On 22 February 1945, " speaking from London, Agatha Christie introduced the initial broadcast of the Poirot series via shortwave.

Lord John Russell, the Whig leader who had succeeded Peel as Prime Minister and like Rothschild a member for the City of London, introduced a Jewish Disabilities Bill to amend the oath and permit Jews to enter Parliament.

The London Ambulance Service has recently introduced bicycling paramedics, who can often get to the scene of an incident in Central London more quickly than a motorized ambulance.

The background to this purchase relates to the requirement that TfL ( who took over from London Regional Transport in 2000 ) compensates TCL for the consequences of any changes to the fares and ticketing policy introduced since 1996.

In London rhyming slang is continually evolving, and new phrases are introduced all the time.

In 1883 Darmstadt University of Technology and Cornell University introduced the world's first courses of study in electrical engineering, and in 1885 the University College London founded the first chair of electrical engineering in the United Kingdom.

London gin-London gin is obtained exclusively from ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin with a maximum methanol content of 5 grams per hectolitre of 100 % ABV equivalent, whose flavour is introduced exclusively through the re-distillation in traditional stills of ethyl alcohol in the presence of all the natural plant materials used, the resultant distillate of which is at least 70 % ABV.

In a bid to reduce the number of people living in overcrowded housing, a policy was introduced of encouraging people to move into newly built new towns surrounding London.

However, Western Medicine was introduced to China in the 19th Century, mainly by medical missionaries sent from various Christian mission organizations, such as the London Missionary Society ( Britain ), the Methodist Church ( Britain ) and the Presbyterian Church ( USA ).

Imperial apothecaries ' measures, based on the imperial pint of 20 fluid ounces, were introduced by the publication of the London Pharmacopoeia of 1836, the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia of 1839, and the Dublin Pharmacopoeia of 1850.

* 1937 – The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London

Esther Marson-Smedley, a correspondent with the Daily Express who shared the train ride from Plymouth to London, then introduced him to Marjorie Maxse, who offered him a role in the War Office.

In 1689, Janez Vajkard Valvasor, a pioneer of study of karst in Slovenia and a fellow of the The Royal Society for Improving Natural Knowledge, London, introduced the word karst to European scholars, describing the phenomenon of underground flows of rivers.

They were introduced to Europe in 1846 by Robert Fortune, collector for the London Horticultural Society, and shortly thereafter into North America.

Artisan missionary envoys from the London Missionary Society began arriving in 1818 and included such key figures as James Cameron, David Jones and David Griffiths, who established schools, transcribed the Malagasy language using the Roman alphabet, translated the Bible, and introduced a variety of new technologies to the island.

* 1791 – A Constitutional Act is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada ( Quebec ) and Upper Canada ( Ontario ).

* 1990 – 200, 000 protestors take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.

In 1976 — first in London, then in the United States —" New Wave " was introduced as a complementary label for the formative scenes and groups also known as " punk "; the two terms were essentially interchangeable.

The term " Permian " was introduced into geology in 1841 by Sir R. I. Murchison, president of the Geological Society of London, who identified typical strata in extensive Russian explorations undertaken with Edouard de Verneuil.

London Underground was initially sceptical of his proposal — it was an uncommissioned spare-time project, and it was tentatively introduced to the public in a small pamphlet in 1933.

In 1882, incandescent electric lights were introduced to London streets, although it took many years before they were installed everywhere.

According to the first, on 9 November 1966 Lennon went to the Indica Gallery in London, where Ono was preparing her conceptual art exhibit, and they were introduced by gallery owner John Dunbar.

* January – The London Underground diagram designed by Harry Beck is introduced to the public.

* September – The first organised street lighting was introduced in London with oil lamps to be lit outside every tenth house on moonless winter nights.

The Scottish Maiden ( supposedly based on the Halifax Gibbet ) was introduced to Edinburgh by James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton in the 16th century and remained in use until 1708.

As manager of the Edinburgh and Northern Railway he introduced the first roll-on / roll-off train ferry service in the world.

Passenger boats ran on the canal from 1783, and in 1809 fast boats were introduced, running from Edinburgh to Falkirk in 3 hours 30 minutes, providing such creature comforts as food, drink and newspapers.

Although newer Pacifics had been introduced since the war, and although the streamlined trains were never reinstated, the A4s continued on top link duties, notable on the London to Edinburgh services.

When the Prayer Book was finally introduced at St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh in mid-1637 it caused an outbreak of rioting, which spread across Scotland.

He was introduced to horse racing by his wife, Margaret Katherine Whitmore, from Somerset, whom he met whilst at Edinburgh University.

The goldsmith watched the progress of his pupil with interest, and introduced him to David Martin, who had been the favourite assistant of Allan Ramsay the Latter, and was now the leading portrait painter in Edinburgh.

After the passing of the Scottish Reform Bill, which he introduced in parliament, he was returned for Edinburgh in December 1832.

: Previously an administrator for events including the Edinburgh Festival, Drummond introduced repeats of classic drama performances and celebrations of artists anniversaries.

In 1794 Stanhope supported Thomas Muir, one of the Edinburgh politicians who were transported to Botany Bay ; and in 1795 he introduced into the Lords a motion deprecating any interference with the internal affairs of France.

Algebraic data types were introduced in Hope, a small functional programming language developed in the 1970s at Edinburgh University.

Recently, in the UK, Edinburgh College of Art University of Edinburgh has introduced a BA ( Hons ) Degree in Intermedia Arts and Intermedia can be a focus of study in Masters programmes.

In answer to customer complaints about delayed letters, Bishop introduced the Bishop mark, a small circle with month and day inside, applied at London, in the General Post office and the Foreign section, and soon after adopted in Scotland, ( Edinburgh ), and Ireland, ( Dublin ).

In recent years a different business model has been adopted by two organisations ; The Free Fringe and The Laughing Horse Free Edinburgh Fringe Festival have introduced the concept of the free entry show, though there are collections at the end of each performance.

* The Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award for best drama was introduced in 2004.

* The Edinburgh Musical Theatre Awards were introduced in 2007 by Musical Theatre Matters, to encourage the writing and production of new musicals on the Fringe.

Twenty-two locomotives were built: they dominated express passenger services on the East Coast Main Line ( ECML ) particularly London – and London – Edinburgh services until 1978 when InterCity 125 ' High Speed Trains ' were introduced.

Grand Duchess Marie was introduced to Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second son of Queen Victoria, by the Princess of Wales and the Tsesarevna of Russia during a family holiday in Denmark in 1871.

It was first discovered ( by Euro-Americans ) near Port Orford in Oregon and introduced into cultivation in 1854, by collectors working for the Lawson & Son nursery in Edinburgh, Scotland, after whom it was named as Lawson's Cypress by the describing botanist Andrew Murray.

In doing so, he introduced the New Zealand players to the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.

In September 2007, the first Downing Street cat since Humphrey was introduced ; Sybil moved from Edinburgh with Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling and family.

The Duke of Edinburgh on 22 February 1965, coinciding with decimal coinage, which was introduced into circulation on 14 February 1966.