Sheila Whiteley, author of Women and popular music: sexuality, identity, and subjectivity, felt that Madonna's image signified a denial of sexual knowledge, but also portrayed her in simulated writhing on a gondola, thus underpinning the simulation of deceit.

Rumours suggested that, while a newsroom ( and separate regional identity ) would be retained in the south west, the main Westcountry Live programme would move to a studio alongside The West Tonight at ITV West in Bristol ( akin to the Meridian and Thames Valley news services at Whiteley ).

In 1964, while in London, Whiteley was mesmerized by the murderer John Christie, who had committed murders in the area near where Whiteley was staying at Ladbroke Grove.

* Brett Whiteley's friend and colleague George Sheridan webpage-Includes a selection of paintings done while working with Brett Whiteley.

Garrett is a veteran of Dictionary Corner on the Channel 4 game show Countdown and in June 2005 it was thought that she was to become one of the show's rotating guest hosts while Richard Whiteley was recovering from illness.

In September 2007, British Land announced plans to spend upwards of £ 100m redeveloping Whiteley Village and reconstructing it as a district centre, while also adding housing and a hotel to the area.

The first person to be seen on Channel 4 was Richard Whiteley with Ted Moult being the second.

Whiteley opened the show with the words " As the countdown to a brand new channel ends, a brand new countdown begins.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

Vorderman appeared on Countdown with Richard Whiteley from the show's inception in 1982 until Whiteley's death in June 2005.

In October 2005, Des Lynam replaced Whiteley and co-hosted with Vorderman.

Still fairly young, Whiteley was idealistic and caught up in the great peace movements of the 1960s, with the protests against America's involvement in the war in Vietnam.

On 7 May 2007, Opera House, ( which took Whiteley a decade to paint, and which he exchanged with Qantas for a period of free air travel ) sold for $ 2. 8 million, in Sydney.

For the television version the original cast reprised their roles, with the exception of Thelma Whiteley, who was replaced by Harriet Reynolds.

Westwards lie Titchfield ; Catisfield, Locks Heath, Warsash and Whiteley, which is also shared with the City of Winchester.

The original Hospital was sold, and in July 2002, the Henry Lucas Charity was merged with the Whiteley Homes Trust.

In May 2005, Whiteley was taken into hospital with pneumonia.

Whiteley had a son, James, born in 1987 from a relationship with fashion journalist and television presenter Lesley Ebbetts.

Whiteley was chosen as host, and continued with the show when Sir Jeremy Isaacs brought it to Channel 4 as the first programme broadcast by the new station.

On 15 June 2003, Whiteley appeared on the BBC show, Top Gear and set the slowest time in the Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car segment with his time of 2: 06.

In 2007 Channel 4 announced its creation of the Richard Whiteley Memorial Bursary, a nine-month work experience placement at Yorkshire Television, working with True North Productions.

Its savings and banking administration departments were in Bradford, with mortgage centres in Thornaby-on-Tees and Whiteley ( which was due to close later in 2010 ).

Meanwhile, back in 1981, Andy and Jez Williams formed a band with schoolmate and bass player Tim Whiteley, recording and gigging from the age of 12 onwards.

In the past, Calendar has been hosted by the late Richard Whiteley ( until 1995, alongside his duties on Countdown, earning him the nickname " Twice Nightly Whiteley "), Austin Mitchell ( until he became a Labour Member of Parliament in 1977 ) and Mike Morris.

Around him at the Hotel Chelsea, other artists and musicians took heroin, which Whiteley did not take at that time.

Reporting to him were two deputy chiefs of staff, Brigadier General Alfred Gruenther and Brigadier John Whiteley, and the Chief Administrative Officer ( CAO ), Major General Humfrey Gale.

When the original presenter Richard Whiteley died in 2005, Bruce said: " was such a nice man-that was the defining quality of him, a genuinely nice man.

As one the top assist-getters in the nation, his 146 assists in 59 games places him second in the Virginia record books for most career assists, behind Tim Whiteley who had 159 assists in 63 games between 1993 and 1996.

Whiteley had the idea that he could create a store as grand as the Crystal Palace where all these goods could be under one roof and it would make him the most important shopkeeper in the world.

But whilst waiting to speak to him, Mr Whiteley is shot, and is lying in a pool of blood.

The show has spawned a number of related shows including Calendar Kids ( presented by Richard Madeley ), Calendar People ( presented by Richard Whiteley ), Calendar Election Special, Calendar Lunchtime Live and Calendar Countdown.

In 1999, Brett's mother Beryl Whiteley ( 1917 – 2010 ) founded the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship in memory of her son.

Whiteley examined the filly and noticed that her right hind leg was sensitive.

In 1774 she was acting with her mother and sisters at Wakefield under Tate Wilkinson ’ s opponent, Whiteley.

Hoff wrote the 1986 book, The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow, a biography about Opal Whiteley which also includes her diary.

Sixteen double cottages were built in Whiteley Village near Walton-on-Thames in Surrey to provide accommodation for more than twice as many people as was possible in the Hospital, and are known as The Henry Lucas Cottages.

* Johnny Whiteley, forward for Hull

Richard Whiteley, born John Richard Whiteley, OBE DL ( 28 December 1943 – 26 June 2005 ) was an English broadcaster and journalist, best known for his twenty-three years as host of the game show Countdown.

Countdown was the launch programme for Channel 4 at 4: 45 pm on 2 November 1982, and Whiteley was the first person to be seen on the channel ( not counting a programme montage ).

As the presenter of Countdown, Whiteley developed a reputation for wearing garish suits and ties, and it was common for Carol Vorderman to comment on this.

The 288-seat theatre has been built at the school where Whiteley was a pupil and governor, and provides a resource for the whole local community.

Whiteley became a Deputy Lieutenant of West Yorkshire in 2003, and was appointed OBE in the June 2004 Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to broadcasting.

It was created in 1908 for the Liberal politician George Whiteley, who had previously represented Stockport and Pudsey in the House of Commons.

Meridian operates from Whiteley, Hampshire, producing regional news and current affairs programmes in addition to occasional networked productions for the ITV network.

The wooded areas in Whiteley were used to provide shelter to troops in the build-up of forces for transportation to northern France in preparation for D-Day during the second world war.

Whiteley also contains the sizeable Solent Business Park which consists of a number of large companies, including Zurich Financial Services, the new headquarters for NATS ( formerly National Air Traffic Services ) and the offices and studios of ITV Meridian.

Whiteley appeared in five films during his brief career, and it was for the second of these, The Little Kidnappers ( 1953 ) that he, along with co-star Vincent Winter, was awarded an Academy Juvenile Award for this film.

Since the 1980s, the gradual spread of housing developments has meant that Swanwick has partly merged with the new development of Whiteley although there is no direct vehicular access except for a bus only route.

Whiteley also bought massive farmlands and erected food-processing factories to provide produce for the store and for staff catering.