In 2008, The Paint Your Town Red Festival invited Liverpool comic and actor Ricky Tomlinson.

* Todd Bridges with Sarah Tomlinson, Killing Willis: From Diff ' rent Strokes to the Mean Streets to the Life I Always Wanted, Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, December 2008 ( ISBN 9781439148983 )

Finally, during September 2008, MI6 ended all legal objection to the publication of The Big Breach, released the proceeds from the publication to Tomlinson, and admitted that their previous legal actions against him were disproportionate.

During 2008, Tomlinson was a witness for the inquest into the deaths of the Princess of Wales and Dodi al Fayed.

At the Coroner's Inquest into the death of the Princess, on 13 February 2008, speaking by video-link from France, Tomlinson conceded that, after the interval of 16 or 17 years, he " could not remember specifically " whether the document he had seen during 1992 had in fact proposed the use of a strobe light to cause a traffic accident as a means of assassinating Milosevic, although use of lights for this purpose had been covered in his MI6 training.

During 2008 and 2009 Tomlinson took his Laughter Show theatrical / arena revue on tour of the United Kingdom with fellow comedians Tony Barton, Duncan Norvelle and Pauline Daniels.

* Interview with Sir Mike Tomlinson 2008

Haitink conducted Parsifal, with Tomlinson, Christopher Ventris and Petra Lang in 2007, and Davis conducted four Mozart operas between 2002 and 2011, Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos in 2007 and Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel in 2008.

2008 saw him go out on tour as part of the Ricky Tomlinson Laughter Show.

One of the songs written by Ishiguro, " The Ice Hotel ," with music composed by Tomlinson won first prize in the International Songwriting Competition in April 2008.

In 2008, most of the € 202. 5 million received by the organization was donated by about 2. 6 million regular supporters, mainly from Europe.

They donated $ 100, 000 to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights after a concert they held in Winnipeg on May 24, 2008.

Lee, a longtime fan of baseball, donated 200 baseballs signed by famous Negro League players, including Willie Mays, Hank Aaron and Josh Gibson, to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in June 2008.

Between 2008 and 2009, South Korea donated economic aid of $ 1. 7 billion to countries other than North Korea.

Crow also stated that $ 1 of each ticket purchased for her 2008 tour would be donated to the United Nations World Food Programme.

Singaporeans have also donated generously in the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.

In 2008, his heirs donated his archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University.

With the passage of the Farm Bill in the summer of 2008 these expanded federal income tax incentives were extended such that they also apply to all conservation easements donated in 2008 and 2009 and then this provision was extended again to apply to donations in 2010 and 2011.

The ball, marked with a die-cut asterisk, was finally delivered to the hall on July 2, 2008 after Marc Ecko unconditionally donated the artifact rather than loaning it to the hall as originally intended.

In 2008 he donated £ 1 million ( about $ 2 million ) to the hospital.

The Eden Hall Campus was donated to Chatham University by the Eden Hall Foundation on May 1, 2008.

In 2008, he donated $ 3. 5 million to the De La Hoya Animo Charter High School.

In 2008, Raitt donated a song to the Aid Still Required's CD to assist with relief efforts in Southeast Asia from the 2004 Tsunami.

In November 2008, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Pleasant Grove City v. Summum, regarding whether Pleasant Grove should be allowed to have a privately donated Ten Commandments monument to be displayed on public property, must let the religion of Summum put up a monument to its " Seven Aphorisms " alongside, which it refused to do in 2003.

In 2008, Hormel Foods donated funds to The Hormel Institute, which dedicated an expansion to their cancer research facility.

In 2008, she donated a song to Aid Still Required's CD to assist with the restoration of the devastation done to Southeast Asia from the 2004 Tsunami.

In 2008, it was released on DVD with the sale proceeds being donated to the International Rescue Committee.

Richie donated to Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential campaign.

His final race car, a 1978 Dodge Magnum, was superbly restored and donated to the Talledega Museum by his family, and was displayed there from 1983 to 2008.

" Another Greenpeace study states that, between 1997 and 2008, Koch Industries donated nearly $ 48 million to groups which doubt or oppose the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

This painting was donated by the bank in 2008 to the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

He donated several thousand dollars to the 2008 presidential campaign of Barack Obama.

In 2008, the museum announced that Israeli shipping magnate Sammy Ofer, had donated £ 20m to the museum for a new gallery.

* 1 x TKS-One of the TKS tankettes was donated to Poland by the Swedish Axvall Tank Museum and since 2008 it is on exhibition in the Museum of the Polish Army.

In April 2008, the channel was renamed " BBC News " as part of a £ 550, 000 rebranding of the BBC's news output, complete with a new studio and presentation.

At the start of 2008, there were 59 building societies in the UK, with total assets exceeding £ 360 billion.

Prior to 31 December 2010, deposits with building societies of up to £ 50, 000 per individual, per institution, were normally protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme ( FSCS ), but Nationwide and Yorkshire Building Societies negotiated a temporary change to the terms of the FSCS to protect members of the societies they acquired in late 2008 / early 2009.

Just a few weeks later, Le bassin aux nymphéas ( from the water lilies series ) sold at Christie's 24 June 2008 auction in London, lot 19, for £ 36, 500, 000 ($ 71, 892, 376. 34 ) ( hammer price ) or £ 40, 921, 250 ($ 80, 451, 178 ) with fees, nearly doubling the record for the artist and representing one of the top 20 highest prices paid for a painting at the time.

In March 2008 TfL announced that it had reached agreement to buy TCL for £ 98m.

At the end of 2008, deposits in Jersey banks totalled £ 206 billion, down £ 6. 2 billion from £ 212. 3 billion at the start of the year.

Construction was halted in August 2008, as Gillett and Hicks had difficulty in financing the £ 300 million needed for the development.

However the fund failed to meet the required target of £ 100, 000 by the end of December 2008, having received just over £ 33, 000 in pledges, and the plan was abandoned.

In the first half of 2008, areas of the cliff above the wharf were stabilised from rock falls with netting at a cost of approximately £ 3 million.

The cost of publication was more than a third of Austen's annual household income of £ 460 ( about £ 15, 000 in 2008 currency ).

She made a profit of £ 140 ( almost £ 5, 000 in 2008 currency ) on the first edition, which sold all 750 printed copies by July 1813.

* A collection of 35 broadsheet poems of McGonagall, the majority signed by him, was bought for £ 6, 600 ( including commission ) from Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh auctionneers, on 16 May 2008 .< ref >

In 2008 / 9 the BBC World Service received 12. 4 % of the department's £ 2. 2 billion budget and in the financial year 2011 / 12, the service received £ 255. 2 million from this grant.

# Fund. com 2008 £ 9. 99 million

Such steel when rolled into bars was sold at £ 50 to £ 60 ( approximately £ 3, 390 to £ 4, 070 in 2008 ) a long ton.