Howard Brown (Halifax Bank) he left the company. In 2017, Howard made a cameo return to the world of advertising in an advert for Hotels.com. Howard Brown (Halifax Bank) Howard Brown (born c. 1966) is a former customer services representative and sales ambassador for HBOS plc, which owned both Bank of Scotland and Halifax Bank (previously the Halifax Building Society) in the United Kingdom. He is best known for his appearances in Halifax/HBOS television advertisements, often singing and dancing. He was born in Sheldon, Birmingham, and is of Barbadian descent. Brown became the star of the HBOS Marketing Campaign in 2000, which resulted in
Buff-fronted owl g. It is black above with white flecking on the wings. The underparts are unstreaked buff and the tail is brown with two spotted white bars. The head is large, with yellow eyes and a black-edged buff facial disc. The flight is strong and direct. The voice is a quavering trill sometimes varying in pitch. The buff-fronted owl was described by the American ornithologist John Cassin in 1849, and given the binomial name "Nyctale harrisii". The binomial commemorates the American ornithologist Edward Harris. Buff-fronted owl The buff-fronted owl ("Aegolius harrisii") is a small owl, a rare and local resident in