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Captain WE Johns pilot character James Bigglesworth, popularly known as Biggles, is one of those fictional characters that has entered the British public consciousness whether or not they have read any of his novels or short stories.
Biggles in The Cruise Of The Condor Steve 2009
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Captain WE Johns pilot character James Bigglesworth, popularly known as Biggles, is one of those fictional characters that has entered the British public consciousness whether or not they have read any of his novels or short stories.
Archive 2009-06-01 Steve 2009
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He doesn't say whether he's going in Lord "Biggles" Ashcroft's Dassault or not.
Archive 2007-11-04 2007
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Lord "Biggles" Ashcroft is underwriting any and all legal costs through one of his 120,000 UK-based companies.
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He doesn't say whether he's going in Lord "Biggles" Ashcroft's Dassault or not.
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Lord "Biggles" Ashcroft is underwriting any and all legal costs through one of his 120,000 UK-based companies.
Archive 2007-11-04 2007
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Feeling like a latter day 'Biggles', wearing leather flying helmet and goggles (see photo) and gently bouncing on the buoyant thermals of a hot summer's day I peered over the side of the open cockpit and gazed down nostalgically at the meadows and woods that I has explored as a boy and where I listened to cuckoos, yellowhammers, lapwings and larks.
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A beautiful story that encompasses 'Biggles', 'The Cudlipp Conspiracy', '633 Squadron', and it was all caused by an unfortunate reaction to Antihistamines and Champagne.
Army Rumour Service 2009
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I swear, though I may owe the thought to Biggles, that we followed them all the way to Basel.
So close, yet so far away – Europe is still something of a mystery to many of us | Ian Jack 2011
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Biggles, William Brown and Little Tim from the books by Edward Ardizzone all had a loyal buddy called "Ginger" – to say nothing of Harry Potter's Ron Weasley.
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