The Council using funding from the Single Regeneration Budget appointed URBED ( Urban, Built, Environment Design ), consultants based in Manchester to help the Council, our partners and the local community develop a new vision for Accrington town centre.

CND has a national organisation based in London, national groups in Wales, Ireland and Scotland, regional groups in Cambridgeshire, Cumbria, the East Midlands, Kent, London, Manchester, Merseyside, Mid Somerset, Norwich, South Cheshire and North Staffordshire, Southern England, South West England, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Tyne and Wear, the West Midlands and Yorkshire, and local branches.

Coronation Street is a British television soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford.

* IKEA was refused planning permission for a future store in the United Kingdom in 2004 ( to be based in Stockport, near Manchester ) by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

In the textile sector, such mills became the model for the organisation of human labour in factories, epitomised by Cottonopolis, the name given to the vast collection of cotton mills, factories and administration offices based in Manchester.

Palin also appeared in All You Need Is Cash ( 1978 ) as Eric Manchester ( based on Derek Taylor ), the press agent for the Rutles.

Manchester United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, that plays in the Premier League.

There is an Oberon-2 Lex scanner and Yacc parser by Stephen J Bevan of Manchester University, UK, based on the one in the Mössenböck and Wirth reference.

The Standard Pascal Model Implementation was also based on this compiler, having been adapted, by Welsh and Hay at Manchester University in 1984, to check rigorously for conformity to the BSI 6192 / ISO 7185 Standard and to generate code for a portable abstract machine.

The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology ( UMIST ) was a university based in the centre of the city of Manchester in England.

The UMIST emblem as used in the late 20th century ( based on the arms of the Institute, derived from the coat of arms of the lords of the manor of Manchester )

The Institute of Education is based on two campuses, Didsbury in Manchester and MMU Cheshire at Crewe in Cheshire.

The system was based on a concept called keyword in titles which was first proposed for Manchester libraries in 1864 by Andrea Crestadoro.

Meanwhile, while working at the mill owned by his father in Manchester, Engels started working as an office clerk, the same position he held in his teens while in Germany where his father's company was based.

Much of the wealth on which the city of Manchester, and surrounding towns, was built in the late eighteenth century, and for much of the nineteenth century, was based on the processing of slave-picked cotton .. Other British cities also profited from the slave trade. Birmingham, the largest gun producing town in Britain at the time, supplied guns to be traded for slaves.

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During the final years of her life she was based around the Prestwich and Salford area of Manchester and although she was still struggling with addiction had started to become interested in music again.

Belfast based its claim on its similarity to two English boroughs that had received the honour — the seaport of Liverpool and the textile centre of Manchester — and the fact that it had ( at the time ) a larger population than the City of Dublin.

Barker failed to get into the Young Vic School, but joined the Manchester Repertory Company, which was based in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, often taking comic roles in their weekly shows.

Bessemer is served by one weekly newspaper, The Western Star, which is owned by Bob Tribble as part of his newspaper corporation based in Manchester, Ga. Coverage in this paper is not limited to the city proper, but instead covers all of the Bessemer Cutoff, including Bessemer, Hueytown, McCalla, Midfield, Fairfield, Brighton, Lipscomb, and the large sections of western Jefferson County that remain unincorporated.

Lakehurst was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 7, 1921, from portions of Manchester Township, based on the results of a referendum held on May 24, 1921.

Haledon was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 8, 1908, replacing the now-defunct Manchester Township, based on the results of a referendum held on May 21, 1908.

* Cheadle ( UK Parliament constituency ), constituency based around Cheadle, Greater Manchester, England

With the band living in a Manchester flat, he had a relationship with a girl named Tracy who bore him a son, Paul Inder, although it would not be until the boy was six that Lemmy had any involvement with him.

The Shirehorses are a spoof band comprising two BBC Radio DJs from Manchester, Mark Radcliffe and Marc Riley, known collectively as Mark and Lard.

Marc Riley was formerly a member of British Manchester band The Fall and later The Creepers before embarking on a radio presentation career alongside Mark Radcliffe.

* The Stone Roses, a rock band from Manchester

In November 2011 it was announced they would be playing two shows in 2012 that will feature the original line-up as well as the classic line-up of the band reunited for the first time in many years ; these shows will take place on 25 May 2012 in Manchester at the O2 Apollo and on 26 May in Brixton at the O2 Academy.

* Besses o ' th ' Barn brass band is formed in Whitefield, near Manchester.

The Stone Roses are an English alternative rock band formed in Manchester in 1983.

Following much intensified media speculation, The Stone Roses called a press conference on 18 October 2011 to announce that the band had reunited and would perform a reunion tour of the world in 2012, including three homecoming shows in Manchester.

The piece read " I have no desire whatsoever to desecrate the grave of seminal Manchester pop group The Stone Roses 18. 3. 09 ", which strongly indicated that rumours of the band reforming were highly unlikely.

" The release of the album's lead single " Country House " played a part in Blur's public rivalry with Manchester band Oasis termed " The Battle of Britpop ".

The Smiths were an English alternative rock band, formed in Manchester in 1982.

Towards the end of 2001, they played together in the veteran Manchester band Jeep.

* James ( band ), a band from Manchester

* Three members of Manchester rock band Oasis have been injured in a head-on car crash in Indianapolis while on tour in the U. S. None were seriously injured.

" The release of the album's lead single " Country House " played a part in Blur's public rivalry with Manchester band Oasis termed " The Battle of Britpop ".

* Tom Hingley, lead singer of Manchester band Inspiral Carpets

The band was formed by trumpeter John Rowlands and alto saxophonist Jack Massarik, who had seen the Alexis Korner band at a Manchester club and wanted to try a similar blend of Jazz and Blues.

Herman's Hermits are an English beat ( or pop ) band, formed in Manchester in 1963 as Herman & The Hermits.

The band subsequently announced two UK ' warm up ' gigs prior to the Royal Albert Hall show, at the 100 Club in London and the Ritz in Manchester.

Atypical of the high-energy, earthy, R & B / Rock n ' Roll mix of styles they had been previously identified with, " Dance With Me " cast the band in a more " soft-rock " light and landed them a tour with Melissa Manchester.

Rob Gretton, manager of Joy Division, decided he did not want the band to sign to a London record label, preferring to do it all in Manchester.

* V2 ( band ), punk rock band formed in Manchester in 1977