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Legal name: Campbell, Mary Lorimer Beatrix
Other names: Barnes, Beatrix (birth name)
Birthdate: 1947-02-03
Gender: female
Nationality: UK
Birthplace: Carlisle, Cumberland, England
Education: Harraby Secondary Modern School
Carlisle and County High School for Girls
Occupations: journalist
author
broadcaster
campaigner
playwright
activist
Organizations: The Morning Star (sub-editor|reporter|resigned|1976)
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (member)
Communist Party of Great Britain (member)
Marxism Today
Time Out London
City Limits (show all 8)
Red Rag (founder member|1972)
Green Party (election candidate)
Awards and honors: Order of the British Empire (services to equal opportunities|2009)
Salford University (honorary doctorate)
Oxford Brookes University (honorary doctorate)
Open University (honorary doctorate)
World Pride Power List (100 most influential gay people of the year|2012)

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Making an Angel by Anthony Gormley

This is the official account of how Gateshead Council succeeded in bringing an iconic landmark sculpture to the North of England despite prolonged opposition to the project.

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