His death might have been judged as suicide, but George shared his concerns and some of his plan with his friend Colonel Race.

Stephen is interrogated by the police, who suspect him of the two murders. However, Colonel Race suspects that Anthony killed Rosemary to silence her and is now pursuing Iris for her wealth, inherited from Rosemary. However, upon meeting him he realizes Anthony is not a criminal at all, but is really a government agent. Iris confesses to Anthony that, after George's death, she discovered cyanide in her purse, making it appear that the murderer was attempting to frame her.

After more investigating, Race incorrectly presumes the murderer to be Iris, but Anthony (after a trick with Race’s, Anthony’s and Chief Inspector Kemp’s drinks) has figured it all out.

Anthony realizes that Iris was the intended victim, not George, and Ruth was conspiring with Victor Drake (who she hoped to marry) to ensure he would inherit the family money. After the entertainment, George proposed a toast to Iris, when all sip champagne except her. When the group left the table to dance, Iris dropped her bag; a young waiter, retrieving it, misplaces it at the seat adjacent to hers. When, in the dark, the group returned to the table, Iris sat next to her original seat because of the misplaced bag. Everyone else therefore sat one seat away from where they were. George sat at Iris's original seat and drank the poisoned champagne. The anonymous letters to George were sent by Ruth, who then encouraged him to re-stage the dinner at the Luxembourg so that Victor and Ruth could kill Iris, as they killed Rosemary. To support a decision of suicide, Ruth had planted a packet of cyanide in Iris's bag, which packet dropped to the floor when she pulled her handkerchief out, without touching it (no fingerprints on it). Victor acted as a waiter, to drop the poison in the champagne during the show.

When this plot fails, Ruth attempts to run Iris over with a car, which the latter shrugs off as an accident. Colonel Race, together with the police and Anthony, unravels the truth in time to save Iris from Ruth. Her last attempt at killing Iris is to knock her unconscious in her bedroom, then turn on the fireplace gas, and leave the house. Anthony and Colonel Race break into Iris's room in the nick of time and revive her.

Victor is taken at New York at the request of the police and Ruth is caught as well. The case solved, the Farradays reaffirm their love for each other and Iris and Anthony make plans to marry.

Characters

 * Rosemary Barton: Wife of George Barton, who inherited wealth from her godfather. She was killed one year before this story.
 * George Barton: Rosemary's husband, fifteen years her senior, who remain Iris's guardian after her sister's death.
 * Colonel Race: Investigator and friend of George Barton.
 * Iris Marle: Teenaged sister of Rosemary, set to inherit her wealth when she marries or turns twenty-one.
 * Anthony Browne: AKA Tony Morelli. Boyfriend of Iris, who works to solve the many attempts to kill her.
 * Stephen Farraday: Rising member of parliament who had had a brief but passionate affair with Rosemary.
 * Alexandra "Sandra" Farraday: Stephen's wife, formerly the least-favored daughter of a prestigious noble family.
 * Lucilla Drake: Aunt to Rosemary and Iris, who inherits if Iris dies childless and unmarried.
 * Victor Drake: Son of Lucilla Drake, a man with desire to get money without work.
 * Ruth Lessing: Young secretary to George. Her name is a pun on the word "ruthless".
 * Chloe West: Actress hired by George who bears a passing resemblance to Rosemary.

Short story and novel development and comparison
The plot of this novel is an expansion of a Hercule Poirot short story entitled "Yellow Iris," which had previously been published in issue 559 of the Strand Magazine in July 1937 and in book form in The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories in the US in 1939. It was published in book form in the UK in Problem at Pollensa Bay in 1991.

The full-length novel has Colonel Race as the central investigative character in place of Poirot, who had that role in the short story. The novel uses the basics of the short story, including the method of the poisoning, but changes the identity of the culprit(s) – not for the first time, when Christie rewrote her own work.

Literary significance and reception
The book was not reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement.

Maurice Richardson, in the 13 January 1946 issue of The Observer wrote, "Agatha Christie readers are divided into two groups: first, fans like me who will put up with any amount of bamboozling for the sake of the pricking suspense, the close finish, six abreast, of the suspect race, and the crashing chord of the trick solution; second, knockers who complain it isn't cricket and anyway there's nothing to it. Fans, I guarantee will be quite happy with Sparkling Cyanide, a high income group double murder, first of wayward smarty Rosemary, second of dull husband George at his lunatic reconstruction-of-the-crime party. It is too forced to rank with her best Number One form, but the suspect race is up to scratch and readability is high. Making allowances for six years of spam and cataclysm, quite a credible performance."

An unnamed reviewer in the Toronto Daily Star of 24 February 1945 said, "Suspense is well maintained and suspicion well divided. While this mystery lacks Hercule Poirot, it should nevertheless please all Agatha Christie fans, especially those who like the murders in the fast, sophisticated set."

Robert Barnard: "Murder in the past, previously accepted as suicide. Upper-class tart gets her come-uppance in smart London restaurant, and husband later suffers the same fate. Compulsively told, the strategies of deception smart as a new pin, and generally well up to 'forties standard. But the solution takes more swallowing than cyanided champagne."

TV
In 1983, CBS writers Robert Malcolm Young, Sue Grafton and Steven Humphrey adapted the book into a television film, directed by Robert Michael Lewis, set in modern day California and starring Anthony Andrews as the central character, Tony Browne, with Deborah Raffin as Iris Murdoch, Pamela Bellwood as Ruth Lessing, Josef Sommer as George Barton, David Huffman and June Chadwick as Stephen and Sandra Farraday, Nancy Marchand as Lucilla Drake, and Christine Belford as Rosemary Barton. This adaptation did not feature Colonel Race.

In 1993, the short story that served as the basis for this novel, The Yellow Iris, was adapted for television by Anthony Horowitz and directed by Peter Barber-Fleming in an episode of the ITV series Agatha Christie's Poirot starring David Suchet.

In late 2003, it was loosely adapted by Laura Lamson for ITV1, again in a modern setting, and involving a football manager's wife's murder. In this adaptation Colonel Race was renamed Colonel Geoffrey Reece, and given a partner, his wife, Dr. Catherine Kendall. The byplay between Reece (played by Oliver Ford Davies) and Kendall (played by Pauline Collins) was somewhat similar to Christie's characters Tommy and Tuppence.

In 2013, it was adapted as an episode of the French television series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie.

Radio
In 2012, a three-part adaptation by Joy Wilkinson was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 directed by Mary Peate, with Naomi Frederick as Iris, Amanda Drew as Ruth, Colin Tierney as Anthony, James Lailey as Stephen, Sean Baker as Colonel Race and Jasmine Hyde as Rosemary.

Publication history

 * 1945, Dodd Mead and Company (New York), February 1945, Hardback, 209 pp
 * 1945, Collins Crime Club (London), December 1945, Hardback, 160 pp
 * 1947, Pocket Books (New York), Paperback (Pocket number 451)
 * 1955, Pan Books, Paperback, 159 pp (Pan number 345)
 * 1955, Pan Books, Paperback, (Great Pan 156)
 * 1960, Fontana Books (Imprint of HarperCollins), Paperback, 160 pp
 * 1978, Ulverscroft Large-print Edition, Hardcover, 358 pp; ISBN 0-7089-0223-5
 * 2010, HarperCollins; Facsimile edition, Hardcover: 160 pages; ISBN 978-0-00-735470-2

The novel's first true publication was the serialisation in The Saturday Evening Post in eight instalments from 15 July (Volume 216, Number 3) to 2 September 1944 (Volume 217, Number 10) under the title Remembered Death with illustrations by Hy Rubin.

The novel was first serialised, heavily abridged, in the UK in the Daily Express starting on Monday, 9 July 1945 and running for eighteen instalments until Saturday, 28 July 1945. The first instalment carried an uncredited illustration.

title: Sparkling Cyanide


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Caballistics, Inc.

Caballistics, Inc is a horror/fantasy story, set in the present day, that has been running in the weekly British anthology comic 2000 AD since December 2002. The strip was created by writer Gordon Rennie and artist Dom Reardon (the latter of whom has been the sole artist on the strip since its inception).

It spawned a spin-off, Absalom, based around Inspector Harry Absalom (given as "Absolam" in Caballistics, Inc), written by Rennie with art by Tiernen Trevallion.

Plot
In 2004, Department Q, a Ministry of Defence department originally created in the 1940s to combat Nazi occult warfare, is privatised by the British government. The Department, by then consisting only of the crusty paranormal historian Dr Jonathan Brand and his assistant Jennifer Simmons, is bought by Ethan Kostabi, a reclusive multi-millionaire 1970s pop star. Kostabi announces that he has contracted their services as part of a new private ghost-busting outfit, to be known as Caballistics, Inc., and introduces them to their teammates, freelance occult investigators Hannah Chapter and Lawrence Verse. Even before the official press release for the new company can be sent out, the team is called to deal with a major paranormal infestation on the London Underground, where they meet the fifth member of the team, the powerful and seemingly evil Solomon Ravne. The team go on to investigate various paranormal phenomena, suffering from internal conflicts and divided loyalties, and all the while it is suggested that Kostabi has some ultimate plan in mind for the team beyond that which any of them expect.

Caballistics, Inc. has an extremely dark tone. Several recurring characters have been unexpectedly killed off, and there is a degree of brutality unusual for a British comic magazine. Early in the series, Simmons was possessed by a powerful demon, a state that continues to this day. More recently, Brand, usually identified by fans as the 'good' member of the team, was pushed under a Tube train by another member, Mikey Ness.

Events within the team came to a head when - after three years of intrigue and suspicion - they were eventually pushed into confrontation with their erstwhile employer. At least three members of the team were killed in the ensuing battle in addition to Kostabi himself, with only Ravne and Simmons known to have walked away unharmed. With the ultimate fates of the only two other members being left highly ambiguous, this effectively marked the end of the organisation. Besides an epilogue, "Nativity", in late 2007, the remaining plot threads would be taken up in a spin-off series, Absalom, beginning in 2011, and followed characters that had previously appeared in minor supporting roles in Caballistics, Inc.

Caballistics contains many overt references to both Doctor Who and Quatermass. The strip also contains many passing references to other cult television, film and literary mythologies alongside various religious traditions. Among the many mentions are Gnosticism, Kabbalah, the Rosicrucians, the Tetragrammaton, Opus Dei, Zoroastrianism, the Illuminati, paranormal warfare in World War II, the Thule Society, Aleister Crowley, Faust, Grant Morrison's Zenith, Delta Green, The Omen, The Exorcist and references to the works of Clive Barker, Robert W. Chambers, Roger Corman, William Hope Hodgson, Shaun Hutson, H. P. Lovecraft, Palo Mayombe, Kim Newman, Edgar Allan Poe and Hammer studios.

Ethan Kostabi
Also known as Citizen Strange, David Smith [real name], possibly Nyarlathotep.
 * 1970's rock star, turned New Media Entrepreneur / Internet Guru / Venture Capitalist
 * Owner & Founder of Caballistics Inc.
 * Lives in Bern, Switzerland
 * Also owns Abraxas Research Facility (Wenley Moor, Yorkshire), Ludgate Studios and multiple & diverse other holdings (legal and otherwise)

Mr. Howard Slater

 * Manager of Caballistics Inc. / Legal Representative of Ethan Kostabi (12 years)

Solomon Ravne
Aka: Der Teufel The Devil, Master Raven, Dominus, Ravenous
 * De facto leader of the Caballistics team, due to his knowledge and magical powers.
 * Over 300 years old & has no soul (his admission).
 * Known to have been a denizen of Prague, 1672, he was subsequently reported living in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1737, Germany, 1945-46 (where he was SS Obergruppenführer of Sonderkommando Thule (Nazi Occult Warfare Division, Operation Doppelgänger, Peenemunde, 1945)), Bangkok, Thailand in 2003, and London, England, 2003-. Since revealed to be an homunculi originally created by Kostabi as part of the latter's efforts to cheat death.
 * Hobbies: Bathing in fresh human blood; Tantric rituals with slaves Gustav and Gretchen.
 * Special Kit: Hand of Power; Lamp of Alhazred; Infernal Pocket Watch; Healing & regeneration tank
 * Father to a child by the possessed Jenny Simmons

Doctor Jonathan Brand
Aka Professor Brand, Brainiac
 * Paranormal Historian, Q Department (sold; formerly British Government Ministry of Defence)
 * Pipe smoker
 * Has written a book: "History of the British Rocket Group".

Miss Jennifer Simmons
Aka Demon Jenny, Edwina Scissorhands, Baarish-Shammon, She Who Stalks By Night
 * Possession: Jenny was possessed by a demon which claims that she is dead. Ravne insists that she is still alive but may be insane.
 * Paranormal Historian, Q Department (sold; formerly British Government Ministry of Defence)
 * Recently revealed that she is pregnant with Ravne's child
 * Is now the target of several different occult factions of the British Government, who have decided that her imminent child is potentially too dangerous to let live

Mr Lawrence Verse
Aka Father Lawrence
 * Originally teamed up with Hannah Chapter as freelance paranormal consultants
 * Employment: Priest / Exorcist (defrocked following "chainsaw exorcism") Martinique 1995; freelance with Chapter (inc. Guatemalan Were-Jaguar Cult: 1999; Zagreb, Croatia); 2-year freelance contract with Caballistics Inc.
 * Weaponry: shotgun, taser, stake / holy cross hybrid, shades

Miss Hannah Chapter

 * Employment: Majored in Cryptozoology at Arkham University. American Government [specialist work: colleagues: Warren (alive), Perconte (alive), Charteris (dead), Niland (dead)], freelance with Verse (inc. Guatemalan Were-Jaguar Cult: 1999; Zagreb, Croatia); 2-year freelance contract with Caballistics Inc.
 * Weaponry: Spook Detector, 2 pistols (9mm parabellum steel-jacketed / armour-piercing / hollow point Vatican silver), shades
 * Favourite tipple: Double Jack Daniels & black, straight up.
 * Has written (unpublished) book: Mixed-Up Flicks For Mixed-Up Chicks

Mr. Mikey Ness
Aka The Nessy Monster, Bravo Two Zero
 * Employment: SAS, Gulf War, 1991; mental hospital patient (sectioned), 1991–2003; Caballistics employee, 2004–2007)
 * Has murdered a British Cabinet minister and Jonathan Brand
 * Heavy Glasgow accent
 * Weaponry: expert in many kinds, but prefers a knife.

Comics
All installments have been written by Gordon Rennie and drawn by Dom Reardon:

 * The Complete Caballistics Inc (304 pages, Rebellion Developments, February 2019, ISBN 1781086958)
 * "Going Underground" (in 2000 AD Prog 2003, #1322-1326, 2002)
 * "Moving In" (in 2000 AD #1331-1333, 2003)
 * "Breaking Out" (in 2000 AD #1337-1340, 2003)
 * "Downtime" (in 2000 AD #1363-1368, 2003)
 * "Krystalnacht" (in 2000 AD Prog 2004, 2003)
 * "Picking Up The Pieces" (in 2000 AD #1400, 2004)
 * "Creepshow" (in 2000 AD #1401-1408, 2004)
 * "Weird War Tales" (in 2000 AD Prog 2005, 2004)
 * "Safe House" (in 2000 AD #1420-1424, 2004)
 * "Northern Dark" (in 2000 AD #1443-1448, 2005)
 * "Strange Bedfellows" (in 2000 AD Prog 2006, 2005)
 * "Changelings" (in 2000 AD #1469-1474, 2006)
 * "Ashes" (in 2000 AD #1551-1558, 2007)
 * "The Nativity" (in 2000 AD Prog 2008, 2007)
 * "Visiting Hour" (in 2000 AD Prog 2111, 2019)

Novels
So far there have been two novel adaptations:

 * Caballistics, Inc.: Hell on Earth (by Mike Wild, Black Flame, August 2006, ISBN 1-84416-386-5)
 * Caballistics, Inc.: Better the Devil (by Mike Wild, Black Flame, March 2007, ISBN 1-84416-432-2)

title: Caballistics, Inc.


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Talk:James Fox

File:Jamesfox.jpg Nominated for speedy Deletion
The image for The Chase doesn't look like any other I have seen of the actor James Fox. Notwithstanding the name that in included on the picture (which might have misled someone to use it here) I am sure there a more recognizable image of the subject can be found. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.152.222.166 (talk) 22:40, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

extra role
Added in his role in Downton Abbey as Lord Aysgarth in Christmas 2013 edition shown in Britain and Ireland. http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-reviews/downton-abbey-christmas-special-verdict-2955862 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.233.149.11 (talk) 02:54, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Requested move 1 February 2017

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Rough consensus not to move. Andrewa (talk) 03:32, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

– User:JarrahTree has proposed that, given the large number of people names "James Fox" (or variations), it is unlikely that the actor is the primary topic of the term. I am neutral on the question, but perhaps the community has a sense of whether this is correct. Cheers! bd2412 T 00:43, 1 February 2017 (UTC) -->
 * James Fox → James Fox (actor)
 * James Fox (disambiguation) → James Fox
 * Oppose the page view statistics |Jim_Fox_(composer)|Jim_Fox_(drummer)|James_Fox_(singer)|James_Fox_(art_historian)|James_Fox_(journalist)|Jim_Fox_(ice_hockey)|Jim_Fox_(basketball,_born_1973)|Jim_Fox_(pentathlete)|James_J._Fox_(anthropologist) here and hereindicate that the actor is indeed the primary topic for 'James Fox' by a very large margin. Indeed, most of the other pages are very tiny by comparison. The only one that gets close to outstripping it on the dab page is Jamie Foxx (which is of course much more viewed) but that isn't relevant to this discussion.  InsertCleverPhraseHere  02:52, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment although 'primacy' in relation to page view stats is indeed a compelling argument, I felt that the James Fox (actor) is better in the sense that there are so many. As BD2412 states the community response is importantly as to whether my suggestion has any credence. JarrahTree 08:53, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Oppose 80+% of views is the kind of level where ambiguous titles begin to make sense. If James Fox (actor) was the status quo then deliberately ambiguating the article would have been debatable, but as it stands seems to be causing bearable inconvenience to less than 20% of readers. In ictu oculi (talk) 14:25, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Brother's military service
This page says that James' brother Edward was commissioned in the Coldstream Guards, as James was. Edwards's own wiki page says: ''Fox... completed his National Service in the Loyals having failed to gain a commission in the Coldstream Guards.[5][6][7][8] ''
 * One of them needs correcting. Valetude (talk) 09:49, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

'Personal Life' odd content
The 'Personal Life' section of this article reads very oddly.

For one, actors and sons delineation.

And then the including of his children's spouses and their divorces. While these facts, and are doubtless part of his personal life, they don't actually tell us about his personal life (and are readily available from his children's articles).

I'm hesitant to edit it because I don't know if there's precedent, and this is the first I've heard of the chap. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PixelVulpix (talk • contribs) 18:02, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

title: Talk:James Fox