Newspapers of the period reported that the announcement of the new party came as a complete shock to MPs from all sides of the Commons, including members of the Manifesto Group, as the ' Gang of Four ' had kept their preparations a closely guarded secret.

A further announcement by Head of television news Peter Horrocks came at the same time as Bakhurst's appointment in which he outlined his plan to provide more funding and resources for the channel and shift the corporation's emphasis regarding news away from the traditional BBC One bulletins and across to the rolling news channel.

Merger plans came to a head in May 2008, when the Queensland state Liberal Party gave an announcement not to wait for a federal blueprint but instead to merge immediately.

Ironically, the announcement came on the ninth anniversary of their complex's official opening, a fact not lost on many people.

The change came into force following a radio announcement at 5. 50 local time ( 16. 50 GMT ) which halted traffic and an announcement at 6. 00 ( 15. 00 GMT ) for traffic to switch from the right to the left side of the road.

However, when it came time to introduce the Patriots ' starters, Pat Summerall, making the public address announcement, revealed that the Patriots chose " to be introduced as a team.

Her announcement came shortly after her divorce from Ted Turner.

" The announcement came following rumours initiated by Bell that the network would not commission another series of episodes following the 30th series and their indecision regarding a possible one-off special.

The Oklahoma House of Representatives failed to confirm the choice after Rep. Mike Reynolds, R-Oklahoma City attacked the band for its use of offensive language, and Rep. Corey Holland, R-Marlow said he had been " really offended " when Michael Ivins came to the announcement ceremony in March wearing a red T-shirt with a yellow hammer and sickle.

The Moose Dropping Festival, a two-day celebration held each July, came to an end for at least a year with the announcement on Aug. 21, 2009 by the Talkeetna Historical Society that the festival has been canceled.

With the announcement came the prospect of 400 initial jobs and at least $ 100 million for constructing the processing facility and the possibility of close to $ 300 million in additional revenue for Southern Idaho dairymen on an annual basis.

Then came an announcement that would change Whiteman forever.

About the time that Nunó first came to Mexico to start performing with the bands, Santa Anna was making his announcement about creating a national anthem for Mexico.

The announcement came less than a week after the Hamburg Sea Devils beat the Frankfurt Galaxy 37 – 28 in World Bowl XV in Frankfurt in front of a crowd of 48, 125.

The announcement, which marked the first official confirmation of any 2008 concert dates in the US, came during the traditional eighth-inning sing-along of his " Sweet Caroline ", which has become an anthem for Boston fans.

This announcement came days after Congress voted to direct the Bush administration to do the same.

On November 2, 2006, MGM announced that actor Tom Cruise and his long-time production partner Paula Wagner were resurrecting UA ( this announcement came after the duo were released from a fourteen-year production relationship at Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures earlier that year ).

In the wake of the rejection of the Maastricht Treaty by the Danish electorate in a referendum in the spring of 1992, and announcement that there would be a referendum in France as well, those ERM currencies that were trading close to the bottom of their ERM bands came under pressure from foreign exchange traders.

After operating only during peak hours for more than 30 years, the closure announcement came on 4 January 1993.

An announcement came the next day, on May 19, 2008, that the band would be entering the studio to record their first album of new material since 2003.

The largest bout of publicity around LeBlanc and regarding his governor generalcy came immediately after the announcement of his appointment to the post: Though previous governors general had worked as politicians prior to and after serving as viceroy, the recommendation of a prominent Liberal Party politician and organiser was criticised as being little more than a patronage gift from the Prime Minister to a loyal party member.

This prediction had an unusual twist in that its announcement by the University of Texas ( UT ) — for a destructive earthquake in Oaxaca at an undetermined date — came just ten days before the date given by another prediction for a destructive earthquake in Oaxaca.

The series would have been composed of 52 11-minute episodes and aimed at a pre-school audience, but nothing of this project came to pass after the initial announcement.

In December 2011, more than a year after the official reboot announcement, the Los Angeles Times site reported that Whit Anderson, the writer picked for the new Buffy movie, had her script rejected by the producers behind the project, and that a new writer was being sought.

His voice became a fixture of both Memorial Stadium and Camden Yards, and his expression " Give that fan a contract ", uttered whenever a fan caught a foul ball, was one of his trademarks – the other being his distinct " Thank Yooooou ..." following every announcement ( He was also known on occasion to say " Give that fan an error " after a dropped foul ball ).

The Central Committee meeting was held less than 24 hours after the announcement of Brezhnev's death.

As more execs and researchers left Commodore after the announcement to join up with Tramiel's new company Atari Corp., Commodore followed by filing lawsuits against four former engineers for theft of trade secrets in late July.

For the first three months after announcement the Deskpro 386 shipped with Windows / 386.

Analysts on Wall Street were generally critical of the merger, as both companies had been struggling before the announcement, and the stock prices of both companies dropped in the months after the merger agreement was made public.

This was a way to allow PDP-8 software to be run even after the official end-of-life announcement for the Digital PDP-8 product line.

Shortly after the announcement that Princess Kiko was pregnant with her third child, Koizumi suspended such plans.

However, shortly after the announcement that Princess Kiko was pregnant with her third child, the proposal to alter the Imperial Household Law was suspended by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

ELO effectively disbanded after that final show in Stuttgart in 1986, but there was no announcement made of it for the next two years, during which George Harrison's Lynne-produced album Cloud Nine and the pair's follow-up ( with Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty as Traveling Wilburys ) Traveling Wilburys Vol.

The Japanese arrange a meeting with the Russian and American ambassadors and, after some debate over the issue, Prime Minister Mitamura decides nuclear weapons will not be used on Godzilla even if he were to attack the Japanese mainland, an announcement that the Russians can't come to terms with.

Almost immediately after the announcement, a pair of Indian automakers, including Mahindra & Mahindra, expressed interest in purchasing all or part of Hummer.

Lynch issued the following statement after the announcement of the award in 2009:

* 1607 – The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.

In 1982, Stanley B. Prusiner of the University of California, San Francisco announced that his team had purified the hypothetical infectious prion, and that the infectious agent consisted mainly of a specific protein – though they did not manage to isolate the protein until two years after Prusiner's announcement.

On 25 March 2006, after a public announcement made weeks earlier, the FARC-EP released two captured policemen at La Dorada, Putumayo.

Announcements automatically expire after 10 times the announcement interval or one hour, whichever is greater.

Two weeks after the announcement regarding Hanna, rumors began circulating that The Chemical Brothers had recorded part of the score for the movie Black Swan, after a post in Ed Simon's Twitter account.

* January 13 – The Bank of Genoa fails after the announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.

The first objection often raised to the logical school's approach is that it fails to explain how the judge's announcement appears to be vindicated after the fact.

* 20 June 1997: Tony Blair appointed Peter Mandelson to the role of Minister for the Millennium after his announcement that the beleaguered £ 580 million dome would go ahead

14 January 1945 saw the Normandie-Niemen start its third campaign ( from Dopenen to Heiligenbeil ), concentrating in the East Prussian part of the German Reich, until the formal announcement of victory in the east on 9 May the day after V-E Day in Europe.

The voice announcements provide local and universal time every 15 seconds over a background of once-per-second ticks, with the ticks lengthened to prominent beep twice per 15 seconds after the preceding voice announcement.