The British Royal Mail first started using bicycles in 1880 ; now bicycle delivery fleets include 37, 000 in the UK, 25, 700 in Germany, 10, 500 in Hungary and 7000 in Sweden.

More recently, Canadian newspapers have adopted the British spelling variants such as-our endings, notably with The Globe and Mail changing its spelling policy in October 1990.

On 25 May 2006, the then British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott was photographed by The Mail on Sunday playing croquet at his official residence, Dorneywood.

On November 18, von Hindenburg testified in front of this parliamentary commission, and cited a December 17, 1918 Neue Zürcher Zeitung article that summarized two earlier articles in the Daily Mail by British General Frederick Barton Maurice with the phrase that the German army had been ' dagger-stabbed from behind by the civilian populace ' (" von der Zivilbevölkerung von hinten erdolcht .").

Furthermore, Ribbentrop had the German Embassy in London provide translations from pro-appeasement newspapers like the Daily Mail and the Daily Express for Hitler's benefit, which had the effect of making it seem that British public opinion was more strongly against going to war for Poland then was actually the case.

The British historian Victor Rothwell wrote that the newspapers that Ribbentrop used to provide his press summaries for Hitler, such as the Daily Express and the Daily Mail, were out of touch not only with British public opinion, but also with British government policy in regard to Poland.

After Clinton's autobiography My Life appeared in 2004, Lewinsky said in an interview with the British tabloid Daily Mail:

* 1924 – The forged Zinoviev Letter is published in the Daily Mail, wrecking the British Labour Party's hopes of re-election.

* Royal Mail Ship or Steamer, a ship prefix for vessels that carry mail under contract to the British Royal Mail

The early converts from broadsheet format made the change in the 1970s ; two notable British papers that took this step at the time were the Daily Mail and the Daily Express.

The damning document was published in the conservative British Daily Mail newspaper four days before the election.

In 1894, British publishers were given permission by the Royal Mail to manufacture and distribute picture postcards, which could be sent through the post.

" At the time of the 2011 royal tour of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, both Michael Valpy, writing for the CBC, and The Globe and Mail referred to William as " a prince of Canada " and both Canadian and British media were referring to " Canada's royal family " or the " Canadian royal family ".

Irving told the Oxford Mail of having " links at a low level " with the British National Front.

In 1839, Canadian-born Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract, and the next year formed the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company to operate the line's four pioneer paddle steamers on the Liverpool – Halifax – Boston route.

In May 1840, just before the first ship was ready, they formed the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company ( B & NARMSPC ) with initial capital of £ 270, 000, later increased to £ 300, 000.

To raise additional capital, in 1879 the privately-held British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company ( B & NARMSPC ) was reorganized as a public stock corporation, the Cunard Steamship Company, Ltd.

Both these variations argue strongly in favour of O ' Brien's version being a very early version, and a Daily Mail report of the time states that it was " attributed to someone not unconnected with our old friend the British Council ".

As a reciter West has worked with all the major British orchestras, as well as the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D. C .. Works include Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and The Soldier's Tale, Prokofiev's Eugene Onegin, Beethoven's Egmont, Schoenburg's Ode To Napoleon, Strauss ' Enoch Arden, Saint-Saëns ’ Carnival of the Animals, Bernstein's Kaddish, Walton's Façade and Henry V, Night Mail and The Way to the Sea by Britten and Auden and the world premieres of Concrete by Judith Weir at the Barbican and Howard Goodall ’ s Jason and the Argonauts at the Royal Albert Hall.

The Daily Mail is a conservative, British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust.

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 ".

* On the British game show Countdown, contestants are given 30 seconds to make the longest word from nine random letters.

* On the British game show BrainTeaser, contestants are shown a word broken into randomly arranged segments and must announce the whole word.

On the fall of the great emperor, Louis XVIII presented this statue to the British government, by whom it was afterwards given to the Duke of Wellington.

On June 7, 1809, Shuja Shah signed a treaty with the British, which included a clause stating that he would oppose the passage of foreign troops through his territories.

More recently, the horn section of Antibalas have been guest musicians on TV On The Radio's highly acclaimed 2008 album Dear Science, as well as on British band Foals ' 2008 album, Antidotes.

On their 1950 tour of New Zealand and Australia they also adopted the nickname British Lions, first used by British and South African journalists on the 1924 South African tour, after the lion emblem on their ties, the emblem on their jerseys having been dropped in favour of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions.

On the far right, towards Foulz, the British battalions and squadrons took up their posts in a double line near the Jeuche stream.

On the Great British canal system, the term ' barge ' is used to describe a boat wider than a narrowboat, and the people who move barges are often known as lightermen.

The ship on which Charles Darwin made the voyage which provided much of the inspiration for On the Origin of Species was named HMS Beagle after the breed, and, in turn, lent its name to the ill-fated British Martian lander Beagle 2.

On either side are six ships flying British flags, some in a state of disrepair.

On 7 June 1753, King George II gave his formal assent to the Act of Parliament which established the British Museum.

On November 1918 the large group of Palestinian Arab dignitaries and representatives of political associations addressed a petition to the British authorities in which they denounced the declaration.

On 9 August 1810, the British appeared at Banda Neira.

" On the publication of the Saville report the British prime minister, David Cameron, made a formal apology on behalf of the United Kingdom.

On his birthday, 16 April, City Lights was screened at a gala at the Dominion Theatre in London, the site of its British premiere in 1931.

The British film industry produced a number of highly successful film series, however, including the Doctor series, the St. Trinian's films and the increasingly bawdy Carry On films.

Most British comedy films of the early 1970s were spin-offs of television series, including Dad's Army and On the Buses.

On January 24, 1776, Henry Knox arrived with artillery captured from Fort Ticonderoga, which enabled Washington to drive the British army out of Boston.

On television, the actor Freddie Jones portrayed Claudius in the 1968 British television series The Caesars while the 1985 made-for-television miniseries A. D. features actor Richard Kiley as Claudius.

* Cyril " Blakey " Blake, the bus depot inspector from the 1970s British comedy TV series On the Buses

* Richard Taylor and Colin Pritchard, The Protest Makers: The British Nuclear Disarmament of 1958-1965, Twenty Years On ( Pergamon Press: Oxford, 1980 ) ISBN 0-08-025211-7