{"id":440745,"date":"2025-09-21T10:49:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T10:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/440745\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T10:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T10:49:13","slug":"tributes-to-incredibly-driven-former-mep-barry-seal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/440745\/","title":{"rendered":"Tributes to &#8216;incredibly driven&#8217; former MEP Barry Seal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While working in Brussels, Seal secured grants from the European Economic Community&#8217;s regional fund to help with the \u00a32.4m cost of converting the interior of Wardley Centre in Bradford, which later became the National Science and Media Museum and first IMAX cinema to be installed in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Born in Halifax, he went to Heath Grammar School before studying for a PhD at University of Bradford and attending the European Business School in France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He served on Bradford Council for eight years from 1971 where he was also leader of the Labour Group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After losing his seat in the European Parliament to Edward McMillan-Scott in 1999, he became a keen advocate for the NHS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While working in Brussels, Seal secured grants from the European Economic Community&#8217;s regional fund to help with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,1699],"class_list":{"0":"post-440745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-european-union"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115241901323483659","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}