Clive Spate

Clive Spate (born 16 January 1952) is a British game show contestant. He was the winner of the eighth series of "Countdown" and has won many other TV quizzes, including the 2003 series "Grand Slam", a contest between previous quiz show champions which also featured Olav Bjortomt, Mark Labbett, Graham Nash and David Edwards, among others.
He appeared on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" (Series 15, Episode 13), broadcast on 27th March 2004, where he won £125,000. 
Spate is also a former tournament Scrabble player. He was the top rated UK player in 1991, 1994 and 1995. He competed at the World Scrabble Championship in 1993, finishing ninth out of sixty-four. The winner that year was "Countdown" Champion of Champions Mark Nyman – the first UK Scrabble player to hold the World Championship title.
Spate gradually retired from the game, although he made a brief comeback in 2003, when he was the runner-up at the British National Scrabble Championship.

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Post privatisation.
Yorkshire Electricity Board was privatised in 1990 as the Yorkshire Electricity Group plc.
In June 1993, Homepower stores were opened across the Yorkshire region. Homepower was the retail arm of the company which was a joint venture with East Midlands Electricity. At its peak, Homepower employed 900 people and had 130 stores. This part of the company was sold off in 1996.
In 1997 the company was acquired by American Electric Power (AEP) and Public Service Company of Colorado (part of Xcel Energy) in a deal worth £1.5 billion. In 2001 Innogy plc bought 94.75% of the company in a deal worth £1.8 billion. The company was subsequently split into two entities, one a supply company, the other a distribution utility. The distribution company (Yorkshire Electricity Distribution Limited) was disposed of to CE Electric UK in 2001 in exchange for the supply business of Northern Electric. Northern Powergrid is now the licensed Distribution Network Operator for the Yorkshire region. In 2002, the company divested itself of its Leeds Headquarters as most staff and processes had been transferred to the Midlands HQ of npower by that time.
Innogy was itself taken over by RWE. The supply company now trades as npower.