On 10 September 2009, following an Internet campaign, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for " the appalling way he was treated ".

* Maurice Agis ( 1931 – 2009 ), a British sculptor and artist

Aon has sponsored the British Touring Car Championship team run by Arena Motorsport since 2009.

Abergavenny hosted the British National Cycling Championships in 2007 and 2009.

In 2009, British Columbia had an estimated population of 4, 419, 974 ( about two and a half million of whom were in Greater Vancouver ).

In June 2009 the British media reported that Argentina were lobbying for the 2013 British and Irish Lions Tour to Australia to incorporate a series of games in Argentina.

In 2009, Charles formed the Fantasy Funk Band, from the leading British musicians in the genre, and has presented the band at festivals, including Glastonbury.

Notable Cheddar cheeses include " Quickes ", which in 2009 was awarded cheese of the year by the British Cheese Association, " Keen's ", with a strong tang, " Montgomery's ", with an apple aftertaste.

( British singer Vera Lynn reached the top of the chart in August 2009 at age 92, but with the greatest hits album, We'll Meet Again – The Very Best of Vera Lynn.

The sale of High Speed One by the British Government having effectively nationalised LCR in June 2009 is also likely to stimulate competition on the line.

In 2009 British films grossed around $ 2 billion worldwide and achieved a market share of around 7 % globally and 17 % in the United Kingdom.

"( Re ) defining the English Reformation ," Journal of British Studies, July 2009, Vol.

The exploitation of human clones for dangerous and undesirable work was examined in the 2009 British science fiction film Moon, where the protagonist discovers that he is simply one clone out of many that maintain a mining camp on the moon during the duration of a three year lifespan.

In January 2009, the British tabloid News of the World revealed a video made by Harry three years previously, in which he referred to a Pakistani fellow officer cadet as " our little Paki friend " and later called a soldier wearing a cloth on his head a " raghead ".

In August 2009, a British Asian man from Birmingham, England received a suspended sentence after making derogatory comments to a police officer, who was of Irish origin.

In Afghanistan in 2009, the British Army was forced to commission a report into the sexuality of the local men after British soldiers reported the discomfort at witnessing adult males involved in sexual relations with boys.

* 2009 – John Mortimer, British barrister, screenwriter and author.

* 2009 – William Frederick " Bill " Stone, British World War I veteran ( b. 1900 )

* Wamagatta, Evanson N. " British Administration and the Chiefs ' Tyranny in Early Colonial Kenya ," Journal of Asian & African Studies Aug 2009, Vol.

In 2009 FourFourTwo named Dalglish as the greatest striker in post-war British football, and in 2006 he topped a Liverpool fans ' poll of " 100 Players Who Shook the Kop ".

In 2009, it emerged that a British Special Air Service team were training Libyan special forces.

Jimmy Page was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his charity work in 2005 and Robert Plant was honoured as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services to popular music in 2009.

* Richard Whitt, 1944 to 2009, from Beauty Ridge, investigative reporter & author-Pulitzer Prize 1978, University of Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame 1995, Inducted into Greenup County Schools Hall Of Fame 2009

In April 2009, The Truth about Online Anorexia, an investigative documentary about pro-ana on the Internet, aired on ITV1 in the UK presented by BBC Radio 1 DJ Fearne Cotton.

Most recently, the discussion about different aspects of the crash was reopened on 8 January 2009, when German news magazine Tagesschau featured a report by investigative journalists Peter Hornung and Pavel Theiner.

" The Code of Silence ", which aired 11 May 2009, was an investigative report on the attitudes towards and the treatment of women by National Rugby League players.

Willingham's case gained renewed attention in 2009 when an investigative report by David Grann in The New Yorker, drawing upon arson investigation experts and advances in fire science since the 1992 investigation, suggested that the evidence for arson was unconvincing, and that had this information been available at the time of trial, Willingham would have been acquitted.

According to an August 2009 investigative report by an expert hired by the Texas Forensic Science Commission, the original claims of arson were doubtful.

In late 2009, a popular investigative television show on China Central Television aired a critical story on Bo ’ s anti-crime drive, expressing concern over the apparent disregard for the legal process.

As a result of her complaint, the Brigade Financière, the financial investigative arm of the French national police, opened an investigation and, after interviewing members of Bettencourt ’ s staff, determined to present the case to a court in Nanterre for trial in September 2009.

A follow-up on the story, which aired on Inside Edition the following week ( November 9, 2009 ), showed Joey Greco being interviewed by investigative reporter Matt Meagher about the accusations in the earlier report.

* Geir Ormseth ( 2009 ), journalist in Dine Penger, for his investigative journalism to uncover a the large bank fraud.

With broadcast shifting to HD for the 2009 – 2010 season the program reverted to its traditional title W5 with a revised graphic treatment and a new theme that reflects its investigative nature and culminates in five notes representative of the five Ws of journalism.

But in the 2009 LA Press Club Awards, the Weekly won six first-place awards, including three by staff writer Christine Pelisek, who was honored as the city's best reporter in investigative reporting, hard news, and news feature.

Richard De Mille ( Monrovia, California, February 12, 1922 – April 8, 2009 ) was an American author, investigative journalist, and psychologist.

Complaints were subsequently brought to Channel 5 investigative reporter Susan Wornick and the story ran repeatedly in spring and fall 2009 prompting the NHTSA to begin an investigation.

In 2009, Balko's investigative report on expert witness fraud in a Louisiana death penalty case won the Western Publication Association ’ s Maggie Award for reporting.

On July 8, 2009, the Committee Republicans released an investigative staff report discussing the financial collapse of 2008 – 2009.

The DSO was later disbanded in July 2009 and the investigative capacity transferred to the South African Police Service

A 2009 investigative report by Human Rights Watch interviewed some dark-skinned Sahrawis, who are a small minority in the camps ; they stated that some " blacks " are " owned " by " whites " but this ownership manifested only in " granting " marriage rights to girls.

* Ash-har Quraishi-chief investigative reporter ( 2004 – 2009 )