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Ramas Bun Lembit

Mark Devenport|16:43 UK time, Tuesday, 3 July 2007

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According to my web research that's how a Romanian Cheeky Girl would bid farewell to our former Lib Dem NI spokesman. Alternatively if we were to turn to Mr Opik's Estonian origins we might try Jumalaga Lembit! I am quite happy to stand corrected by more fluent speakers of both languages.

Anyway it will be hard for our new Lib Dem Spokesman Alistair Carmichael to follow Lembit's act. A solicitor and MP for the Orkneys and Shetlands, Mr Carmichael has often spoken on NI in the Commons as a junior Lib Dem spokesman, but somehow I can't see him getting into the tabloids quite as much as his predecessor.

At the time of writing I was not able to ascertain his views either on the Cheeky Girls' forthcoming album "In My Mind It’s A Different World (A Cheeky One!)" or the potential for an imminent asteroid impact on the northern hemisphere.

From one tan to another

Mark Devenport|10:12 UK time, Tuesday, 3 July 2007

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No sooner have we bid goodbye to the famously perma-tanned Peter Hain than we get another politician with an expertise in tanning. In David Cameron's latest reshuffle, David Lidington has moved to be a Shadow Foreign Office Minister. He's replaced by the MP for North Shropshire, Owen Paterson. Before entering politics, Owen Paterson studied at the National Leathersellers College in Northampton. He then joined the British Leather Company, eventually rising to become President of the European Tanners' Confederation. Now that's what I call tanning.

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