Massachusetts Democratic and Senate hopeful Martha Coakley concedes to Republican Scott Brown after losing to him in an election to fill Ted Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts. Martha Coakley's concession speech: Scott Brown victory speech: Some interesting facts about Scott Brown: (Source: TImes UK) 1. Brown owns a truck, a 2005 GMC Canyon pick-up, with 200,000 miles on the clock. 2. At the age of 22, as a law student in Boston, he was named America's Sexiest Man by Cosmopolitan magazine. He posed naked as its centrefold in its June 1982 issue. 3. He has two daughters: Ayla is a college basketball champion and former American Idol semi-finalist; Arianna is a pre-med student at Syracuse University. 4. At the age of 12 he was caught shoplifting but returned to the straight and narrow after a judge made him write a 1,500-word essay on why his brothers and sisters would not want to see him play basketball in jail. 5. In Massachusetts, he backed state healthcare reform. But he has promised to oppose Mr Obama's nationwide healthcare reforms because he says they would cost too much.
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