On 10 September 2009, following an Internet campaign, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for " the appalling way he was treated ".

* Maurice Agis ( 1931 – 2009 ), a British sculptor and artist

Aon has sponsored the British Touring Car Championship team run by Arena Motorsport since 2009.

Abergavenny hosted the British National Cycling Championships in 2007 and 2009.

In June 2009 the British media reported that Argentina were lobbying for the 2013 British and Irish Lions Tour to Australia to incorporate a series of games in Argentina.

In 2009, Charles formed the Fantasy Funk Band, from the leading British musicians in the genre, and has presented the band at festivals, including Glastonbury.

Notable Cheddar cheeses include " Quickes ", which in 2009 was awarded cheese of the year by the British Cheese Association, " Keen's ", with a strong tang, " Montgomery's ", with an apple aftertaste.

( British singer Vera Lynn reached the top of the chart in August 2009 at age 92, but with the greatest hits album, We'll Meet Again – The Very Best of Vera Lynn.

The sale of High Speed One by the British Government having effectively nationalised LCR in June 2009 is also likely to stimulate competition on the line.

In 2009 British films grossed around $ 2 billion worldwide and achieved a market share of around 7 % globally and 17 % in the United Kingdom.

"( Re ) defining the English Reformation ," Journal of British Studies, July 2009, Vol.

The exploitation of human clones for dangerous and undesirable work was examined in the 2009 British science fiction film Moon, where the protagonist discovers that he is simply one clone out of many that maintain a mining camp on the moon during the duration of a three year lifespan.

In January 2009, the British tabloid News of the World revealed a video made by Harry three years previously, in which he referred to a Pakistani fellow officer cadet as " our little Paki friend " and later called a soldier wearing a cloth on his head a " raghead ".

In August 2009, a British Asian man from Birmingham, England received a suspended sentence after making derogatory comments to a police officer, who was of Irish origin.

In Afghanistan in 2009, the British Army was forced to commission a report into the sexuality of the local men after British soldiers reported the discomfort at witnessing adult males involved in sexual relations with boys.

* 2009 – John Mortimer, British barrister, screenwriter and author.

* 2009 – William Frederick " Bill " Stone, British World War I veteran ( b. 1900 )

* Wamagatta, Evanson N. " British Administration and the Chiefs ' Tyranny in Early Colonial Kenya ," Journal of Asian & African Studies Aug 2009, Vol.

In 2009 FourFourTwo named Dalglish as the greatest striker in post-war British football, and in 2006 he topped a Liverpool fans ' poll of " 100 Players Who Shook the Kop ".

In 2009, it emerged that a British Special Air Service team were training Libyan special forces.

Jimmy Page was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his charity work in 2005 and Robert Plant was honoured as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services to popular music in 2009.

Central Europe according to Columbia Encyclopedia ( 2009 )

Winer was born on May 2, 1955, in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Eve Winer, Ph. D., a school psychologist, and Leon Winer, Ph. D., a former professor of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business who died October 3, 2009.

LTTE's people smuggling ships included MV Ocean Lady, which appeared in October 2009 off Canada's British Columbia coast with 76 Tamil asylum seekers ; MV Sun Sea, arrived in August 2010 off British Columbia, with 492 asylum seekers and MV Alicia, carrying 80 illegal immigrants, but was intercepted by Indonesian authorities in July 2011, allegedly heading towards Canada or New Zealand.

The 2009 population of the Nashville-Davidson — Murfreesboro — Columbia combined statistical area was estimated at 1, 666, 210.

In December 2009, Washington, DC Mayor Adrian Fenty signed the bill to legalize same-sex marriage for the District of Columbia in All Souls Church, Unitarian ( Washington, D. C .).

392 extending the state quarter program one year to 2009, to include the District of Columbia and the five U. S. territories large enough to merit non-voting Congressional representatives: Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

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Three British Columbia judges unanimously denied an appeal on November 13, 2009.

* The Islamic Context of The Thousand and One Nights by Muhsin J. al-Musawi, Columbia University Press, 2009.

In conjunction with the provincial election in 2007, the province of Ontario voted on a mixed-member proportional representation electoral system and British Columbia held two consecutive referendums on BC-STV in 2005 and 2009.

British Columbia has only one such municipality, Northern Rockies Regional Municipality, which was established in 2009 ..

CNNMoney. com named Columbia as one of America's 25 best places to retire, and U. S. News & World Report ranked the city sixth on its 2009 America's Best Affordable Places to Retire list.

British Columbia has regulated naturopathic medicine since 1936 and together with Ontario ( since 2009 ) are the only two Canadian provinces that allow certified NDs to prescribe pharmaceuticals and perform minor surgeries.

She has received many honorary Degrees, including Doctor of Civil Laws from the University of Western Ontario in June 2000, Doctor of Humane Letters from Mount Saint Vincent University in May 2001, and Doctor of Laws degrees from the University of British Columbia in November 2001, the University of Waterloo in October 2006, in June 2009 from the University of Alberta and University of Guelph, and from Simon Fraser University in October 2009.

On May 21, 2009, Davis was the keynote speaker at the Columbia Law School graduation ceremony.

In 2009, the school system had seven elementary schools ( Columbia Elementary School, Heritage Elementary School, Horizon Elementary School, Madison Elementary School, Rainbow Elementary School, West Madison Elementary School, and Mill Creek Elementary ), two middle schools ( Discovery Middle School, Liberty Middle School ), and two high schools ( Bob Jones High School, James Clemons High School ).

* Lou Bender ( 1910 – 2009 ), pioneer player with the Columbia Lions and in early pro basketball, who was later a successful trial attorney.

From 2007 – 2009, the arena was home to a minor league hockey team, the Flames, prior to the franchise's relocation to Abbotsford, British Columbia.

* Jen Corey-Miss District of Columbia 2009.

* In 2009, Hannah Montana: The Movie was filmed in downtown Columbia, at Maury County Airport, and a local dairy farm.

* In 2009, scenes for Bailey ( 2010 ), a Mario Van Peebles film, were shot in downtown Columbia on the square and in other locations.