Bridget

[brij-it]

noun

1. Saint. Brigid, Saint.

2. a female given name.

Bridget

/ ˈbrɪdʒɪt /

noun

1. Also: Bride.  Brigid. 453–523 _ad , Irish abbess; a patron saint of Ireland. Feast day: Feb 1

2. Also: Birgitta. ?1303-73, Swedish nun and visionary; patron saint of Sweden. Feast day: July 23

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Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said there would be a "further period of co-creation, testing our proposals with the people who matter most in this reform".

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Actress Bridget Turner had been approached to play Sybil Fawlty but she had turned it down and Scales auditioned for the role.

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Bridget Jones is to be celebrated with a new statue in London's Leicester Square.

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It was not a wholesale, overwhelming rejection of Bridget Phillipson, who was seen as the candidate closer to the prime minister as a serving cabinet minister.

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The Manchester Central MP defeated Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson by promising to give grassroots members a louder voice and push for a "course correction" in government.

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