However, the exact distance of the ride was never verified and the record was later rejected by both the British Surfing Association and Guinness World Records.

* Renee Godfrey, Four times Welsh National and British Surfing Champion

On 21 September 2006 Fistral Beach hosted the British Surfing Association's invitational Gold Rush Big Wave Competition.

* Pete Jones-' PJ ' - ex Welsh, British & European Surfing champion, local surf legend and shop owner

Some years ago Julian Huxley proposed to an audience made up of members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science that `` man's supernormal or extra-sensory faculties are ( now ) in the same case as were his mathematical faculties during the ice age ''.

In 1878, a committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science recommended against constructing the Analytical Engine.

* Association of British Counties, an advocacy group

During his post-ABBA career Andersson won four Swedish Grammis awards, and together with Ulvaeus received the " Special International " Ivor Novello award from ' The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters ', twice " The Music Export Prize " from the Swedish Ministry of Industry and Trade ( 2008 ), as well as the " Lifetime Achievement " award from the Swedish Music Publishers Association ( SMFF ).

* British Iron and Steel Research Association

Later that month, on the first anniversary of the occupation of Jaffa by the British, the Muslim-Christian Association sent a lengthy memorandum and petition to the military governor protesting once more any formation of a Jewish state.

The Mesopotamian Traditions ", Journal of the British Astronomical Association 108 ( 1998 ) 9 – 28.

The Mediterranean Traditions ", Journal of the British Astronomical Association 108 ( 1998 ) 79 – 89.

Baddeck would be the site of his experiments with hydrofoil technologies as well as the Aerial Experiment Association, financed by his wife, which saw the first powered flight in the British Empire when the AEA Silver Dart took off from the ice-covered waters of Bras d ' Or Lake.

* British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies

* The British Caving Association The national governing body for underground exploration in the UK.

* British Cement Association ( UK )

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.

Charles Lyell at the British Association meeting in Glasgow 1840.

* An A-Z of Variants, Association of British Scrabble Players

In 1946 The Commission on the Work of the Churches of the British Unitarians recommended that “ the Assembly should interest itself in the formation of a Canadian Unitarian Association which many Unitarians there believe to be necessary .”

The British Dental Association, formed in 1880 with Sir John Tomes as president, played a major role in prosecuting dentists practising illegally.

This was taken up by various Declinarians and found speedy realization in the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

In the same year in which the British Association held its first meeting, Brewster received the honour of knighthood and the decoration of the Royal Guelphic Order.

In 1849, he acted as president of the British Association and was elected one of the eight foreign associates of the Institute of France in succession to J. J. Berzelius ; and ten years later, he accepted the office of principal of the University of Edinburgh, the duties of which he discharged until within a few months of his death.

The names were reused in 1873 by a Committee of the British Association ( of which Everett was reporter ) that proposed using the centimetre-gram-second system for electrical and dynamical systems.

In 1873 she gained membership of the British Medical Association and remained the only woman member for 19 years, due to the Association's vote against the admission of further women – " one of several instances where Garrett, uniquely, was able to enter a hitherto all male medical institution which subsequently moved formally to exclude any women who might seek to follow her.

" In 1897 Dr Garrett Anderson was elected president of the East Anglian branch of the British Medical Association.

In 1897 Dr. Garrett Anderson was elected president of the East Anglian branch of the British Medical Association.

New charismatic groups such as the Association of Vineyard Churches and Newfrontiers trace their roots to this period ( see also British New Church Movement ).

Isles of Scilly Skybus is a British airline which operates seasonal and year round domestic scheduled services to the Isles of Scilly from Land's End Airport and Newquay Airport in Cornwall, and from Exeter, Bristol and Southampton.

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.

Bude was the founder club in British Surf Life Saving.

* British Pathé News footage of Surf Guard training at Crooklets Beach in 1961

* The Cruel Sea ( song ), a 1960s British hit guitar instrumental by The Dakotas ; subsequently recorded by American group The Ventures as " The Cruel Surf "

* 2008: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, British Sea Power, Maxïmo Park, Nada Surf, Tegan and Sara, The Chemical Brothers, The Kooks, The Weakerthans, Turbostaat, Panic!

The Surf had a strong British influence under the direction of coach John Sewell including future Arsenal manager, George Graham.

Politics and Steel in Britain, 1967-1988: The Life and Times of the British Steel Corporation ( 1990 )

The British and French armies dismounted many of their cavalry regiments and used them in infantry and other roles: the Life Guards for example spent the last months of the War as a machine gun corps ; and the Australian Light Horse served as light infantry during the Gallipoli campaign.

* Life Guards ( British Army now part of the Household Cavalry Regiment )

For instance, Idi Amin Dada, who had been a British army lieutenant prior to Uganda's independence from Britain in October 1962, subsequently styled himself as " His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada,,, Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular ".

Lord and Lady Mountbatten with Muhammad Ali JinnahNotwithstanding the self-promotion of his own part in Indian independence — notably in the television series The Life and Times of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Mountbatten of Burma, produced by his son-in-law Lord Brabourne and Dominique Lapierre, and Larry Collins's Freedom at Midnight ( of which he was the main quoted source ) — his record is seen as very mixed ; one common view is that he hastened the independence process unduly and recklessly, foreseeing vast disruption and loss of life and not wanting this to occur on the British watch, but thereby actually causing it to occur, especially in Punjab and Bengal.

* Listen to Dr Bob Parkinson discuss the HOTOL in an oral history interview recorded for the National Life Stories project Oral History of British Science at the British Library

Monty Python's Life of Brian, also known as Life of Brian, is a 1979 British comedy film written, directed and largely performed by the Monty Python comedy team.

Life of Brian has regularly been cited as a serious contender for the title " greatest comedy film of all time ", and has been named as such in polls conducted by Total Film magazine in 2000, the British TV network Channel 4 in 2006 and The Guardian newspaper in 2007.

The BFI declared Life of Brian to be the 28th best British film of all time, in their equivalent of the AFI's original 100 Years ... 100 Movies list.

" Always Look on the Bright Side of Life " was later re-released with great success, after being sung by British football fans.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in his Prime Minister's Questions of 3 May 2006 made a shorthand reference to the types of political groups, " Judean People's Front " or " People's Front of Judea ", lampooned in Life of Brian.

These films, influenced by one of Anderson ' heroes, the French filmmaker Jean Vigo, and made in the tradition of the British documentaries of Humphrey Jennings, foreshadowed much of the social realism of British cinema that emerged in the next decade, with Reisz's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ( 1960 ), Richardson's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner ( 1962 ) and Anderson's own This Sporting Life ( 1963 ), produced by Reisz.

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

The title of the fourth Roxy album, Country Life, was intended as a parody of the well-known British rural magazine of the same name, and the visually punning front cover photo featured two models ( two German fans, Constanze Karoli — sister of Can's Michael Karoli — and Eveline Grunwald ) clad only in semi-transparent lingerie standing in a forest.

Other 21st century British science fiction shows have included the time travel drama Life on Mars, its sequel Ashes to Ashes, Being Human, Eleventh Hour and Primeval on ITV.

British television series such as The Good Life, Butterflies and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin have depicted suburbia as well-manicured but relentlessly boring, and its residents as either overly conforming or prone to going stir crazy.

* 1978: Frankie Laine recorded the song for his British album Life is Beautiful.

* Cowan, Brian, The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse.

British BBC2 sci-fi series Red Dwarf featured a virtual reality game titled " Better Than Life ", in which the main characters had spent many years connected.

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002.

In September 2010, a plaque commissioned by the British Comedy Society was unveiled in the foyer of the New Diorama Theatre by the Mayor of Camden accompanied by David Benson, the actor known for his performances of his own work dedicated to Williams, Think No Evil of Us-My Life With Kenneth Williams.