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Despite fox hunting being banned by the Hunting Act in 2004, Boxing Day remains the biggest hunt of the year for most hunts in the UK by use of scent drag trails instead of live quarry.
In a 2007 survey from the UK, four-fifths of senior executives reported that their biggest challenge is getting their staff to use the systems they had installed.
The biggest independent film festival in the UK is Raindance Film Festival.
Just as the British Film Commission has played a crucial role in attracting the biggest and best international studios to produce their films here, so we must incentivise UK producers to chase new markets both here and overseas.
He also provided the lead vocals on a number of songs, including the band's biggest UK chart single, " Silver Machine ", which reached No. 3 in 1972.
It became the biggest selling album of the year in Great Britain and a bestseller in other big European markets as well, selling more than one million copies in Germany and nearly 4 million in the UK alone.
Doll Revolution was a solid comeback success in Germany after the Bangles had performed in Germany's biggest television show Wetten dass, but failed to make any impact in other important markets such as the UK, the U. S. and Australia.
Their biggest success was in 1982 with the UK Top Ten album Sulk and UK Top 20 singles " Party Fears Two " and " Club Country ".
" It became their biggest hit, charting at No. 2 in the UK Singles Chart.
" I'll Never Find Another You " was the biggest selling single in the UK for 1965 and went on to sell 1. 75 million copies worldwide.
* August 11 – The British rock band Oasis plays the biggest free-standing concert in UK history at Knebworth, Hertfordshire.
The biggest hit from the album which was top 5 in both the UK and US, was Christine's " Little Lies ", co-written with her husband Quintela.
The single " Sex Bomb " was released in early 2000 and became the biggest single from the album, reaching number three in the UK Singles Chart.
The Rubettes ’ first and biggest hit was " Sugar Baby Love " ( 1974 ) which was a number one in the United Kingdom, going on to sell around 500, 000 copies in the UK and three million copies globally.
All four albums released with Fish were commercial successes, and the band released eleven Top 40 hits on the UK Singles Chart, including 1985's " Kayleigh ", which reached No. 2 and became their biggest hit single.
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.
Since Orange is now the third participant in the MBNL 3G infrastructure company, it is highly likely that this roaming will be extended to 3G infrastructure and potentially a tripartite radio access network and infrastructure sharing among Orange, T-Mobile and 3, creating the biggest single 3G infrastructure in the UK.
Waterloo has 19 terminal platforms in use, making it the joint biggest station in the UK in terms of platform numbers with London Victoria.
By December 1963, they were the biggest thing ever to hit the music business, with 19 out of the top 20 singles in the UK.
" That same year would also mark his biggest hit on the UK Singles Chart, a remake of " Don't Go Breaking My Heart " with Elton John, which went to number seven.
" Love in the First Degree " was one of their biggest UK hits, and the disco-oriented " I Can't Help It " ( which boasted a semi-controversial video featuring the group in a milk bath filled with fruit and half-naked men ) was a minor hit.
All of the ship's timbers have subsequently been raised and transferred to a dedicated industrial unit which the local council describes as " now the biggest wood conservation centre in the UK ", where preservation and research continue.

UK and selling
Commodore UK stayed in business by selling old inventory and making computer speakers and some other types of computer peripherals.
In recent years, Foster's has consistently sold in the region of 5 million hectolitres each year in the UK, making it the best selling beer after Carling.
To support the album, Brooks embarked on a 1994 UK tour, selling out venues such as Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre and London's Wembley Arena.
He shipped the Bobtail back to Australia, where he used it to win the 1955 Australian Grand Prix before selling it to help fund a permanent move to the UK the following year with his wife Betty and their son Geoff.
" By 2005 Škoda was selling over 30, 000 cars a year in the UK, a market share of over 1 %.
"', a single based on the show's theme song, reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart in December 1997 and remained in the Top 75 for 32 weeks, selling over a million copies.
Produced by McCrorie-Shand and Steve James, this single reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart in December 1997, remaining in the Top 75 for 32 weeks after its release, selling over a million copies.
Despite the fact that the group had not signed a contract with EMI, the single reached the UK Top 40 and began selling well.
At its peak, the single was selling 93, 000 copies a day in the UK alone.
Because of the large number of unsold Spectrum + models, Sinclair decided not to start selling in the UK until January 1986 at a price of £ 179. 95.
* August 21 – Be Here Now, the third album from English rock band Oasis, becomes the fastest selling album in UK history.
This was followed with the single " She Bangs the Drums ", which gave them a top forty UK hit, and a number one on the UK Independent Chart, and by that point they were receiving much greater press attention and were selling out shows across the country.
The album remained inside the British top ten for forty weeks and spent 218 weeks there altogether, making it the 58th best selling album in UK history with sales of over 2. 4 million.
When the compilation was later released it debuted at number one in the UK and was the best selling album of the year in the UK and Europe.
In November 2010 the Take That album Progress was released, becoming the fastest selling album since 2000 and the second fastest selling album in UK history.
The tour was the fastest selling in UK history with ticket hotlines and websites crashing under the demand.
" and Elton John's " Candle in the Wind 1997 "— making it the best selling commercial single in the UK.

UK and artist
Day became the oldest artist to score a UK Top 10 with an album featuring new material, according to the Official Charts Company, entering at Number 9.
With its debut at No. 9, Day made history, becoming the oldest female artist to ever have had a top ten album on the Top 40 Official UK Album chart.
In the UK, the above responsibilities would normally be those of the Head Painter, and the Scenic Artist is responsible for producing artist painted backings.
* milgramreenactment. org-site documenting Milgram's Obedience to Authority experiment by UK artist Rod Dickinson
Meanwhile in the UK David Hall's " TV Interruptions " ( 1971 ) were transmitted intentionally unannounced and uncredited on Scottish TV, the first artist interventions on British television.
In 1969, in the UK, in the course of being interviewed by a Nova magazine reporter, artist Yoko Ono said, "... woman is the nigger of the world "; three years later, her husband, John Lennon, published the song " Woman is the Nigger of the World " ( 1972 )— about the virtually universal exploitation of woman – which was socially and politically controversial to US sensibilities.
The song became an instant hit, reaching number one in the UK ( becoming his third number one single as a solo artist ) and New Zealand.
It has been claimed that Williams has sold more albums in the UK than any other British solo artist in history and has won more BRIT Awards than any other artist to date.
In 2004, he was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame, after being voted as the Greatest artist of the 1990s.
* Chip, formerly known as Chipmunk ( rapper ), UK Hip Hop artist.
Skip zone is the subject of a film ' SKIPZONE ' made in 1992 by UK artist, Peter Lee-Jones.
By this point, Queen's vast amount of record sales made them the second best selling artist in the UK of all time, behind The Beatles.
Lady of Burlesque ( known in the UK as Striptease Lady ) ( 1943 ) based on the novel The G-String Murders ( 1941 ), by famous striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, stars Barbara Stanwyck as a stripper who gets involved in the investigation of murders at a burlesque house.
The cover illustration for a 1970s UK edition of Double Star ( artist: Anthony Roberts ) was the subject of an unlikely controversy when it was used as the basis of an entry for the 2000 Turner Prize for modern art.
UK Hip Hop artist CASS also assumes the identity of Hawley Griffin, going as far as to cover his face for promotional and public appearances when performing.
A surge of popular interest in anarchism occurred during the 1970s in the United Kingdom following the birth of punk rock, in particular the Situationist-influenced graphics of Sex Pistols artist Jamie Reid, as well as that band's first single, " Anarchy in the UK ".
Death by drowning, as in water escapes pioneered by Houdini ; Death by falling ; as a straitjacket escape hanging from a burning rope hundreds of feet in the air, as created by UK escape artist Alan Alan and in the US by Dorothy Dietrich ; Buried Alive, as done by Dean Gunnarson and others ; being Burned Alive or suffocated in the Chrysalis Escape both performed by Roslyn Walker.
The remixed single ( marketed as " Armand's Star Trunk Funkin ' Mix ") hit number one on the UK single chart and the Hot Dance Music / Club Play chart in the U. S. The song was then further remixed by artist Mr. Roy, spawning an entirely new CD-single of remixes that again took to the charts.
* Chester P, UK hip-hop artist, member of Task Force and M. U. D.
More recently, he produced " Raver ", featuring Kano and Donae ' o and Roses Gabor, plus the UK artist Yasmin's first single, " On My Own ".
* Trace ( artist ), a UK drum and bass artist
A recording that was destined to reach the upper parts of the UK Singles Chart, " The Night ", was not commercially released as a single by Motown in the United States after promotional copies ( showing the artist as Frankie Valli ) were distributed in 1971.

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