Steel Company of Wales, a British steelmaker, wants to bring in Virginia coal, cut down on its takings of Welsh coal in order to be able to compete more effectively -- especially in foreign markets.

British Steel PLC was a major British steel producer.

It originated as a nationalised industry, the British Steel Corporation ( BSC ), formed in 1967.

This was converted to a public limited company, British Steel PLC, and privatised in 1988.

Dorman Long, South Durham and Stewarts and Lloyds had merged as British Steel and Tube Ltd before vesting took place.

According to Blair ( 1997 ) British Steel faced serious problems at the time of its formation, including obsolescent plants ; plants operating under capacity and thus at low efficiency ; outdated technology ; price controls that reduced marketing flexibility ; soaring coal and oil costs ; lack of capital investment funds ; and increasing competition on the world market.

From the mid-1970s the ( now loss-making ) British Steel pursued a strategy of concentrating steelmaking in five areas: South Wales, South Yorkshire, Scunthorpe, Teesside and Scotland.

* At Consett the closure of the British Steel works in 1980 marked the end of steel production in the Derwent Valley and the decline of the area.

* In Scotland, Western Europe's largest hot strip steel mill Ravenscraig steelworks, near Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, was closed by British Steel in 1992, leading to huge unemployment in the area.

It also led to the closure of several local support and satellite businesses, such as the nearby British Steel Clydesdale Works in Mossend, Clyde Alloy in Netherton and equipment maker Anderson Strathclyde.

British Steel was privatised in 1988 by the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher.

In 1971, British Steel sponsored Sir Chay Blyth in his record-making non-stop circumnavigation against the winds and currents, known as ' The Impossible Voyage '.

In 1992 they sponsored the British Steel Challenge, the first of a series of ' wrong way ' races for amateur crews.

British Steel had agreed a sponsorship deal with Middlesbrough Football Club during the 1994-95 season, with a view to British Steel sponsored Middlesbrough shirts making their appearance the following season.

* British Iron and Steel Research Association

Politics and Steel in Britain, 1967-1988: The Life and Times of the British Steel Corporation ( 1990 )

" The European Steel Unions and the Steel Crisis, 1974-84: A Study in the Demise of Traditional Unionism ," British Journal of Political Science, Apr 1988, Vol.

* British Steel plc and C Walker & Sons ( Holdings ) Ltd, 1990 Competition Commission report

In the autumn of 1959, the British Broadcasting Corporation presented a series of talks by four scientists competent in cosmology.

* Associated British Corporation, a former British film and television company

* The British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ), sometimes called the Beeb or Auntie Beeb

BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day.

*" Cuba's health diplomacy ", British Broadcasting Corporation, February 25, 2010.

* Commonwealth Development Corporation ( formerly the Colonial Development Corporation ), a British development organisation

The situation was greatly complicated by the large number of landowners involved: the PLA, the Greater London Council ( GLC ), the British Gas Corporation, five borough councils, British Rail and the Central Electricity Generating Board.

FNC is carried in the Republic of Ireland by the British Sky Broadcasting ( BSkyB ) satellite-television network ( Sky ), which is 40-percent owned by FNC's parent ( News Corporation ).

FNC is also carried in the United Kingdom by the British Sky Broadcasting ( BSkyB ) satellite-television network ( Sky ), which is 40-percent owned by FNC parent News Corporation.

He had his second majorly successful venture with the British firm Burma Corporation, again producing silver, lead and Zinc in large quantities at the Namtu Bawdwin Mine, where he caught malaria in 1907.

Imperial Chemical Industries ( ICI ) was a British chemical company, taken over by a number of chemical companies, including Huntsman Corporation, a United States-based company, and AkzoNobel, a Dutch conglomerate, two of the largest chemical producers in the world.

The company was founded in December 1926 from the merger of four companies: Brunner Mond, Nobel Explosives, the United Alkali Company, and British Dyestuffs Corporation.

* 1943 – British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation the downing was an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

Although the brand originates from the original 1947 model, Land Rover as a company has only existed since 1978, prior to this it was a product line of the Rover Company which was subsequently absorbed into the Rover-Triumph division of the British Leyland Motor Corporation ( BL ) following Leyland Motor Corporation ’ s takeover of Rover in 1967.

The Beeb's ( British Broadcasting Corporation ) ( BBC ) institutionalized leftism would be easier to tolerate if the corporation was a little more honest about it ".

Even though Mauritius was a British colony, the British Overseas Airways Corporation ( B. O. A. C ) began to come to Mauritius only from 1962.

* 1886 – Ruth Manning-Sanders, British author ( d. 1988 )

* Alexandra Burke ( born 1988 ), British singer

* Edwina Currie resigns as a junior Health minister for incorrectly claiming that millions of British eggs were infected with salmonella, stating that " most of egg production " was infected ( 1988 )

An eastbound CPR freight at Stoney Creek Bridge in Rogers Pass ( British Columbia ) | Rogers Pass as seen in a 1988 photo by David R. Spencer.

* 1988 – Alfred Enoch, British actor

In 1988 the British artist and friend of Weizenbaum Brian Reffin Smith created and showed at the exhibition ' Salamandre ', in the Musée du Berry, Bourges, France, two art-oriented ELIZA-style programs written in BASIC, one called ' Critic ' and the other ' Artist ', running on two separate Amiga 1000 computers.

* Sir Mark Evelyn Heath-Diplomat, British Ambassador to Chad ( 1975 – 1978 ), the first British Ambassador to Holy See ( 1982 – 1985 ) and Head of Protocol for the Hong Kong Government ( 1985 – 1988 ).

The National Tremor Foundation ( NTF ), founded in 1992, is a British friendly organisation based in Essex, England, an affiliate of the International Tremor Foundation, which was founded in 1988.

* 1920 – George Rose, British music hall entertainer ( d. 1988 )

The 1988 British made-for-TV movie More Bad News was another mocumentary about a rock band, in this case an incompetent heavy metal band.

On 1 January 1988, British Telecom ( BT ) and the Government of Gibraltar formed a joint venture company called Gibraltar Telecommunications International Ltd ( known by its commercial brand Gibtel ) to operate Gibraltar's international telecommunications services.

1988 saw the setting up of the monument Gure Aitaren Etxea, by Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida, and in 1990 Large Figure in a Shelter, by British sculptor Henry Moore, was erected beside it.

The British press also changed its coverage at the end of 1988, following a speech by Margaret Thatcher to the Royal Society advocating action against human-induced climate change.

In Sickness and in Health: The British Experience, 1650-1850 ( 1988 ).

* 1913 – Percy Thrower, British Television Gardener ( d. 1988 )

Harold Adrian Russell " Kim " Philby ( 1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988 ) was a high-ranking member of British intelligence who worked as a double agent before defecting to the Soviet Union.

Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs ( 29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988 ) was a German-British theoretical physicist and atomic spy who in 1950 was convicted of supplying information from the American, British and Canadian atomic bomb research ( the Manhattan Project ) to the USSR during and shortly after World War II.

The ongoing commercial success of the original Land Rover series models, and latterly the Range Rover in the 1970s in the midst of BL ’ s well documented business troubles prompted the establishment of a separate Land Rover company but still under the BL umbrella, remaining part of the subsequent Rover Group in 1988 under the ownership of British Aerospace after the remains of British Leyland were broken up and privatised.

* 1988: Rover Group is privatised and becomes part of British Aerospace, and is now known simply as Rover