"Five years ago I stood here and said we had made history here in Brighton," Lucas said to loud cheers inside the Brighton Centre conference venue.
Departures year-round For many the Falklands will always conjure up images of war, but today they are increasingly a venue for tourism.
Currently, those employees can use salary packaging to claim an unlimited amount for meals, alcohol, entertainment and even venue hire under fringe benefits tax (FBT) arrangements.
We design a new production for every venue that is kind enough to invite us.
I've seen Jason Roy hit the very first ball of the match clean out of Whitgift's little ground in Croydon and spent a couple of hours talking to Pat Pocock at the same venue during a four-day game.
The Dome was undermined by the unforgivably crass and soulless Millennium Experience exhibition of 2000; it was many years before it redeemed itself as today's O2 music venue.
This article was amended on 30 September 2013 to correct the venue for the Conservative party conference from Blackpool to Manchester in the seventh item.
All of which makes you wonder if it's mere coincidence that he's chosen to give his first interview in the week that the job of next director-general was advertised, or that the chosen venue is the so-called "Tsar's Bar" in a hotel opposite Broadcasting House (where the DG and BBC Broadcast are both based) rather than the Production tsar's own HQ in White City.
Equally he has the venue they deserve, Royal County Down is a classic links course, hugely demanding and offering a unique challenge that will be enthralling to watch.
Years & Years are actually the support band, but they're rising stars in France, which means the venue is full well before the headliners appear.
But few of the revellers pouring into the newly reopened venue seemed to notice the order, and those who did paid it no heed.
