* Affinity, Cambridge University Eco Racing's first vehicle and the UK's first road legal solar car

The Bank's Financial Policy Committee held its first meeting in June 2011 as a macro prudential regulator to oversee regulation of the UK's financial sector.

* 1958 – The Preston bypass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time.

The first Taiko player in the UK was Joji Hirota, soon followed by the UK's first regularly performing Taiko group, Akatsuki Daiko, set up in 1993. Notable current groups are Mugenkyo, Taiko Meantime and Kagemusha Taiko

These had followed closely on from Wings of the Morning ( 1937 ), the UK's first colour feature film in the new three colour process ( previous colour features had used a two colour process ).

* was the UK's first nuclear-powered submarine, launched in 1960 and decommissioned in 1980.

J. Lyons and Co., one of the UK's leading catering and food manufacturing companies in the first half of the 20th century, sent two of its senior managers, Oliver Standingford and Raymond Thompson, to the USA in 1947 to look at new business methods developed during the Second World War.

After trials in 1994, Tesco launched its Clubcard program, the UK's first nationwide supermarket-only loyalty card scheme, in 1995 with dunnhumby.

The opening of UK's first ever superclub was marked by a nearly 23-minute instrumental piece originally entitled " Prime 5 8 6 ", but released 15 years later as " Video 5 8 6 ".

In 2007 the UK's first Vegan ' tapas ' bar was opened, and in spring 2008 the students voted ( by a large majority ) for Pembroke to serve only free-range chicken ( it will be the first UK college to do so ).

The Faculty of Engineering was formally established in 1923, although engineering had been taught at the University since 1840 when Queen Victoria founded the UK's first Chair of Engineering.

One of Telford's achievements on this project was the design of the cast-iron aqueduct at Longdon-on-Tern, pre-dating that at Pontcysyllte, and substantially bigger than the UK's first cast-iron aqueduct, built by Benjamin Outram on the Derby Canal just months earlier.

In 1992 he made his first appearance at the UK's Glastonbury Festival and in 1993 he appeared as himself on episodes of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and The Simpsons.

One of the most controversial Archers episodes was broadcast on 22 September 1955, the evening of the launch of the UK's first commercial television station, ITV.

In 1960 Macmillan appointed Heath Lord Privy Seal with responsibility for the negotiations to secure the UK's first attempt to join the Common Market ( as the European Community was then called ).

Wilson first served as Prime Minister in the 1960s, during a period of low unemployment and relative economic prosperity ( though also of significant problems with the UK's external balance of payments ).

Billed as the UK's first national karting league, the Elite Karting League also falls outside of MSA governance.

In the 1950s, the Corporation erected the UK's first high-rise flats in the area.

In 2005 80 organisations took part in the Disability Standard benchmark providing the first statistics highlighting the UK's performance as a nation of employers.

Sinclair later moved into the production of home computers and produced the Sinclair ZX80, the UK's first mass-market home computer for less than, and later, with Sinclair Research, the ZX81 and ZX Spectrum ; the latter is widely recognised for its importance in the early days of the British home computer industry.

Streatham became the site of the UK's first supermarket, when Express Dairies Premier Supermarkets opened its first store in 1951 ; Waitrose subsequently opened its first supermarket in Streatham in 1955.

An initiative by a supermarket group in 2012 ( backed by the UK's Waste & Resources Action Programme ) promotes advising the freezing of food " as soon as possible up to the product's ' use by ' date ".

* UK's favourite supermarket ( Verdict Research )

Sainsbury's also overtook both Tesco and Marks & Spencer ( the latter shortly before his retirement on his 65th birthday on 2 November 1992 ) to become the UK's largest and most successful supermarket chain.

Tesco overtook Sainsbury's to become the UK's largest supermarket chain in 1995, and David Sainsbury stepped down as Chairman in 1998 to pursue his long held ambition to have a career in politics.

Tesco overtook Sainsbury's to become the UK's largest supermarket chain in 1995.

Yellow Pack was a brand of generic groceries, first launched in March 1980 by Fine Fare, a British regional supermarket chain ultimately owned by the Weston family, whose extensive interests include the UK's Associated British Foods, Loblaws Companies in North America, and a range of upmarket retailers such as Selfridges, Brown Thomas and Fortnum & Mason.

Lotus Cars as well as the nationally famous Debenhams were also founded in Cheshunt, and the headquarters of Tesco, the UK's largest and most profitable supermarket chain, is also located here.

In 1986 the UK's first drive-through McDonald's opened in Fallowfield and more recently a Sainsbury's supermarket has been opened on the site of the railway station.

In April 1999, the Asda supermarket had the UK's first blessing and reception in a supermarket.

Manx cheese has been a particular success, featuring smoked and herb-flavoured varieties and is stocked by many of the UK's supermarket chains.

Tesco Bank is the trading name of Tesco Personal Finance plc, a telephone and internet based commercial bank in the United Kingdom owned by Tesco, the UK's largest supermarket.

In November 1983, J Sainsbury plc, then the UK's largest supermarket group, purchased 21 % of Shaw's outstanding stock.

Provision for Local Loop Unbundling was introduced in Gibraltar, under the 2006 Communications Act, similar to the UK's 2003 Communications Act.

Flat glass for windows and similar applications is formed by the float glass process, developed between 1953 and 1957 by Sir Alastair Pilkington and Kenneth Bickerstaff of the UK's Pilkington Brothers, who created a continuous ribbon of glass using a molten tin bath on which the molten glass flows unhindered under the influence of gravity.

Coercive plea bargaining has been criticized on the grounds that it infringes an individual's rights under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, incorporated in the UK's Human Rights Act 1998.

The American weapons supplied under Project E were not available for the RAF to use as part of the UK's national nuclear deterrent ; only British-owned weapons could be used for that purpose.

The UK's General Osteopathic Council, a regulatory body set up under the country's Osteopaths Act 1993 has issued a position paper on European regulation of osteopathy.

In 1958 the EMIDEC 1100, the UK's first transistorised computer, was developed at Hayes under the leadership of Godfrey Hounsfield.

In 1938, the Meccano Company launched a new range of OO models under the trade name of Hornby Dublo, OO gauge has remained the UK's most popular scale / gauge ever since.

They were somewhat aware of the situation with regards to the rumours, but did not take them entirely seriously — possibly because the UK's New Musical Express famously published an article on the Beatles-as-Klaatu theory under the title " Deaf Idiot Journalist Starts Beatle Rumour ".

Foreseen as part of the agreement between both Governments is the establishment of a joint venture between RTÉ and TG4 to run the multiplex which will be licensed under the UK's Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006 by Ofcom at the request of the UK Government.

The Preston Bypass, the UK's first motorway section, should have been numbered A6 ( M ) under the scheme decided upon, but it was decided to keep the number M6 as had already been applied.

Since 2002, the death penalty has been outlawed under all circumstances in all the UK's overseas territories.

In 1997, the administration of the UK's aid budget was removed from the Foreign Secretary's remit ( previously the Overseas Development Administration had been under the supervision of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ).

While working under the direction of the political ministers ( almost exclusively members of the UK's current governing political party ), the SoS ( and other senior civil servants, especially the Finance Director ) has many traditional and statutory responsibilities which are aimed at ensuring that government departments are, as far as possible, run in the public interest, rather than party-political ones.

As of 2007, the Island's system of government is under review – there are plans to transform the Legislative Council into a directly-elected chamber, echoing the push for reform in the UK's House of Lords and the abolition of indirectly elected Conseillers in Guernsey.

Between 1953 and 1957, Sir Alastair Pilkington and Kenneth Bickerstaff of the UK's Pilkington Brothers developed the first successful commercial application for forming a continuous ribbon of glass using a molten tin bath on which the molten glass flows unhindered under the influence of gravity.

Scientific research headed by Professor Quentin Pankhurst continues to be done under the auspices of the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory ( DFRL ), and indeed this is considered to be one of the UK's most notable labs in nano-science.

It was never subject to the authority of the BCI ( nor, much to its annoyance at the time, the UK's Radio Authority ), and was operated under RTÉ's remit as a joint venture between RTÉ and CLT-UFA.

The system of Direct Rule was originally introduced on 28 March 1972 under the terms of the UK's Northern Ireland ( Temporary Provisions ) Act 1972, which also suspended the Parliament of Northern Ireland (" Stormont ").

Even the UK's Olympic shooters fall under this ban ; shooters can only train in Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, or abroad ( in Switzerland, in practice ).

Critics including the Association for the Prevention of Jewish Genetic Diseases, have described Dor Yeshorim in the UK as a " Wedding tax ", when in fact free screening is available under the UK's national health service.

In the past, the UK's Civil Government day-to-day costs were paid for by the sovereign under normal circumstances, the monies in this Public Purse being raised from the income of the Crown Estate lands and holdings.

The EYC was founded in August 1993 by the youth wings of the British Conservative Party, Danish Conservative People's Party, and Icelandic Independence Party, under the leadership of Andrew Rosindell, then-chairman of the UK's Young Conservatives.

The five economic tests were the criteria defined by the UK treasury under Gordon Brown that were to be used to assess the UK's readiness to join the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union ( EMU ), and so adopt the euro as its official currency.

He served under Thatcher and later John Major as a Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland between 1985 and 1992 and under Major as Minister of State for Trade between 1992 and 1995, and was instrumental in transforming Northern Ireland's economic base and the UK's export strategy under Michael Heseltine.