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East and Midlands
These trains are used for InterCity services from London to the East Midlands and South Yorkshire.
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.
Unique formations also exist in other parts of the United Kingdom, such as in the East Midlands, where the local accent has formed " Derby Road ", which rhymes with " cold ", a conjunction that would not be possible elsewhere in the UK.
Many words derived from Norse, such as " gate " ( gade ) for street, still survive in Yorkshire and the East Midlands ( parts of eastern England ) colonized by Danish Vikings.
The suffix "- by " for ' town ' is common in place names in Yorkshire and the East Midlands that is, Selby, Whitby, Derby and Grimsby.
* EMMAN The East Midlands Metropolitan Area Network
He was accepted, and left the East Midlands for London.
) -- a phrase also found in East Midlands British English.
* Advice on how to conduct oral history interviewing from the East Midlands Oral History Archive
* Molly dancers of the East Midlands and East Anglia
RP is often believed to be based on the Southern accents of England, but it actually has most in common with the Early Modern English dialects of the East Midlands.
A mixture of London speech with elements from East Midlands, Middlesex and Essex, became known as Received Pronunciation.
The V8 Hot Stox race on tracks in the North of England as well as the Midlands, where as the Spedeworth cars mainly race in the South East ofEngland as well as in East Anglia.
* Sherwood Forest and the East Midlands Walks ( Jarrold Pathfinder Guides )
His son Edward captured the eastern Midlands and East Anglia from the Danes and became ruler of Mercia in 918 upon the death of Æthelflæd, his sister.
* January 8 – Kegworth Air Disaster: A British Midland Boeing 737 crashes on approach to East Midlands Airport, leaving 47 dead.
Other accents include a range of accents spoken in the West Midlands ( In the major towns and conurbations ( The Black Country, Birmingham, Coventry, Stoke-on-Trent and Wolverhampton ) and in rural accents ( such as in Herefordshire and south Worcestershire )); the accents of the counties comprising the East Midlands ( Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Northampton, and Nottingham ) and East Anglia ( Norfolk, Suffolk, north Essex and Cambridgeshire ).
Their leadership came from the religious congregations of Brownist English Dissenters who had fled the volatile political environment in the East Midlands of England for the relative calm and tolerance of 16th – 17th century Holland in the Netherlands.

East and Trains
There are four main lines running at present: the North South Line, the East West Line, the Circle Line, operated by SMRT Trains ( SMRT Corporation ).
Boston railway station is served by East Midland Trains on the Poacher Line from Grantham to Skegness.
* Central Trains split between London Midland, East Midlands Trains and CrossCountry
* Midland Mainline absorbed into East Midlands Trains franchise
In Great Britain, the inter-city rail links are now operated by a number of private companies such as Virgin Trains, East Coast, East Midlands Trains, Cross Country and First Great Western.
Trains stopped taking passengers at East Billerica in 1965 and the station was remodeled and is now a private home.
Trains entering town from the East were switched and broken down in Weleetka, and dispatched Northwest for either Oklahoma City, Guthrie or El Reno.
* East Midlands Trains, an English train operating company
Today Beeston has good rail transport links with Beeston station, on the Midland Main Line, served by East Midlands Trains and Arriva Cross Country.
Following a government policy announced in 2004, Central Trains was eventually disbanded in November 2007 with its services dispersed amongst London Midland, East Midlands Trains and Cross Country.
This also gave rise to the nickname " The Barmouth to Yarmouth Railway " due to the fact Central Trains operated services in both Mid Wales and East Anglia ( certain services were extended from Norwich to Great Yarmouth in the summer ).
Liverpool Lime Street to Birmingham New Street services originally ran through and became one service to Stanstead Airport, similar to their service from Liverpool to Norwich via Nottingham ( now part of East Midlands Trains ).
Central discontinued their single Northampton service a day which ran to Nottingham and other East Midlands locations via Birmingham once they gained the Birmingham to Northampton route from sister company Silverlink Trains in 2004 / 05.
Trains are often non-stop between Victoria and East Croydon, and between East Croydon and Gatwick Airport, and with each leg taking as little as 15 minutes, a total journey time of under 40 minutes is entirely possible.
Arriva Trains Northern ( legal name Arriva Trains Northern Limited, company no 3007932 ) was a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by Arriva that operated the Regional Railways North East franchise from February 2000 until December 2004.
Express passenger services on the line are operated by East Midlands Trains.
The town is served by East Midlands Trains with direct services to Leicester, Nottingham, Derby and St Pancras International.

East and British
The British and other replies to that Moscow note pointed out efforts of the Communist authorities `` to integrate East Berlin into East Germany by isolating it from the outside and attempting to make it the capital of East Germany ''.
* 1639 – Madras ( now Chennai ), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
Game reserves have, however, been established in South Africa, British Central Africa, British East Africa, Somaliland, etc., while measures for the protection of wild animals were laid down in an international convention signed in May 1900.
Some distinctive accents can be found on the East Coast ( for example, in eastern New England and New York City ) partly because these areas were in close contact with England and imitated prestigious varieties of British English at a time when these were undergoing changes.
It is generally dated to the early 19th century, when soldiers from Athy, County Kildare served the British East India Company.
* Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies.
English cultural influence ( reinforced at the end of the 19th century and beginnings of the 20th by British contacts with the Far East ) has also made the consumption of tea very common.
The British RAF in the Middle East was equipped with Rolls-Royce Armoured Cars and Morris tenders.
It was used by the U. S. and British troops in Europe and the Far East until the end of the war.
Phillip's plan was for a squadron of three ships of the line and a frigate to mount a raid on Buenos Aires and Monte Video, then to proceed to the coasts of Chile, Peru and Mexico to maraud, and ultimately to cross the Pacific to join the British Navy's East India squadron for an attack on Manila.
This is the location from where Salīm, as the Emperor Jahāngīr read out the firman permitting the British East India Company to trade with India.
Unlike these states, which were ruled by local nobles who acknowledged British suzerainty, Ajmer-Merwara was administered directly by the British, until 1858 by the East India Company and after 1858 by a chief commissioner who was subordinate to the Governor-General of India's agent for the Rajputana Agency.
Thereafter Ajmer-Merwara was administered directly by the British East India Company.
In the year 1789, Tipu Sultan ruler of the Sultanate of Mysore sent an embassy to the Ottoman capitol of Istanbul, to Sultan Abdul Hamid I requesting urgent assistance against the British East India Company and had proposed an offensive and defensive consortium ; Sultan Abdul Hamid I, informed the ambassadors of the Sultanate of Mysore that the Ottoman Empire was still recuperating from the Austro-Ottoman War and the Russo-Turkish Wars.
In 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany was founded in West Germany and eventually included all of the American, British, and French zones, excluding those three countries ' zones in Berlin, while the Marxist-Leninist German Democratic Republic was proclaimed in East Germany.
Disraeli was, according to some interpretations, a supporter of the expansion and preservation of the British Empire in the Middle East and Central Asia.
Formerly the Department of the Ancient Near East, with a collection numbering some 330, 000 works, the British Museum possesses by far the world's largest and most important collection of Mesopotamian antiquities outside Iraq.
During the first meeting between Weizmann and Balfour in 1906, Balfour asked what Weizmann's objections were to the idea of a Jewish homeland in Uganda, ( the Uganda Protectorate in East Africa in the British Uganda Programme ), rather than in Palestine.
James Gelvin, a Middle East history professor, cites at least three reasons for why the British government chose to support Zionist aspirations.

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