* Sounds Familiar? Listen to examples of London and other regional accents and dialects of the UK on the British Library's ' Sounds Familiar ' website

Geoff Barton began writing features on the new up and coming metal bands and Sounds even featured a weekly Heavy Metal chart compiled from record requests at “ The Soundhouse ”, a heavy metal ' disco ' in North West London and the spiritual home of the movement.

Within a short time, the group became well known around London, notably appearing on the front cover of Sounds magazine early in 1981.

The forerunner to the BBC Asian Network was a hugely popular Asian programme, London Sounds Eastern presented by Vernon Corea who was appointed the BBC's Ethnic Minorities Adviser in the 1970s.

Pandit Ravi Shankar, Indian pop star Usha Uthup, were among those interviewed for " London Sounds Eastern ", launched on BBC Radio London in 1976 and produced by Keith Yeomans.

Exceptions to this included the game shows, That's My Dog and Sounds Like Music and children's cartoon Tube Mice, about mice who lived beneath the London Underground.

All the Wondermints can be heard on Wilson's CDs and DVDs Live at the Roxy Theatre, Brian Wilson on Tour, Pet Sounds Live, and Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin, with Sahanaja, Walusko, and Gregory also appearing on the Pet Sounds Live in London album and the studio albums Gettin ' in Over My Head and Smile.

London Chinese Radio made a Special Earthquake Edition on their New Sounds of China podcast to cover this.

MorrowSoundTrue3D soundscapes include Torino Winter Olympics, ProFootball Hall of Fame, Great Lakes Children's Museum, NokiaWorld 2008 Barcelona, Denver Museum Nature and Science Gates Planetarium, New York Historical Society, Copenhagen International Theatre, Gallery Rachel Haferkamp Köln, Muu Gallery Helsinki, New Sounds New York, ZHDK Zurich, OKKO Design Stockholm, BAFTA Awards London, Collection of Diana Zlotnick Studio City, CA, as well as Ecsite, AAM, ASTC and IPS conventions.

Vernon introduced hundreds of musicians to listeners at Radio Ceylon / Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation and in the studios of BBC Radio London when he presented the popular London Sounds Eastern radio programme.

Vernon Corea worked for Radio Worldwide based in Upper Norwood, then for BBC Radio London as a presenter for the popular London Sounds Eastern.

London Sounds Eastern was one of the most popular ethnic minority radio program's on the BBC.

Until the launch of ' London Sounds Eastern ,' Asian radio programmes in the United Kingdom were mostly in the Hindi and Urdu languages.

' London Sounds Eastern ' was a real breakthrough in terms of ethnic minority broadcasting.

Vernon Corea, presenter of London Sounds Eastern was appointed Asian Programmes Officer of the BBC and trained broadcasters from minority ethnic communities for the BBC Local Radio network.

Vernon Corea interviewed the great Ravi Shankar on ' London Sounds Eastern '

A whole host of Asian stars were featured-Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Usha Uthup, Ravi Shankar, Pandith Amaradeva, Asian actress Jamila Massey and her husband the writer Reginald Massey, Clarence Wijewardene, Annesley Malewana, Mignonne Fernando, Nimal Mendis, The Gypsies, Desmond de Silva were some of the South Asian stars on ' London Sounds Eastern.

Vernon Corea, the presenter of ' London Sounds Eastern ' also met with the President of the Maldives when he was invited to the islands to train Maldivian broadcasters at Radio Maldives.

Ravi Shankar was among the celebrities interviewed by Vernon Corea for London Sounds Eastern.

Instead, from 1 January 1923, almost all the remaining companies were grouped into the " big four ", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies ( there were also a number of other joint railways such as the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and the Cheshire Lines Committee as well as special joint railways such as the Forth Bridge Railway, Ryde Pier Railway and at one time the East London Railway ).

* Bahru Zewde ( 1991 ) A history of modern Ethiopia, 1855-1974, Eastern African studies series, London: Currey, ISBN 0-85255-066-9

In 1934, then enrolled as a graduate student at King's College London, he wrote his Ph. D. thesis on Trade and War in the Eastern Seas, 1803-1810, which was awarded the Julian Corbett Prize in Naval History for 1935.

The country maintains missions in Washington, New York, London, and Brussels and is represented jointly with other Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States ( OECS ) members in Canada.

The London Docklands Development Corporation ( LDDC ), needing to provide public transport cheaply for the former docks area to stimulate regeneration, considered several proposals and chose a light rail scheme using dock railway infrastructure to link the West India Docks to Tower Hill and to run alongside the Great Eastern line out of London to a northern terminus at, where a disused bay platform at the west of the station was available, for interchange with the Central Line and main lines.

By the mid-1990s, Ghana Airways operated international scheduled passenger and cargo service to numerous European, Middle Eastern, and African destinations, including London, Düsseldorf, Rome, Abidjan, Dakar, Lagos, Lomé, and Johannesburg.

The port is famous for the phrase " Harwich for the Continent " seen on road signs and in London & North Eastern Railway ( LNER ) advertisements.

Shortly afterwards, false reports spread in mid-March 1939 by the Romanian minister in London, Virgil Tilea, that his country was on the verge of an immediate German attack, led to a dramatic U-turn in British policy of resisting commitments in Eastern Europe.

By 1798, there were eight districts: Eastern, Home, Johnstown, London, Midland, Newcastle, Niagara, and Western.

By 1826, there were eleven districts: Bathurst, Eastern, Gore, Home, Johnstown, London, Midland, Newcastle, Niagara, Ottawa, and Western.

By 1838, there were twenty districts: Bathurst, Brock, Colbourne, Dalhousie, Eastern, Gore, Home, Huron, Johnstown, London, Midland, Newcastle, Niagara, Ottawa, Prince Edward, Simcoe, Talbot, Victoria, Wellington, and Western.

* Warriors ( Port Elizabeth and East London, Eastern Cape )

The report described a fax sent by the Egyptian department of Foreign Affairs to the Egyptian Embassy in London, and described the existence of secret detention facilities ( black sites ) run by the CIA in Central and Eastern Europe.

However, the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, authorised on 12 July 1837, was ; the Eastern Counties Railway, authorised on 4 July 1836, was ; London and Blackwall Railway, authorised on 28 July 1836, was ; the London and Brighton Railway, authorised on 15 July 1837, was ; the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, authorised on 30 June 1837, was ; the Manchester and Leeds Railway, authorised on 4 July 1836, was and the Northern and Eastern Railway, authorised on 4 July 1836, was.

* P. M. Barford, The Early Slavs: Culture and Society in Early Medieval Eastern Europe, British Museum Press, London 2001, ISBN 978-0-7141-2804-7

Runestones attest to voyages to locations such as Bath, Greece, Khwaresm, Jerusalem, Italy ( as Langobardland ), London, Serkland ( i. e. the Muslim world ), England, and various locations in Eastern Europe.

* September 29 – The London and North Eastern Railway's first A4 Class locomotive A4 2509 Silver Link makes her inaugural journey from London Kings Cross.

** The London and North Eastern Railway commences the Silver Jubilee, Britain's first streamline train service.

This department had been created by the museum to address objects in the collection that had begun to rapidly deteriorate as a result of being stored in the London Underground tunnels during the First World War.

They contend that the Boers of the South African Republic ( ZAR ) and Orange Free State republics were recognized as a separate people or cultural group under international law by the Sand River Convention ( which created the South African Republic in 1852 ), the Bloemfontein Convention ( which created the Orange Free State Republic in 1854 ), the Pretoria Convention ( which re-established the independence of the South African Republic 1881 ), the London Convention ( which granted the full independence to the South African Republic in 1884 ) and the Vereeniging Peace Treaty, which formally ended the Second Anglo-Boer War on 31 May 1902.

One role of the Swedish central bank was lending to the government, which was likewise true of the Bank of England, created in 1694 by Scottish businessman William Paterson in the City of London at the request of the English government to help pay for a war.

The London Cartoon Strip was created by 15 of Britain's best known cartoonists and depicts the history of London.

It also created conflict between the new and old communities of the London Docklands.

This program is now known as the University of London International Programmes and includes Postgraduate, Undergraduate and Diploma degrees created by colleges such as the London School of Economics, Royal Holloway and Goldsmiths.

Charles Francis Badini created the Original Fanology or Ladies ' Conversation Fan which was published by William Cock in London in 1797.

It was created as an area for local government on 1 April 1965, comprising the City of London and 32 London boroughs, of which twelve are Inner London boroughs and twenty are Outer London boroughs.

The ceremonial county created at the same time, and used for the purposes of the Lord Lieutenant of Greater London, does not include the City of London.

Although the London County Council had been created as a London-wide authority covering the County of London in 1889, the county did not cover all the built-up area of London, particularly West Ham and East Ham ; and many of the LCC housing projects, including the vast Becontree Estate, were outside its boundaries.

Greater London was formally created by the London Government Act 1963, which took force on 1 April 1965, replacing the former administrative counties of Middlesex and London, adding the City of London, which was not under the London County Council, and absorbing parts of Kent, Surrey, Essex and Hertfordshire.

The Greater London Authority, London Assembly and the directly elected Mayor of London were created in 2000 by the Greater London Authority Act 1999.