Prize Quiz Challenge

[JandyAF]

By a coincidence I noticed pipdawg's recent query was the same quiz that I'm trying to complete. The answers are all UK towns and cities (anagram, cryptic or general knowledge. I have just these 4 to do:
1. Comic book pilot and Wimbledon champ (11)
2. A heavy ex labour chancellor (10)
3. If you need rebates, look north! (8)
4. A city on the Thames in the middle of London (7)
According to some clues kindly provided, one of these should be in Scotland, one in N. Ireland, one in Beds and one in Durham.
I would be most grateful for any help.

[puternut]

3 Straeban - anag 'REBATES' & North

[puternut]

1 Biggles wade

[THECORBYLOON]

3 is spelt STRABANE

[puternut]

You are correct THECORBYLOON - apologies

[TheWinner]

2. Stonehouse?

[JandyAF]

Thanks very much to both of you. I feel really dim not to have seen Biggleswade, and I had thought Strabane was an anagram of rebates + n, but just couldn't get it. So that's the Beds one and the N.I. one done, only two to go! Re No 2, I discovered that there's a place called Hattersley, but not in Scotland or Durham.

[JandyAF]

Stonehouse sounds good, TheWinner, and apparently there are two places called that in Scotland, but was John Stonehouse chancellor ever? My Biographical Dic says he was Minister of Technology and then Minister of Posts & Telecommunications.

[TheWinner]

Now seen answered elsewhere as: Darling Ton

[barmy]

4 Belfast

[JandyAF]

Thanks again to TheWinner, and to barmy for Belfast - however, I can't quite see the reasoning for the latter. I have had another look at Strabane, which seemed to fit perfectly, but surely it's not entirely an anagram of REBATES + N (rebates has two E's and one A, and Strabane has two A's and one E).

[puternut]

4 Reason is H.M.S. Belfast is moored in the Thames near Tower Bridge. It is a museum - of WWII Naval action I believe.

Still looking at Strabane <GRIN>

[JandyAF]

Thanks, puternut - HMS Belfast never occurred to me, even though I visited it once many years back!