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the time of its formation, including obsolescent plants ; plants operating under capacity and thus at low efficiency ; outdated technology ; price controls that reduced marketing flexibility ; soaring coal and oil costs ; lack of capital investment funds ; and increasing competition on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 Corporation, 1988 Competition Commission report

* Associated British Maltsters, a malting company taken over by Dalgety plc

Aon plc is a British multinational corporation headquartered in London, United Kingdom, that provides risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, human capital and management consulting.

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* 1999 – British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.

Network Rail's acquisition of Railtrack plc was welcomed at the time by groups that represented British train passengers.

With their steelworking operations also nationalised into British Steel the remnants of Vickers became Vickers plc.

* Home Planet, sponsored by British Airways and BAA plc ( Park Avenue Productions )

* 25 May 2005: Anschutz Entertainment Group sells the naming rights to the former Millennium Dome to O2 plc, a British mobile phone company

British Aerospace plc ( BAe ) was a UK aircraft, munitions and defence-systems manufacturer.

In accordance with the provisions of the British Aerospace Act 1980 the statutory corporation was changed to a Public limited company ( plc ), British Aerospace Public Limited Company, on 1 January 1981.

* Bradford & Bingley plc, a British bank

The best known British conglomerate was Hanson plc.

British Sky Broadcasting Group plc ( commonly known as BSkyB ; trading as Sky ) is a British satellite broadcasting, broadband and telephony services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom, with operations in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

The second commercial DBS service, Sky Television plc ( now BSkyB after its merger with British Satellite Broadcasting's five-channel network ), was launched in 1989.

BTR plc was a British industrial conglomerate, which merged with Siebe in 1999 to form BTR Siebe plc, later renamed Invensys.

In December 1999, GEC was renamed to Marconi plc and became a telecommunications focused company ; when its defence arm, Marconi Electronic Systems was amalgamated with British Aerospace to form BAE Systems.

In 1987 after a corporate putsch, the renamed UAL Corp. sold Hilton International to Ladbroke Group plc, a British leisure and gambling company, which in May 1999 adopted the name Hilton Group plc.

On December 29, 2005, Hilton Hotels Corporation agreed to re-acquire the Hilton International chain from its British owner, Hilton Group plc, for GBP 3. 3 billion ( or $ 5. 71 billion ).

* Ladbrokes, a British based gambling company, known as Hilton Group plc from May 1999 to February 2006

National Express Group plc () is a British transport group headquartered in Birmingham that operates bus, coach, rail and tram services in the UK, the US and Canada, Spain, Portugal and Morocco and long-distance coach routes across Europe.

* 1893 – Ibadan area became a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.

* 1814 – British troops invade Washington, D. C. and during the Burning of Washington the White House is set ablaze, though not burned to the ground ; as well as several other buildings.

* 1884 – J. C. Squire, British poet, writer, and historian ( d. 1958 )

* C. I. Hamilton, The Making of the Modern Admiralty: British Naval Policy-Making 1805-1927 ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011 ).

British Columbia ( B. C.

British military historians J. F. C.

British theorists J. F. C.

The Beano is a British children's comic, published by D. C. Thomson & Co and is arguably their most successful.

Clarke's Three Laws are three " laws " of prediction formulated by the British writer Arthur C. Clarke.

* C. l. incolatus: Northern Coyote – Yukon, Northwest Territories, northern British Columbia, and northern Alberta, and Alaska

* C. l. lestes: Mountain coyote – British Columbia and southeastern Alberta south to Utah and Nevada

This Fermi gas model was then used by the British physicist E. C. Stoner in 1929 to calculate the relationship among the mass, radius, and density of white dwarfs, assuming them to be homogenous spheres.

He was also able to give a number of British writers — Michael Moorcock, E. C. Tubb, Brian Stableford, Barrington Bayley, Michael Coney — a new American audience.

Dan Simmons has been nominated on numerous occasions in a range of categories for his fiction, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Bram Stoker Award, British Fantasy Society Award, Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award.

" A & C Black also note that British surgeons – a designation reserved for those who have obtained membership of the Royal College of Surgeons – are addressed as Mr, Mrs or Miss rather than Dr.

* 1852 – C. Lloyd Morgan, British zoologist and psychologist ( d. 1936 )

Trent's Last Case is an adaptation of British author E. C. Bentley's 1913 novel of the same name, and had already been adapted to film in England in 1920.

This appointment ( by the ILO's British Director-General, C. Wilfred Jenks ) drew particular criticism from AFL-CIO president George Meany and from Congressman John E. Rooney.

The guidelines for the M ' Naghten Rules ( 1843 ) 10 C & F 200, state, inter alia, and evaluating the criminal responsibility for defendants claiming to be insane were settled in the British courts in the case of Daniel M ' Naghten in 1843.

* 1934 – Sir C. A. R. Hoare, British computer scientist

The British historian D. C. Watt wrote " Two hours later, Berlin Radio broadcast the sixteen points, adding that Poland had rejected them.

* D C Kinsey-Koh ‐ i ‐ Noor: Empire, Diamonds, and the Performance of British Material Culture Journal of British Studies Vol.