One site of note on the M4 Corridor is Port Talbot Steelworks-the largest steel producer in the UK and one of the biggest steel producers in Europe.

In practice, like double decker buses and coaches in the UK, there is no legal height limit for semi-trailer trucks ; however, bridges over 16. 5 ft ( 5. 03 m ) do not have the height marked on them.

National Express provide extra coaches direct to the festival site from major UK towns and much of this work is subcontracted to smaller coach operators to provide the capacity required.

In keeping with the UK regulations for trains operating in single bore tunnels, they have emergency doors at the end of each unit, and are also designed so that when operating on 750 V DC the two motor coaches are electrically separate as far as the traction supply goes-unlike other contemporary units, there are no DC traction supply jumper cables between carriages.

* In the UK, until 1992, holders of ordinary car driving licences were allowed to drive buses and coaches of any size, provided that the use was not commercial and that there was no element of " hire or reward " in the vehicles ' use ; in other words, no one was paying to be carried.

In the UK, converted British Railways Mark 1 passenger brake vans are used as the basis for preserved steam locomotive support coaches.

National Express is introducing a new generation of coaches that feature a wheelchair lift incorporated into the passenger entrance onto the UK network.

The UK general public are most likely to be aware of the Jesus Army by its brightly coloured minibuses and coaches and highly visible multi-coloured camouflage jacket often worn by Jesus Army evangelists on the street.

Double-decker coaches in the UK have traditionally been 12. 0 metres in length, though many newer models are about.

The maximum permissible length of a rigid double-decker bus and coach in the UK is, and although there are no theoretical restrictions on height, coaches are normally built to high, while ' highbridge ' buses are normally about taller.

On Saturday 10 July 2010 the Giant ’ s Causeway & Bushmills Railway took delivery of a specially customised diesel powered locomotive together with three new passenger coaches capable of accommodating up to 90 passengers, all of which have been specially designed by the Company and by the manufacturers, Severn Lamb UK Ltd., to enhance the visitor experience to the North Antrim Coast.

While some coaches have been produced with a small front low floor section at the driver's level, most coaches in the UK are being made accessible through the use of wheelchair lifts, with the 2005 Caetano Levante being one of the largest introductions.

* Dyson Award, honouring British sports coaches, named for the first UK chief national athletics coach

A full review of the existing coach education structure, following guidance from the quality standards of the UK Coaching Certificate, has led to the establishment of a new, coach-centered education system that meets the needs of coaches and, ultimately, players.

The race, which is typically in late March / early April of each year, is one of the few true off-road point to point running races in the UK, coaches taking competitors to the start.

In the UK, the term is also commonly used to refer to sports coaches ( football, rugby, etc.

Most competitive cyclists belong to a club affiliated to one of the national racing associations, such as British Cycling and Cycling Time Trials in the UK, and may also organise training through BC or ABCC qualified coaches.

In the UK, where Boxing Day is a bank holiday, if Boxing Day falls on a Saturday, a substitute bank holiday is given on the following Monday, but if 26 December falls on a Sunday – which means that Christmas Day, another holiday, fell on a Saturday – then the Statutory Holiday for Christmas is moved to Monday 27 December and the Statutory Holiday for Boxing Day is moved to Tuesday 28 December.

The number of societies in the UK fell by four during 2008 due to a series of mergers brought about, to a large extent, by the consequences of the financial crisis of 2007-2010.

Although Secret Messages debuted at number four in the United Kingdom, it fell off the charts, failing to catch fire with a lack of hit singles in the U. K. ( though " Rock ' n ' Roll Is King " was a sizeable hit in UK, the US and Australia ) and a lukewarm media response.

For instance, in the wake of well-publicised health concerns associated with saturated fats in the 1980s, the fat content of UK beef, pork and lamb fell from 20 – 26 percent to 4 – 8 percent within a few decades, both due to selective breeding for leanness and changed methods of butchery.

However people are walking less in the UK ; a Department of Transport report found that between 1995 / 97 and 2005 the average number of walk trips per person fell by 16 %, from 292 to 245 per year.

Being Somebody was released on 3 November 2003, debuting at number 12 on the UK album chart, but fell to number 27 the following week.

In 1969, the bottom effectively fell out of Lesney's US sales ( the other major market, the UK, was also under attack ).

Secrets entered the UK album chart at No. 44, but fell off the chart the following week.

after the UK fell into recession during the early 1990s.

In the UK, the number of nuclear families fell from 39 % of all households in 1968 to 28 % in 1992.

A system where only 3 parties have a realistic possibility of winning an election or forming a coalition is sometimes called a " Third-party system ", however in some cases the system is called a " Stalled Third-Party System " when there are 3 parties in the system, and all 3 parties win a large number of votes, however only 2 have a chance of winning a general election ; this is usually because the electoral system penalises the third party e. g. UK politics, the Liberal Democrats gained 23 % of the vote in 2010 elections but won less than 10 % of the seats due to the First-Past-The-Post electoral system, however despite this they still have enough seats ( and enough public support ) for the other major 2 parties to form coalitions with them or make deals with the third party so to gain their support e. g. Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition formed after the 2010 general election and the Lib-Lab pact during Prime Minister James Callaghan's Minority Labour Government when Labour lost its 3 seat majority in 1977, the pact fell short of a full coalition.

The lead single from Reason was " Here It Comes Again ", which reached number seven in the UK, the album entering the UK album chart a week later at number five, but quickly fell off the chart.

In parts of Europe it is in serious decline ; in the UK the species fell by 54 % between 1970 and 2003.

* Reston Scar, a fell in Cumbria, England, UK

The third single from the album, " I Believe in a Thing Called Love ", was a substantial hit in the UK as was their tilt at the Christmas 2003 number 1, " Christmas Time ( Don't Let the Bells End )", which only just fell short, both singles reaching No. 2 in 2003.

The show debuted on MTV UK and Ireland in November of that year, over the course of the series, it saw Busted's attempts to ' break ' America dwindle as interviews fell through and performances remained limited both in terms of audience size and press attention.

His article, How I fell in love with Wikipedia, was published in The Guardian newspaper in the UK on April 10, 2008.

Alan Sked, an academic associated with the group, fell out with leading members of the Group during 1991-1992, and went on to form the Anti-Federalist League, which later evolved into the UK Independence Party.

The third single from the album, " I Believe in a Thing Called Love ", was a substantial hit in the UK as was their tilt at the Christmas 2003 number 1, " Christmas Time ( Don't Let the Bells End )", which only just fell short, both singles reaching No. 2 in 2003.

The Regulator identified two major areas where UK practice fell significantly short of comparable good practice, loss-of-coolant accident and control of submarine depth following emergency reactor shutdown.

Vivienne Westwood, the UK fashion designer, re-introduced the high heeled platform shoe into high-fashion in the early 1990s ; it was while wearing a pair of Super Elevated Gillie with five inch platforms and nine inch heels that the super model, Naomi Campbell, fell on the catwalk at a fashion show.

Balogh was initially delighted by Holland's knowledge of what was happening in Europe to the issue whether or not the UK should join the then European Economic Community ( EEC ), but fell out with him when he made the case to join it.

American author Christopher Ogden in his biography of Pamela Harriman has stated that American ambassador to UK during World War II John Gilbert Winant fell in love with Sarah Churchill but the relationship went nowhere.

Until Moscow resumed nuclear testing last September 1, the US and UK had released more than twice as much radiation into the atmosphere as the Russians, and the fallout from the earlier blasts is still coming down.

On 14 April 2008, in a UK Channel 4 documentary, Tudor Parfitt, taking a literalist approach to the Biblical story, described his research into this claim.

In November 2008, the UK based think tank Demos published an influential pamphlet entitled ' It's a material world: caring for the public realm ', in which they argue for integrating the public directly into efforts to conserve material culture, particularly that which is in the public, their argument, as stated on page 16, demonstrates their belief that society can benefit from conservation as a paradigm as well as a profession:

Having presided over relatively serene political, economic and social conditions, the feeling of prosperity in the UK had been maintained into the new millennium, and Labour would have a free hand to assert its ideals in the subsequent parliament.

* United Kingdom: The UK introduced universal BCG immunization in 1953, and until 2005, the UK policy was to immunize all school children at the age of 13, and all neonates born into high-risk groups.

In 2004, the UK Kennel Club held its fourth temporary exhibition, " The Borzoi in Art ," which offered unique insights into the borzoi and how the breed has been depicted in art throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

The local branches are grouped into 16 regional branches across the UK, such as the West Midlands or Wessex.

According to Alan Ware, Belgium, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, France, Greece, Iceland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK retained viable conservative parties into the 1980s.

Pepper's, was fellow UK musicians The Moody Blues ' first foray into the concept album.

Ultimately, the successful bidder was German PC conglomerate Escom, and Commodore UK was absorbed into Escom in mid-1995.

Today the Christadelphian body remains divided into " fellowships " ( of which in the UK it is estimated that there are 23 ), the largest being the Central fellowship, named after the now-defunct Birmingham Central ecclesia, once its largest and most influential ecclesia.

* Mullions-Smaller optional vertical boards that run between two rails, and split the door into two or more columns of panels, the term is used sometimes for verticals in doors, but more often ( UK and Australia ) it refers to verticals in windows.

BT and some of the UK manufacturers championed DPNSS into ECMA and CCITT ( ITU ) but it was eventually deprecated by the standards bodies in favour of Q931 and QSig.

Ephemeris time based on the standard adopted in 1952 was introduced into the Astronomical Ephemeris ( UK ) and the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, replacing UT in the main ephemerides in the issues for 1960 and after.

The TriStar was purchased mainly for the UK-Falklands route, until their entry into service the UK used leased 747s and 767s.

The release of Derek Jarman's Jubilee ( 1978 ) marked the beginning of a successful period of UK art cinema, continuing into the 1980s with film-makers like Sally Potter.

The most successful of the first wave was Maximum Speed, which successfully captured the frenetic world of a mod revival scene that was propelling bands like Secret Affair, Purple Hearts and The Chords into the UK charts.

Ayres and Warr ( 2009 ) present time series of the efficiency of primary energy ( exergy ) conversion into useful work for the US, UK, Austria and Japan revealing dramatic improvements in model accuracy.

Foster's Lager has been imported into the UK from Australia in its 16 oz distinctive blue, white and gold cans since the early 1970s.

Guilds also survive in the UK in Preston, Lancashire, as the Preston Guild Merchant where among other celebrations descendants of Burgesses are still admitted into membership.

In 1968, Hussain Najadi the Bahraini born banker, acquired the Supramar AG and expanded its operations into Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, the UK, Norway and the US.

House music, after enjoying significant underground and club-based success in Chicago from the early 1980s onwards, emerged into the UK mainstream pop market in the mid-to-late 80s.

In mathematics, Horner's method ( also known as Horner scheme in the UK or Horner's rule in the U. S .) is either of two things: ( i ) an algorithm for calculating polynomials, which consists in transforming the monomial form into a computationally efficient form ; or ( ii ) a method for approximating the roots of a polynomial.

Since 1971, it has been illegal to import haggis into the US from the UK due to a ban on food containing sheep lung, which constitutes 10 to 15 % of the traditional recipe.