** Strangeways Prison riot: The longest prison riot in Britain's history begins at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, and continues for 3 weeks and 3 days, until April 25.

Opened in 1971, it is one of Britain's longest National Trails, stretching for from the Severn estuary at Sedbury, near Chepstow, to Prestatyn on the north Wales coast.

The centre of town and the whole of Ock Street ( half a mile ) are closed every October for two days for the Ock Street Michaelmas Fair, once a hiring fair but now maybe Britain's longest and narrowest funfair.

Christine Waddell is Britain's longest survivor of locked-in syndrome, leaving her in a state of constant paralysis, but awareness.

Both of these walks intersect with the South West Coast Path, Britain's longest National Trail, which starts at Minehead and follows the Exmoor coast before continuing to Poole.

It is Britain's longest established restaurant chain.

Although not the United Kingdom's longest National Trail ( this distinction belongs to the long South West Coast Path ), it is according to the Ramblers ' Association " one of Britain's best known and toughest ".

During this stage of construction the M5 became Britain's longest contraflow system,

Leaving Perth it passes Scone Palace, ancient coronation site of Scottish kings and now home to Britain's most northerly racecourse, continues through the planned 19th-century village of Guildtown before crossing the River Isla and passing the famous Meikleour Beech Hedge, planted to commemorate the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion and now the tallest and longest hedge in the world.

* Nils Taube ( 1928 – 2008 ), Britain's longest serving fund manager

Britain's longest bridge, Bromford Viaduct starts here, carrying the M6 to Junction 5, Castle Bromwich.

Having run almost uninterrupted since 1970, the show is now Britain's longest continuously-running game show with 942 episodes ( as of 26 September 2011 ).

Built between 1775 and 1783 as an upper middle class residential area, the square has had many distinguished residents, including Lord Eldon, one of Britain's longest serving and most celebrated Lord Chancellors, who lived in the largest house in the square for many years.

Over the years, he directed one hundred and eighty-six episodes of Britain's longest running soap opera, Coronation Street.

* Berwick Kaler-( born 1947 ) Currently Britain's longest serving, Kaler has played his extremely non-camp dame at York Theatre Royal since 1977

One of its branches, the Duke of York's Picture House in Brighton, opened in 1910 and is Britain's longest continually operating cinema.

John Stevenson ( born 1937 ) is a British writer who since 1976 has been a regular script writer on Britain's longest running soap opera, Coronation Street.

The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama is one of Britain's longest established performing conservatoires, and its recently opened Alexander Gibson Opera School is the first purpose built opera school in Britain.

The circuit was Britain's longest at, but the races drew few crowds and the BRSCC soon switched to Rufforth Circuit when that became available the following year.

Christopher Soames, Britain's Ambassador to France during the government of Edward Heath and cabinet minister under Margaret Thatcher, remarked that " Mrs. Thatcher was not really running a team.

* 1711-The British government, then in the hands of the Tories, covertly ordered the British Gibraltar governor, Thomas Stanwix, to expel any foreign ( not British ) troops ( to foster Great Britain's sole right to Gibraltar in the negotiations running up between Britain and France ).

The steamship company running a service between Glasgow and St Kilda commissioned a short ( 18 minute ) silent movie, St Kilda, Britain's Loneliest Isle.

The problem of potential power-shortages as a result of a coal strike had been recognised by the Thatcher government which insisted that Britain's coal-fired power stations create their own stockpiles of coal which would keep them running throughout any industrial action.

The Great Central Railway has a reasonable running length with the added bonus of a mainline setup, and so some of Britain's largest locomotives have been there in recent years.

Furthermore, the network was running as a cooperative of its affiliated stations — meaning that network programming had to be funded and produced by individual stations, in a manner more comparable to the United States ' PBS or Britain's ITV than to modern expectations of a commercial television network.

In November 2009 Britain's long running arts series The South Bank Show aired a 60 minute documentary about Elbow on ITV 1.

FirstGroup plc is Britain's largest bus operator, running more than 20 % of all local bus services.

In November 2011, it was reported that Womack was in the running, alongside Dannii Minogue, to become a judge on the 2012 series of Britain's Got Talent.

Many of the unit's films celebrated the running of Britain's nationalised railway network ; early titles such as Train Time, Elizabethan Express and Snowdrift at Bleath Gill aimed to document and celebrate the achievements and hard work of railway staff and their machinery.

The club was founded in 1906, making it Britain's oldest athletics club.

In March 2005 he also came top in a survey sponsored by the Jongleurs comedy club chain to find Britain's favourite comedian.

The revenue from book club sales enabled him to acquire other publishing companies, including Bantam Books, Doubleday, and Random House ; record labels, such as RCA Victor ; and radio and television chains, including Germany's RTL Television and 90 % of Britain's Channel Five.

Oscar Gugen and Peter Small decided to form Britain's first diving club, and were trained to scuba dive by Travor Hampton.

Her records remained popular on Britain's Northern soul club circuit, and many tracks were reissued on compilation CDs.

The canal is home to Britain's oldest canal cruising club, the North Cheshire Cruising Club.

In 2010 TV3 began broadcasting the BBC ' sOver the Rainbow, initially broadcast on Saturday night but moved to Sunday nights to make room for ITV's Britain's Got Talent.

The Italians were confident they could fend off any daylight incursions by Britain's Royal Navy, especially given the German Luftwaffe's ability to dominate the daytime skies, but there were legitimate concerns the Italian fleet would face serious difficulties if the British sought to disrupt the seaborne landings by night.

* Britain's Air Ministry issues its first requirement for a purpose-designed night fighter.

He had suggested that Britain's Secret Intelligence Service was monitoring Diana before her death and that her driver on the night she died, Henri Paul, may have been an MI6 informant, and that her death resembled plans he saw during 1992 for the assassination of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, using a bright light to cause a traffic accident.

In use throughout the 1950s and early 1960s as Britain's premier night fighter station,

Their youngest son Brian, an RAF pilot, was killed in action in a bombing raid over Wilhelmshaven, Germany the first night of Britain's entry into the Second World War.