Prior to the case, Allan had been awarded £ 40, 000 in out-of-court settlements from the Evening Standard and Options magazine over suggestive remarks made about the nature of Allan's association with Terre ' Blanche.

In a 2002 BBC film Get Carman: the trials of George Carman QC, Allan's case was dramatised together with a number of other high-profile Carmen cases.

Perhaps even more damaging to Macdonald was when the Liberals discovered a telegram, through a former employee of Sir Hugh Allan, which had been stolen from the safe of Allan's lawyer, Sir John Abbott.

The song from the film's opening, “ Blues ' Theme ” ( sometimes listed as “ Blue's Theme ”), an aggressive, repetitive and very catchy instrumental showcasing Allan's new fuzzed-out ( heavily distorted ) guitar sound became their biggest hit ( it was also one of the first songs Eddie Van Halen learned to play on brother Alex's guitar ).

While Link Wray was the pioneer of guitar distortion, Allan pushed it to a new level, distorting his signal so much as to give his guitar tone a buzzing, grinding quality: “ fuzzy .” Guitar sounds along similar lines would become a staple of 1970s rock and Allan's penchant for extreme, heavy, noisy guitar work displayed on tracks like “ Devil's Rumble ,” “ Cycle-Delic ” and “ King Fuzz ” presaged 1980s acts like Sonic Youth.

Some of Allan's stories were adapted for the television series, although Allan's name was misspelled " Angus Allen ".

With ex-wife Claire he has three children named Louise, Samuel ( who was named after Allan's father ) and Emily ; all three live in Southern California.

Helped by Allan's spreading influence into allied shipping, railway and banking concerns, the firm was " as good as a bank ".

Though it was Allan's idea, competition for the contract was fierce.

This feat was recognised by a special hoarding on the face of the former T & G Allan's store in the town centre.

Pilkington was educated at Dame Allan's School, Newcastle where he came to faith and developed both his love of scholarship and his combative personality.

Lai suggested that Allan's son Harry was born far too early to be the young man who died before the opening of Allan Quatermain.

Allan's most notable TV role outside of soaps was when he starred in the Lassie television series from 1968 – 1970.

For a time the Oatka was called Allan's Creek after the area's first settler, Ebenezer " Indian " Allan.

Allan's father, William, was a pioneer who settled what was then the Township of York during John Graves Simcoe's term as Governor.

Stagpoole was about 25 years old, and a Drummer in the 57th Regiment of Foot ( later The Middlesex Regiment ( Duke of Cambridge's Own ), British Army during the Second Taranaki War campaign of the New Zealand land wars when the following deed took place place on 2 October 1863 at Allan's Hill near Poutoko in Taranaki, for which he and Ensign John Thornton Down were awarded the VC and a separate incident at Kaipakopako for which he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal.

Allan's music career started at 16 as a songwriter and from 2005-2007 he was lead singer and guitarist for Square9.

Sharon Rooney, one of Van Allan's many mistresses was a woman scorned who used her roommate's pistol to kill the two.

Jimmy's big break comes when Van Allan's campaign manager Larry White tells Jimmy that he was actually a spy for Dietrich hired to get Garfield elected.

Allan's Ravenscrag, completed in 1863, was to be the jewel of the Square Mile, as he intended.

On day 2, Allan's 1984 notebook was mysteriously delivered to Carmen's counsel and used against her.

Allan's former husband Gordon Schachat provided evidence supporting claims Allan had made about sex and insisted she was neither an extreme right-winger or anti-semitic.

Allan's favourite room was the Victorian ground-floor library with dark panelling and heavy furniture.

These ships formed the nucleus of Allan's Montreal Ocean Steamship Company, incorporated by him and his brother, Andrew, in 1856.

In July 1989, Cornelius Lottering, a member of the breakaway Orde van die Dood group, orchestrated a failed assassination attempt on Allan's life by placing a bomb outside her Sandton apartment.

His picture of the " Slave Market, Constantinople ", was purchased by Alexander Hill, the publisher, and ‘ Byron in a Fisherman's Hut after swimming the Hellespont ’ ( exhibited 1831 ) by R. Nasmyth, who also bought Allan's portraits of Burns and Sir Walter Scott, which were engraved by John Burnet.

Esteemed Irish sportsman and Gaelic Games legend Michael Ronan Conan Murphy ( better known by the moniker Mickey ------ Ro Co ) has been a loyal supporter and advocate of the great one, and it is believed his passionate election night speech played a crucial role in the ultimate success of Bermuda Allan's campaign and marginal victory.

Allan's work was made more difficult by the arrival of Colonel Goreham and his troops to refortify Fort Cumberland, and by the activities of Michael Francklin, a former Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and a vocal Loyalist.

Commodore Collier followed up by attacking Machias, intending to break Allan's plans.

( Collier's action was in fact unnecessary ; the Massachusetts Provisional Congress had in early August voted to disband forces recruited for Allan's expedition, because of the imminent threat posed by the army of General John Burgoyne in upstate New York.

In this time many improvements were made, along with further excavations implemented by Allan's children.

The Commendator was rescued from his confinement by the Laird of Bargany, Allan's brother in law, who arrived with a body of men ; first hiding in the chapel and then storming the castle.

The Gilded Balloon was established by Karen Koren in 1986, operating on a site on Cowgate in the building that was formerly J and R Allan's department store, staging seven shows a day.

Sharon left her husband to become Van Allan's mistress.

Allan's QC, Charles Gray dismissed Shaw's " wildly unlikely " testimony and stressed the physical impossibility of her claim.

: Allan's wife, Marissa, was convinced that had her husband lived, he would have forgiven the person who hit him.

: She explains that listening to Allan's collection of tapes from the Apology Line helps her understand that the average person is in some level of pain about past actions, and that people who have bigger regrets have a larger burden to carry.

The next morning, Buffy confronts Faith in her motel room about Allan's death but Faith doesn't want to talk about it.

( The polka song " Varsovienne ", which played on the night of Allan's death, is played as a motif whenever Blanche is experiencing a particularly distressing moment, whenever her tragic memories threaten her connection to the present.

Ronnie Mamoepa, the spokesperson for the South African foreign affairs department, said the department would refuse to respond to Allan's claims, as this would give her " undue attention she does not deserve ".

In this version, he is renamed Mark Allan and is Liz Allan's biological brother, and like her is re-imagined as Hispanic.