It is referenced in the 2006 film Amazing Grace, which highlights Newton's influence on the leading British abolitionist William Wilberforce.

British AS-90 s firing in Basra, Iraq, 2006.

In 2006, the British Virgin Islands government undertook a deregulation of the telephone industry.

In March 2005, the British network Sky TV reported that Tom Hanks was planning to produce a biopic on the life of Bill Haley, with production tentatively scheduled to begin in 2006.

The bulletin was joined in being simulcast on 10 April 2006 when the BBC News at One ( with British Sign Language in-vision signing ) and BBC News at Six bulletins were added to the schedule following a similar format to the News at Ten in terms of content on the channel once each simulcast ends.

File: British Museum Reading Room Panorama Feb 2006. jpg | British Museum Reading Room

Some tracks and demos from the album ( initially planned for release in 2008 ) were leaked on the internet in 2006, and a documentary entitled The Return of Courtney Love, detailing the making of the album, aired on the British television network in the fall of that year.

The British arts and music festival Bestival cancelled its planned clown theme in 2006 after many adult ticketholders contacted the organizers expressing a fear of clowns.

On 25 May 2006, the then British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott was photographed by The Mail on Sunday playing croquet at his official residence, Dorneywood.

* John Crank ( 1916 – 2006 ), British mathematical physicist

* Holger Nehring, ' National Internationalists: British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons, the Politics of Transnational Communications and the Social History of the Cold War, 1957 – 1964 ', Contemporary European History, 14, No. 4 ( 2006 )

Other notable British Asian films from this period include My Son the Fanatic ( 1997 ), Ae Fond Kiss ... ( 2004 ), Mischief Night ( 2006 ), Yasmin ( 2004 ) and Four Lions ( 2010 ).

* 1916 – John Crank, British mathematician ( d. 2006 )

During this period it was the title sponsor for the Australian GP ( 1986 – 1993 and 2002 – 2006 ), the British GP ( 1990 – 1993 and 2000 – 2006 ) and the San Marino GP ( 2003 – 2006 ).

* 2006 – Sir Freddie Laker, British airline entrepreneur ( b. 1922 )

Earlier in December 2005, the European Commission initiated the second stage of infringement proceedings against the British Government relating to Gibraltar ’ s failure to transpose five European Union directives on electronic communications, but these were closed after the relevant legislation was passed into law by the House of Assembly in June 2006.

Allidina Visram school in Mombasa, pictured above in 2006, was the location of the British " Kilindini " codebreaking outpost during World War II

According to British war cabinet minutes released in 2006, Winston Churchill advocated Himmler's assassination.

Within a year, in April 2006, Harry completed his officer's training and was commissioned as a Cornet in the Blues and Royals, a regiment of the Household Cavalry in the British Army.

* 1915 – John Profumo, British cabinet minister ( d. 2006 )

In December 2006, Major led calls for an independent inquiry into Tony Blair's decision to invade Iraq, following revelations made by Carne Ross, a former British senior diplomat, that contradict Blair's case for the invasion.

* Alain Le Pichon, China Trade and Empire: Jardine, Matheson & Co. And the Origins of British Rule in Hong Kong, 1827-1843 ( Oxford ; New York: Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2006 ).

In 2006, frontman Aaron Lewis was listed in metal magazine Hit Paraders Heavy Metal's All-Time Top 100 Vocalists list at No. 49.

The Gower landmark topped the BBC Holiday Hit Squad nationwide competition ( 2006 ) and was voted Britain's best camping beach by The Independent thanks to its superb setting and quiet location ( 2007 ).

In 2006, heavy metal magazine Hit Parader named Plant the " Greatest Metal Vocalist of All Time ".

The TV series and videos are currently distributed by Hit Entertainment and Lionsgate, while the TV series was produced by WNET from 2006 to 2009.

Staley ranked # 27 on Hit Parader magazine's list of " Heavy Metal's All-Time Top 100 Vocalists " ( published in the November 2006 issue ).

In late 2006, the album Hit Parade was released, which collected all the singles released by the Jam, Style Council and Weller during his solo career.

The changes continued seeing Capital re-branded back to " London's Hit Music Station ", a play on the station's earlier brand of " London's Number One Hit Music Station " with noticeable improvements – leading to a rise in audience figures at the end of 2006.

* Perkins, John: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man ( Plume Publishers 2006 ), ISBN 0-452-28708-1.

In 2006, Davis was ranked 16th on Hit Parader's list of " Heavy Metal's All-Time Top 100 Vocalists ".

Cinema Rhapsodies: The Musical Genius of Victor Young Ontario: ( Hit Parade Records, 2006 ).

December 18, 2006, the " Hit List " theme returned to MTV Hits.

Halogen's third album, titled Sirens was released on the 17 July 2006, on Karmic Hit, a record label formed by Steve Kilbey, singer / songwriter from seminal Australian band The Church.

* Sirens-Karmic Hit ( 15 July 2006 )

* Baby's Eyes-Karmic Hit ( 6 February 2006 )

At the end of 2006, the band amassed 166 weeks on both the UK singles and albums charts combined, which was more than enough to see them listed as one of the most successful chart acts between 1952 – 2006, according to the ranking system that was used by the now defunct Guinness British Hit Singles & Albums book.

* Greatest Hit (... and 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs ) ( 2006 )

* " Hit ' Em Head On ", SHAC, 9-minute video on YouTube, 2006.

* El Hit Parade ( 2006 )

These include compilation albums, annual trivia calendars and a DVD TV game – British Hit Singles & Albums No. 1 Music Quiz, editions of which were released in both 2005 and 2006.

* TMF Hit Radio-Launched on 27 December 2006 and later dropped the TMF branding which soon after became ' Hit Radio '