The club hosts their annual regattas on the River Soar, typically held in mid-April which sees competitors from all over the UK race over a course.

The university hosts public performances of theatre, music, exhibitions, contemporary dance and live art from UK and international companies.

Llangollen on the River Dee, Wales hosts white water Slalom canoeing and kayaking, being host to International and UK events.

* In the UK, the BBC supports multiculturalism and diversity, in part by using on-screen commentators and hosts of different ethnic origins.

The NFER also sponsors the CERUKplus ( Current Educational Research in the UK ) database, which contains details of current or on-going research in education and related disciplines, and hosts the EURYDICE Unit for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, in EURYDICE, the information network on education in Europe ( www. nfer. ac. uk / eurydice ).

The Ball also hosts the annual UK New Zealander of the Year awards, cultural entertainment from London based Māori group Ngati Ranana and fine wine and cuisine from New Zealand.

It hosts varied events including an annual air show on and over the beach, and the largest independent flower show in the UK in Victoria Park.

The club hosts their annual Regatta on the River Soar typically held in mid-April which sees competitors from all over the UK race over a 700 metre course.

Rockcliff also hosts an annual end of season 10 a-side rugby competition ( the Super 10s ), attracting touring sides from around the UK as well as from the local area.

For instance, the Northwood Gratitude and Honor Memorial in Irvine, CA, memorializes an ongoing pair of US wars, and has space to inscribe the names of approximately 8, 000 fallen servicemembers, while the UK National Memorial Arboretum near Lichfield in England hosts the UK's National Armed Forces Memorial which displays the names of the more than 16, 000 people who have already died on active service in the UK armed forces since World War Two, with more space available for future fatalities.

Every Thursday during the Ibiza clubbing season Cream hosts its club night at Amnesia., and is now the longest running UK club night on the island having hosted parties there since 1994 and held down a successful summer residency at Amnesia since 1996.

The island hosts a population of 6, 925 and is the most easterly inhabited island in the UK.

For instance, the Mayor of London's office hosts a Living Wage Unit which monitors the level needed for a living wage in London ( which has considerably higher living costs than the rest of the UK ).

The capital of National hunt racing in the UK is Cheltenham Racecourse, in the Cotswolds, which hosts the Cheltenham Festival in the third week of March each year, as well as other important fixtures during the NH calendar.

Every November the Reebok Stadium hosts Kidz up North which is one of the largest free UK exhibitions totally dedicated to children with disabilities and special needs, their parents, carers and professionals who work with them.

* 125 ICC ( KZ )-Powered by similar 6-speed 125 cc engines to the 125 Open class with tighter tuning restrictions, this CIK sprint kart class hosts some of the closest Superkart racing in the UK.

On Thursday 4 September 2008, it was announced that Penk had bought the entire share capital in the radio station 96. 2 The Revolution where he hosts the breakfast show and has big plans to make more acquisitions throughout the UK.

The town hosts a number of key landmarks that have a place in the wider history of the labour movement in the UK.

Dezhou increased its international reputation when it was selected to follow previous hosts, Daegu, South Korea ( 2004 ), Oxford, UK ( 2006 ) and Adelaide, Australia ( 2008 ) as host of the 2010 International Solar City Congress.

Mini Mathur currently hosts Bombay Blush, a culture show on India that airs on BBC in the UK, and Indian Idol 6 in India.

The city also has literary publishers such as Tindal Street Press and hosts The Young Book Reader UK festival, as well as an online literary community called Birmingham Words.

The German publishing house Ullstein for example, who released a German version of Clarke's A Year in the Merde, hosts in his programme several other novels on comparable European culture clashes: Tour de Franz ( A French lady in Germany ) by Cécile Calla, Fish and Fritz ( A German in the UK ) by Wolfgang Koydl, Arrivederci, Roma!

EBI, located at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Hinxton, UK, hosts a large resource of bioinformatics databases and services.

So named due to its resemblance to a traditional agricultural plough ( or more specifically two ploughshares ), many manufacturers produce a plough-style design, all based on or direct copies of the original CQR ( Secure ), a 1933 design patented in the UK ( US patent in 1934 ) by mathematician Geoffrey Ingram Taylor.

Received Pronunciation ( RP ) refers to a way of pronouncing Standard English that is actually used by about two percent of the UK population.

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.

* Since Big Brother 2, the UK series always opens with a twist which have included the public being able to choose the final housemate out of three possibilities ( Big Brother 2 ), the public voting for a housemate to leave during the first week and then the housemates choosing between the two housemates with the least number of votes ( Big Brother 3 ), First Night Nominations ( Big Brother 4 ), Suitcase Nominations ( Big Brother 5 ), Unlucky Housemate 13 ( Big Brother 6 ), Big Brother Hood ( Big Brother 7 ), an all-female House and the first inclusion of twins as contestants ( Big Brother 8 ), the first couple to enter as housemates and set a secret task to hide their real relationship ( Big Brother 9 ), all " housemates " really being " non-housemates " who had to earn their housemate status ( Big Brother 10 ), a mole entering the House with an " Impossible Task " ( Big Brother 11 ), Jackie Stallone entering a house containing her son's ex-wife ( Celebrity Big Brother 3 ), the entrance of a non-celebrity in a celebrity edition ( Celebrity Big Brother 4 ) and Jade Goody's family announced to be visiting.

Boudica has been the subject of two feature films, the 1928 film Boadicea, where she was portrayed by Phyllis Neilson-Terry, and 2003's Boudica ( Warrior Queen in the US ), a UK TV film written by Andrew Davies and starring Alex Kingston as Boudica.

The album reached number one in New Zealand, number two in Australia, number six in the UK and made the top 20 in several European countries.

Since the reunions in the UK and Australia in 1957, two generations of Christadelphians have grown up with little awareness of the existence of the minority " fellowships ", or awareness that the main group is called " Central " by the minority groups.

The Arithmometer, invented in 1820 as a four-operation mechanical calculator, was released to production in 1851 as an adding machine and became the first commercially successful unit ; forty years later, by 1890, about 2, 500 arithmometers had been sold plus a few hundreds more from two arithmometer clone makers ( Burkhardt, Germany, 1878 and Layton, UK, 1883 ) and Felt and Tarrant, the only other competitor in true commercial production, had sold 100 comptometers.

The UK Armed Forces currently utilize two circular non reflecting stainless steel tags engraved with the " Big 6 ":

* Mullions-Smaller optional vertical boards that run between two rails, and split the door into two or more columns of panels, the term is used sometimes for verticals in doors, but more often ( UK and Australia ) it refers to verticals in windows.

Exploiting his androgynous appearance, the original cover of the UK version unveiled two months later would depict the singer wearing a dress: taking the garment with him, he wore it during interviews — to the approval of critics, including Rolling Stones John Mendelsohn who described him as " ravishing, almost disconcertingly reminiscent of Lauren Bacall "— and in the street, to mixed reaction including laughter and, in the case of one male pedestrian, producing a gun and telling Bowie to " kiss my ass ".

David Live nevertheless solidified Bowie's status as a superstar, charting at number two in the UK and number eight in the US.

Despite these forebodings, Low yielded the UK number three single " Sound and Vision ", and its own performance surpassed that of Station to Station in the UK chart, where it reached number two.

" Modern Love " and " China Girl " made number two in the UK, accompanied by a pair of acclaimed promotional videos that, as described by biographer David Buckley, " were totally absorbing and activated key archetypes in the pop world.

It was poorly received by critics, but Bowie's theme song rose to number two in the UK charts.

Incorporating experiments in British jungle and drum ' n ' bass, Earthling ( 1997 ) was a critical and commercial success in the UK and the US, and two singles from the album became UK top 40 hits.

In 1997 Enya released her greatest hits collection, Paint the Sky with Stars: The Best of Enya, again a top five smash in the UK and Germany, which featured two new songs: " Paint the Sky with Stars " and " Only If ..."; " Only If ..." later became a single.

However, in the UK, the eurosceptic United Kingdom Independence Party achieved second place in the elections, finishing ahead of the governing Labour Party, and the British National Party ( BNP ) won its first ever two MEPs.

Time topped the UK charts for two weeks and was the last ELO studio album to date to be certified platinum in the United Kingdom.

Their enormous commercial success encouraged them to turn out sequel after sequel, and led to an explosion in horror film production in the UK that would last for nearly two decades.

The single was a phenomenal success in the UK, staying at the top of the singles chart for nine consecutive weeks, during which time the group's previous single " Relax " climbed back up the charts to number two.