Tiger Bay's most famous native residents have been singer Shirley Bassey, and rugby league stars Frank Whitcombe, Billy Boston and Colin Dixon.

These include Arthur Smith, Ray McLoughlin, Malcolm Young, Roger Uttley, Peter Dixon, Duncan Madsen, Dave Robinson, Richard Breakey, Jim Pollock and Colin White.

( The police officer was played by Colin Bell, then the marketing manager of London Records ).

Colin Hendry became the new manager, but was replaced by Simon Grayson in November 2005 after an unsuccessful stint which left Blackpool languishing just above the relegation zone of League One.

In the 2000 Scottish Junior Cup Final against Whitburn, goals by Colin Lindsay, who later had a spell as manager, and John McLay took the game to penalties after a 2 – 2 draw.

In the 1982 – 83 season Colin Addison, in his second spell as manager, led Newport County to their highest post-war league finish – just four points behind third-placed Huddersfield Town in the Third Division.

This inspired their move to London, which led to the departure of Brian Faloon and Colin McClelland ( who along with Gordon Ogilvie had been joint manager of the band up until that point ).

* Football manager and former England international player Colin Todd.

The fourth season started with another change of manager, Colin Hawkins being promoted to the manager's job.

Sandy MacLean took over as manager in October 2010 along with Colin Lindsey assistant manager and Derek Cook as coach, finishing second in the super league, winning the West of Scotland cup, beating Pollok at Newlandsfield in the final, and winning the Evening Times Cup beating Shotts in that final.

Colin Lippiatt became manager 1998 – 1999 and brought Terry Skiverton, to the club as a player.

Colin Murphy was brought in for his second spell as manager, County gained 45 points from their final 31 games and survived, although Murphy left shortly after the end of the season.

They regained their Football League place automatically via promotion as champions of the Conference ( beforehand it was done by re-election ) at the first attempt with a long ball game devised by eccentric manager Colin Murphy and held on to it until the end of season 2010 – 11.

During this period Hollins was sacked after a poor start to the season, and Colin Addison took over as manager.

Under new manager Colin Cameron, Cowdenbeath Immediately regained promotion the following season, winning the league with 2 games remaining.

Don Robinson took over as chairman and appointed Colin Appleton as the new manager.

Notable among these are Mike Pickering, who introduced house music to The Haçienda in Manchester in the 1980s, the influential DJ Colin Curtis, Neil Rushton the A & R manager of the House music record label Kool Kat Music and the dance record producers Pete Waterman, Johnathan Woodliffe, Ian Dewhirst and Ian Levine.

The following season he excelled at the club, earning praise from both the press and Wolves manager Colin Lee.

Wildstar Records first became aware of Craig David when the artist's then manager Paul Widger met the label's co-owner Colin Lester and played some of his music.

* Colin Addison ( manager from 1996 – 98, previously managed Notts County, West Bromwich Albion, Derby County, Newport County, Celta Vigo and Atlético Madrid amongst others )

For season 2002 – 03 Town appointed 23-year old Colin Millard as manager making him one of the youngest managers in the country and his enthusiasm and dedication to the job turned around their recent fortunes and a mid-table position was attained.

Following the decline and subsequent disbanding of the Kiwi and Family Parties, the Kiwi Party announced that its candidates would be joining and standing for the Conservative Party of New Zealand, formed by property manager Colin Craig in 2011.

Although some attributed Lincoln City's sudden demise to the psychological effects of the fire on its players ( together with the resignation of successful manager Colin Murphy shortly before the fire ), it symbolised the wider crisis that the introduction of new safety legislation brought to Lincoln's Sincil Bank home.

He parted company with Aberdeen in August 2009 when the then manager Mark McGhee chose to replace him with Colin Meldrum.

He returned to QPR when Colin Calderwood was sacked and replaced by Billy Davies, his former manager at Derby County.

The 2010 World Championship Final held at Ipswich was won by Colin Aylward.

Sutch's album Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends was named in a 1998 BBC poll as the worst album of all time, a status it also held in Colin Larkin's book The Top 1000 Albums of All Time, despite the fact that Jimmy Page, John Bonham, Jeff Beck, Noel Redding and Nicky Hopkins performed on it and helped write it.

The idea was initially rejected, at the behest of Secretary of State Colin Powell, but, according to Kampfner, " Undeterred Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz held secret meetings about opening up a second front — against Saddam.

On 9 July 2011, after production of the final edition wrapped, editor Colin Myler led the staff out of the building, where he held a press conference thanking the staff and its readers, concluding, " In the best tradition, we are going to the pub.

Colin Taylor, a sympathetic Eton piano tutor, secured permission from the school for Heseltine to attend the event, which was held on 19 June.

His Test career included 22 centuries ( an England record held jointly with Wally Hammond and Colin Cowdrey ).

Following Virgin's highly publicized mission of mercy to Iraq to fly home hostages who had been held by Saddam Hussein in 1991, Lord King is reported to have told Burnside and CEO Colin Marshall to " do something about Branson ".

During the next game between the Canucks and Avalanche held in Denver, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and NHL executive vice-president Colin Campbell attended the game, which ended in a tie and saw no major incidents break out.

At the 2001 election he retired due to ill-health, and the seat was held for Labour by Colin Challen.

According to some sources, " Colin Powell held at least one meeting with the exiled Carmona in Bogota in December of 2002 ", during the Venezuelan general strike of 2002-2003.

While scoring 140 in the first Test, he passed the total number of runs scored by Jack Hobbs to become the leading run scorer in Tests, a record he held until it was broken by Colin Cowdrey in December 1970.

Hall's confirmation to the post was held up for several months but he was confirmed and sworn into the post by U. S. Secretary of State Colin Powell in September 2002.

In August 1975 a benefit match was held for the then Club Professional, Salahuddin, and those taking part included Colin Cowdrey, Mike Denness, Intikhab Alam, Majid Khan, Asif Iqbal and Sir Garfield Sobers.

His personal best is 12. 92 seconds, only 0. 01 seconds short of the then-world record held by Colin Jackson.

The previous Test record was held by an English pair — Peter May and Colin Cowdrey — who put on 411 against West Indies at Birmingham in May 1957.

In 2005, King Tut's held " The Best Scottish Bands of All Time " night, which featured acts such as Snow Patrol, Idlewild, Eugene Kelly, and Colin MacIntyre.

In December 2000 Colin Campbell warned in a public lecture held at the Clausthal University of Technology that

During the finale of the 2007 Scottish Rally Championship, the " Colin McRae Forest Stages " held in Perth in September 2007, there was no number 1 car as McRae had been due to drive the course car on the event.

In the Second Test England enforced the follow on after another Barrington century – 121 – was brought up with a six as he added 191 with Dexter for the third wicket, but Colin Bland dug in for 144 not out as South Africa held out for a draw.

Cricket writer, Colin Bateman noted, concerning Emburey's participation in two South African rebel tours that it " cost him six lost years as far as Test cricket was concerned ... and, more significantly, probably an extended run as England captain, a job for which he was better suited than some who held the position post-Mike Brearley ".

A commemorative event was held at London's ICA on 18 October 1997, incorporating a talk by film theorists ( including Colin MacCabe, who went on to write a guide to the film ), a screening of the uncut UK edition and finally a question and answer session.

One consequence of this preference for an integrated approach is that Professor Mallory has been strongly critical of the widely publicised theory of Indo-European origins held by Colin Renfrew which locates the urheimat or homeland of this language family in early Neolithic Anatolia and associates its spread with the spread of agriculture.

The seat was then held for Labour by a local activist Teresa Pearce, who defeated the Conservatives candidate Colin Bloom, a councillor for Bickley Ward in Bromley.