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    Lairg (Scottish Gaelic: An Luirg, meaning "the shank/shin") is a village and parish in Sutherland, Scotland. It has a population of 891 and is at the...
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  • Alexander Andrew Mackay Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg, PC, KC (born 23 June 1940), known as Derry Irvine, is a Scottish lawyer and politician who served...
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    Lairg railway station is a railway station just south of the village of Lairg in the Highland council area of Scotland. The station is on the Far North...
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  • The Lairg gravity low is a possible impact crater in Scotland about 40 kilometres in diameter, with a centre near the town of Lairg in the Scottish Highlands...
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    in the Scottish North West Highlands. To the south is the small town of Lairg. The loch, the largest in Sutherland, runs from the north-west to the south-east...
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    Hain Harriet Harman Patricia Hewitt Geoff Hoon John Hutton Lord Irvine of Lairg Baroness Jay of Paddington Alan Johnson Tessa Jowell Ruth Kelly Helen Liddell...
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    via Dornoch, which led to the existing route via Lairg being sometimes unofficially called the "Lairg loop". Soon after the A9 splits away, the line crosses...
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    other Stagecoach buses link the other towns of eastern Sutherland, such as Lairg and Bonar Bridge to Tain and Inverness. The western areas of the county...
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    Achiemore was a crofting community located on the Cape Wrath peninsula near the village of Durness in the Scottish county of Sutherland. The hamlet is...
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  • Fortrose, Gairloch, Garve, Invergordon, Inverness, Isle of Skye, Kyle, Lairg, Lossiemouth, Muir of Ord, Munlochy, Nairn, Plockton, Portree, Rogart, Strathcarron...
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    Hain Harriet Harman Patricia Hewitt Geoff Hoon John Hutton Lord Irvine of Lairg Baroness Jay of Paddington Alan Johnson Tessa Jowell Ruth Kelly Helen Liddell...
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    Lord Chancellor's judicial role was said to be disliked by Lord Irvine of Lairg, the previous Lord Chancellor. The post of Secretary of State for Constitutional...
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    A. "The Speeches of Lord Chatham". Classic Persuasion. "Lord Irvine of Lairg 'The Spirit of Magna Carta Continues to Resonate in Modern Law'". Parliament...
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    Highland area of Scotland. It runs generally northwest from the A836 in the Lairg area to Laxford Bridge on the west coast of Scotland, then generally northeast...
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    near Lairg, Sutherland, within the Highland, Scotland, and is in the council area of Highland. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 16 Lairg & Loch...
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  • Date ennobled Name Title 1987 Derry Irvine Baron Irvine of Lairg 1994 Helen Liddell Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke 1995 Elizabeth Smith Baroness Smith of...
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    Lords. The last lord chancellor to preside as a judge was Lord Irvine of Lairg (in office 1997–2003), who did so as a member of the Appellate Committee...
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    declared dead for House of Lords purposes. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine of Lairg, decided he was unable to issue Bingham his writ of summons to the Lords...
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    Sutherland IV IV25 Dornoch Sutherland IV IV26 Ullapool Ross-shire IV IV27 Lairg Sutherland IV IV28 Rogart Sutherland IV IV30 ELGIN Morayshire IV IV31 Lossiemouth...
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    Hain Harriet Harman Patricia Hewitt Geoff Hoon John Hutton Lord Irvine of Lairg Baroness Jay of Paddington Alan Johnson Tessa Jowell Ruth Kelly Helen Liddell...
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    Brown MP 1997–2007 Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain The Lord Irvine of Lairg PC QC 1997–2003 Leader of the House of Commons Lord President of the Council...
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    Hain Harriet Harman Patricia Hewitt Geoff Hoon John Hutton Lord Irvine of Lairg Baroness Jay of Paddington Alan Johnson Tessa Jowell Ruth Kelly Helen Liddell...
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    Hain Harriet Harman Patricia Hewitt Geoff Hoon John Hutton Lord Irvine of Lairg Baroness Jay of Paddington Alan Johnson Tessa Jowell Ruth Kelly Helen Liddell...
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  • Lord Advocate and former Senator of the College of Justice Lord Irvine of Lairg Labour 24 January 2024 Life peer Former Lord Chancellor Lord Leitch Labour...
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  • Gaelic: Achadh nan Càrnan) is a village on the headland of Point of Stoer in Lairg, Sutherland, within the Scottish local authority area of the Highland Council...
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    Altnaharra, Ardgay, Bettyhill, Bonar Bridge, Durness, Lairg, Lochinver and Tongue. With Lairg and Bonar being the most populated settlements in the area...
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    River Shin, in northern Scotland, near the villages of Bonar Bridge and Lairg. Falls of Shin had a popular visitor centre, managed as part of Balnagown...
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  • Ministry of Defence (2001–2007) HM judiciary Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg 1997 Lord Chancellor (1997–2003) HM judiciary Sir Stephen Irwin 16 November...
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    Lairg, to the A837 at Rosehall. The Mound is a causeway or bridge carrying the A9 across the estuary of the River Fleet. Between The Mound and Lairg the...
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    Correspondent Dario Ewing - Captain of GHA RFC Derry Irvine (Baron Irvine of Lairg) – barrister, KC and former Lord Chancellor Lionel Charles Knights – King...
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