In September 2002 it was revealed that, prior to his promotion to the cabinet, Major had himself had a long-standing extramarital affair with a fellow MP, Edwina Currie.

* In 2002, Edwina Currie revealed that she had had an affair, beginning in 1984, with John Major before he became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

For example, in Spitting Image, Major's puppet was changed from a circus performer to that of a grey man who ate dinner with his wife in silence, occasionally saying " nice peas, dear ", whilst at the same time nursing an unrequited crush on his colleague Virginia Bottomley – an invention, but an ironic one in view of his affair with Edwina Currie, which was not then a matter of public knowledge.

The magazine still runs one-off specials of this diary ( with the age updated ) on occasions when Major is in the news, such as on the breaking of the Edwina Currie story or the publication of his autobiography.

* 1946 – Edwina Currie, British politician

** Edwina Currie, English politician

* Edwina Currie — former Conservative MP ( 1983 — 1997 )

Edwina Currie, a former health minister, gave evidence.

Edwina Currie ( Health ) and John Major ( Social Security ) both served under him as junior ministers.

It emerged later that Major had indeed had an affair, but with Edwina Currie ( whom the writers had considered using ).

Former presenters include Susan Bookbinder, Daire Brehan, Jon Briggs, Jon Champion, Adrian Chiles, Edwina Currie, Fi Glover, Nick Hancock, Brian Hayes, Peter Heaton-Jones, Jane Hill, Des Lynam, David Mellor, Louise Minchin, Paddy O ' Connell, Jonathan Pearce, Nick Robinson, Sybil Ruscoe, Bill Turnbull, Sian Williams, Eamonn Holmes, Mark Saggers and Wendy Robbins.

Shortly afterwards he made a daring appearance on the BBC topical panel show Have I Got News For You, which at the time, Edwina Currie apart, was still awaiting its first truly top-level Conservative guest who had some history to them.

In 2010, he appeared on Channel 4's alternative election night special of Come Dine With Me alongside Edwina Currie, Rod Liddle and Derek Hatton.

He was a contemporary of figures including Christopher Hitchens, John Redwood, William Waldegrave, Edwina Currie, Stephen Milligan, John Scarlett, William Blair, Bill Clinton and Gyles Brandreth.

* Edwina Currie, the former Conservative MP and junior health minister, lived in Redhill until 2007.

* Edwina Currie

He was President of the Oxford University Conservative Association, and was a contemporary of figures like John Redwood, Robert Jackson, William Waldegrave, Edwina Currie, Stephen Milligan and Gyles Brandreth.

His discretion about John Major's four year affair with Edwina Currie is credited with enabling Major to become prime minister.

He was a contemporary of figures including Christopher Hitchens, Robert Jackson, William Waldegrave, Edwina Currie, Stephen Milligan, John Redwood, William Blair, Bill Clinton and Gyles Brandreth.

* Edwina Currie accepted the post of President of the Tideswell Male Voice Choir in November 2011.

Lowering the homosexual age of consent had last been addressed by Parliament in 1994, when the then Conservative MP Edwina Currie proposed an amendment to the Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill to lower the age of consent to sixteen years.

The then Health Minister, Edwina Currie, is reported to have described Moore as being " useless ".

In 2010, Hatton appeared in Channel 4's Alternative Election Night Special episode of Come Dine With Me alongside Brian Paddick, Edwina Currie and Rod Liddle.

During the 1992 General Election campaign, Conservative MP Edwina Currie poured a glass of orange juice over Snape shortly after an edition of the Midlands-based debate show Central Weekend had finished airing.

Counsel General Carwyn Jones, Health Minister Edwina Hart and Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney AM Huw Lewis entered a leadership contest to elect a new Labour leader in Wales.

Edwina and India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru became intimate friends after Indian Independence.

His father, Donald Walton Lynch, was a research scientist working for the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and his mother, Edwina " Sunny " Lynch ( née Sundholm ), was an English language tutor whose grandfather's parents had immigrated to the United States from Finland in the 19th century.

*" The Nexus of Drug Trafficking and Hawala in Afghanistan ", Dr. Edwina A. Thompson, for the World Bank and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ( UNODC )

In 1949, Hilda Terry wrote a letter challenging that rule, and after more than six months of debates and votes, three women were finally admitted for membership in 1950 — Terry, Edwina Dumm and gag cartoonist Barbara Shermund.

ABC resuscitated it-with still more changes in cast ( most notably, Alice Ghostley replaced Sudie Bond in the role of Paul's sister Edwina ) and premise-in the summer of 1974, when it ran for two months.

Edwina Booth, the female lead, contracted a career-ending illness while shooting, for which she sued producers MGM.

The village is the main setting for the musical Dear Edwina by Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich.

With that, Edwina is taken to :" the chop ": Mrs. Tweedy beheads her with a hatchet and cooks her for dinner.

Paul Thomas Anderson was born on June 26, 1970, in Studio City, California, to Edwina ( née Gough ) and Ernie Anderson, who was an actor, the voice of ABC, and a Cleveland television late-night horror movie host known as " Ghoulardi " ( for which Anderson later named his production company ).

Edwina did return, for one episode, in the second season.

In October 1994, along with Alan Clark and Edwina Currie, he immediately told Neil Hamilton to stand down when the Cash for questions scandal broke.

Abetted by his daughter Edwina ( Diana Rigg ), Lionheart sets about murdering, one by one, a group of critics who had both ridiculed his acting throughout his career and declined to award him their " Critic's Circle Award for Best Actor ", which Lionheart felt was merited by his final season of performances in various Shakespearean plays ; humiliated in the aftermath of the awards ceremony, he attempts suicide and is presumed dead.

In 1944 in the United States, Daphne du Maurier, her U. S. publishers, Doubleday, and various parties connected with the 1940 film version of the novel, were sued by Edwina L. MacDonald for plagiarism.

She was, for a time, a BBC Radio Five Live entertainment correspondent, reporting for former British MP, Edwina Currie's Currie Club show from London, New York, and New Zealand.

Guy brings in his associate, " Cap " Streeter ( Guy Kibbee ), to help with the investigation, only to have Edwina mistake him for a policeman and knock him out.

Nina sleeps with Jack for the first time, but when Taj tells her that Jack cheated on her with Edwina Valdez, their relationship ends.

' Dr Vernon Coleman's articles, to which I refer with approval, raised concern about these important matters ,' said Edwina Currie, Parliamentary Secretary for health in the House of Commons in 1988.

The current Welsh Government Minister for Business, Enterprise, Technology and Science is Edwina Hart, although Ieuan W Jones was the Minister for the Economy and Transport at the time of the merger.