 Lembit Öpik Lembit Öpik (born 2 March 1965) is a British politician in the Liberal Democrat Party. He is Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire and also Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary of State for Wales and Northern Ireland. He is also a member of the Agriculture Select Committee. used with permission courtesey of the Liberal Democrats - see Wikipedia:Pictures from libdems. ...
March 2 is the 61st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (62nd in leap years). ...
1965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ...
A politician is an individual involved in politics. ...
The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a social liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. ...
A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ...
Montgomeryshire is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
The Liberal Democrats are the third-largest political party in the United Kingdom, and they have an unofficial team of members that acts as a shadow cabinet. ...
The post of Secretary of State for Wales came into existence in October of 1964, the first incumbent being Jim Griffiths, MP for Llanelli. ...
The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is the British cabinet minister who has responsibility for the government of Northern Ireland. ...
A Select Committee of the British Parliament is a committee made up of a small number of members appointed to deal with particular areas or issues. ...
To the general public he is perhaps best known for his concerns about the possibility of an asteroid impact on Earth, and his advocacy for increased funding for attempts at detection, under the banner Spaceguard. His grandfather was Ernst Julius Öpik, an Estonian astronomer. He was also joint chair of the Middle Way Group, a cross-party parliamentary group which supported the regulation, not banning, of fox hunting. An asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun. ...
The term Spaceguard loosely refers to a number of efforts to discover and study near-Earth objects (NEO). ...
Ernst Julius Öpik Ernst Julius Öpik (October 23, 1893 – September 10, 1985) was a notable Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist, who spent the last part of his career (1948–1981) at the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland. ...
A fox hunt Fox hunting is a form of hunting for foxes using a pack of scent hounds. ...
His parents were refugees from Estonia who settled in Northern Ireland, where he was born and grew up, being educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. He took a degree in philosophy at the University of Bristol, where he became President of University of Bristol Union, and was also on the National Union of Students executive. Northern Ireland is one of four constituent parts of the United Kingdom. ...
Philosophy (from a combination of the Greek words philos meaning love and sophia meaning wisdom), as a practice, aims at some kind of understanding, knowledge, or wisdom about fundamental matters such as reality, knowledge, meaning, value, being, and truth. ...
The University of Bristol is a university in Bristol in the United Kingdom. ...
The University of Bristol Union is the students union of Bristol University. ...
The National Union of Students (NUS) is a representative body for the students unions that exist inside the United Kingdom. ...
Before being elected in the 1997 election for Montgomeryshire he was a personnel manager and had stood in Newcastle upon Tyne in the 1992 election. Although unsuccessful he was elected as a councillor on Newcastle City Council. In September 2004 he campaigned for the internal party election for the position of President of the Liberal Democrats, which was won by Simon Hughes. The UK general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997. ...
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The UK general election, 1992 was held on April 9, 1992, and was the fourth victory in a row for the Conservatives. ...
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Simon Hughes Simon Henry Ward Hughes, born May 17, 1951, is a British politician and Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for North Southwark & Bermondsey. ...
Öpik has appeared several times on Have I Got News For You. Due to his unusual name, he has been nicknamed "The Human Anagram". He became a member of the Spinal Injuries Association after a near-fatal paragliding accident in 1998 broke his back in 12 places. He is engaged to ITV weather forecaster Sian Lloyd. Have I Got News For You (sometimes abbreviated to HIGNFY) is a long-running UK television panel game, on the subject of news, politics and current affairs. ...
Paragliding (known in some countries as parapenting) is a recreational and competitive windsport that is best described as a hybrid of hang gliding and parachuting. ...
1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
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BBCs Alex Deakin presenting a weather report. ...
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See also The Liberal Democrats are the third-largest political party in the United Kingdom, and they have an unofficial team of members that acts as a shadow cabinet. ...
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