In other countries banking supervision is carried out by a government department such as the UK Treasury, or an independent government agency ( for example, UK's Financial Services Authority ).

Raindance Film Festival is the UK's largest celebration of independent film-making and is taking place in London in October.

The Mill, Batley The Mill Batley is one of the UK's largest retail mills and is a factory outlet or shopping village with many national & independent fashion & homeware operators.

Other notable buildings are the King's Head Inn, which with the Fleece Inn at Bretforton is one of the few public houses in the country owned by the National Trust still run as a public house, and the Queens Park Centre, the UK's largest independent arts centre.

Bell reversed his previous decision and stood for the European Parliament in the June 2004 elections, but was ultimately unsuccessful as an independent candidate in the UK's eastern region, winning only 6. 2 % of the vote ( see European Parliament election, 2004 ( UK )).

He is Chairman of the UK's independent Committee on Climate Change.

In September 2012, Lord Deben was confirmed as Chairman of the UK's independent Committee on Climate Change, succeeding Adair Turner.

By then, Channel Airways had become one of the UK's five leading independent airlines of the 1960s.

He lives in Faversham and is the husband of Ann Furedi, the Chief Executive of British Pregnancy Advisory Service, the UK's largest independent abortion provider.

Kingsland Wine & Spirits, the UK's largest independent wine bottler, operates from a site in Irlam, formerly a soapworks established in 1895.

During the 1970s and ' 80s, British Caledonian became the UK's largest independent, international scheduled airline, with an extensive global route network serving over 40 destinations in around 25 countries on five continents.

The next day, during the opening presentations, Macmillan outlined the UK's contributions to the development of the nuclear bomb, and stated in no uncertain terms that the UK would continue to maintain an independent nuclear force, no matter what the US did to try to stop them.

If the US were to pull out of their technology sharing agreements, the UK's force would become entirely independent, precisely the problem that so worried McNamara.

The company has grown to become the UK's largest independent manufacturer of insecticides, weedkillers, other pesticides, fertilisers and garden products sold nationally through garden centres, independent DIY retailers and large retail multiples.

The London Library is the world's largest independent lending library, and one of the UK's leading literary institutions.

The entire album was play-listed by BBC Radio 2 and on its release, entered the UK's official independent chart at number 7.

Genesis Communications is the UK's largest independent mobile service provider, operating in the business to business sector.

Investments so far include telematics solutions provider Fleetmatics, TDX, a leading UK-based provider of credit risk management solutions, eviivo, the UK's leading online reservation provider for the independent hotels sector, and OpSec Security Group, a leading anti-counterfaiting technology company.

In 1982, they released the independent single " Nirvana ", which made it to No. 15 on the UK's indie charts.

Although Air Europe eventually failed to merge with British Caledonian, its management succeeded in having the rival BA bid referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( MMC ), a forerunner of today's Competition Commission, by claiming that this deal would destroy the UK's entire independent airline sector if approved without requiring BA to make any concessions to redress the resulting competitive imbalance.

In 2003, The National Student, the UK's first independent national student newspaper was launched.

Pinnacle Entertainment was an entertainment group based in the United Kingdom spanning many different divisions, but primarily known as one of the UK's leading independent record label distributors.

** Argos ( previously an independent company, once owned by British American Tobacco ) – the UK's largest catalogue retailer

He is a member of the Advisory Board on the Higher Education Innovation Fund, and of the UK's Council for Science and Technology.

The fact that sports bettors can use exchanges to lay outcomes has caused tremendous criticism from traditional bookmakers with much of the anger coming from the UK's " Big Three "-Gala Coral Group, Ladbrokes and William Hill.

The Legend was the result of Project XX, a joint venture Honda entered into with the UK's Austin Rover Group.

The fact gamblers can now lay outcomes on the exchanges has resulted in criticism from traditional bookmakers including the UK's " Big Three "-Gala Coral Group, Ladbrokes and William Hill.

Furthermore, the university is ranked amongst both the UK's and world's Top 100 universities by the Shanghai Jiao Tong ( SJTU ) and Times Higher Education ( THE ) World University Rankings, and the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise found 41 submissions out of 49 of Sheffield's research to contain more than 50 % of " world-leading " and " internationally excellent " research, which made Sheffield among the Top Ten in the Russell Group.

Ownership was shared between UBC Media Group and the UK's Channel 4 between early 2005 and December 2007.

Munn was on the Barnsley Regional Board of the Co-operative Group, the UK's largest co-operative society, and the management committee of Wortley Hall, a national co-operative conference centre.

The UK's official representative in the IHF is the British Helsinki Subcommittee of the Parliamentary Human Rights Group, established in 1976.

He was chairman of Waste Recycling Group and subsequently non-executive director of Infinis, one of the UK's leading generators of renewable power.

In late 1999, TalkCo, rebranded as The Wireless Group, announced a relaunch of Talk Radio to become the UK's first national commercial sports radio station called Talksport.

The Atomic Energy Authority ( Weapons Group ) Act 1973 transferred responsibility for management of the UK's nuclear deterrent, including the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston, directly to the Ministry of Defence.

It hosts the annual Glorious Goodwood meeting, which is one of the highlights of the British flat racing calendar, and is home to 2 of the UK's 31 Group One flat races, the Sussex Stakes and the Nassau Stakes.

It is one of the leading racecourses in the United Kingdom, hosting 9 of the UK's 32 annual Group 1 races.

Aside from his involvement in exploration and Latin America, since 1963 he has worked for the Hemming Group Ltd, setting up and running one of the UK's foremost exhibition-organising companies, Brintex Ltd, before taking over as joint chairman of this family business which also organises trade exhibitions and conferences and publishes titles including Municipal Journal and Surveyor.

Its current title sponsor is the UK's fifth biggest food retailer, The Co-operative Group.

and is a director of the Medinge Group think-tank .</ ref > Business 2. 0 and the UK's The Daily Telegraph, he is better known outside New Zealand for this work.

The Go-Ahead Group plc is a rail and bus operating company that was created following the privatisation of the UK's train and bus industries.

The station, then owned by the Milestone Group, enjoyed considerable success, and was lauded at one point as the UK's most successful local commercial radio station in terms of audience reach-once at 44 % ( RAJAR Q2 2005 )-attributed to an emphasis on local presence, and presenters who were recruited on the basis of quality.

The series was created by Raymond Thompson and Harry Duffin ( from an original idea by Raymond Thompson ) and was developed and produced by the Cloud 9 Screen Entertainment Group in conjunction with the UK's Channel 5.

The course also stages three of the UK's 31 Group One races, the International Stakes, the Nunthorpe Stakes and the Yorkshire Oaks.

Speke is the location of the headquarters of Shop Direct Group, which claims to be the UK's largest online retailer.

FPGRM is responsible for running the selection process for Royal Marines who wish to join the UK's Special Forces Support Group.

The company was taken over by the Co-operative Group on 2 March 2009 in a £ 1. 57 billion deal, creating the UK's fifth largest food retailer.

Only the Co-operative Group, the UK's largest co-operative, publicly announced purchase talks, aiming to complete due diligence for the entire estate of 900 Somerfield stores in the third quarter, but would be expected to sell a minority of stores.