Thomas Lips Thomas Lips Thomas Lips (born 27 February 1970) is a Swiss curler. Lips was a member of the Swiss team that won the 2006 European Curling Championships. Lips started playing curling in 1977. He won a bronze medal at the 1991 European Curling Championships, playing lead for Daniel Model. He would not return the Euros until 2003. Playing third for Bernhard Werthemann, they finished fourth. They finished sixth at the 2004 Ford World Men's Curling Championship. In 2006, playing second for Andreas Schwaller, the team won the Euros, defeating Scotland in the final. Lips currently skips his own team, which
Michael Payne (cartoonist) Dale were the comedy lead in Chichester Festival Theatre’s production of the pantomime "Aladdin" which starred Barbara Windsor, Christopher Timothy, Trevor Bannister and Aubrey Woods. In 1986/7 Payne appeared on Sky News on Friday evenings around 6.35pm, as their cartoonist presenting his quirky take on the week’s news as well as his Cartoon of the Week. In 1987 Stephen Haines approached Payne and asked him to create a bear with a "great depth of feeling" for his new company Carte Blanche Greetings. It was from this brief that Payne created the little grey, blue-nosed bear called "Tatty Teddy" for the