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  • This is what Lord Mandelson said today when David Wighton, the business editor of The Times, asked whether the prime minister was "onto something" with the Big Society.

    David Cameron's Big Society is praised by Peter Mandelson Nicholas Watt 2010

  • Kate Wighton, The Times: Stefanie Reichelt, a scientist at the Cambridge Research Institute, believes that cancer cells are beautiful.

    Turning Cancer Cells Into a Work of Art | Disinformation 2008

  • Lady Wighton, a plump woman of some five and forty years, had an aversion to exerting herself.

    The Outrageous Dowager Westleigh, Sarah 1996

  • She knew it would be prudent to insist upon joining the others or returning to Lady Wighton immediately, but prudence lost out to anticipation as Storm drew her into a tiny glade just off the path and took her into his arms.

    The Outrageous Dowager Westleigh, Sarah 1996

  • She therefore took care to keep her hand featherlight upon his arm as she went on, "It seemed the easiest way to dissuade Lady Wighton from her purpose, but her ladyship is not easily deterred."

    The Outrageous Dowager Westleigh, Sarah 1996

  • "I cannot feel able to rely upon Lady Amber's doing anything any lady of sense and breeding would think proper," retorted Lady Wighton spitefully.

    The Outrageous Dowager Westleigh, Sarah 1996

  • Henrie de Putsey aliàs Pudsey, might enioy one of the kings manor places called Wighton.

    Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed

  • Wighton, a chaplain in Dundee, who obtained the vicarage pensionary in the parish church of Ballumby in 1538, and who appears to have been incarcerated in St Andrews Castle in the cardinal's absence in 1543

    The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics Alexander F. Mitchell

  • Father and son, Gino Da-Pra, 77, and Renzo Da-Pra were reported missing by family members following the attack on 12-year-old Emma Wighton (Wighton) and her grandmother, Vivienne Wighton, on Friday evening in Wetherill Park, in Sydney's southwest.

    Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2009

  • It was nervewracking for Wighton and Dowding to maintain peak performances because they had always been used to competing over three consecutive days.

    Tsn.ca Top Stories RSS 2009

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