** Adrian's paternal grandfather's name alternates between Albert and Arnold.

The story ends with Adrian's grandmother believing him to be abducted, just as the Metford children.

* Rosie Mole, Adrian's sister

The intervening book, Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years, mixes these themes, with events such as the Gulf War seen from Adrian's naive and frustrated point of view, as well as depictions of his experiences of unemployment and public spending cutbacks, both major political issues at the time.

Adrian's parents Pauline and George Mole are working class characters with limited scope who drink and smoke a lot.

Adrian's half-sister, Rosie Germaine Mole ( after feminist Germaine Greer ), grows up to be rebellious and " street ", in total contrast to Adrian.

The sequel, The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole was broadcast between 5 January and 9 February 1987 with Lulu replacing Julie Walters as Adrian's mother.

Adrian's illegitimate half-brother Brett Mole, born on 5 August 1982, is reintroduced as a 19 year-old ; he is an athletic, popular, confident, promiscuous, super-intelligent Oxford undergraduate, already a published poet and TV documentarian-in short, the person Adrian always wanted to be.

The third wedding of Adrian's parents is described ; however, Ivan Braithwaite does not drown whilst on honeymoon with Pauline Mole as detailed in " The Weapons of Mass Destruction "-instead he ultimately returns to his first wife, prompting George and Pauline to reunite ( in " The Weapons of Mass Destruction ", Pandora states that Pauline lured George away from Tania in the wake of Ivan's death ).

* Agent Provocateur is mentioned in the book Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years when Pandora Braithwaite, the Labour MP for Ashby-de-la-Zouch and also the love of Adrian's life confesses during an interview that she buys her underwear from Agent Provocateur in Soho.

In Sue Townsend's novel The Secret Diaries of Adrian Mole ( 1982 ), Adrian's class starts singing " Ten Green Bottles " on the bus during a school trip.

He is mollified by Adrian's good nature and his explanation that he only recently discovered the letter.

The Daily Telegram is Adrian's local daily newspaper.

Adrian's Frontier Village is the site of the annual Western Missouri Antique Tractor and Machinery Association Gas and Steam Engine Show, now in its 32nd year.

This probably referred to what is now known as Adrian's Tower.

In the south-west corner of the castle is a cylindrical tower named Adrian's Tower from the popular legend that it was built by the Roman Emperor Hadrian.

Adrian's brother, Paulie ( Burt Young ), confronts his sister about not supporting her husband, but she faints during the confrontation and is rushed to the hospital where she goes into labor.

In the original script, Rocky is killed during the final fight with Tommy, dying in Adrian's arms in the street.

As well as the truth of Rosie's paternity being revealed the show also casts some doubt on Adrian's when Pauline states that there is a ' seventy per-cent ' chance that George is Adrian's father.

* Pandora Braithwaite is the love of Adrian's life.

* Nigel Hetherington is Adrian's on-and-off best chum who has a somewhat bohemian lifestyle.

* Hamish Mancini is Adrian's American friend and penpal.

* Sharon Bott is Adrian's second girlfriend and the mother of his first child.

* Adrian's financial nadir passes in an unspecified way, and he is able to get on with his life.

The phrase " Adrian's mole " is found in the poem " The Bells of Shandon " by Francis Sylvester Mahony (" Father Prout "), and refers to the Roman emperor Hadrian's tomb ( Castel Sant ' Angelo ).

* Adrian's birth year is usually given as 1967 ( as in Aged 13¾, Growing Pains, Wilderness Years, Cappuccino Years ) but sometimes as 1968 ( True Confessions, Weapons of Mass Destruction ).

In Prostrate Years, Adrian's surprise 40th birthday party is celebrated on April 2, 2008.

But in True Confessions, he is still Adrian's headmaster.

* At the end of Weapons of Mass Destruction Adrian's father must use a wheelchair after contracting a virus while in hospital for a back operation, but at the start of Prostrate Years the reason for his disability is given as a stroke brought on by years of poor dietary habits and inactivity.

Adrian had also lost a bid to claim the title of Nobles County Seat from Worthington in 1883, and when it failed in an attempt to split the county in 1893, Adrian's future as a small town was set.

He also painted murals at Wemyss Castle, St Adrian's Church in West Wemyss, Hopetoun House, Hawthornden Castle and Tyninghame House.

After Whitesnake, he played in the band Manic Eden, which also featured former Little Caesar singer Ron Young, and Adrian's former Whitesnake bandmates bassist Rudy Sarzo and drummer Tommy Aldridge.

Although Leverkühn's visit to Palestrina with Schildknapp fully evokes the great early polyphonist named for this birthpace, ( and Adrian's absorption in polyphonic theory ), it also alludes to the opera Palestrina, premiered at Munich in 1917, and written by Hans Pfitzner.

Adrian's successor Cardinal Wolsey ( 1518-23 ) was also an absentee bishop, held the see concurrently with that of York.

The station signed on in July 1967 as WVMO ( Voice of Monroe ), founded by John Koehn of Adrian ( also the founder of Adrian's WLEN 103. 9 FM ), and featured a format of MOR and country music for many years.

Using Adrian's admissions, they declared that they could not have it appear ' as though they wished to oppress evangelical truth and assist unchristian and evil abuses.

Shortly after Adrian's accession the territory ruled by the papacy was invaded by Desiderius, king of the Lombards, and Adrian was compelled to seek the assistance of the Frankish king Charlemagne, who entered Italy with a large army.

During the 10th century villages were carved out of Adrian's Capracorum estate: Campagnano, mentioned first in 1076 ; Formello, mentioned in 1027 ; Mazzano, mentioned in 945 ; and Stabia ( modern Faleria ), mentioned in 998.

Even the local barons started to melt away, and soon Adrian's Byzantine allies were left hopelessly outnumbered.

Adrian's secular powers were too valuable to be rendered and Manuel's subjects could never have accepted the authority of the distant Bishop of Rome.

In the Divine Comedy, Dante meets Adrian's spirit in Purgatory, on the level reserved for the avaricious, where Adrian atones for his sin of worldly ambition.

Italian writer Luigi Malerba used the confusion among the leaders of the Catholic Church, which was created by Adrian's unexpected election, as a backdrop for his 1995 novel, Le maschere ( The Masks ), about the struggle between two Roman cardinals for a well-endowed church office.

The letter given as Adrian's in chap.

Crowned with heavy lotus-blossoms, he has sat on the prow of Adrian's barge, looking into the green, turbid Nile.

Idris Adrian's sister, and Verney's wife.

Lionel and Adrian become close friends, and Lionel becomes civilized and philosophical under Adrian's influence.

Adrian's cultural life has connections to the mid-19th century.

Newer additions to Adrian's arts and cultural scene include Art-A-Licious, a September fine arts festival started in 2007, and Adrian First Fridays, a monthly art walk that started in March 2012.

By this time, however, the young towns of Ellsworth, Lismore and Wilmont had grown to claim some of Adrian's railroad trade area.

But Adrian's population stagnation didn't prevent the town from enjoying some of the most prosperous years of its history.

The interstate was to become Adrian's main artery of transportation, replacing the railroad as the source of the town's lifeblood.

By 2000, Adrian's population had declined to 159.

Rocky blames himself for what has happened and refuses to leave Adrian's bedside until she wakes up, and will not go to see his new baby until they can see it together.