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  • The authority also said it would refuse to change any signs in the city bearing the name St James' Park.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • The football club is part of the beating heart of the city, and while the council values its relationship with the club, it has no plans to change any existing wayfinding signs which bear the name St James' Park.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • Michael Cheslyn Miranda was only eleven years oleven people were killed and fifty-six injured by APLA operatives in what became known as the St James '

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • For Haggard, the formation of a new church – to be called St James – marks the beginning of a remarkable comeback and the latest stage of a rollercoaster ride through evangelical power.

    Ted Haggard, mega-church founder felled by sex scandal, returns to pulpit Paul Harris in New York 2010

  • The road, that climbed the steep pass and went through the high valley, was edged with yellow ragwort that the Spanish called St James's grass.

    Sharpe's Honour Cornwell, Bernard 1985

  • The longest cruise we had any of us managed to steal, was perhaps in one of the cutters, as far as what we Englishmen persist in calling St James's castle -- a strange name for Turks to give a place, and which, in fact, we have devisedly corrupted from their word _sandjeak_.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various

  • Sunderland's Stadium of Light has successfully turned itself into a summer music venue and has hosted the likes of Kings of Leon and Take That in recent years, while the ground formerly known as St James' Park is solely a football arena.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011

  • Newcastle United to ditch St James' Park name as club prepares to sell naming rights to stadium Newcastle United's ground is to no longer be called St James' Park after the club announced they would be selling naming rights to the highest bidder.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011

  • Marshall called St James's Palace to find out how to return the OBE, and was told she could send it to either the Queen or the prime minister, with an explanation of why she was giving it back.

    The Guardian World News Amelia Gentleman 2011

  • Newcastle United have called St James' Park home, but in a victory for commercialism over romanticism, managing director Derek Llambias has decided there is nothing in a name other than sponsorship rights.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011

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