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Sir John Parker: tough man from the farm, FT.com, 21 April 2011
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552:on 27 August 2018 – via Internet Archive.
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1123:University of Oxford Visiting Fellow Profile
603:on 5 July 2017 – via Internet Archive.
458:"Government job for Laing O'Rourke chairman"
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