* Burns stanza or British stanza

** Gordon Burns, British journalist and TV presenter

* August 5 – Pete Burns, British singer ( Dead or Alive )

Cillian Murphy had starred primarily in small independent films, while Naomie Harris had acted on British television as a child, and Megan Burns had only one previous film credit.

* The Krypton Factor, a British game show hosted by Gordon Burns, formerly on ITV

In addition to the Protopunk of New York's The Velvet Underground and Suicide, and Detroit ’ s The Stooges and MC5, Kember's and Pierce's musical influences included: US 60s Psychedelic rock, such as The Thirteenth Floor Elevators ; US 60s Garage rock ; 60s British Invasion bands ; Rock n ' Roll ; Buddy Holly ; Surf music ; The Beach Boys ; early, seminal Electronic music, e. g. Silver Apples, Delia Derbyshire and Laurie Anderson ; Krautrock ; The Gun Club, The Cramps and Tav Falco ’ s Panther Burns ; early Chicago blues, e. g. Bo Diddley, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and Howlin ’ Wolf ; early Delta blues ; gospel and early Staple Singers ; Otis Reading ; the production techniques of Brian Wilson, Joe Meek and Phil Spector ; and the avant-garde jazz and free jazz of Sun Ra and John Coltrane.

* Following two successful title defences in California, Tommy Burns travels to London where he defeats British heavyweight champion Gunner Moir

* British Open – Jack Burns

Due to the huge popularity of the show when shown in the UK in the late 1980s, the British Prisoner fan club organised successful personal appearance tours for several actresses, including Val Lehman ( Bea Smith ), Carol Burns ( Franky Doyle ), Betty Bobbitt ( Judy Bryant ), Sheila Florance ( Lizzie Birdsworth ), Amanda Muggleton ( Chrissie Latham ) and Judy McBurney ( Pixie Mason ).

* Burns London, a British guitar maker

Caricature of Burns in Vanity Fair ( British magazine ) | Vanity Fair, October 1892

The day before, James DeLancey organized a meeting at Burns Tavern of New York City merchants, where they agreed to boycott all British imports until the Stamp Act was repealed.

To celebrate the return of British driver Richard Burns to the rally team, a limited edition of 444 WRX " RB5 " models in gray were created in 1999 for the UK.

In late 2003, Burns, the would-be defender of Ontario ’ s interests in Confederation, had moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, where he became active in the new Conservative Party of Canada.

The West Stanley Pit Disaster, one of the worst coal mining disasters in British history took place in Stanley at West Stanley Colliery on February 16, 1909 when over 160 people were killed in the Burns Pit disaster.

They are joined later by the manipulative British saxophone player Jetta ( Sheila Burns ).

John Fisher Burns ( born 4 October 1944 ) is a British journalist, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes.

# redirect Burns Lake, British Columbia

Among the village's notable residents included Sir George Burns, who with Samuel Cunard founded the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company ( later the Cunard Line ), and his son John ( later 1st Baron Inverclyde ) who lived at Castle Wemyss, which stood on Wemyss Point above the bay itself.

He personally oversaw the development of their early careers, leading to two British titles for Subaru and McRae in 1991 and 1992, and a further title for Burns in 1993.

For over two hours, Burns led the Snap Dragon away from danger, toward Ship Rock passage, which unknowingly, was blocked by two British brigs.

Fortunately, Burns was able to command the vessel away from the British ships, unscathed.

The next morning, Burns and his crew encountered HMS Dominica, another British man of war, but again they successfully escaped.

Burns commanded Snap Dragon on her next two cruises, during which he had several encounters with British men-of-war and took numerous prizes.

He is sometimes therefore grouped with Alain Robbe-Grillet, or associated with other British experimentalists: Anthony Burgess, Alan Burns, Angela Carter, B. S. Johnson, Ann Quin, Stefan Themerson and Eva Figes.

Starting half an hour behind Player in company with British Open Champion Kel Nagle, Palmer birdied the 2nd, the 9th, the 13th and the 16th -- four birdies, one bogey and 13 pars for a 69.

Milne was an early screenwriter for the nascent British film industry, writing four stories filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films ( founded in 1920 by the actor Leslie Howard and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel ).

* Aviva, British insurance company, listed on the London and New York Stock Exchange's as " AV "

* Associated British Maltsters, a malting company taken over by Dalgety plc

Until the introduction of ampicillin by the British company Beecham, penicillin therapies had only been effective against Gram-positive organisms such as staphylococci and streptococci.

* Associated British Corporation, a former British film and television company

* Acorn Business Computer, a series of microcomputers announced at the end of 1983 by the British company Acorn Computers

The 1937 British Methodist Conference located the " true continuity " with the Church of past ages in " the continuity of Christian experience, the fellowship in the gift of the one Spirit ; in the continuity in the allegiance to one Lord, the continued proclamation of the message ; the continued acceptance of the mission ;..." a long chain which goes back to the " the first disciples in the company of the Lord Himself ...

* Armstrong Whitworth, a British manufacturing company in the early 20th century

With the assistance of John Nash and David Heller, both British members of the Borland Board, the company was taken public on London's Unlisted Securities Market ( USM ) in 1986.

* Blitz Games, British computer games company

As the bow of Guerrier came within range, Goliath opened fire, inflicting severe damage with a double-shotted raking broadside as the British ship turned to port and passed down the unprepared port side of Guerrier, and Foley's Royal Marines and a company of Austrian grenadiers joined the attack, firing their muskets.

This was converted to a public limited company, British Steel PLC, and privatised in 1988.

Anheuser-Busch has placed Budweiser as an official partner and sponsor of Major League Soccer and Los Angeles Galaxy and was the headline sponsor of the British Basketball League in the 1990s, taking over from rival company Carlsberg.

In 2000, the Bundaberg Rum company and distillery were sold to British company Diageo.

* BMI Healthcare, a British healthcare company

He sold the company for £ 100, 000 at the end of 1971 to British businessman Bernie Ecclestone, Jochen Rindt's former manager and erstwhile owner of the Connaught team.

* Creation Books, a British publishing company

In British English and in the commonwealth countries, the term public company is more widely to describe the same sort of entity while the word company encompasses all incorporated entities.

In American English, the word company can include entities such as partnerships that, in British English would not be referred to as companies as they are not a separate legal entity.

In 1962 the Chagos Agalega Company of the British colony of Seychelles purchased the Societe Huiliere de Diego et Peros and moved company headquarters to Seychelles.

On 30 August 2012 it was announced that British firm Nyota Minerals was about to become the first foreign company to receive a mining licence to extract gold from an estimated resource of 52 tonnes in western Ethiopia.