In the United Kingdom, bass music, or UK Bass, as it is often known there, has had major mainstream success since the late 2000s and early 2010s, with artists such as Example, Chase & Status, Skream, Benga and Wretch 32.

The Paige / Dickson duet " I Know Him So Well " became a major UK # 1 hit, and Murray Head's " One Night in Bangkok " gave Andersson / Ulvaeus a US # 3 hit.

As an extension of his 6 Music show, Charles regularly takes the Funk and Soul Club to varied venues across the UK and to most major music festivals.

Day's last major hit single came in the UK in 1964 with " Move Over, Darling ", co-written by her son specifically for her.

According to BBC History: " There have been 53 major wars in Europe, France had been a belligerent in 49 of them ; UK 43.

Housing produces a major proportion of carbon emissions ( 30 % of the total in the UK, for example ).

Scots played a major part in the leadership of UK political parties producing a Conservative Prime Minister in Arthur Balfour ( 1902 – 05 ) and a Liberal one in Henry Campbell-Bannerman ( 1905 – 08 ).

Australia's ties with the UK dwindled rapidly as Britain closed foreign bases, disengaged from its former territories East of Suez and began courting the EEC, as a result of which American investment in Australia increased dramatically and Australia's onetime enemy Japan replaced the UK as Australia's major trading partner.

In economics, Holt's tenure began with the phasing in of Australia's new system of decimal currency, launched on 14 February 1966, and it was marked by a major realignment of commercial and military ties away from the UK and towards the US and Asia.

Later in 2009, some major IRC servers were delinked:,,, EFnet's only UK server, and EFnet's only UK hub, which were sponsored by Demon Internet.

They soon became one of the major consumers of coal in the UK.

* 1984 – A major clash between about 5, 000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984-1985 UK miners ' strike.

Nehru accepted the arbitration of the UK and World Bank, signing the Indus Water Treaty in 1960 with Pakistani ruler Ayub Khan to resolve long-standing disputes about sharing the resources of the major rivers of the Punjab region.

The loyalty card market in the UK is one of the most significant in the world, with most major chains operating some form of reward system.

A study by Ronald Hutton compared a number of different sources ( including membership lists of major UK organizations, attendance at major events, subscriptions to magazines, etc.

While punk rock remained largely an underground phenomenon in North America, Australia, and the new spots where it was emerging, in the UK it briefly became a major sensation.

When this proved too small he took over Winterland and then the Fillmore West ( in San Francisco ) and the Fillmore East ( in New York City ), where the major rock artists, from both the US and the UK, came to play.

The US and UK were the major centres of psychedelic music, but in the late 1960s scenes began to develop across the world, including continental Europe, Australasia, Asia and south and Central America.

Rock music has also embodied and served as the vehicle for cultural and social movements, leading to major sub-cultures including mods and rockers in the UK and the " hippie " counterculture that spread out from San Francisco in the US in the 1960s.

This motivated Polygram ( who now owned the Verve / MGM label archives ) to re-release the song to Top 40 radio where it became a major hit for a second time ( their second UK # 1 ) and a greatest hits CD collection called The Very Best of The Righteous Brothers ... Unchained Melody.

The UK Labour Government nationalised major public utilities such as mines, gas, coal, electricity, rail, iron, steel, and the Bank of England.

A television series was also created, based on the book, which airs in the United States, Australia, Canada, the UK, Norway and Venezuela.

Dynamite was patented in the US and the UK and was used extensively in mining and the building of transport networks internationally.

One particularly fine example was included as part of the Thetford treasure from fourth century Norfolk, UK.

* The Carnegie Medal for the best children's literature published in the UK was established in his name.

Famously, radar was developed in the UK, Germany, and the United States during the same period.

This was the period of Korner's greatest commercial success in the UK.

In January 2009 Aon was fined £ 5. 25 million in the UK after it made more than $ 7 million worth of " suspicious " payments to overseas firms and individuals.

Over the years, Widdecombe has expressed her support for a reintroduction of the death penalty, which was abolished in the UK in 1965.

However, perhaps the first organised attempt to conserve cultural patrimony was the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in the UK, influenced by the writings of John Ruskin the society was founded by William Morris and Philip Webb in 1877.

* In 1968 Abergavenny was the title of a UK single by Marty Wilde.

ARIN formerly covered Argentina, Aruba, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Dutch West Indies, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands ( UK ), French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela until LACNIC was formed.

In an official review commissioned by UK government ministers it was reported that the needless use of anti-psychotic medication in dementia care was widespread and was linked to 1800 deaths per year.

Accrington was first represented nationally after the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 after the 1885 general election by Accrington ( UK Parliament constituency ).

This seat was abolished in the 1983 general election and replaced with the present constituency of Hyndburn ( UK Parliament constituency ).

The original ending, in which Ash oversleeps in the cave and wakes up in a post-apocalyptic future, was restored to the film for the UK VHS release, which also had the cinematic ending put in as a post credit extra.

It was also reprinted by Marvel UK, which created new editorial material.

When I say ' UK bass ', it's what everyone UK is associated with so it would be a lot easier if it was called that.

Andersson's next project was Mamma Mia !, a musical built around 24 of ABBA's songs, which has become a worldwide box-office blockbuster with versions in several languages currently being played in many countries, including the UK ( West End premiere in April 1999 ), Canada ( Toronto premiere in 2000 ), the USA ( Broadway premiere in 2001 ), and Sweden ( Swedish language premiere in 2005 ).

The band's debut single, " Smalltown Boy ", the tale of a boy who was cast away by his family for being homosexual, was a hit, peaking at No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart.

It also achieved Top 10 status in the UK, reaching Nº6, and was a Top 10 hit for the band in Australia.

In 1985, the British neo-progressive rock band Marillion achieved their only UK Number One album-and the best-selling album of their career-with Misplaced Childhood, a concept album featuring lyrics by frontman Fish which were partly autobiographical.

Young Americans was a commercial success in both the US and the UK, and a re-issue of the 1969 single " Space Oddity " became Bowie's first number one hit in the UK a few months after " Fame " achieved the same in the US.

Featuring characters from a short story written by Bowie, the album achieved US and UK chart success, and yielded three top 40 UK singles.

The song achieved number 1 status in Holland first, followed by the UK and then Australia.

However, in the UK, the eurosceptic United Kingdom Independence Party achieved second place in the elections, finishing ahead of the governing Labour Party, and the British National Party ( BNP ) won its first ever two MEPs.

Long-term studies like the UK Prospective Diabetes Study ( UKPDS ) and the Diabetes control and complications trial ( DCCT ) showed that intensive insulinotherapy achieved blood glucose levels closer to non-diabetic people and that this was associated with reduced frequency and severity of blood vessel damage.

The Club Sport variant achieved a ' Performance Car Of The Year ' award in 1993 from Performance Car magazine in the UK.

Nationalisation in the UK was achieved through compulsory purchase of the industry ( i. e. with compensation ).

In the UK starting in the mid 1980s daytime screenings of The Young Doctors, The Sullivans, Sons and Daughters and Neighbours achieved significant success.

Channel Seven's Home and Away, a teen soap developed as a rival to Neighbours, has also achieved significant and enduring success on UK television.

They achieved several pop / rap hits during the dance-club cultural boom era of the early 1980s, particularly in the UK, where they still enjoy a strong fan following today.

The Stranglers achieved something of a critical and popular renaissance in 2004 with the acclaimed Norfolk Coast album and a subsequent sell-out tour, together with their first Top-40 hit ( No. 31 UK ) in fourteen years, " Big Thing Coming ".

In the UK the term glitter rock was most often used to refer to the extreme version of glam pursued by Gary Glitter and his support musicians the Glitter Band, who between them achieved eighteen top ten singles in the UK between 1972 and 1976.

After World War II, the islands achieved self-rule, with the Malta Labour Party ( MLP ) of Dom Mintoff seeking either full integration with the UK or else " self-determination ( independence ), and the Partit Nazzjonalista ( PN ) of George Borg Olivier favouring independence, with the same " dominion status " that Canada, Australia and New Zealand enjoyed.

As a result, the band helped to popularise the Britpop genre and achieved mass popularity in the UK, aided by a chart battle with rival band Oasis in 1995 dubbed " The Battle of Britpop ".

It achieved a half-a-million sales in the UK and over a million worldwide.

In the UK the Plessey Company produced a range of TXK crossbar exchanges, but their widespread rollout by the British Post Office began later than in other countries, and then was inhibited by the parallel development of TXE reed relay and electronic exchange systems, so they never achieved a large number of customer connections although they did find some success as tandem switch exchanges.

Released on October 1990, the album received excellent critical reviews and achieved very respectable sales, peaking at # 4 in the US and No. 1 in the UK.

The University of Sussex in the UK has also achieved a reputation in this field of study, and the Sussex emphasis on broad interdisciplinary study has been particularly useful in relevant teaching and research.

Marillion have achieved twelve Top 40 hit singles in the UK with Hogarth, including 2004's " You're Gone ", which charted at No. 7 and is the biggest hit of his tenure.