On the eve of the commencement, anger was still simmering as president James F Jones Jr announced he would not participate Saturday because of the fears of unspecified disruptions.
A 10-day strike starting at the National Gallery on Tuesday has taken on an added dimension now one of the Public and Commercial Services union's senior representatives, Candy Udwin – suspended on the eve of the first strike in February (Letters, 12 March) – has been sacked.
Archibald arrived at his new domain last month to discover that, on the eve of the first match of the season, the previous chairman had turned up in the dead of night with a removal van and taken away what few assets remained at the club.
For many years he invited a group of political reporters to dinner on the eve of the Tory conference, at Salisbury in the south or the Riverside hotel at Poulton-le-Fylde when the conference was in Blackpool.
But of the 500 or so people who turned up for a sunny but cold Sunday at The Parks to watch Oxford MCCU host Surrey in a three-day friendly match, few would have bet against Pietersen plundering a century in his first game of red-ball cricket for 15 months, and on the eve of England's first Test with West Indies in Antigua.
"I've coached Australia in rugby, if one of my players was seen on the eve of the rugby test was seen... having dinner, privately inviting to dinner one of the All Blacks, the player would be sent home Malcolm," said Jones.
On the eve of the final match of the season, Barcelona proudly announced that Leo Messi had signed a new deal at the Camp Nou.
On the eve of the election campaign, the alleged sodomy whistleblower swore on the Qur'an in an effort to challenge Anwar's credibility.
On the eve of his visit to Lausanne, Kerry said he would not take responsibility for Cotton's intervention, which he said was an unprecedented attempt to interfere in an executive's foreign negotiations.
Amin had said he would strongly defend his conduct after the Mail on Sunday published a video in which he said he would take the credit for persuading the EDL to call off a march on the eve of the general election against the building of the mosque.
Someone I know still bears a grudge against his sister because on the eve of his 10th birthday she told him what he was getting as a present from their parents.
