This successful tenure also lead to him being selected in the Boomers squad for the 2004 Olympic Games and the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
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Bruton signed for the cashed-up Brisbane Bullets for the 2006/07 NBL season, joining a star-studded team that also featured Mark Bradtke, Sam Mackinnon, Dusty Rychart, Stephen Black and Adam Gibson.
The club managed to play all its remaining games from the 2002/03 NBL season, but were unable to hold on to their star players, including C. J. Bruton, the son of then-coach Cal Bruton, or any imports.
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In the 1980s the dovecote was inspected as part of an investigation into an outbreak of psittacosis a zoonotic infectious disease caused by a bacterium called Chlamydophila psittaci which is also known as parrot disease or parrot fever, at the adjoining King's School but no cause was found for the infection.
Weaver was educated at King's School, Bruton, although Dyslexia had prevented him from attending one of the more fashionable schools of the time.
It later became Hazlegrove Preparatory School, the junior school of King's School, Bruton.
Summerhayes was born on 21 February 1897 at Street, Somerset and he was educated at Sexey's School, Bruton and University College, London.