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All was forgiven when they came home with the Ashes and a record of just one defeat on the whole tour.He was chairman of the Rugby League in 1961-62 and afterwards revelled in being regarded as “The Godfather” of the game. With his Old Testament white beard and his broad-brimmed hats, he was an unmistakeable presence and, across many different facets of the game, a hugely influential one. A Cumbrian farmer who also worked for the Ministry of Agriculture, he first became involved in the sport when he joined the board of the newly formed Workington Town. They entered the Rugby League in 1945 and, under Mitchell’s expansive leadership, which included bringing in players of the calibre of Gus Risman, quickly became one of the most successful clubs in the game.
He was too energetic and charismatic a figure to be confined to his native county. He was the team manager of the 1958 Great Britain tour to Australia, which was, at the same time, the most controversial and the most successful the Lions have ever undertaken. IF TOM Mitchell was not the most important single figure in the world of rugby league over the last 50 years, then he was certainly the most colourful.

Heyman also saw the potential of tourism as a new source of employment and enterprise in the North and this led to his appointment as President of the Northumbria Tourist Board from 1983 to 1986. In all this, Heyman was very fortunate in having in his wife Dorothy a great source of help and support.Long after his formal retirement at the age of 74, Horace Heyman’s unflagging curiosity, energy and desire to improve the world around him was evident in the stream of friends and colleagues from industry and the public sector who continued to visit him in Whitburn seeking disinterested advice, challenge, and encouragement.Horace Heyman, industrialist: born Berlin 13 March 1912; Managing Director, Smith’s Electric Vehicles 1949-64; Chairman, English Instrial Estates Corporation 1970-77; Governor, Newcastle Polytechnic 1974-86, Vice-Chairman 1983-86; President, Northumbria Tourist Board 1983-86; married 1939 Edith Marcuse (one son, one daughter; marriage dissolved), 1966 Dorothy Atkinson; died Whitburn, Sunderland 4 September 1998.. He secured the exclusive rights through a joint venture in the late 1950s for the manufacture of vehicles for “Mr Softee”, the first soft ice-cream product in the UK.Heyman’s prominence in his chosen field was reflected in his Fellowship of the Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE) and his appointment as a chartered engineer, and his invitation to speak as expert witness to the US Senate hearings on air and water pollution in 1967.His opportunity to make a major contribution through public service came in 1970 when he was appointed to the Chairmanship of the English Industrial Estates Corporation with its headquarters on the Team Valley Trading Estate, one of the great initiatives of the 1930s to bring new industries to the depressed North East. A central aim of government policy in the 1970s was to attract companies both from overseas and from the prosperous parts of England to the old industrial areas of the UK. Important to the success of that policy was the provision of factories in advance of demand, so that when companies saw a need to expand production, places like the North East could offer first-class, well-serviced and ready-built factory space. His success in this task was marked by his knighthood in 1976.It was during the 1970s that Heyman began to devote part of his energies to higher education, becoming a governor of a Newcastle Polytechnic in 1974.

He was vice-chairman of the board from 1983 to 1986 and was made an honorary fellow in 1985. His perception of the economic potential of knowledge developed in higher education led him to be active in the formation and subsequent development of Newcastle Polytechnic Products, which sought to sell technological ideas that came out of the polytechnic – an early example of entrepreneurship in higher education. Travel must include a Saturday night away and be booked 10 days in advance of travel. The prize winners and runners up will be notified by Monday 5th October. All I recall of the Graham Taylor documentary is the swearing.

And as for Driving School …When the Cutting Edge camera crew were unceremoniously told to leave, halfway through their filming schedule, by the new management at The Independent, you could feel the tension evaporate. The fly-on-the-wall documentary is an unhappy experience all round. It’s based on, and justified by, a single simple proposition – that is you train a camera for long enough on an institution, its constituent members will begin to go mad, will direct the camera’s gaze, unwittingly, on to their worst faults and shortcomings, just as the crew will encourage the dramatising of the worst behaviour and the editing-out of the most normal, and the whole enterprise will naturally tend towards destruction, entropy, the disintegration of a class, a family, a newspaper, a life.It is without doubt the least attractive incarnation of supposedly concerned human enquiry into the way we behave – the way we “really” are. Which is precisely why you’ll be watching it tomorrow night, and so, shamefacedly, will I.`Independent Rosie’ is on Channel 4 at 9pm tomorrow. MONICA BRADY, 39, has been a Manchester United fan ever since her Mancunian primary school playground was split down the middle between City and United.

Today, she is a “fairly” active member of the Independent Manchester United Supporters Association (IMUSA)

Sunday
A normal weekend My partner, Mark, and I went to Bristol to see my sister. In the afternoon Mark heard that Murdoch was trying to buy United I thought he was joking When I heard it on the radio I put it down to speculation. We got home to Manchester, had our tea and sat down to watch telly. At 9.30pm, the press secretary from IMUSA rang and said Sky were going to make an announcement in the morning and I was needed at Old Trafford to do an interview for Radio 5.MondayAt 7.30am I did a live interview for Radio 5 under the Munich Clock 7.40am I did a live interview for Radio 4 8.04am, I did a live interview for BBC Breakfast News. 8.15am, another TV station I don’t remember and then another couple of radio interviews. By the time I got to work I didn’t have to explain why I was late because they’d all seen me on TV.