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Article: Sports Politics: Walker to chair new Sports Council
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 13, 1994
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RODNEY WALKER, chairman of the Rugby League, was yesterday named
successor to Sir Peter Yarranton as chairman of the Sports Council,
writes Mike Rowbottom.
Walker, who takes over on 1 October, has been chairman of the
Bradford Hospital NHS Trust since 1991, and he will be expected to
bring stringency and cost-awareness to bear as he supervises the
forthcoming reorganisation of the Sports Council.
When the new order is in place next year - with a UK Sports
Council ...