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Buchan

[buhk-uhn, buhkh-uhn]

noun

  1. John Baron Tweedsmuir, 1875–1940, Scottish novelist and historian: governor general of Canada 1935–40.



Buchan

/ ˈbʌkən /

noun

  1. John , 1st Baron Tweedsmuir. 1875–1940, Scottish statesman, historian, and writer of adventure stories, esp The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) and Greenmantle (1916); governor general of Canada (1935–40)

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BBC reporters Jonathan Buchan, Nizaar Kinsella and Mike Taylor shared their own stories about what makes them proud to support their clubs.

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BBC Radio Leeds sports editor Buchan says he forced his dad, who wasn't a football fan, to take him and a friend on a half-mile walk from their home in Wortley to Elland Road:

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Among his favourites were the works John Buchan and H Rider Haggard, but Forsyth adored Ernest Hemingway's book on bullfighters, Death in the Afternoon.

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Kirsty Buchan, from Coatbridge in North Lanarkshire, posted pictures of herself using the pseudonym Jessica Jackrabbit, and described herself as a "good teacher gone bad" with a "sexy tight body".

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Solicitor and presenting officer for the GTC, Gary Burton, said Ms Buchan had "used her profession as a selling tool", appeared to have justified her actions in newspaper interviews and that Bannerman High School was "now synonymous with having an OnlyFans teacher".

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