Rowley

British

/ ˈraʊ-, ˈrəʊlɪ /

noun

Thomas . ?1586–?1642, English dramatist, who collaborated with John Ford and Thomas Dekker on The Witch of Edmonton (1621) and with Thomas Middleton on The Changeling (1622)

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Sir Sadiq promised that he and Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley would reduce the number of phone thefts, in the same way the Met had reduced homicide rates.

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Albert Lamond, from Glasgow, was an 18-year-old signalman aboard HMS Rowley when he took part in the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944.

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He was deployed to the coast of northern France a year later aboard HMS Rowley.

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Hundreds of motorcyclists handed the cards over to Amelia Kolpa, from Rowley Regis in the Black Country, who has neuroblastoma and has been in and out of hospital since the age of two-and-a-half.

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Troubadour's chief operating officer Rowley Gregg said it was a "key desire" for the theatre to support the community.

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