A major programme of remedial work on the West Coast Main Line started in 1997 and finished in 2009, far over budget (£ 10bn ), many years late and still not bringing the line up to the standards originally proposed by Railtrack.

Channel 4 originally licensed an ancillary teletext service to provide schedules, programme information and features.

Aside from Granada, the programme originally appeared on the following stations of the ITV network: Anglia Television, Associated-Rediffusion, Television Wales and the West, Scottish Television, Southern Television and Ulster Television.

Although, originally conceived as a children's programme, it quickly acquired a cult crossover following amongst many adults, including future Pythons John Cleese and Graham Chapman ( as mentioned by Cleese himself in the " Paying my ex-wife " stage performance tour, October 2010 ).

Fulchester was originally the setting of the British TV programme Crown Court before the name was adopted by the Viz team.

The BBC originally wanted him to do a programme on India but the Indian high commission in London refused him a visa.

Troughton returned to Doctor Who three times after he originally left the programme, becoming the only former " Doctor " to reprise the role that many times on television after his original run.

* Interview with Anton LaVey by Michelle Carr and Elvia Lahman, originally published in the September 11, 1997 Velvet Hammer souvenir programme.

The Soyuz programme (,, meaning " Union ") is a human spaceflight programme that was initiated by the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, originally part of a Moon landing project intended to put a Soviet cosmonaut on the Moon.

Although the new characters were not originally intended to be carried over to the television programme, Roy Clarke included them in four of the following six episodes of the 1985 series, beginning with the episode " Catching Digby's Donkey ".

In the United States, the YMCA parent / child programmes under the umbrella programme called Y-Guides, ( originally called YMCA Indian Guides, Princess, Braves and Maidens ) have provided structured opportunities for fellowship, camping, and community-building activities ( including craft-making and community service ) for several generations of parents and kids in kindergarten through third grade.

Konnie Huq and Matt Cooke from BBC TV present the Your News programme from Neasden: news. bbc. co. uk ( originally broadcast on 27 September 2008 ).

The programme originally followed the activities of a female pathologist, Professor Sam Ryan, played by Amanda Burton.

" This programme had originally been penned by Stasov for Hector Berlioz.

Another factor was that the programme was originally made in a studio known as " Pres B ", which had been originally intended for in-vision continuity.

* Top of the Pops, a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006.

Formalized intuitionistic logic was originally developed by Arend Heyting to provide a formal basis for Brouwer's programme of intuitionism.

* " Anoint "/" Sundial "/" Fresh Surroundings "/" By Degrees " ( Recorded 1 / 04 / 1990 and originally broadcast on John Peel's radio programme, 23 / 04 / 1990 on BBC Radio 1 )

When the programme made a comeback in 1979, it ran for just six episodes and was made in colour, one new two-part story and a colour remake of the second saga, originally a six-parter, " Noggin and the Ice Dragon ".

The Soyuz succeeded the Voskhod spacecraft and was originally built as part of the Soviet Manned Lunar programme.

Another flagship programme, the long-running quiz show, University Challenge was originally aired between 1962 and 1987 and revived by the BBC in 1994 ( produced by Granada ).

The show, originally conceived as a temporary summer filler programme for a niche audience on Saturday nights at 23. 30, began broadcasting on Friday nights in 1962 and was presented by Gay Byrne for over 35 years, on Saturday evenings for some of that time.

It was originally produced as a Midlands regional programme by ATV and was first broadcast live on 5 January 1974.

It was Attlee's government that decided Britain should have an independent atomic weapons programme, and work began on it in 1947.

Harry Kershaw was the script editor for Coronation Street when the programme began in 1960, working alongside Tony Warren.

Paul Abbott was a story editor on the programme in the 1980s and began writing episodes in 1989, but left in 1993 to produce Cracker, for which he later wrote, before creating his own highly acclaimed dramas such as Touching Evil and Shameless.

In 1206 Diego of Osma and his canon, the future Saint Dominic, began a programme of conversion in Languedoc ; as part of this, Catholic-Cathar public debates were held at Verfeil, Servian, Pamiers, Montréal and elsewhere.

In the second half of 1945, Thomas began reading for the BBC Radio programme, Book of Verse, broadcast weekly to the Far East providing Thomas with a regular income and bringing him into contact with Louis MacNeice, a congenial drinking companion whose advice Thomas cherished.

What began as a programme of marginal acts has become the largest arts festival in the world, with 1867 different shows being staged in 2006, in 261 venues.

A comprehensive programme of organizational reform and culture change began in 2008 after the release of an Independent External Evaluation.

He immediately began pushing for a programme of land reform, partly by invoking an old Sextian-Licinian law that limited the amount of land that could be owned by a single individual.

Edward, and his brother-in-law Æthelred of ( what was left of ) Mercia, began a programme of expansion, building forts and towns on an Alfredian model.

However, as she read the briefing notes, she began to realise that the programme was aimed at her.

A stone conservation and restoration programme to the external elevations and towers began in 1981, and ended in 1994.

The Polaris Sales Agreement was an agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom which began the UK Polaris programme.

Under the reign of Ramiro, famed for the legendary Battle of Clavijo, the border began to slowly move southward and Asturian holdings in Castile, Galicia, and León were fortified and an intensive programme of repopulation of the countryside begun in those territories.

Design work began in 1965 under Bhabha but later proceeded by Raja Ramanna who took over the programme after former's death.

In 1839 the British government began a programme of recruiting Indian labourers ( or coolies ) in Calcutta to be sent to Trinidad and British Guiana, now Guyana.

Former band member Michael Dempsey and the Mackenzie estate began a reissue programme to make sure the band's legacy continued.

With the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the United Kingdom began a massive recoinage programme that created standard gold sovereigns and circulating crowns and half-crowns, and eventually copper farthings in 1821.

Upon assuming power, Allende began to carry out his platform of implementing a socialist programme called La vía chilena al socialismo (" the Chilean Path to Socialism ").

In 1994, Robinson began presenting Time Team, a TV programme devoted to archaeological investigations limited to three days ( the outcome is never guaranteed, varying from spectacular to disappointing ).

The programme began on 22 March 1944, overseen by Colonel R. M. McLeod, and became fully operational by 6 April ).

Next, shortly after Thatcher left office, in July 1991, a new programme of market-testing of central government services began, with the White Paper Competing for Quality ( Cm 1730 ).

Zhao and Hu began a large-scale anti-corruption programme, and permitted the investigations of the children of high-ranking Party elders, who had grown up protected by their parents ' influence.

Later, the Tate began organising its own temporary exhibition programme.

He was created Baron Kitchener, of Khartoum and of Aspall in the County of Suffolk, on 31 October 1898 as a victory title commemorating his successes, and began a programme of restoring good governance to the Sudan.

In October 1969, a Detroit radio programme began to promote theories based on clues supposedly left on The Beatles and other Beatles albums that Paul McCartney had died and been replaced by a lookalike.