One of these shops, Silverdell, has been voted " Independent Bookshop of the Year ( Northern )".

The airport retail division also operate the duty-free shops in Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow, as well as at other Commonwealth of Independent States, Middle East and also in North America.

* Independent bakeries, coffee shops, and other small high-end businesses.

Independent shops in the city selling records include Swordfish Records, Tempest Records, Jibbering Records, Punch Records, Old School Daze, Dance Music Finder Records, Three Shades Records and Hard To Find Records, which is the original ' dance music finder ' in the UK and now trades as one the largest vinyl record and DJ shops in the world.

Independent consultants and small shops that can not justify the expense of moving to ArcGIS are another group of users who prefer ArcView 3. x product.

It also has a selection of independent shops including a family run freezer centre / bargain store, which in July 2010 was renovated into a Local Nisa Store ( National Independent Supermarket Association ) which is still family ran, a greengrocers, two butchers, two gentlemen's barbers, two hairdressing salons, a tanning salon, a number of pubs, a chiropodist, a doctor's surgery, which was rebuilt with a new pharmacy right next door, two veterinary practices and a restaurant.

Independent shopkeepers include grocers, corner shops, newsagents, butchers, bakers, booksellers, florists, and antique dealers.

Independent battalions were also deployed as ' stiffeners ' for infantry divisions, and the StuG III's anti-tank capabilities contributed greatly to the German's ability to draw out World War II after they had lost the strategic initiative.

Dubstep producer Skream, is quoted in an interview with The Independent in September 2011 as saying " The word dubstep is being used by a lot of people and there were a lot of people being tagged with the dubstep brush.

Following the defeat of the Independent State of Croatia at the end of the war, a large number of Ustaše, and civilians supporting them ( ranging from sympathisers, young conscripts, anti-communists, and ordinary serfs who were allegedly motivated by Partisan crimes ) attempted to flee in the direction of Austria hoping to surrender to British forces and to be given refuge.

In the 18th Independent Monitoring Commission's report, the RIRA, the CIRA and the Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) were deemed a potential future threat.

At one time the offices of The Independent group of publications were situated in the Docklands.

Moreover, in Yugoslavia there existed the Jasenovac concentration camp ( August 1941 – April 1945 ), which was the only central extermination camp outside of Poland, and the only one not operated by Nazis, but by the fascist Ustaše forces of the Independent State of Croatia, the majority of whose victims were Orthodox Christian Serbs, Roma, and Jews.

The Westropes and Kimche were members of the Independent Labour Party, although at this time Blair was not seriously politically active.

In the United Kingdom, game shows have had a more steady and permanent place in the television lineup and never lost popularity in the 1990s as they did in the United States, due in part to the fact that game shows were highly regulated by the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the 1980s and those restrictions were lifted in the 1990s, allowing for higher-stakes games to be played.

In 1885 three Independent Crofter candidates were elected to Parliament, leading to explicit security for the Scottish smallholders ; the legal right to bequeath tenancies to descendants ; and creating a Crofting Commission.

There were calls for the execution of the " ringleaders " in the major Irish nationalist daily newspaper, the Irish Independent, and local authorities also sought the ringleaders.

In 1846, Polk approved a law restoring the Independent Treasury System, under which government funds were held in the Treasury and not in banks or other financial institutions.

Accordingly, the former units of the King's African Rifles were transformed to the Kenyan Military Forces and the Independent Kenyan Government was legally empowered to assign names to the units as deemed necessary with effect from midnight, 12 December 1963.

In 1982, Loach and Central Independent Television were commissioned by Channel 4 to make Questions of Leadership, a documentary series on the response of the British trade union movement to the challenge posed by the policies of the Thatcher government, which also gave members an opportunity to call their own leaders to account.

After nearly three weeks of talks, the joint French-British Command decreed that responsibility for armed units under French control were to be handed over to the Independent Government of Lebanon.

Independent women in the 1930s were generally seen as holding jobs that men should have.

The campaign's members were Stafford Cripps's ( Labour-affiliated ) Socialist League, the Independent Labour Party and the Communist Party of Great Britain ( CP ).

" Other opposition parties such as the Conservative Democratic Party and the Independent Liberal party, were both free to denounce the Sandinista government and participate in the elections.

Originally established with strong ties to the Department of Transportation, these ties were later severed under the Independent Safety Board Act of 1974.

In the last Irish elections to the UK Parliament in 1919, STV was used in the University of Dublin constituency ; two Independent Unionists were elected.

Legal issues over back taxes possibly owed by the PDS on former SED assets were eventually settled in 1995, when an agreement between the PDS and the Independent Commission on Property of Political Parties and Mass Organizations of the GDR was confirmed by the Berlin Administrative Court.

The relative severity of various British profanities, as perceived by the public, was studied on behalf of the British Broadcasting Standards Commission, Independent Television Commission, BBC and Advertising Standards Authority ; the results of this jointly commissioned research were published in December 2000 in a paper called " Delete expletives ?".

Seduced by Ceauşescu's " Independent " foreign policy, Western leaders were slow to turn against a regime that, by the late 1970s, had become increasingly arbitrary, capricious and harsh.

Independent candidates also were permitted to participate in the January 1991 legislative elections.

Additional members of the Independent Constitutional Commission were also appointed to engage Somali constitutional lawyers, religious scholars and experts in Somali culture over the nation's upcoming new constitution, a key part of the government's Transitional Federal Tasks.

In March 2001 Russian Independent Television NTV interviewed a previously unknown grandson living in Novokuznetsk, Yuri Davydov, who stated that his father had told him of his lineage, but, was told to keep quiet because of the campaign against Stalin's cult of personality.

Prince Johnson who had been a member of Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) but broke away because of policy differences, formed the Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( INPFL ).

The series generated numerous complaints because of its frequent use of racist epithets and ' bad language ' - one viewer reportedly complained of counting 59 uses of the word " bloody " in one episode-and it was cancelled on the orders of the Independent Broadcasting Authority after only six episodes.

So called because of its position at the old West Gate of the town wall, the Chapel first officially opened for worship as Westgate Meeting in 1700 as English Presbytarian but soon joined by an Independent congregation.

Independent School District 748, Sartell-St. Stephen, was created in 1969 because residents wanted to educate their children locally.

Tilton was then fired from his job at the Independent because of his editor's fears of adverse publicity.

It is sometimes mentioned as the Irish Independent Opposition Party, and colloquially known as the Pope ’ s Brass Band because of their stance on the Ecclesiastical Titles Act.

Costello's revelation of the decision was because the Sunday Independent ( an Irish newspaper ) had discovered the fact and was about to " break " the story as an exclusive.

in 1982 after being awarded two of the channels the BBC proposed its own satellite service, but by 1983 started talking with the Independent Broadcasting Authority ( IBA ), subsequently, BBC joined a joint-venture with Granada, Virgin, and Thorn-EMI ( dubbed the " Club of 21 ") to try and start up a joint satellite service but failed in 1985 with the BBC saying the costs were prohibitive, because the government insisted that the BBC should pay for the costs of constructing and launching a dedicated satellite.

When asked to describe the album to The Independent, Beam remarked that " it's not a political propaganda record, but it's definitely inspired by political confusion, because I was really taken aback when Bush got reelected.

After his film career ended, he returned to Namibia, where he farmed maize, pumpkins and beans and kept several head of cattle ( but no more than twenty at a time because, according to The Independent, without the complex farming systems of the " modern world ," he had trouble keeping track of more ).

In December 2009, he told The Independent on Sunday that he has represented two high-profile gay Premier League footballers in the past five years and has advised them to stay in the closet because football " remains in the dark ages, steeped in homophobia ".

As Bob Conlon, regional executive with the Independent Television Commission, said: " People never really grasped the name-it didn't exactly trip off the tongue and it was still referred to as Tyne Tees Television, because it has been there for years.

In an interview with The Independent in August that year, he said Britain faced hard choices over which coasts to defend and which to leave to the sea because it would not be possible to save all coastal homes from sea erosion.

In 1993, Aspel and Company was censured by the Independent Television Commission because of an interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone who were promoting their joint business venture Planet Hollywood.

Regarding terminology in UK and Ireland, in December 2011 the Advertising Standards Authority ( in an ASA decision which was upheld by its Independent Reviewer, Sir Hayden Phillips ) controversially ruled that no manufactured product can be marketed as " zero carbon ", because carbon was inevitably emitted during its manufacture.

The start-up routine was symbolic because of its distinctive and unchanging music and the announcement stating: " This is Border Television serving Cumbria, South Scotland, the Isle of Man and North and West Northumberland, from the Caldbeck, Selkirk and associated transmitters of the Independent Broadcasting Authority.

The Independent Broadcasting Authority restricted prize values on ITV shows, and BBC-programme prizes were worth even less because the Corporation felt it inappropriate to spend licence payers ' money on such things.

In a statement, the Socialist Party said " it believed Ms Daly had resigned because she placed more value on her political connection with Independent TD Mick Wallace than on the political positions and work of the Socialist Party.

Brennan thereafter supported American Independent Party candidate ( and former governor of Alabama ) George C. Wallace, Jr., over GOP nominee and former Vice President Richard M. Nixon in the 1968 presidential campaign because he felt Nixon was too liberal.

The Court upheld the Independent Counsel provision of the Ethics in Government Act because it did not violate the separation of powers by increasing the power of one branch at the expense of another.

Although the election officially resulted in a minority government, the election of eight " Independent Liberal " MPs, most of whom did not run as official Liberals because of their opposition to conscription ( see Conscription Crisis of 1944 ), gave the King government an effective working majority in parliament.

The choice of the name kuna was controversial because the same currency name had been used by the Independent State of Croatia kuna ( a Nazi puppet state ), but this was dismissed as a red herring, since the same name was in also in use during the Banovina of Croatia and by the ZAVNOH.

The prize board has become the butt of jokes since the programme's original demise because of the perceived poor quality of prizes on offer, but it should be pointed out that for most of the programme's original run prize values were restricted by the Independent Broadcasting Authority.