Martin Dobson (born 14 February 1948) is a former professional footballer and England international who played as a midfielder. He was the first player to be transferred for £300,000, when Everton bought him from Burnley in August 1974. Playing career He was born in Rishton and attended Clitheroe Royal Grammar School. He was signed as youngster by Bolton Wanderers who spotted him playing for Lancashire Grammar Schools. However he was given a free transfer and moved on to Burnley.[2] He had a long and successful playing career, playing for almost 20 years and totalling over 600 league appearances while playing for Burnley, Everton and Bury. He won five England caps overall, four while at Burnley and one while at Everton. His first England cap was awarded to him by manager Sir Alf Ramsey (because of FA Cup commitments of other players) on 3 April 1974, a 0–0 draw against Portugal. However, he impressed enough to win four more caps that year. Managerial career As well as finishing his playing career with Bury, Dobson became their manager until 1989. During this period they were promoted from the old Fourth Division and became an established Third Division side.[3] Dobson was appointed manager of Bristol Rovers in July 1991, but was sacked after only 12 games in charge in October of the same year.[4] On 10 January 2010 he was appointed joint caretaker manager of Premier League side and former club Burnley, with Terry Pashley, after Owen Coyle left the club for Bolton Wanderers. However, Dobson and Pashley never managed a game due to the rapid appointment of Brian Laws. Laws kept Dobson on his coaching staff in the short-term as he built up his backroom staff. Dobson then returned full-time to his role as Burnley's director of youth development.[5] Dobson left his post as director of youth at Burnley in October 2011 after his contract was not renewed by manager Eddie Howe who instead appointed his reserve team manager Jason Blake, from former club AFC Bournemouth, as academy manager. Dobson became the professional development co-ordinator at Everton in February 2018.

Dr Peter Stuart The Diocesan Bishop Dr Peter Stuart became the Bishop of Newcastle on 2 February 2018 after having served as Assistant Bishop from 2 February 2009. He has administered the Diocese on two occasions—2013 and 2017. Bishop Peter has considerable experience in not-for-profit governance, risk management, policy development, communication and financial administration. He has previously served on the Board of Anglicare Tasmania Inc, Glenview Nursing Home Inc (Tas), Julia Farr Services (SA), the Julia Farr Association (SA), and St Peters College (SA). Bishop Peter has been a member of the Diocesan Council in the Diocese of Tasmania and Adelaide and a member of the Long Service Leave Board of General Synod.

Dion A. Forster serves as Professor of Public Theology in the Faculty of Religion and Theology at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He is an Extraordinary Full Professor in the Department of Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology at Stellenbosch University. Dion holds two doctoral degrees. A PhD in Systematic Theology (D.Th, SA, 2006) and a second PhD in New Testament studies and Empirical Theology (Ph.D, Radboud University, Holland, 2017). Dion is a Rated researcher with the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa. He is a Research Fellow at Wesley House, University of Cambridge, and at the Allan Gray Centre for Values Based Leadership, University of Cape Town, Graduate School of Business. He also serves as a member of the Berlin Institute for Public Theology, the World Economic Forum's 'Expert Network', and the GERIS (Global Exchange on Religion in Society) of the European Union, as well as the G20's anti-racism policy task team for the IF20. He was formerly the Dean of John Wesley College, the seminary of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa. SUN Media His most recent books are entitled 'The (im)possibility of forgiveness? An empirical intercultural reading of Matthew 18.15-35' (Wipf & Stock, 2019), 'African Public Theology' (Langham, 2020), 'Reconcilliation, Forgiveness and Violence in Africa' (SUN Media, 2020), 'Freedom of Religion at Stake' (Wipf & Stock, 2019), and, Between Capital and Cathedral: Essays on Church and State relationships. (University of South Africa Press, 2013). You can find a list of Dion Forster's books via this link. For a list of academic publications (articles and books) please visit the following Academia.edu profile page or my ResearchGate profile page. For other books and articles please see the following page. A number of Dion's books are available on Amazon.com

For over ten years he ran a West End theatre in London's Leicester Square (home to the Boy George musical “TABOO”) as well as a successful Ballroom and Latin Dancing Club. He produced a triple platinum selling album for the Japanese band 'Buck Tick'; co-produced the UK Eurovision entry in 2001 for Lindsay Dracass and toured the UK and Europe with Phil Collins as one of 'Mike and the Mechanics', becoming their vocal arranger on the 'Rewired' album. He returned to live performance in 2009 with the Scottish Supergroup 'Four Good Men' and as lead vocalist for XSM ( Ex Simple Mind ) which featured original members Derek Forbes and Brian McGee. In January 2014 Owen released “The One” his first official single in the UK since 1987, following this with the release of the album “About Time II” in the autumn of the same year. November 2016 brought the release of two brand new versions of My Favourite Waste of Time (Part One and Part Two) to celebrate its 30th Anniversary, plus a multitude of dance remixes. He has released 11 tracks since 2020 including the Heritage Chart number 1 'Beauty of the Sun' and a Lockdown chorus version of My Favourite Waste of Time which featured guest artists Toyah, Glen Matlock, Lee John, Carol Decker, Cheryl Baker and many more. He is currently recording a new album of Americana/Folk originals, and tours with Owen Paul's 80's and on his own as a solo artist.

Winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society's Singer Award, Jennifer Johnston is a former BBC New Generation Artist, and a graduate of Cambridge University and the Royal College of Music. She has enjoyed close collaborations with both the Bayerische Staatsoper, where she has sung over 80 performances as a guest artist and with whom she won Recording of the Year at the Gramophone Awards for Korngold's Die Tote Stadt, and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, for whom she was their Artist-In-Residence for two seasons. Facetune_10-01-2024-19-09-31_edited_edited.jpg Her operatic roles have included Brigitta in Korngold's Die Tote Stadt (Petrenko/Bayerische Staatstoper, Gramophone's Recording of the Year), Mrs Sedley in Britten's Peter Grimes (Gardiner/Bayerische Staatsoper), Hedwige in Rossini's Guillaume Tell (Ettinger/Bayerische Staatsoper), Second Norn in Wagner's Götterdämmerung (Petrenko/Bayerische Staatsoper), Mrs Grose in Britten's The Turn of the Screw (Eschenbach/La Scala), Juno in Handel's Semele (Luks/Glyndebourne Festival), Lady de Hautdesert in Birtwistle's Gawain (Metzmacher/Salzburg Festival), Jocasta in Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex (Gardiner/Berlin Philharmonic & London Symphony Orchestras and on disc), Judith in Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle (Yankovskaya/English National Opera, Mäkelä/Oslo Filharmonien), Dido in Purcell's Dido & Aeneas (Weiss/Festival d'Aix-en-Provence), Waltraute in Wagner’s Die Walküre (Rattle/Bayerische Rundfunks Symphony Orchestra on disc), and Pasqualita in Adams’ Doctor Atomic (Adams/BBC Symphony Orchestra and on disc). The works of Mahler lie at the heart of her repertoire, particularly his Second Symphony (Rouvali/Philharmonia Orchestra on disc, Zinman/Vienna Symphony Orchestra), Third Symphony (Vänskä/Minnesota Orchestra, Mäkelä/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Welser-Möst/Cleveland Orchestra), Eighth Symphony (Bychkov/NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Welser-Möst/Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Petrenko/Bayerisches Staatsorchester), Rückert Lieder (Zinman/Vienna Symphony Orchestra), Das Lied Von Der Erde (Marin/Hamburg Symphony Orchestra), and Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen (V.Petrenko/Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra), In huge demand on the concert platform, she has collaborated with many of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, particularly Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis (Gardiner/Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique at the BBC Proms, Carnegie Hall and on disc), Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (Welser-Möst/Cleveland & Royal Concertgebouw Orchestras), Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder (Madaras/Halle Orchestra), Elgar’s Sea Pictures (Slatkin/Irish National Symphony Orchestra), Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius (Brabbins/BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra), Verdi’s Requiem (Oramo/BBC Symphony Orchestra at the First Night of the Proms, Slatkin/Orchestra National de Lyon), Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri (Gatti/Accademia Di Santa Cecilia), Schumann’s Faustszenen (Harding/Gewandhausorchester), Ravel's Schéhérezade (Oramo / BBC Symphony Orchestra), Adès’s Totentanz (Adès/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra) ,Janacek's Glagolitic Mass (Kanellakis/BBC Symphony Orchestra at the First Night of the Proms), Britten's Phaedra (Brabbins/Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra), Chausson's Poeme de l'Amour et de la Mer (De Billy/London Philharmonic Orchestra), and Respighi's Il Tramonto (Petrenko/Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra).

A God Cast on Church of England Estate Ministry and vocation with Rev Sophie Cowan.

Follow Fr Alex on X @alexdjfrost Content Creator - Based in Rome / Dublin / NYC It all started in my parents garden shed when I was about eleven. With a wonky video camera and some lamps taken from the house, I got to work building my own TV studio! Hollywood, move over! In my homemade studio, I would host talent shows, deliver breaking news from the neighbourhood and run my media empire! From that young age I was hooked, and over the years I worked in various radio and TV stations eventually ending up as a reporter on RTÉ, Ireland's national broadcaster. There I worked for one of the country's longest running shows, Nationwide, and the hugely popular TODAY Show. Then, then New York started calling and I moved to the big apple where I worked with various networks like AP, the BBC, and ABC. For five years I travelled across the US covering incredible human interest stories, many of them you can see and hear on my site. Today I'm based in Rome covering the Vatican and Pope Francis for EWTN, a global Catholic TV network and the largest religious broadcaster in the world. I also continue to produce content for the BBC World Service and RTÉ in Ireland. My reports/programmes today still lean towards human interest stories, with a focus on themes and issues around human rights, religious expression, and overcoming adversity. Someday, I hope to return to the shed and build a new studio. Work in progress

Zack Polanski was elected to the London Assembly in May 2021. He is a strong advocate for electoral reform and has been a spokesperson for Make Votes Matter. Zack’s background has been in the gig economy, and he has worked as an actor, youth worker, mental health counsellor and in the hospitality sector. Zack is currently a property guardian and has first-hand experience of London’s housing crisis. He is committed to campaigning for the introduction of a basic income and championing London’s creative and cultural sectors