| Thomas is part of Team Sky line-up alongside Edvald Boasson Hagen, Bernhard Eisel, Vasil Kiryienka, Salvatore Puccio, Gabriel Rasch, Kanstantsin Siutsou and Ian Stannard. |
| It was found impossible to drain the bog at Chat Moss, and one of the men on the site, Robert Stannard suggested timber in a herring bone layout. |
| The vicar of the parish, Banks, is excessively sentimental about the church and is constantly importuning Stannard with hesitations and objections. |
| What did it portend that Mrs. Stannard should have cut Mr. Gleason dead? |
| The Duke of Windsor, briefly King Edward VIII before he abdicated to marry Mrs Simpson, also owned a Stannard watercolour. |
| Before the day's racing began, Sky lost Ian Stannard who withdrew with a fractured scaphoid suffered in a crash close to Sunday's finish in Liverpool. |
