In November 1984, he won a libel action against the News of the World which had linked him to gay sex offences in Liverpool.
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Roberts had made enough of a name for himself to become a columnist in the Labour Herald (a newspaper set up by the Labour left, including Ken Livingstone) in 1983.
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The News of the World and Private Eye magazine revealed in 1981 that Roberts had been injured, requiring hospital treatment, in a sadomasochistic gay sex club in Berlin during a Parliamentary visit at Easter 1980.
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Allanridge established as a settlement in 1947 and was named after Allan Roberts whose borehole's proximity to the gold bearing reef was the precursor to the mining in the area.