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Article: Who's that with the Lord Mayor?; Chief Reporter Paul Dale looks back at the highlights of Theresa Stewart's year as Lord Mayor - with the emphasis on one special moment captured, right, by Post photographer Jeremy Pardoe.(ROP)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- May 15, 2001
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Byline: Paul Dale
Theresa Stewart, who retires as Lord Mayor of Birmingham today, carried out more than 1,500 engagements and met hundreds of people during her year in office.
But one encounter made a greater impression than all of the other functions put together.
Not that meeting film star George Clooney fazed 70-year-old Coun Stewart for a second.
She had only the haziest notion who he was when he arrived to open the Star City entertainment complex at Nechells.
'I had never heard of him, although he was very sweet,' she ...