So she agreed with the other captain's decision on limiting the number of crews sending ideas, but that agreement didn't help.

He was, he said, simply sending ideas into the marketplace, where the public could accept or reject them.

Thousands of people sent ideas representing "community", which he painted on the stonework of the bridge.

Last year, he said: "There were people I would encourage to send ideas, people whose copy needed a lot of work.

The show offered a monetary prize to people who sent good ideas for the show.

Wary of sending new ideas to old (and fast changing) addresses, his remarks were in effect addressed to whom it may concern.

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It was there that he started thinking about Hollywood and sent scripts and ideas to producers.