Farnborough

Cherrywood Road is the ground of Farnborough F.C. and the former home of Farnborough Town F.C. before the club went out of business in 2007. It lies... in the town of Farnborough, Hampshire. The capacity of the ground was 4,200, with 627 seats. Recent improvements to the ground in 2008 and the current redevelopment of the Prospect Road End will lead to a larger capacity in the near future. Up to the mid 1970s Farnborough Town F.C. had played at Queens Road but moved due to the lack of facilities. Cherrywood Road was newly built with the help of a local company Worldwide Carpets. The ground was formerly called The John Roberts Ground but the name is rarely used with fans simply referring to the stadium as Cherrywood Road. For a period in the early 2000s it was known as the Aimita Stadium after the company of chairman/manager Graham Westley. The fans were against the renaming of the stadium by Westley and the name reverted back to Cherrywood Road following his departure in 2003.
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Jeremy James Hardy is a British comedian who is also known for his socialist politics. Hardy was born in Farnborough, Hampshire. He attended Farnham... College and studied Modern History and Politics at the University of Southampton. He started his stand-up career in the early 1980s, and won the Perrier Comedy Award in 1988 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He is best known for his radio work, particularly on The News Quiz, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and his long running series of monologues Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation. His experiences in Palestine during the Israeli army incursions of 2002 became the subject of a feature documentary Jeremy Hardy vs. the Israeli Army , directed by Leila Sansour. He made his television debut in the late 1980s in various comedy shows including Blackadder Goes Forth , and has presented a television documentary about the political background to the English Civil War as well as an edition of Top of the Pops in 1996. His off-key singing is a long-running joke on the radio panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.
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