The Big Society was the flagship policy idea of the 2010 UK Conservative Party general election manifesto.

While there were a number of precursors to Gaia theory, the first scientific form of this idea was proposed as the Gaia hypothesis by James Lovelock, a UK chemist, in 1970.

From Germany the idea spread to the UK, Canada, the United States and beyond where a network of clubs developed.

( Walkers revived the idea of " salt in a bag ", following their takeover of Smith's ( UK ) in 1979, with their Salt ' n ' Shake potato crisps.

The spin-off idea was cancelled after Five pulled out of the deal, which meant that the show could potentially screen on a rival UK channel, so Five requested that the new show developed as a stand-alone series and not feed off a series they own a stake in.

The idea was that each manufacturer would manufacture part of the system, so French technology procured by France Telecom would land in France, US technology in America procured by AT & T and British technology procured by BT in the UK.

The late 1980s House music raves such as Sunrise UK, spawned the idea of holding huge parties rather than hosting more intimate parties at small clubs.

In December 2006, Quark licensed the Windows version of QuarkXPress 5 to be distributed free of charge on the cover of a UK computer magazine, Computer Shopper, with the idea of enticing consumers to upgrade to later versions.

Even in videotex networks where third-party companies could post their own content and operate special services like forums, a single company usually owned and operated the underlying communications network, developed and deployed the necessary hardware and software, and billed both content providers and users for access. The exception was the transaction processing videotex system developed in the UK by Michael Aldrich in 1979, which brought teleshopping ( or online shopping as it was later called ) into prominence and was the idea developed later through the Internet.

The single was not a hit, reaching only number 73 in the UK, leaving RCA wondering whether it might have been a better idea to release it at Christmas.

In its early development in the UK in the 1930s, traffic calming was based on the idea of residential areas protected from through traffic.

Working as Private Secretary to the Conservative minister Mark Carlisle gave her the idea that she " could do better " than many of the MPs she dealt with, and in the 1983 UK general election she became MP for Ladywood, Birmingham, the area where she grew up.

The idea of leaving the UK was distasteful, but pecuniary considerations had, in consequence of the failure of his father's firm in 1847, become of vital importance, and he accepted the post.

The gradualist viewpoint within the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) is the idea that Scottish independence can be won by the accumulation by the Scottish Parliament of powers that the UK Parliament currently has over a protracted period of time.

After involvement in the 1990 anti-Poll Tax movement, and having written a number of articles for ' Freedom ' magazine, he first became involved with the UK Green Anarchist magazine in 1990, and published a novel, City-Death, explaining his idea of green anarchism.

After a holiday to the United States, John Madejski, brought the idea behind " Trader Publishing " to the UK, by forming Hurst Publishing with business partner Paul Gibbons in 1977.

Lynne joined, enthused by Wood's ELO idea, as Wood realized that he needed a second composer in the band to relieve the pressure on himself, and the band toured the UK with Arden's other major client, Black Sabbath.

Through the network of PET users in the UK they made contact with Graham Heggie in Coventry and Graham's knowledge of electronics meant that they quickly arrived at the idea of a shift register connected to the tape cassette port.

Those tours established the idea of running comedy shows in small venues around London, and thus sowed the seeds of the network of pub-based gigs that grew in the capital and across the UK throughout the 1980s.

Dyson's breakthrough in the UK market, more than 10 years after the initial idea, was through a TV advertising campaign that emphasized that, unlike most of its rivals, it did not require the continuing purchase of replacement bags.

The Dyson Dual Cyclone became the fastest-selling vacuum cleaner ever made in the UK, which outsold those of some of the companies that rejected his idea and has become one of the most popular brands in the UK ..

The idea behind this was to release ' compilations ' of these imaginary artists, creating a sense that a healthy acid house scene existed in the UK.

The idea for a national, commercial FM network devoted to classical music originated with the management at GWR group, an entrepreneurial group of UK commercial radio stations.

Spin is induced by gun barrels having rifling which engages a soft metal band around the projectile, called a " driving band " ( UK ) or " rotating band " ( U. S .).

* UK Department for Transport guidance on modelling induced demand

During 1984 Hagen spent a lot of time in London and UK based MusicSzene magazine chief-editor Wilfried Rimensberger, in conjunction with Spree Film, produced a first TV feature on her and what was remaining from London's 70 Punk movement induced by artist and model Frankie Stein.

The Tornados single " Globetrotter " made it to number 5 in the UK Singles Chart but Meek induced bassist Heinz Burt to leave for a solo career and in 1963 the group began to fall apart.

" No mean feat ... driving at almost twice today's maximum ( UK ) speed limit into a steep turn, assaulted by the g-force induced by 30 degree banking twice every minute, using Forties technology, leaf spring suspension and narrow crossply tyres ... Johnson remarked that the car felt so good it could have gone on for another week, an off-the-cuff comment that sowed the seed for another idea.

In the UK, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs states In no circumstances may birds be induced to moult by withholding feed and water.

In the past much Internet traffic was routed through the U. S. and the UK, but this has changed ; for example, in 2000, 95 % of intra-German Internet communications was routed via the DE-CIX Internet exchange point in Frankfurt.

* Ketamine is used in the UK as " field anaesthesia ", for instance at a road traffic incidents or similar situations where an operation must be conducted at the scene or when there is not enough time to move to an operating room, while preferring other anesthetics where conditions allow their use.

The network also carries traffic between schools within the UK, although many of the schools ' networks maintain their own general Internet connectivity.

* 1984: Gatwick's new air traffic control tower, the tallest in the UK at the time, opened.

* Civilian Traffic Officers — such as operated by the Highways Agency in the UK to facilitiate clearup and traffic flow at road traffic collisions

In UK law, Pelican crossings which go straight across the road are one crossing, even when there is a central island, therefore traffic must wait for pedestrians who are crossing from the other side of the island.

) In the UK and parts of North America, drivers simply treat the junction as being uncontrolled when traffic lights fail, giving way as appropriate, unless a police officer is present.

Exceptionally, it is not an offence for pedestrians to cross against a red light in the United Kingdom, where pedestrian lights officially give advice, rather than an instruction, although UK pedestrians do commit an offence if they cross a road against the signals of a police officer controlling traffic.

The used cars from US and UK have been re-exported to Norway where they are in high demand due to the government's policy to promote the use of electrical cars ( EVs are exempt from taxes, have free parking, pass toll roads for free, and are allowed to drive in the bus lanes avoiding traffic congestion ).

* Congestion Charge, charge levied on traffic entering a city, e. g. London UK

The WCML is also one of the busiest freight routes in Europe, carrying 43 % of all UK rail freight traffic.

However, some UK and Irish " traffic calming " schemes, particularly involving road narrowings, are viewed as extremely hostile and have been implicated directly in death and injury to cyclists.

The concerns of these groups would seem to be borne out by the facts: witness the example of the UK and the now-rapid privatisation of all public services — health care, police, education — following the earlier privatisation of telecoms, railways, air traffic control, and so on In 2003 the GATSwatch network published a critical statement which was supported by over 500 organisations in 60 countries.

Honda's UK domain saw more web traffic in the 24 hours after " Cog "' s television début than all but one UK automotive brand received during that entire month.

* Active Traffic Management system opens up UK motorway hard shoulder as an extra traffic lane, it uses CCTV and VMS to control and monitor the traffic's use of the extra lane

A billboard ( sometimes also called a hoarding in the UK and many other parts of the world ) is a large outdoor advertising structure ( a billing board ), typically found in high traffic areas such as alongside busy roads.

The political rows over Glasgow and Prestwick airports continued, with Prestwick enjoying a monopoly over transatlantic traffic, while Glasgow Airport was only allowed to handle UK and intra-European traffic.

Most contemporary UK schemes have involved public realm works to existing streets in older Victorian housing areas, often to meet regeneration or traffic calming objectives.

Domestic and UK traffic had showed a small decline in 2005, but grew by 25 % and 4 % respectively in 2006.

The decline in 2005 was due to a reduction in connecting traffic between Ireland's regional airports and the UK.