* Government-operated post office and telegraph networks-the largest parts of the bureaucracy-were combined into a single department in each colony on the model of the UK Post Office: South Australia in 1869, Victoria in 1870, Queensland in 1880 and New South Wales in 1893.

The Council of Officers agreed on Harrison's model, raising the number of representatives to 140 to allow members from across England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

Initial testing of the concept included blowing up a plaster model dam at the Building Research Establishment, Watford in May 1942 and then the breaching of the disused Nant-y-Gro dam in Wales in July 1942.

This model was developed as a homologated road-going version of the factory race cars used in the 12hr endurance races held at Bathurst, New South Wales, beginning in 1991 for the 1995 event held at Eastern Creek, Sydney, New South Wales.

This was based on the harm reduction model of New South Wales ( 1996 ).

Dudley won the " Best Original Musical or Comedy Score " Oscar for her music ; The Gathering ( 2002 ) a Anthony Horowitz thriller directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Christina Ricci ; The Grotesque ( 1997 ) released in the US as Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets a British film starring Alan Bates, Theresa Russell and Sting ; Hollow Reed ( 1996 ) a drama directed by Angela Pope and set in Bath ; Knight Moves ( 1992 ) American thriller directed by Carl Schenkel and starring Christopher Lambert ; Lucky Break ( 2001 ) a British feelgood comedy starring James Nesbitt and based around a prison escape ; The Miracle Maker ( 2000 ) an animated feature film made for TV by BBC Wales with Russian model makers ; Monkeybone ( 2001 ) an American film combining live-action and stop-motion animation starring Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda ; Perfect Creature ( 2007 ) a New Zealand made horror / thriller film starring Leo Gregory ; Pushing Tin ( 1999 ) a comedy-drama film directed by Mike Newell based around air traffic controllers in New York ; The Pope Must Die ( 1991 ) a comedy film starring Robbie Coltrane the score was co-written with Jeff Beck ; Silence Like Glass ( Zwei Frauen ) ( 1989 ) German made but set in a cancer ward at a hospital in America ; Tristan & Isolde ( 2006 ) a Ridley Scott romantic drama based on the medieval romantic legend of Tristan and Iseult and starring James Franco and Sophia Myles ; The Walker ( 2007 ) a drama written and directed by Paul Schrader set in Washington, D. C .; Her TV music includes scores for all episodes of Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie ; Lynda La Plante's Above Suspicion ; Kavanagh QC with John Thaw and The Tenth Kingdom an American epic fantasy TV miniseries written by Simon Moore.

In October 2011, the University made the decision to adopt a new academic strategy and to withdraw its current validation model in response to changes in higher education in Wales, including the University's merger with Swansea Metropolitan University snd the University of Wales: Trinity Saint David.

Outside its work with the accredited institutions in Wales, the university also validates schemes of study at some 130 centres in the UK and across the world, though it is currently in the process of bring this current validation model to a close.

The Local Government ( Ireland ) Act 1898 created administrative counties in Ireland on the same model that had been used in England and Wales.

NICE was established in an attempt to defuse the so-called postcode lottery of healthcare in England and Wales, where treatments that were available depended upon the NHS Health Authority area in which the patient happened to live but it has since acquired a high reputation internationally as a role model for the development of clinical guidelines.

An 1880s Concord model coach in the collection of the National Museum of Australia, in Canberra, known as the Nowland ’ s mail coach, was used to transport mail and passengers in northern New South Wales, Australia.

In the 1870s, using the Dual Monarchy of Austria – Hungary as a model, the Prince of Wales ( later King Edward VII ) and William Ewart Gladstone proposed that Ireland and Great Britain form a dual monarchy.

Most on the news recently has been Poundbury, a model village in rural Dorset guided by the Prince of Wales.

Kim Ashfield ( born January 5, 1959 ; Wales ) is a former model who was Miss United Kingdom in 1980 and as Miss Wales competed in Miss Universe 1980.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has launched a Community Safety Officer ( CSO ) () Program based on the model in England and Wales.

They introduced the model to agents in March 1919 but the first production car was not delivered until August ; it was sold to the Prince of Wales.

In TL VR guise, the AWD model was used by the New South Wales police force, particularly in the Sydney region.

The laws also finished the partitioning of Wales into counties that was begun in 1282 and established local government on the English model.

New South Wales is governed according to the principles of the Westminster system, a form of parliamentary government based on the model of the United Kingdom.

It was rapidly evident in all areas of the Celtic nations and regions surrounding England ( both Goidelic ( Ireland, Scotland, Isle of Man ) and Brythonic ( Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany ), saw the adoption and adaptation of the electric folk model.

After working as a freelance singing teacher, a tour guide on the London Eye and as a model, she entered a modelling competition and became the Face of Wales 2000.

There is no distinction made in Scotland between assault and battery ( which is not a term used in Scots law ), although, as in England and Wales, assault can be occasioned without a physical attack on another's person, as demonstrated in Atkinson v. HM Advocate wherein the accused was found guilty of assaulting a shop assistant by simply jumping over a counter wearing a ski mask.

In 1978, the term Barassi Line was used to describe the dichotomy that existed in Australia's football culture, where Australian Football was most popular in all states bar New South Wales and Queensland.

The term " outback " was first used in print in 1869, when the writer clearly meant west of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales.

In Wales, the Brecon Beacons were named for beacons used to warn of approaching English raiders.

For example, although the words wee and little are interchangeable in some contexts, wee ( as an adjective ) is almost exclusively written by some people from some parts of northern Britain ( and especially Scotland ) or from Northern Ireland, whereas in Southern England and Wales, little is used predominantly.

Even after the creation of the Church in Wales 1920, the 1662 book ( and its Welsh equivalent ) was used until 1966, when trials of new services began.

It is still used in the United States but the distinction between felony and misdemeanour is abolished in England and Wales and Northern Ireland.

First used at the TSB England & Wales

Two-handed manual alphabets are used by a number of deaf communities, including England, Scotland, and Wales and countries of the former Yugoslavia and Turkish Sign Language.

It is recognised and used as an anthem at both national and local events in Wales.

The method was first used at the Dolaucothi gold mine in Wales from 75 AD onwards, but had been developed in Spain at such mines as Las Medulas.

Giraldus Cambrensis, Gerald of Wales, speaking of the bows used by the Welsh men of Gwent, says: " They are made neither of horn, ash nor yew, but of elm ; ugly unfinished-looking weapons, but astonishingly stiff, large and strong, and equally capable of use for long or short shooting.

It is said that he was inspired by an American World War II Jeep that he used one summer at his holiday home in Wales.

* In the United Kingdom, the term was used until 1974 in England and Wales, and until 1975 in Scotland and 1976 in Northern Ireland, " both for a city or town which is organized for self-government under a municipal corporation, and also for the governing body itself.

The National Stadium, which was used by Wales national rugby union team, was officially opened on 7 April 1984, however in 1997 it was demolished to make way for the Millennium Stadium in 1999, which hosted the 1999 Rugby World Cup and became the national stadium of Wales.

At that stage, the cricket ground to the north was still being used by Glamorgan County Cricket Club, and the rugby union ground to the south was used by the national Wales team and Cardiff RFC.

The concept of rivers or harbours coming directly up to the walls of fortifications was especially used by the English as they constructed castles throughout Wales.

The legal system is therefore similar to the common law systems used in England and Wales and in other Commonwealth countries.

While the Office for National Statistics and others describe the United Kingdom as a " nation state ", others, including a then Prime Minister, describe it as a " multinational state ", and the term Home Nations is used to describe the four national teams that represent the four nations of the United Kingdom ( England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales ).

The French were certainly hoping to use Wales as they had used Scotland as a base to fight the English.

This system is used in the Upper House in India, Australia ( Senate, Tasmanian and Australian Capital Territory Houses of Assembly and the Legislative Councils in New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia and Victoria ), Ireland, Northern Ireland ( assembly, local government and European elections, but not national ), Malta, local government elections in Scotland and selected ( optional ) local governments in New Zealand.

This used to be housed in the Prince of Wales pub, but now occupies a modern purpose-built building on the edge of the town.