John T. Arundel and Company, a British firm using a competing claim to the island by the UK, made the island its headquarters for its guano-digging operations in the Pacific from 1886 to 1891.

* 2004 – A gang of thieves steal £ 26. 5 million worth of currency from the Donegall Square West headquarters of Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland, one of the largest bank robberies in UK history.

The UK headquarters is in Hayes, Middlesex.

Foster and Partners ' breakthrough building in the UK was the Willis Faber & Dumas headquarters in Ipswich, of 1974.

* 2001, J Sainsbury headquarters, Holborn Circus, London, UK

* 1997 – 2004, 30 St Mary Axe, Swiss Re London headquarters, London, UK

Samsung Electronics ' UK division used to be based in New Malden, although it has now relocated its European headquarters to nearby Chertsey.

Philips UK has its headquarters in Guildford, Surrey.

* The headquarters of the Royal Society of Chemistry in Cambridge, UK is the Thomas Graham House.

The SIS Building, headquarters of the UK | British Secret Intelligence Service ( MI6 )

Church and Dwight, the US company famous for such brands as Arm & Hammer, has its UK headquarters in the town.

* Opus Dei UK headquarters

McDonalds has its UK headquarters at East Finchley.

The Nestlé company located its major chocolate and instant coffee works on the canal, adjacent to the railway east of the station, and it was for many years the company's UK headquarters.

Coca-Cola, Disney and L ' Oréal also all have UK headquarters in Hammersmith, as well as a number of other major businesses.

The town is also home to the UK headquarters of BMW and the headquarters of Avis Europe.

Newbury is home to the UK headquarters of the mobile network operator Vodafone, which is the town's largest employer with over 6, 000 people.

As well as Vodafone, Newbury is also home to the UK headquarters of the pharmaceutical company Bayer AG, National Instruments, Micro Focus, NTS Express Road Haulage, Jokers ' Masquerade, Newbury Parcels, The Swift Group, Stryker coporation and Quantel.

The parent company of the enlarged group is named Thomas Cook Group plc with its headquarters in the UK and listed in London.

Filofax has its UK headquarters in the town ,, Technetix has its Global headquarters in the town | url = http :// www. technetix. com |, and Roche's offices in Burgess Hill are the UK diagnostics headquarters.

Late in 2004 the Canadian airline Zoom Airlines also started selling transatlantic flights between Glasgow, UK ; Manchester, UK ; and Canada for £ 89 ; and Oasis Hong Kong Airlines £ 199 from London to HK.

By May 2000 One. Tel had Operations in seven countries ( Australia, UK, HK, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Germany ), over 1, 900, 000 active customers and was connecting over 250, 000 / month globally.

During its early years, it was featured in several newspapers including the The Standard and the South China Morning Post between November 1986 and May 1995 ; The Independent ( UK ) between March 1997 and June 1997 ( to chronicle the last hundred days of British rule in Hong Kong ); and the HK iMail from May 2000 until September 2001.

These time scales are denoted in the form UTC ( NPL ) in the UTC form, where NPL in this case identifies the National Physical Laboratory, UK.

Personal Emergency Response Systems ( PERS ), or Telecare ( UK term ), are a particular sort of assistive technology that use electronic sensors connected to an alarm system to help caregivers manage risk and help vulnerable people stay independent at home longer.

) Finally, the past tense and past participle of dwell and kneel are more commonly dwelt and knelt in both standards, with dwelled and kneeled as common variants in the US but not in the UK.

These numbers are set up by a company offering low charge calls in the UK, these numbers are meant to be used as a sort of operator that you go through in order to qualify for these cheap calls.

Areas similar to that of the council area are covered by the Angus Westminster constituency for the UK Parliament and the area is also represented at the Scottish Parliament by both the Angus and North Tayside Holyrood constituencies.

Such services are offered in the United Kingdom ; the telecommunication arbitrage companies get paid an interconnect charge by the UK mobile networks and then buy international routes at a lower cost.

The calls are seen as free by the UK contract mobile phone customers since they are using up their allocated monthly minutes rather than paying for additional calls.

ASROC ' Matchbox ' reload doors are visible in this photograph of the Japanese Asagiri class destroyer Asagiri, formerly DD 151, renumbered TV 3516 after reclassification as a training vessel, seen here on 28 July 2008 departing from Portsmouth Naval Base, UK.

Although the disease is not a threat to humans the most vulnerable common domestic ruminants in the UK are cattle, goats and, especially, sheep.

At 17 metres long, the Severn class lifeboat s are the largest class of UK Lifeboat ( rescue ) | lifeboat

They are all recyclable in both the UK and Ireland amongst others.

Other well-known areas are: Chironico ( Switzerland ), Stanage ( UK ), Hueco Tanks ( Texas ), Val Masino and Val di Mello ( Italy ), Castle Hill ( New Zealand ), Bishop ( California ), Joe's Valley ( Utah ), Yosemite ( California ), Rocktown ( Georgia ), Rocklands ( South Africa ), Cocalzinho de Goiás ( Brazil ), Kjugekull ( Sweden ), Hampi ( India ) Horse Pens 40 ( Alabama ) and Horseshoe Canyon Ranch ( Arkansas ) amongst others.

Contestants are required to evict one of their own on a regular basis ; in the earlier series of Big Brother, contestants were evicted every two weeks, however, as introduced in the UK version, evictions occurred once a week, all of the current series of Big Brother follow this format.

There are also a number of acts both in the US ( Johnny Rogers, John Mueller ) and UK ( Marc Robinson, Spencer J etc.

A bogie in the UK, or a wheel truck, or simply truck in North America, is a structure underneath a train to which axles ( and, hence, wheels ) are attached through bearings.

Following the introduction of the Enterprise Act 2002, a UK bankruptcy will now normally last no longer than 12 months and may be less, if the Official Receiver files in court a certificate that his investigations are complete.

British Standards are the standards produced by BSI Group which is incorporated under a Royal Charter ( and which is formally designated as the National Standards Body ( NSB ) for the UK ).

These institutions are found in the United Kingdom ( UK ) and several other countries.

In the UK, both clobazam and clonazepam are second-line choices for treating many forms of epilepsy.

some foreign ships register in the Cayman Islands as a flag of convenience ; includes ships from 11 countries among which are: Greece 15, US 5, UK 5, Cyprus 2, Denmark 2, Norway 3 ( 2002 est.

The foreign relations of the Cayman Islands are largely managed from the United Kingdom, as the islands remain an overseas territory of the UK.

Some other important names in this regard are UK and Italy.

Similar regulations are in place in Germany, where anyone who has spent six months or more living in the UK between January 1980 and December 1996 is permanently banned from donating blood.