LIFE WITH THE LIONS; Thousands of Lions from all over the world have descended on Birmingham for their 81st International Convention. Chief Feature writer MAUREEN MESSENT meets a group for breakfast and then mingles with pin-traders at the National E xhibition Centre to disco ver exactly what makes Lions tick.

From: Birmingham Evening Mail (England) | Date: June 30, 1998| Author: Messent, Maureen | Copyright information

IT'S 7am and, with just two hours to go before members from all over the world descend on the NEC to register at the start of the Lions Clubs International Convention, an oddly Eastern little ritual is shaping up at Birmingham's Chamberlain Hotel, Alcest er Street.

The delegation from Thailand, many of them still jet-lagged, are joining the procession snaking through the dining-room where, over corn-flakes and congealing scrambled eggs, a venerable-looking old man is bow...

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