Lists

Heroes...

Name	Web address	Description

Aung San Suu Kyi	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aung_San_Suu_Kyi	Burma's Democracy leader.Dignity personified and total dedication to others despite appaling personal danger.

Clive Sullivan	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Sullivan	Hull finest adopted son. Captained Great Britain to World Cup glory and won Challenge Cup medals for both Hull FC and Hull KR. Bore the unbearble with heroic and inspirational stoicism before his death in 1985 aged just 42

Jim Larkin	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Larkin	Founder of the Irish Trade Union Movement. Understood Class and NOT Religion was (and is) the cause of Ireland's problems

Ken Loach	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Loach	Our greatest working film maker

Sean Penn	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Penn	Doing the right thing no matter what the Press say.Grace Under Pressure

Jimmy McGovern	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_McGovern	Socialism with heart and soul..... plus great and insightful screenplays.

Sir Geoffrey Boycott	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Boycott	Simply The Best

Mick McCarthy	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_McCarthy	Yorkshire Grit. Irish Heart There is no better combination.

Brian Marwood	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Marwood	Excelled "On The Wiiiing" for both Hull City AND Arsenal.Does it get any better in a football career?

Neil Kinnock	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Kinnock	"Poverty is the worst form of violence"

George Orwell	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell	Finest, and most important writer of the 20th Century

Nye Bevan	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nye_Bevan	Founder of the NHS whose legacy changed Britain for the better

Morrissey	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morissey	"England is mine... And it owes me a living". Our greatest songwriter ever

Alan Bennett	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Bennett	Yorkshire's finest writer who may have well as invented the word "Pathos"

Hunter Davies	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Davies	The Grand Daddy of football writers.His observational humour is second to none.

Bono	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bono	Now up himself and could entitle his autobiography "The Ego Has Landed", but in the early days he meant it and his raw passion and zest to change the World inspired me

Tony Benn	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Benn	"Principals without power are futile"

Henry II	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_II_of_England	England's greatest King and founder of the Legal and Judicial System

Johhny Cash	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Cash	20th Century American Hero and the epitome of evertything that is great about the USA

Homer J. Simpson	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Simpson	Iconic or what?

Mohandas K. "Mahatma" Gandhi.	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi	Like... Duh! I believe is the modern parlance

Dennis Potter	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Potter	TV's Number One dramatist. He set the benchmark. Untouchable

John Pilger	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pilger	No one can plead ignorance with John around.World's greatest working journalist

John Charles	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Charles	UK best ever all round footballer.

Hilda of Whitby	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Hilda	7th Century feminist

Nikki Hoyle	http://www.myspace.com/basschasernic	Living life to the full and making a difference.

Cath		Have you got all day?

Dr.Belinda Allan		Fantastically professional and humane Consultant. Along with Prof.Giovannoni, Mr Stewart and Dr.Acheson, they provide counter ballast to the dross in the medical "Profession"