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Coates

American  
[kohts] / koʊts /

noun

  1. Eric, 1886–1957, English violist and composer.

  2. Joseph Gordon, 1878–1943, New Zealand statesman: prime minister 1925–28.


Coates British  
/ kəʊts /

noun

  1. Joseph Gordon. 1878–1943, New Zealand statesman; prime minister of New Zealand (1925–28)

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The Royal Stoke University Hospital is set to become the UK's largest robotic surgery centre, bosses have said, following a £12m investment from the Denise Coates Foundation.

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The latest donation takes the total funding from the Denise Coates Foundation to £29m to UHNM's charitable arm since 2014.

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"This investment will allow more patients across the region to benefit from world-leading surgical care closer to home," Coates said.

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So, over long discussions and with the clock ticking down to the end of the window, Spurs made adjustments to Peter's situation and, with the guarantee that he would sign a longer contract with us than was originally planned, I believed my chairman Peter Coates would back the signing.

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I believe both were in favour, but Coates rang me up with a negative from someone else on the basis that Crouch's age - he was 30 - and the length of his contract, meant we would get no return on the £10m we were paying for him, which was a club record fee.

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