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From one tan to another

Mark Devenport | 10:12 UK time, Tuesday, 3 July 2007

No sooner have we bid goodbye to the famously perma-tanned Peter Hain than we get another politician with an expertise in tanning. In David Cameron's latest reshuffle, David Lidington has moved to be a Shadow Foreign Office Minister. He's replaced by the MP for North Shropshire, Owen Paterson. Before entering politics, Owen Paterson studied at the National Leathersellers College in Northampton. He then joined the British Leather Company, eventually rising to become President of the European Tanners' Confederation. Now that's what I call tanning.

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