The only Asian choir at the competition, it competed alongside choirs from Poland, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, Russia and Slovakia in the Mixed Choir ( Adult ), Youth Choir ( up to 19 years old ) and Folk Song Categories.

Further domestic policies that he brought about included the establishment of the National Health Service and post-war Welfare State, which became key to the reconstruction of post-war Britain.

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In Britain, the national uniform ( or simply " national ") was designed with the advent of the National Health Service ( NHS ) in 1948, and the Newcastle dress.

About two-thirds of gay and lesbian students in Britain ’ s schools have suffered from gay bullying, a survey by the Schools Health Education Unit found.

In May 2007, a pregnant 17-year-old girl, known only as " Miss D ", who was pregnant with a fetus suffering from anencephaly, was prevented from travelling to Britain by the Health Service Executive.

In Britain, medical social workers were transferred from the National Health Service ( NHS ) into local authority Social Services Departments in 1974, and generally became known as hospital social workers.

The Prisoners ( Temporary Discharge for Ill Health ) Act 1913 ( also known as the " Cat and Mouse Act ") was an Act of Parliament passed in Britain under Herbert Henry Asquith's Liberal government in 1913.

There is also an Injury Observatory for Britain and Ireland ( IOBI ) and a Mental Health Observatory.

Prior to devolution the Secretaries of State for Scotland and Wales had those respective responsibilities but the Department of Health had a larger role than now in the co-ordination of health policy across Great Britain.

More recently in 2007, the BBC reported that a " race row " had broken out in the wake of an official inquiry that identified institutional racism in British psychiatry, with psychiatrists, including from the IOP / Maudsley, arguing against the claim, while the heads of the Mental Health Act Commission accused them of misunderstanding the concept of institutional racism and dismissing the legitimate concerns of the Black community in Britain.

Magen David Adom spokesman Yeruham Mendola responded to the claims by saying: " The guidelines set by the Ministry of Health determines that anyone who was born, or who lived for over a year since 1977 in Central Africa, Southeast Asia or the Caribbean Islands, or has spent over six months in Britain, or was in France, Ireland or Portugal for over 10 years — can choose not to donate blood, or donate blood, which is then marked, and know that it will not be used for transfusions.

It is important for a blood bank to pass all the eligibility guidelines as mandated by the National Health Service ( NHS ) in Britain and the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) in the United States.

Reed was a member of various All-Party Parliamentary Groups and was an officer in the following: Bermuda – Britain ( Secretary ), Athletics ( Treasurer ), Balanced and Sustainable Communities ( Treasurer ), Christians in Parliament ( Vice Chair ), Debt, Aid & Trade ( Treasurer / Secretary ), East Midlands Rail Franchise ( Treasurer ), Health and Wellbeing in Schools ( Vice Chair ), Hockey ( Vice Chair ), Leisure ( Vice Chair ), Rugby Union ( joint Vice Chair ), Scout ( Vice Chair ), and Sports ( Secretary ).

Clinical psychology in Britain developed much like in the U. S. after WWII, specifically within the context of the National Health Service with qualifications, standards, and salaries managed by the British Psychological Society.

In 1956, for example, leading British Labour Party politician and author Anthony Crosland claimed that capitalism had been abolished in Britain and socialism established, although others, such as Welshman Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health in the first post-war Labour government, disputed the claim that Britain was a socialist state.

For Bevan, Britain had a socialist National Health Service which stood in opposition to the hedonism of Britain's capitalist society.

Nevertheless the team obtained funding from the Department of Health and the Variety Club of Great Britain, both of whom donated £ 25, 000, and Ian Skipper OBE, ( a noted philanthropist who had already helped Rantzen set up a special fund in memory of Ben Hardwick ), agreed to underwrite the cost of running the helpline for the first year.

Attlee created a Welfare State in Britain, which most notably provided free healthcare under the National Health Service.

According to DEFRA and the Health Protection Agency, the risk to people contracting TB from cattle in Great Britain today is very low.

In Britain most forensic psychiatrists work for the National Health Service, in specialist secure units caring for mentally ill offenders ( as well as people whose behaviour has made them impossible to manage in other hospitals ).

Aneurin Bevan who launched the Health Service in 1948 said "" All I am doing is extending to the entire population of Britain the benefits we had in Tredegar for a generation or more.

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Detailed military surveys in Britain ( beginning in the late eighteenth century ) were called Ordnance Surveys, and this term was used into the 20th century as generic for topographic surveys and maps.

Surveys of poverty that exposed the brutal conditions in the urban slum conurbations of Victorian Britain pressured changes reform of the Poor Law and welfare reforms by the British Liberal Party.

The two Ordnance Surveys of Ireland and that of Britain share a common heritage, the split into three separate organisations being one result of the partition of Ireland in the 1920s.

Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.

Those who do have occasion to deal with the invasions in a more general way, like T.W. Shore and Arthur Wade-Evans, are on the side of a gradual and often peaceful Germanic penetration into Britain.

Had Churchill been returned to office in 1945, it is just possible that Britain, instead of standing fearfully aloof, would have led Europe toward union.

That this and the closing of the East Berlin-West Berlin border have not been accepted by the Western governments appears in notes which Britain, France, and the United States sent to Moscow after the latter's gratuitous protest over a visit of Chancellor Adenauer and other West German officials to West Berlin.

Numerous cooperating individuals in Great Britain, Holland, the United States, and Belgium have contributed editorially or by making calculations.

Hong Kong, India and Pakistan have been limiting exports of certain types of textiles to Britain for several years under the `` Lancashire Pact ''.

Place name scholars have found a number of place names through the Midland dialect regions of Britain that incorporate the ambre-element: examples include Ombersley in Worcestershire, Ambrosden in Oxfordshire, Amberley in Herefordshire, Amberley in Gloucestershire and Amberley in West Sussex.

Partly for this reason, Alberta has never developed a large presence in the industries that have traditionally started industrialization in other places ( notably the original Industrial Revolution in Great Britain ) but which require large labour forces, and large internal markets or easy transportation to export markets, namely textiles, metallurgy, or transportation-related manufacturing ( automotives, ships, or train cars ).

Thus, during the abdication crisis of 1936, caused by Edward VIII's desire to marry Wallis Simpson, the consent of all realms concerned, along with, in some cases, new acts of parliament, was required in Britain and throughout the British Dominions to allow for Edward's stepping aside and to ensure that if he had any children they would have no claim to the thrones.

Some have understood Ammianus's testimony as a claim that at the time of Atlantis's actual sinking into the sea, its inhabitants fled to western Europe ; but Ammianus in fact says that “ the Drasidae ( Druids ) recall that a part of the population is indigenous but others also migrated in from islands and lands beyond the Rhine " ( Res Gestae 15. 9 ), an indication that the immigrants came to Gaul from the north ( Britain, the Netherlands or Germany ), not from a theorized location in the Atlantic Ocean to the south-west.

There is good archaeological evidence for this process and crucibles used to produce brass by cementation have been found on Roman period sites including Xanten and Nidda in Germany, Lyon in France and at a number of sites in Britain.

However, a vague undertaking was given to consult their inhabitants, and although successive South African governments sought to have the territories transferred, Britain kept delaying, and it never occurred.

Most of Bede's informants for information after Augustine's mission came from the eastern part of Britain, leaving significant gaps in the knowledge of the western areas, which were those areas likely to have a native Briton presence.

The study found that there was ' no verifiable evidence ' of exotic felines loose in Britain, and that the mauled farm animals could have been attacked by common indigenous species.

Air battles have been far less common, due to their late conception, the most prominent being the Battle of Britain in 1940.

For some years, Britain has been said to have the highest rail fares in the world.

Fossil remains of beavers are found in the peat and other superficial deposits of Britain and the continent of Europe ; while in the Pleistocene formations of Britain and Siberia, remains of a giant extinct beaver have been found, Trogontherium cuvieri, representing a genus by itself.

Examples include ‘ The Streets of Laredo ’, which was found in Britain and Ireland as ‘ The Unfortunate Rake ’; however, a further 400 have been identified as originating in North America, including among the best known, ‘ The Ballad of Davy Crockett ' and ' Jesse James '.

Other pre-war processes in Britain were inadequate to meet the increased demand in World War I, and a shortage of cordite would have severely hampered Britain's war effort.

In post-Roman Britain, the first canal built appears to have been the Exeter Canal, which opened in 1563.

It was Attlee's government that decided Britain should have an independent atomic weapons programme, and work began on it in 1947.

In the history of colonialism, ( i. e., the form of imperialism in which the government of the colony is run directly by foreigners ), the educational and media systems of many Third World countries have been set up as replicas of those in Britain, France, or the United States and carry their values.

Such mixtures are commonly thought to have first been prepared by Indian merchants for sale to members of the British Colonial government and army returning to Britain.

Communists have played an active role in the organisation, and John Cox, its chairman from 1971 to 1977, was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain.