Shortly after the US / UK led invasion of Iraq began in 2003, following an admission by the Ministry of Defence that Britain had dropped 50 airborne cluster bombs in the south of Iraq and left behind up to 800 unexploded bomblets, it was put to Hoon in a Radio 4 interview that an Iraqi mother of a child killed by these cluster bombs would not thank the British army.

The closing track, " Letters from a Porcupine ", was recorded as a telephone message left by Hoon on Thorn's answering machine.

The counselor could not keep Hoon from going back to his drug use, and left the tour after only a month and a half.

One of the most dramatic features of Cheng Hoon Teng temple is the seven-metre red flag-pole facing the left wing of the main prayer hall, which houses the remains of two of the three Kapitans who contributed to the construction of the temple.

After all ' Hoon ' related offences, the plaintiffs license is cancelled thereby forfeiting any time spent on the licence, e. g. If said driver held ' P Plates ' and was charged under hoon legislation, the driver would return to the start of the time period and not pick up where they left off.

Blind Melon formed in Los Angeles in March 1990 after West Point, Mississippi transplants Rogers Stevens and Brad Smith, a guitarist and bassist respectively, met vocalist Shannon Hoon, a native of Lafayette, Indiana.

Hoon was born in Lafayette, Indiana and raised in nearby Dayton, Indiana with his half-sister, Anna, and half-brother, Tim.

Hoon was buried in Dayton, Indiana.

Geoffrey " Geoff " William Hoon ( born 6 December 1953 ) is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Ashfield from 1992 to 2010.

In 1982, Hoon became a practising barrister for two years in Nottingham.

Hoon was elected as a Member of the European Parliament for Derbyshire in 1984 and served in Brussels and Strasbourg for ten years.

Following claims made in the Canadian media about the cause of the fire, blaming the UK for supplying an unsafe vessel, the situation was further exacerbated by controversial comments made by Hoon.

Hoon was condemned by an international delegation of European MPs for evading questions about Britain's co-operation with the CIA's so-called ' extraordinary rendition ' programme.

Hoon, then Minister for Europe, was being quizzed in the wake of Dick Marty's Council of Europe report which found extensive involvement of European countries, including Britain, in the US kidnapping and torture programme.

In the reshuffle after the sudden resignation of the Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly during the Labour Party Conference, Hoon became the Secretary of State for Transport on 3 October 2008.

In January 2009, Hoon gave the official go-ahead for the controversial expansion of Heathrow Airport.

AgustaWestland was named as the preferred bidder for the Future Lynx project to deliver a new generation of helicopters to the MoD in March 2005 when Hoon was Defence Secretary.

Despite rising success, the band began to experience personal and legal problems related to drug and alcohol abuse, leading to multiple stints in drug rehabilitation for Hoon.

After failing to find a replacement for Hoon, Blind Melon officially dissolved their partnership on March 4, 1999 and the various members went on to other projects, including Thorn and Smith's activity in Unified Theory, a group they had founded the previous year.

Beckett is understood to have delegated European issues to the Foreign Office minister responsible for Europe, Geoff Hoon who, following his demotion as Defence Secretary, continued to attend Cabinet meetings.

Notice that British forces were deploying to the region was given in three separate Commons statements by Geoff Hoon Secretary of State for Defence.

On the 25 August 2004, it was announced by Secretary of State for Defence Geoff Hoon that 6 RAF Harrier GR7 from No. 3 Squadron would be deployed to Afghanistan.

On 6 January 2010, she and fellow ex-minister Geoff Hoon jointly called for a secret ballot on the future of the leadership of Gordon Brown.

Whilst Hoon and Byers were both banned from the House of Commons for five and two years respectively, no further action was taken against Hewitt for her part in the " Cash for Access " affair.

In May 2000 the UK Secretary of State for Defence, Geoff Hoon, announced that Meteor had been selected to meet SR ( A ) 1239.

Hoon took on the role of frontman and lead singer for the band.

" Rose also invited Hoon to appear in the video for " Don't Cry.

In 1993, Hoon was arrested for indecent exposure after he disrobed onstage and urinated on a fan at a show in Vancouver.

When one of the band's roadies went to the tour bus to wake up Hoon for a sound check, he was unable to wake him.

In Los Angeles, Hoon befriended his sister Anna's high school friend, Axl Rose.

Hoon was educated at the independent Nottingham High School before going on to Cambridge University, where he read law at Jesus College and graduated in 1974.

After the failed coup there was a backlash against Hoon which flowed over into his Ashfield constituency in Nottinghamshire where some Labour party members wanted to deselect him.

Rose invited Hoon to join him in the studio, where his band Guns N ' Roses were recording their albums Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II.

After attending senior school at the independent Nottingham High School ( in common with MPs Kenneth Clarke, Geoff Hoon and Ed Balls ) in the year above Ed Balls, where he was head boy in 1984, he furthered his education at Jesus College, Oxford where he was awarded a first class BA degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1988.

It flows through Wigram, Hillmorton ( where the main springs are located ), Hoon Hay, Spreydon, Cracroft, Cashmere, Beckenham, St Martins, Opawa, Woolston and Ferrymead.

After auditioning many singers the band met fellow member Shannon Hoon at a party through a mutual friend.

Indiana-born musicians and composers include John Mellencamp, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Kenneth ' Babyface ' Edmonds, John Hiatt, Harry Von Tilzer, Rich Mullins, Kris Roe, the Bill Gaither Trio, Albert Von Tilzer, Bobwheat Long, Cole Porter, J. Russell Robinson, Eddie Condon, Hoagy Carmichael, Wes Montgomery, J. J. Johnson, Henry Lee Summer, Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin, David Lee Roth, Shannon Hoon, Calvin Crabtree, Carrie Newcomer, Janie Fricke, Lonnie Mack and David Baker.

On November 12, 1996, Blind Melon released their final album featuring Hoon, Nico, as a tribute to him with all proceeds going to his daughter and to programs helping musicians deal with drug problems.

In Parliament, Hoon was promoted by John Smith in 1994 when he was appointed as an opposition whip, and in 1995 he joined the frontbench team as a spokesman on Trade and Industry.

Smith and Stevens saw Hoon perform his song Change acoustically and invited Hoon to play with them.

Winfield and Smith were then replaced by Kev Nixon and Will Hoon before the group signed to Rondelet Records and re-releasing the " Four Sore Points EP " followed by " Let Them Free " in January 1981.