21.   Curry spent two years at Harrogate Theatre before being asked to present a Saturday morning TV show and later Blue Peter.

22.   Staff at Darlington Memorial Hospital were justifiably angry last week after being asked to make donations to a charity based at the hospital.

23.   Each church is to be asked to find more money.

24.   The Rotary Club and Civic Society are to be asked to help finance the project.

25.   Other unions are also being asked to black all teaching posts at RGU.

26.   Yes, you could say that pension funds are being asked to finance the economic recovery.

27.   They need our hands, our feet and most of all our minds, colleagues, what we are asking for is not a lot.

28.   Does that reassure you on that one, or do you still think you were being asked to do something?

29.   Among the contractors thought likely to be asked to bid on the contract are Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Thomson-CSF of France.

30.   And America is not being asked to cut its tariffs one jot.