Since the 2005 general election the government has floated the idea of voluntary mergers of local councils, avoiding a costly reorganisation but achieving desired reform.

Since local government reorganisation, the unit in England, Northern Ireland and Wales is known as a district, and in Scotland as a council area.

Since the 1996 reorganisation, two more Scottish cities have been designated: Inverness as part of the millennium celebrations, and Stirling in 2002, to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee.

Since local government reorganisation in 1974 city status has been awarded to a number of local government districts which are not themselves towns.

Since the local government reorganisation of 1974 it has formed a part of the West Midlands Metropolitan county and Conurbation, in the Dudley Metropolitan Borough, which it joined at the same time as neighbouring Stourbridge, which had also been in Worcestershire until that point.

Since local government reorganisation, implemented on 1 April 1974, the area is split between Merseyside and Cheshire.

Since local government reorganisation in 1996, Larbert has been part of the Falkirk council area, which is one of Scotland's 32 local authorities.

Since local government reorganisation in 1974 the river has been in the county of Cumbria.

Since the passage of the Act of Settlement, the most senior member of the Royal Family to have married a Roman Catholic, and thereby been removed from the line and later lines of succession, is Prince Michael of Kent, who married Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz in 1978 ; he was fifteenth in the lines of succession at the time of his marriage.

School ( 1904 ) Sanskriti ... The School ( 2004 ) and Sophia Girls ' School ( 1918 / 1935 ) & College ( 1942 ), Rashtriya Military School Ajmer ( Since 2010-Established in 1930 as King George ’ s Royal Indian Military School ), and the historic Ajmer Music College, founded in 1942, the first accredited institution in Rajputana for teaching Hindustani classical music.

Since 1987 an illustration of the castle has featured on the reverse side of £ 100 notes issued by the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Since 2001, the Royal Danish Army has been involved in the War in Afghanistan as part of the ISAF.

Since in the British Army, the Royal Air Force, the Royal Marines and the Royal Navy there are several types of colours, there are also colour guards for these colours and these colours and their CG's are as follows:

Since Maskelyne's observations and calculations were made at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, the Greenwich meridian eventually became a common base for longitude worldwide and was adopted internationally as the Prime Meridian in 1884.

* Jones, Francis Clifford, Manchuria Since 1931, London, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1949

Since 1991 the couple's children are titled Archduke ( Archduchess ) of Austria-Este, Princes ( ss ) of Belgium, Prince ( ss ) Imperial of Austria, Prince ( ss ) Royal of Hungary and Bohemia.

Since 2002, by a Royal Order issued by Albert II of Belgium the three independent armed forces were merged into one unified structure and organised with four components which consists of about 47, 000 active troops.

Since the mid 1990s, the insignia of a Royal Australian Navy Rear Admiral is the crown of St Edward above a crossed sword and baton, above two silver stars, above the word " AUSTRALIA ".

Since 1950, The Royal Ballet has several times made prolonged tours abroad, not the least to the United States, where they have performed his ballets.

Since the Second World War a doctrinal consensus has gradually developed that all general Royal Decrees have to conform to these conditions to be valid and that earlier practices to issue general Royal Decrees without meeting these three formalities — such Decrees, general or otherwise, are called " minor Royal Decrees " — can no longer result in regulations with binding force towards the citizen.

Since 1987 an illustration of the castle has featured on the reverse side of ten pound notes issued by the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Since 2000, Whitfield has appeared in The Royal, Midsomer Murders, Marple, New Tricks and Last of the Summer Wine, which she joined in 2005.

Since 1814, the Royal Norwegian Army has again existed as a separate navy.

Since the surrender of New France to the United Kingdom in the early 1760s, the Royal Union Flag, called the Union Jack ( or, less commonly, Union Flag ) in the United Kingdom, was used as the de jure national flag, as in the United Kingdom, until the adoption of the current flag in 1965.

Since the mid-80s, Breydon Water has been a nature reserve in the care of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ).

* Her Royal Highness Máxima, Princess of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Mrs. van Amsberg ( Since 2 February 2002 )

Since Carteret had been Royal Governor of the Isle of Jersey, the territory became known as " New Jersey.

Since 1968 all commands of the Royal Air Force are housed at RAF High Wycombe.

Since most people did not understand Latin, the implication is that these songs were composed for church choristers, or perhaps for an educated audience at the Royal courts.

Since 1951, the Navy faced the initial threat from the Tupolev Tu-4K ' Bull ' carrying anti-ship missiles.

Since then it has only been visited by sport fishermen, regularly scheduled patrols of the French Navy, and by Mexican tuna and shark fishermen.

Since 1999 the shipyard has produced only warships for the Navy.

Since then, the PLA Navy has undergone a rapid modernization.

Since its inception in 1948, the U. S. Navy nuclear program has developed 27 different plant designs, installed them in 210 nuclear powered ships, taken 500 reactor cores into operation, and accumulated over 5, 400 reactor years of operation and 128, 000, 000 miles safely steamed.

Since then, electric power has been used almost exclusively for powering submarines underwater, although diesel was used for powering them on the surface until the development of diesel-electric transmission by the US Navy in 1928.

Since 1984 the Stinger has been issued to many U. S. Navy warships for point defense, particularly in Middle Eastern waters, with a three-man team that can perform other duties when not conducting Stinger training or maintenance.

Since 1804, six ships of the US Navy have successively been named the USS Somers in his honor.

Since neither the Congress nor the President appears to have authorized a privateer during the war, the Navy would not have had the authority to do so by itself.

Since the addition of navy blue to the playing uniform in 1871, the club has been known almost universally in print media as the Blues, Dark Blues or Navy Blues.

Since its creation in 2006, the Common Reading Experience has examined books including Folding Paper Cranes: An Atomic Memoir ; Mountains beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World ; Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with his Mother ; Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference ; and The Heart & the Fist: The education of a humanitarian, the making of a Navy seal.

Since the US Navy reserved " N " codes and the Federal Communications Commission has reserved rights for " W " and " K ", certain U. S. cities which begin with these letters had to adopt ' irregular ' airport codes: EWR for Newark, ORF for Norfolk, Virginia, EYW for Key West, Florida, and APC for Napa, California.

Since its inception, COMUSNAVAK has grown to become responsible for coordinating all Navy activity in the Alaska and Aleutian area, for detailed planning and coordination for the Naval portion of the Joint and Combined EXERCISE Northern Edge, and coordinates high-visibility U. S. Navy ship visits through-out Alaska in support of public relations and recruiting initiatives.

Since the end of the Second World War, Royal Navy ship classes have also been known by their type number ( e. g. Type 42 destroyer.

Since this victory completed the last major task of the Union Navy during the Civil War, Brooklyn sailed north and was decommissioned at the New York Navy Yard on January 31, 1865.

Since the United States was at war when these ships were completed, some were used by the United States Navy as destroyer escorts.

Since its founding in 1884 ( as Bath Iron Works, Limited ), BIW has built private, commercial and military vessels, most of which have been ordered by the United States Navy.

Since the siege did not blockade the harbor, the city remained open for the Royal Navy under Vice Admiral Samuel Graves to sail in supplies from Nova Scotia and other places.

Since 1949, the Secretary of Defense, a civilian appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, is by statute second in command over those armed forces which are part of the Department of Defense, i. e. the Army, Navy, Air Force, and the Marine Corps.