Sitch has claimed that none of the characters were directly based on a single person, and indeed the character of Moore was a combination of well-known characteristics of several high-profile television figures, including A Current Affair host Ray Martin, Martin's predecessor Mike Willesee, and Real Life host Stan Grant.

In August 1933 a motorcyclist named Arthur Grant claimed to have nearly hit the creature while approaching Abriachan on the north-eastern shore, at about 1 a. m. on a moonlit night.

Grant later claimed that he had specified that Wallace take the " lower " path ( River Road ), although circumstantial evidence suggests that Grant had forgotten that more than one path existed.

Officers had subdued Grant in a prone position for allegedly resisting arrest, before Mehserle shot Grant in the back with his gun, which he claimed to have mistaken for his stun gun.

They didn't work together until the hit film My Favorite Wife ( 1940 ), at which time, Eliot claimed Grant used his clout and star power to get Scott cast in a supporting role in the film.

In 2012, Scotty Bowers wrote a memoir " Full Service ," where he also claimed that he was a lover of both Grant and Scott.

West claimed she spotted Grant at the studio and insisted that he be cast as the male lead.

Notably, Grant claimed that Spare had been a member of the secretive Cult of Ku, a Chinese occult sect who met in Stockwell to worship a serpent goddess.

After the war, and in his memoirs, Grant claimed that Sheridan was the very man he wanted for the job.

The minority, led by Ted Grant and Alan Woods, claim to have been expelled, while the Militant claimed they had set up an alternative organisation and so had departed.

Emily Grant Hutchings claimed that her 1917 novel Jap Herron: A Novel Written from the Ouija Board was dictated by Mark Twain's spirit through the use of a Ouija board after his death.

Herrmann claimed that he was inspired by lead actor Cary Grant, because he " walked like a tarantula.

The split was caused by the Militant tendency's majority adoption of the ' Open Turn ', Grant's continued support for the tactic of entryism within the Labour Party and what Grant and Woods claimed was the bureaucratic centralist degeneration of Militant's internal regime.

After the debate and conference decision, the Militant tendency claimed that Grant and Woods had begun a separate organisation and had split from Militant, whilst Grant and Woods claimed to have been expelled.

Grant claimed he had been taken out of context, but offered an apology to the family of PC Blakelock.

As a result, Grant Parish Fusionists claimed a landslide victory, even though blacks outnumbered whites by 776 to 630.

Venancio Sanchez still claimed a half share of the Fornells Grant, two of the town lots had been sold to William Harney around 1840, and Osborne and Field had their deed from the Florida Internal Improvement Fund.

Bristow testified in front of a congressional committee on the Whiskey Ring, he would not give any specific information regarding his conversations with President Grant, having claimed executive privilege.

In an April 2010 interview with South Yorkshire newspaper The Star, Grant expressed his disappointment with the side-project band's sudden increase in success and awareness, in which he claimed that he wanted the band to continue playing in clubs with a slower ascendency to the bigger venues.

Grant said he dismounted and followed it to the loch, but only saw ripples.

Robert M. Grant has noted that although Luke saw himself within the historical tradition, his work contains a number of statistical improbabilities such as the sizable crowd addressed by Peter in Acts 4: 4.

Film historian Barry Grant saw the new Barbra as a corrective on the part of Romero.

The scandal hit epic proportions in the United States presidential election, 1872 which saw the re-election of Ulysses S. Grant and became the biggest scandal of the Gilded Age.

2011 saw the reopening of the refurbished museum at Vindolanda, and also the Roman Army Museum at Carvoran, after 6. 3 million pounds had been spent on revamping these museums with a Heritage Lottery Grant.

Digging began in late June, but even Grant and Meade saw the operation as, " A mere way to keep the men occupied ," and doubted it of any actual strategic value.

The " Liberal Republicans " of 1872 shared the same outlook except they were especially opposed to the corruption they saw around President Grant, and believed that the goals had been achieved so that the federal intervention could now end.

This season saw the emergence of young prospect Bobby Grant, who finally fulfilled the early promise seen in previous seasons.

The 21st, arriving in Virginia, saw its first major combat in late 1862 during the battle of Fredericksburg, endured heavy casualties at Drury ‘ s Bluff in 1863, and participated in Grant ‘ s drive on Richmond in mid-to late 1864.

In the Republican nominating process of 1868, which eventually saw Ulysses S. Grant as the Republican party standard-bearer, Cooke backed Radical Republican Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase for President.

When they saw what Grant had created, they immediately rejected his works and ordered it removed.

She saw him briefly and stayed with her aunt and uncle, Alfred Grant and Maude Gish, in Shawnee and attended school there.

( Sheridan had a poor opinion of Warren from earlier in the campaign and had received confidential permission from Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant to relieve Warren if he saw fit.

Jacqueline Cochran, born Bessie Lee Pittman in the Florida Panhandle, was the youngest of the five children of Mary ( Grant ) and Ira Pittman, a skilled millwright who moved from town to town setting up and reworking saw mills.

On-screen, Kemp, as Grant, was often at the centre of EastEnders plots, amongst them abusive marriages to Sharon Watts ( Letitia Dean ) and Tiffany Mitchell ( Martine McCutcheon ), and the " Sharongate " storyline, that saw Grant's brother Phil Mitchell ( Steve McFadden ) conduct an affair with his wife.

1974's Silk Torpedo saw them being managed by Led Zeppelin's Peter Grant.

Central to this development was Principal William Grant, who appointed a group of teachers described as " eccentric, crotchety, quaint, though widely travelled and highly intelligent ," and who saw the student enrolment and teacher salaries double, bursaries grow, and a pension plan established.

* Hugh Grant was offered the role of the Doctor again ahead of Christopher Eccleston, and later said publicly that he regretted dismissing it without much thought when he saw how good the series was – and that he was hoping to play a villain in the ongoing programme instead.

Throughout the arduous Overland Campaign and Richmond-Petersburg Campaign of 1864, Halleck saw to it that Grant was properly supplied, equipped, and reinforced on a scale that wore down the Confederates.

Horowitz identified George Grant and Eugene Forsey as exemplars of this strain of thought, which saw a central role for Christianity in public affairs and was profoundly critical of capitalism and the dominant business élites.

Forsey became a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) member, while Grant remained a Conservative – although he became disdainful of an overall shift in policy toward liberal economics and continentalism, something Forsey saw happening decades earlier.

Ruth Boswell wanted Lynn Frederick ( later the last wife of Peter Sellers ) for Carol, the female lead, but following a meeting with her, Paul Bernard felt she was a bit too upper class and precious for what he had in mind as he saw the character as being similar to Doctor Who's Jo Grant.

On 3 May 2002 Lincoln successfully petitioned to go into administration but the financial crisis would leave the first team squad bereft of players as the day saw five senior players – Jason Barnett, Grant Brown, David Cameron, Steve Holmes and Justin Walker – released at the end of their contracts with a sixth, Lee Thorpe, departing for Leyton Orient.