* Women's: The State League-played annually between six teams based upon the first-class associations: Northern Spirit, Auckland Hearts, Central Hinds, Wellington Blaze, Canterbury Magicians, Otago Sparks.

Originally trading as Regional Railways North East it was rebranded Northern Spirit in May 1998.

Northern Spirit had introduced a daily Leeds to Glasgow Central via the Settle & Carlisle and West Coast Main Lines in September 1999.

Carried over from the Northern Spirit era, a shortage of drivers and rolling stock lead to many cancellations on a daily basis.

Arriva Trains Northern inherited a fleet of Class 142, Class 144, Class 150, Class 155, Class 156, Class 158, Class 308 and Class 321s from Northern Spirit.

In 2000 16 Class 333s that had been ordered by Northern Spirit to replace the Class 308s, entered service.

A local independent company, Chester-le-Track, has operated the station since 1999, as an agent for Northern Spirit, Arriva Trains Northern and Northern Rail.

The trains were used in the North East, passing to Northern Spirit at privatisation, then Arriva Trains Northern and now Northern Rail.

Children for the Union: The War Spirit on the Northern Home Front.

In 2005, to coincide with the Spirit of the Tall Ships Festival, Northern Rock enlisted the help of Red Box Interiors to create a temporary art installation at The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art on the Gateshead Quay of the Tyne.

Among the new clubs at this time were the Collingwood Warriors, Carlton, Northern Spirit and Parramatta Power.

Whereas many IRA attacks in Northern Ireland usually resulted in reprisals by Loyalists, Wilson's calls for forgiveness and reconciliation came to be called the Spirit of Enniskillen.

The Trust gives Spirit of Enniskillen Bursaries to promote reconciliation in Northern Ireland.

Gough joined Rangers ' feeder club Northern Spirit to begin a coaching career in Australia.

This was originally operated as Northern Spirit, but the franchise was later taken over by Arriva and operated as Arriva Trains Northern.

" Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People.

Following a reported signed deal with the FFA, the club signed former Northern Spirit coach Lawrie McKinna as manager and Ian Ferguson, a former Rangers and Northern Spirit player as coach.

Fanzines are not exclusive to the top tiers of football however, with Northern Counties East League side Scarborough Athletic FC having a fanzine titled Abandon Chip !, a pun based on both the perilous situation of predecessor club Scarborough FC and that club's sponsors, McCain.

* 24 October — foundation of Sheffield FC, the world's oldest known association football club ( currently playing in the Northern Premier League ).

The new members of the Second Division are Cowlairs ( re – elected to the SFL ), Hibernian, Greenock Morton, Motherwell, Northern FC, Partick Thistle, Port Glasgow Athletic and Thistle FC.

The Toronto Awaba Stags FC in the Northern NSW Football competition ; the Macquarie Scorpions in the Newcastle Rugby League and also the Toronto Workers Kookaburras in the Newcastle cricket competition.

* Grange Rangers FC, based at Foundry Lane, plays in Division 2A of the Northern Amateur Football League-www. grangerangersfc. co. uk

In fact, in the early rounds of the Steel & Sons Cup, one of the premier knock-out cup competitions for Intermediate football sides in Northern Ireland, there were no less than 5 teams with “ Bangor ” in their name ; the other teams besides Bangor FC were Bangor Amateurs, Bangor Rangers, Bangor Swifts and 1st.

In mid-2009, they won the pre-season ' Newsquest Cup ' by beating FC United of Manchester from the Northern Premier League ( 2 – 0 ) and Radcliffe Borough from the North West Counties League ( 2 – 1 ).

On June 2, 2011, Leigh Genesis FC officially announced that it would not be joining the North West Counties League ( Level 9 ) despite being relegated from the Northern Premier League Division One North ( Level 8 ).

FIGC attempted many times to introduce relegations on the contrary, but the reform was really adopted only in 1921 by the secessionist CCI in its Northern League, which consisted of a First Division and a Second Division: the first teams to be relegated were AC Vicenza and FC Inter even if, after the reunion with FIGC, the regulations were changed, and SSC Venezia was demoted instead of the Milanese club.

The suburb is home to the Coburg Tigers Australian rules football club in the Victorian Football League ; the suburb also is home to 2 Essendon District Football League clubs-West Coburg FC and Northern Saints FC.

The first-ever recognised club was Gateshead NER FC, who were formed in 1889, playing in the Northern Football Alliance until 1903, however the earliest prominent club, Gateshead Town FC joined the Northern Football Alliance in 1905, they played their games at The Shuttles and Old Fold Park.

* In Northern Ireland, Belfast based Distillery FC were homeless for many seasons in the 1970s sharing grounds with other clubs until settling in Lisburn, later adding the town's name to theirs, now known as Lisburn Distillery F. C.

sc Heerenveen and FC Groningen are the 2 biggest clubs of the Northern part of the Netherlands ; therefore a match between the teams is called " The derby of the North ".

Although the adoration of brand name clothing stems from the Northern Soul scene, it is generally regarded that the first scallies were supporters of Liverpool FC who stood on the Anfield Road terrace end of their football stadium.

On the way there they knocked out Linfield FC ( Northern Ireland ) and Debreceni VSC ( Hungary ) in the qualification stage of the Champions League before eventually being eliminated themselves by the hands of Valencia CF ( Spain ) in the last round.

Bishop Auckland FC ’ s best footballing performance was arguably played in the 1954 – 55 season in which they won the Northern League Division One, the Northern League Cup, the FA Amateur Cup and reached the 4th round in the FA Cup losing only to York City who then went on to lose to Newcastle United in the Semi-Final.

Hull FC were one of the founding members of the Northern Rugby Football Union which was formed in 1895 in Huddersfield, making them one of the world's first twenty-two rugby league clubs.

In the northwestern sections of the United Kingdom the Northern Soul explosion, which started in late 1960s and peaked in 1974, made the region receptive to Disco which the region's Disk Jockeys were bringing back from New York.

As the 2012 Northern Hemisphere Summer started to draw to a close, NOAA stated that El Niño conditions are likely to develop in August or September.

ITV television has been available on parts of the east of the Isle of Man on 3rd May 1956 when Granada Television transmissions started from the Winter Hill transmitting station, and to parts of the west of the island on 1st October 1959 from the Black Mountain transmitting station in Northern Ireland which broadcast Ulster Television.

Following the introduction of professionalism trans-national club competitions were started, with the Heineken Cup in the Northern Hemisphere and Super Rugby in the Southern Hemisphere .< ref name =" historymain ">

Missionary activity then started at the mid 19th century and European colonial ambitions led to the establishment of a German Protectorate over the Northern Solomons, following an Anglo-German Treaty of 1886.

Northern Pacific and Southern Pacific started as a single Pacific Coast Division until dividing in 1966.

After years of ethnic friction culminating in the massacre of the Ibos in the Northern and Western Nigeria between 1966 and 1967 in which an estimated population of 500, 000 Easterners were killed in a planned pogrom, the Eastern Region headed by Lt Col Odumegwu Ojukwu started a secessionist movement in Nigeria which resulted in the creation of the Republic of Biafra to protect the Easterners from annihilation.

Truth started dictating her memoirs to her friend Olive Gilbert, and in 1850 William Lloyd Garrison privately published her book, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave.

Danish rule of Tallinn and Northern Estonia started in 1219.

* Li Baiyao, Chinese government official and historian who completed editing the Book of Northern Qi, which his father had started ( d. 647 )

* Li Baiyao, Chinese government official and historian who completed editing the Book of Northern Qi, which his father had started ( born 564 )

In the Northern Sagas ( 9th century ) the term started to be used to indicate the Estonians.

* c. 2300 BC: Metals started to be used in Northern Europe.

On 9 September 1878, a portion of the Northern Cheyenne, led by Little Wolf and Dull Knife started they're trek back to the north.

Regarded as one of the best generals of the Northern and Southern dynasties, Liu Yu started off by reclaiming much of the territory the Chinese had lost during the Sixteen Kingdoms era.

He attended Oak Park and River Forest High School and upon graduation, started attending Northern Illinois University ( NIU ) in the fall of 1975.

Castellaneta started acting after his graduation from Northern Illinois University in 1979.

Systematic settlement started during the Northern Crusades.

Hampstead started to expand following the opening of the North London Railway in the 1860s ( now the London Overground with passenger services operated by Transport for London ), and expanded further after the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway opened in 1907 ( now part of London Underground's Northern Line ) and provided fast travel to central London.

* It started in Northern Ireland in 1996 when it received a grant from the Millenium Commission to set up over 50 community woods.

The Tuoba ( Tabgach ) tribe started their rise with Tuoba Liwei ( 219-277 ) who was the ancestor of the future Northern Wei Dynasty and was thus posthumously honored as Emperor Shenyuan, with the temple name Shizu.

While the Tuoba migrated south and established the State of Dai ( 310-376 ) and Northern Wei dynasty ( 386-534 ) the Shiwei remained in the north but eventually paid tribute to the Northern Wei ( for example the Wuluohu sub-tribe started paying tribute in 444 ).

Madrid was a coal mining company town in Northern New Mexico started in the 1850s.

He built the Skagit River Lumber & Shingle Mill next to where the railroads crossed and he started his namesake company town there that was based on sales of railroad ties to the three rail companies, including the Seattle and Northern Railway ( forerunner of the Great Northern Railway ) and the Northern Pacific Railroad.