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Harry Gration was born in Bradford and began his career as a
history teacher
at Rothwell Primary School. In 1980 he accepted a three month
contract as
sports editor at BBC Radio Leeds before making his transition
into television
as a presenter on Look North. Alongside his Look North role,
Harry is a
regular commentator for BBCs Final Score and presents The
Superleague
Show. In the past he has presented Grandstand and Sportsnight,
as well as
the rare Match of the Day appearance, and he has reported from
five summer
Olympic Games, three winter Olympic Games, and numerous World
Cups
and Commonwealth Games.
Graduations from all four of the Universitys faculties will take
place The
Carnegie Faculty, the Faculty of Business & Law, the Faculty
of Arts,
Environment & Technology and the Faculty of Health &
Social Science.
Ends
The full list of honorary degrees to be awarded by Leeds
Metropolitan
University:
Monday 18 July 11am June Kenton, Hon D Business
Administration
Monday 18 July 2pm Mohammed Sabir, Hon D Business
Administration
Monday 18 July 5pm Ninian Watt, Hon D Business
Administration
Tuesday 19 July 11am Melvin Benn, Hon D Business
Administration
Wednesday 20 July 2pm Harry Gration, Hon D Arts
Wednesday 20 July 2pm Alexander Skarsgrd, Hon D Arts
Friday 22 July 2pm Dorothy Hyman, Hon D Sports Science
Friday 22 July 5pm Ikram Butt, Hon D Sports Science
Saturday 23 July 11am Larry Gould, Hon D Business
Administration
y June Kenton is the owner of the lingerie company Rigby and
Peller and
the Grantee of Royal Warrant as Corsetiere to H.M. Queen
Elizabeth II .
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y Mohammed Sabir is the founder of Aagrah, the countrys largest
and
most successful Kashmiri restaurant group.
y Ninian Watt is former Chair of the Board of Governors at
Leeds
Metropolitan University.
y Melvin Benn is the CEO of Festival Republic and licensee
of
Glastonbury.
y Dorothy Hyman is a former sprinter and the only British woman
to have
ever won medals in both the 100m and 200m at the same
Olympic
Games. She was crowned BBC Sports Personality of the Year in
1963.
y Ikram Butt is the founder of the British Asian Rugby
Association. A
professional rugby league player , he played for several
Yorkshire
teams, including Leeds Rhinos and Huddersfield Giants,
making
history in 1995 when he became the first South Asian player
to
represent England at either code.
y Larry Gould is the Chief Executive Officer of thebigword
Group.
To attend any of these honorary ceremonies, or for furthe r
details,
please contact Carrie Braithwaite in the News & Media team
at Leeds
Met on 0113 812 3022 or email [email protected]
Notes for editors:
y Leeds Metropolitan University has 30,000 students and 3, 000
staff.
y The University has achieved its best ever Research
Assessment
Exercise results. Sports-Related Studies is in the top 6
institutions in
the country with research rated at the highest levels of 4* and
3*.
y Leeds Met has been rated the top university in the UK for its
language
support, accommodation quality and learning spaces in the
2010
Autumn Wave of the International Student Barometer and sixth in
the
world for the quality of its lectures.
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y The Universitys award-winning learning environments
include
Broadcasting Place, voted the best tall building in the world in
2010 by
the Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban
Habitat
(CTBUH) and also winner of the 2010 Leeds Architecture Awards
New
Building category, the iconic Rose Bowl building, awarded
Best
Commercial Property Development in the 2009 Yorkshire
Property
Awards and the pioneering Carnegie Village student
accommodation.
y Leeds Metropolitan isone of only a handful of UK universities
to have
been awarded the Carbon Trust Standard.
