The local team, Castleford Tigers, were relegated from the UK's top division, Super League, after the 2006 season, but were promoted back for the 2008 season, after Grand Final victory over the Widnes Vikings and are now established in the sports top flight.

The UK's Mary Hopkin ( already famous for " Those Were The Days ") and the Spanish newcomer Julio Iglesias had been the odds-on favourites to win, but it was Dana who took the victory.

With Labour's victory, Boateng became the UK's first black government minister as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Health, where he was responsible for social services and mental health.

Cameron has later alleged that Denmark and Israel had been among countries whose sound checks had been sabotaged in order to bring The UK's Bucks Fizz to victory.

That year also saw Silver City become the UK's biggest air cargo carrier with an annual freight volume of 70, 190 tons.

According to figures given to the magazine Kit Car ( The UK's Top Selling Kit Car Magazine ) the most popular kit in the United Kingdom in 2005 was made by Robin Hood Sportscars who sell 700 kits a year.

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.

In February 2012 the UK's first Green-controlled council ( Brighton and Hove ) caused controversy when they stated their intention to raise the rent for a standard 250 m < sup > 2 </ sup > plot to £ 110 per year with many people suggesting that this was contrary to the environmental agenda on which they were elected.

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.

This year is also notable as one of the first contests where audible booing for an entry could be heard from the audience which occurred at the end of the UK's performance.

The following year they had their biggest hit with an energetic cover version of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes ' soul classic " Don't Leave Me This Way " ( in a version inspired by Thelma Houston's cover ) which spent four weeks at number one and became the UK's biggest selling single of 1986.

The UK's longest-running MSc programme in Physics and Technology of Nuclear Reactors also started at the University of Birmingham in 1956, the same year that the world's first commercial nuclear power station was opened at Calder Hall in Cumbria.

But during a year off, he began reviewing for the UK's leading music paper, New Musical Express, and became one of its star writers.

Later that year, Keele students won a competition hosted by O2 via Facebook called " The battle for the UK's favourite university ", scoring over 172, 000 points by uploading photos, videos and making wall posts on the group.

* Since the year 2001, the UK's most successful lookalike has been Derek Williams (" Svenalike ") as Sven-Goran Eriksson's lookalike / soundalike double who was selected by The FA as a stand in for Eriksson at VIP receptions and for Official pre-match Hospitality and has achieved widespread acclaim and the most extensive TV, film and video exposure of any celebrity double in recent history.

The Carnival began in January 1959 in St Pancras Town Hall as a response to the depressing state of race relations at the time ; the UK's first widespread racial attacks ( the Notting Hill race riots ) had occurred the previous year.

He was the UK's highest-ranked player that year, and won the Most Improved Player trophy at the ATP awards.

The backing group Beyond had taken part in the UK's Song for Europe contest earlier in the year, losing to Bucks Fizz.

Although it was beset by early problems and had to be closed for a month three weeks after it opened, it has become one of the UK's most popular attractions, with 800, 000 visitors a year.

Later that year she was the presenter of the ITV reality show A Brush with Fame, a search for the UK's best amateur portrait artist.

Cheshire cheese remains the UK's largest-selling crumbly cheese, with sales of around 6, 500 tonnes per year.

Alsager also hosts the UK's biggest 5 Mile Road Race each year in February.

* September 2006: DHL wins ten year contract worth £ 1. 6 billion, to run the NHS Supply Chain ( part of the UK's National Health Service ).

Big Brother, America's Next Top Model and So You Think You Can Dance followed ; American Idol, based on the UK's Pop Idol, debuted in 2002 and has dominated the ratings consistently as of 2009, while The Amazing Race has won the Emmy for its program category every year since its 2001 debut.

The course was also the UK's top-rated course by the National Council for the Training of Journalists for the academic year 2007 / 8.

For the same year, Canada's working poverty rate was 7. 8 %, the UK's was 4 %, and Germany's was 3. 8 %.

By 2010, its 60th year, it is now called the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo due to HM Queen Elizabeth's awarding of the Royal title in celebration of six decades of this tattoo, one of the world's popular and much awaited military events, as well as Scotland's and Edinburgh's proudest activity in honor of the Scottish personnel and officers of the British Armed Forces and their contribution to the UK's military prestige through the centuries from the merger of the English and Scottish nations to form Great Britain in 1707.

Ariel Ltd is based in Crewkerne, and is one of the UK's smallest automobile companies, with just 7 employees, producing fewer than 100 cars per year.

Which in practice meant that it administered the UK's large scale facilities for materials and biomolecular research, laser and space science and alternative energy exploration on behalf of the government, the other UK research funding bodies, universities, and corporate research and development.

In its complaint, PI said that Google's claim that its face blurring system would result in a few misses was a " gross underestimation " and meant that the data used by Street View would fall under the UK's Data Protection Act 1998, which requires that subjects give permission for the use of information concerning them.

Changes to media ownership laws meant that Capital Radio Group was able to acquire other stations throughout the UK, becoming a powerful player in the UK's commercial radio industry ; before the merger with GWR.

This was because it was the UK's winner in the Eurovision song contest, although it was the second of the five winners to not be a UK Number 1

Author and historian John Kennedy O ' Connor notes in The Eurovision Song Contest-The Official History that with a record field of 26 entries, this made the UK's failure the most spectacular in the history of the contest.

However, Lik-Sang replied once more that their legal representatives spent over a year to contest the UK's court jurisdiction and tried to defend against Sony's allegations of parallel importation and copyright infringement, and that Sony launched duplicate actions in different countries.

Confidence in the UK entry was low for both fans and the public, and in the actual contest held in Riga, Jemini picked up the UK's worst-ever showing, scoring " nul points " and finishing last, due to a very poor performance, although some reports attempted to blame European disapproval of the US-UK invasion of Iraq for the failure of any nation to give the UK even one point.

The UK's National Health Service announced in 2008 that more therapists would be trained to provide CBT at government expense as part of an initiative called Improving Access to Psychological Therapies ( IAPT ).

Several other new talents emerged during this period, and Alfred Hitchcock would confirm his status as one of the UK's leading young directors with his influential thrillers The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ), The 39 Steps ( 1935 ) and The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ), before moving to Hollywood.

Within 5 years it would become the UK's worst human disaster, with starvation and emigration reducing the population of Ireland itself by over 50 %.

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.

The STV would be single-stage-to-orbit aircraft, similar to Lockheed's X-30 and the UK's HOTOL proposals of the 1980s, with capability for in-flight refueling, and an expected speed of 6, 000 mph ( Mach 8. 5 +).

Also in the UK in 1967 the go-ahead had been given for the UK's ( separately developed ) three-stage Black Arrow rocket launcher ( made by Westland Aircraft, with Bristol Siddeley rocket engines developed at the Rocket Propulsion Establishment at Westcott, Buckinghamshire )-Britain did not need to rely on Europa, and Black Arrow would be ready first.

The UK's Ireland Act also gave a legislative guarantee that Northern Ireland would continue to remain a part of the United Kingdom unless the Parliament of Northern Ireland formally expressed a wish to join a United Ireland ; this " unionist veto " proved to be controversial during the Act's passage through Westminster, as well as in the Irish state and amongst Northern Ireland's nationalist community.

It was later announced that Brown would appear as a guest judge on the UK's version of The X Factor after a replacement for Kelly Rowland had not been found.

The British government was unable to extend the abolition via Order in Council to Bermuda, the UK's most autonomous overseas territory with powers of almost total self-governance — but warned that if voluntary abolition was not forthcoming it would be forced to consider the unprecedented step of " whether to impose abolition by means of an Act of Parliament ".

Much of the UK's car industry would be centred in Coventry and Birmingham.

While the company would remain in being as a government-owned company, continuing to own assets and operating telecommunication services outside the UK, all assets in the UK were integrated with those of the Post Office, which operated the UK's domestic telecommunications monopoly.

On the lead-up to the picket, a number of MPs, lobby groups and LGBT groups appealed to the UK's Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, requesting these individuals be blocked from entering the UK, on the basis that WBC would be inciting hatred towards LGBT people.

A proposal for the sale of the UK's social housing stock claimed that the " perpetual search for profitability " of private-sector owners would " them to discover and produce what the consumer wants " and that, in this way, the market was " more genuinely democratic than the public sector, involving the decisions of far more individuals and at much more frequent intervals ".

On 5 July 2012, the UK Ministry of Defence announced that 3rd Battalion, The Mercian Regiment ( Staffords ), would be withdrawn from the British Army's Order of Battle as part of a large-scale reduction in the size of the UK's Armed Forces.

The UK's Ministry of Defence, in the Delivering Security in a Changing World review, announced that the station would close by December 2006.

A story published in issue 264 of the UK's Transformers comic is often cited as an attempt to explain both releases, but since the " new " Constructicons would not be released for another two years, the only toy the story could actually be based upon would be the Action Master version of Devastator.

In November 2007 it was announced that the UK's STFC had proposed that, to save £ 4 million annually, it would aim to leave the telescope's operating consortium.

This would greatly improve the deterrent capability of the UK's V bomber force.

They developed a plan to force the UK into their " Multilateral Force " concept, a dual-key arrangement that would only allow launch if both parties agreed, thereby reducing or eliminating the UK's force as a credible target.

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.

# What impact would entry into EMU have on the competitive position of the UK's financial services industry, particularly the City's wholesale markets?

Under cost-cutting plans announced by ITV in September 2007 and agreed to by the UK's broadcasting regulator Ofcom in October 2008, the region's three sub-regions would be replaced with one programme.