Nationwide Building Society is the UK's and the world's largest building society

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

The UK's largest retail bookmaker Ladbrokes launched the Odds ON!

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BAe was the UK's largest exporter, a Competition Commission report gives a ten-year aggregate figure of £ 45 billion, with defence sales accounting for approximately 80 %.

The UK's largest high street music retailer, HMV, decided to stock the paper on release day due to the giveaway.

The UK's largest supplier of cigarette, collectors and baseball cards.

Stratford is close to the UK's second largest city, Birmingham, and is easily accessible from junction 15 of the M40 motorway.

Companies based in Hove include Palmer and Harvey, the UK's largest distributor of snack foods and owner of the UK Mace convenience store brand.

The UK's largest male voice choir, the London Gay Men's Chorus, for example, exhibits an extraordinary pitch range from counter tenor to basso profundo.

http :// www. micromaniacsclub. co. uk / The Micro Maniacs-the UK's largest multi-make bubblecar and microcar club

The show has become one of the UK's most popular and largest fireworks displays with over forty thousand spectators.

Marine investigations in the area have also identified new species of anemone, rediscovered the fan mussel ( the UK's largest and rarest bivalve mollusc-thought to be found only in Plymouth Sound and a few sites off the west of Scotland ) and a number of shipwreck sites, including HMS Drake ( 1901 ), which was torpedoed and sank just off the island in 1917.

It is the UK's largest protected wetland.

The SOAS Library, housed in Philips Building ( designed at the beginning of the 1970s by Sir Denys Lasdun, and named after the then SOAS Director, Professor Cyril Philips ), is the UK's national resource for materials relating to Asia and Africa and is the largest of its kind in Europe.

North Walsham's church of St. Nicholas was originally dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and is one of the UK's largest parish churches.

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.

CASC is also the venue each year for the UK's National Inter Clubs Slalom Finals, the largest canoe slalom event by participation in the UK.

* Long Sutton, a market town and home to UK's largest food cannery ;

To the east side of the city is Chester Zoo, the UK's largest zoo with over 8000 animals in 110 acres of award-winning gardens.

173 Drury Lane was the location of the first J Sainsbury store, now one of the UK's largest retailers.

The Leatherhead Drama Festival began in 2004 and is the UK's largest drama festival of its type, in which schools and drama groups from around Surrey and beyond compete each year for the Sir Michael Caine Drama Awards, the Richard Houghton Awards and New Writing Awards.

The parties completed the merger on 3 March 2006, making the merged company the UK's largest cable-provider, with more than 90 % of the market.

Chelmsford is home of Essex street diversions, East Anglia's largest festival of international street theatre and the 3foot People Festival, the UK's only 4-day festival exclusively for under-5-year-olds.

By 1911 there were 16. 4 million spindles in Oldham, compared with a total of 58 million in the United Kingdom and 143. 5 million in the world ; in 1928, with the construction of the UK's largest textile factory Oldham reached its manufacturing zenith.

In July 2002, after featuring several times on John Peel's programme on the UK's BBC Radio 1 and being hailed as " the future of rock " by the British music press, the band signed with the V2 record label.

They hold the UK's national collection of material about live performance in the UK since Shakespeare's day, covering drama, dance, musical theatre, circus, music hall, rock and pop, and other forms of live entertainment.

During this period, and throughout the rest of the 1970s, they became one of the UK's leading rock bands, gaining a faithful following due to their relentless touring and energetic live gigs.

It includes the biggest indoor ice climbing wall in the world, the UK's highest indoor articulated rock climbing wall and a competition bouldering wall voted the best in the UK.

Adopting a form of boogie rock, Status Quo became one of the UK's leading rock bands throughout the rest of the 1970s.

Side Two ( particularly the song " Hero ") was acknowledged as important influence by many later involved in the UK's punk rock scene, with Dinger's sneering, unintelligible vocals searing across a distorted Motorik beat with aggressive single chord guitar poundings.

At the time, Jeff Walker stated in an interview with the UK's Metal Hammer Magazine that the album was taking more of a classic rock approach, with drums, bass and twin guitars à la Thin Lizzy, in comparison to earlier " multi-layered guitar " productions.

Mud were an English glam rock band, formed in February 1968, best remembered for their hit singles " Tiger Feet ", which was the UK's best-selling single of 1974, and " Lonely This Christmas " which reached number 1 in December 1974.

) is one of the UK's first rock / pop music TV programmes.

The song and the group's proto-power trio line-up both made a strong impression on The Who, who would cover it in their 1970 album Live at Leeds, whose CD liner notes proclaim the original to be the UK's best pre-Beatles rock single.

Scuzz has a presence at the majority of the UK's rock festivals.

Euro Bus Expo is a trade show, which is held bi-annually at the UK's National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham.

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 ).

Formally, the base is known as Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia ( the US activity ) or Permanent Joint Operating Base ( PJOB ) Diego Garcia ( the UK's term ).

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.

The Lieutenant Governor is appointed by the Queen, on the advice of the UK's Secretary of State for Justice, for a five-year term and nominally exercises executive power on behalf of the Queen.

It is designed not only to fully accommodate the requirements of the traditional Janet user base-all research institutes, universities and further education-but also to meet the needs of a new userbase in the UK's primary and secondary schools.

Chalmers ' original document is now in the UK's National Postal Museum.

This is widely interpreted as meaning the project is in abeyance, probably for a number of years until the UK's economy recovers.

* UK's Critics ' Circle 2011 Award for Distinguished Services to the Arts, March 2012, for " what is effectively a lifetime achievement award ", as Mark Shenton ( Drama section chairman ) commented.

In rhyming slang, Sweeney Todd is the Flying Squad ( a branch of the UK's Metropolitan Police ), hence the television series The Sweeney.

The UK's population is predominantly White British.

In forming the caucus, Cameron is reportedly breaking with two decades of co-operation by the UK's Conservative Party with the mainstream European Christian Democrats and conservatives in the European parliament, the European People's Party ( EPP ) on the grounds that it is dominated by European federalists and supporters of the Lisbon treaty, which is opposed by the Tories.

It is based on the UK's Public Interest Disclosure Act.

The UK's taxation system operates along similar lines: when a shareholder receives a dividend, the basic rate of income tax is deemed to already have been paid on that dividend.

" In January 2011, Eastwood told the UK's Daily Mail that " I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial.

The LAA, formerly the Popular Flying Association or PFA, is the UK's body for amateur aircraft construction, and recreational & sport flying.

The inorganic section of the UK's Royal Society of Chemistry is named after Dalton ( Dalton Division ), and the Society's academic journal for inorganic chemistry also bears his name ( Dalton Transactions ).

He was still seen by 20th century critics like Bernard Berenson as the " most famous and most loved " master of the High Renaissance, but it would seem he has since been overtaken by Michelangelo and Leonardo in this respect .< ref > For what it is worth, Amazon UK's " Renaissance " top 25 bestsellers list included five books with Leonardo in the title, three with Michelangelo, and one with Raphael.