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Bradford
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Bradford /ˈbrædfərd/ is in the Metropolitan Borough of the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England, in the foothills of the Pennines 8.6 miles west of Leeds, and 16 miles northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897. Following local government reform in 1974, city status was bestowed upon the metropolitan borough. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Bradford rose to prominence during the 19th century as a centre of textile manufacture. It was a boomtown of the Industrial Revolution, and amongst the earliest industrialised settlements, the textile sector in Bradford fell into decline from the mid-20th century. However, Bradford has faced challenges to the rest of the post-industrial area of Northern England, including deindustrialisation, social unrest. It was recorded as Bradeford in 1086, after an uprising in 1070, during William the Conquerors Harrying of the North, the manor of Bradford was laid waste and is described as such in the Domesday Book of 1086. It then became part of the Honour of Pontefract given to Ilbert de Lacy for service to the Conqueror, there is evidence of a castle in the time of the Lacys. The manor then passed to the Earl of Lincoln, John of Gaunt, The Crown and, ultimately, by the middle ages Bradford, had become a small town centred on Kirkgate, Westgate and Ivegate. In 1316 there is mention of a mill, a soke mill where all the manor corn was milled. During the Wars of the Roses the inhabitants sided with House of Lancaster, Edward IV granted the right to hold two annual fairs and from this time the town began to prosper. In the reign of Henry VIII Bradford exceeded Leeds as a manufacturing centre, Bradford grew slowly over the next two-hundred years as the woollen trade gained in prominence. During the Civil War the town was garrisoned for the Parliamentarians, Sir Thomas Fairfax took the command of the garrison and marched to meet the Duke of Newcastle but was defeated. The Parliamentarians retreated to Bradford and the Royalists set up headquarters at Bolling Hall from where the town was besieged leading to its surrender, the Civil War caused a decline in industry but after the accession of William and Mary in 1689 prosperity began to return. The launch of manufacturing in the early 18th century marked the start of the development while new canal. In 1801, Bradford was a market town of 6,393 people. Bradford was thus not much bigger than nearby Keighley and was smaller than Halifax. This small town acted as a hub for three nearby townships – Manningham, Bowling and Great and Little Horton, which were separated from the town by countryside
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England
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England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west, the Irish Sea lies northwest of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east, the country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain in its centre and south, and includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly, and the Isle of Wight. England became a state in the 10th century, and since the Age of Discovery. The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England, transforming its society into the worlds first industrialised nation, Englands terrain mostly comprises low hills and plains, especially in central and southern England. However, there are uplands in the north and in the southwest, the capital is London, which is the largest metropolitan area in both the United Kingdom and the European Union. In 1801, Great Britain was united with the Kingdom of Ireland through another Act of Union to become the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1922 the Irish Free State seceded from the United Kingdom, leading to the latter being renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain, the name England is derived from the Old English name Englaland, which means land of the Angles. The Angles were one of the Germanic tribes that settled in Great Britain during the Early Middle Ages, the Angles came from the Angeln peninsula in the Bay of Kiel area of the Baltic Sea. The earliest recorded use of the term, as Engla londe, is in the ninth century translation into Old English of Bedes Ecclesiastical History of the English People. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, its spelling was first used in 1538. The earliest attested reference to the Angles occurs in the 1st-century work by Tacitus, Germania, the etymology of the tribal name itself is disputed by scholars, it has been suggested that it derives from the shape of the Angeln peninsula, an angular shape. An alternative name for England is Albion, the name Albion originally referred to the entire island of Great Britain. The nominally earliest record of the name appears in the Aristotelian Corpus, specifically the 4th century BC De Mundo, in it are two very large islands called Britannia, these are Albion and Ierne. But modern scholarly consensus ascribes De Mundo not to Aristotle but to Pseudo-Aristotle, the word Albion or insula Albionum has two possible origins. Albion is now applied to England in a poetic capacity. Another romantic name for England is Loegria, related to the Welsh word for England, Lloegr, the earliest known evidence of human presence in the area now known as England was that of Homo antecessor, dating to approximately 780,000 years ago. The oldest proto-human bones discovered in England date from 500,000 years ago, Modern humans are known to have inhabited the area during the Upper Paleolithic period, though permanent settlements were only established within the last 6,000 years
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United Kingdom
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom or Britain, is a sovereign country in western Europe. Lying off the north-western coast of the European mainland, the United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland, with an area of 242,500 square kilometres, the United Kingdom is the 78th-largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th-largest in Europe. It is also the 21st-most populous country, with an estimated 65.1 million inhabitants, together, this makes it the fourth-most densely populated country in the European Union. The United Kingdom is a monarchy with a parliamentary system of governance. The monarch is Queen Elizabeth II, who has reigned since 6 February 1952, other major urban areas in the United Kingdom include the regions of Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester. The United Kingdom consists of four countries—England, Scotland, Wales, the last three have devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in their capitals, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast, respectively. The relationships among the countries of the UK have changed over time, Wales was annexed by the Kingdom of England under the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542. A treaty between England and Scotland resulted in 1707 in a unified Kingdom of Great Britain, which merged in 1801 with the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Five-sixths of Ireland seceded from the UK in 1922, leaving the present formulation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, there are fourteen British Overseas Territories. These are the remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in the 1920s, British influence can be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former colonies. The United Kingdom is a country and has the worlds fifth-largest economy by nominal GDP. The UK is considered to have an economy and is categorised as very high in the Human Development Index. It was the worlds first industrialised country and the worlds foremost power during the 19th, the UK remains a great power with considerable economic, cultural, military, scientific and political influence internationally. It is a nuclear weapons state and its military expenditure ranks fourth or fifth in the world. The UK has been a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council since its first session in 1946 and it has been a leading member state of the EU and its predecessor, the European Economic Community, since 1973. However, on 23 June 2016, a referendum on the UKs membership of the EU resulted in a decision to leave. The Acts of Union 1800 united the Kingdom of Great Britain, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have devolved self-government
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Brighouse High School
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Brighouse High School is an academy school in Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England. Formally Brighouse Girls Grammar School It has approximately 1,400 students, the school contains around 1,050 students while the Sixth form contains around 350 students. The school is a Business and Enterprise College, rated good by Ofsted, Brighouse High Schools Headteacher is Mrs. Liz Cresswell. The school also has three Deputy Headteachers and it is situated adjacent to Halifax Road in the Hove Edge area of north-west Brighouse. The school began as Brighouse & District Girls Secondary School on 6 September 1910 then became Brighouse Girls Grammar School in 1944 and it is now a comprehensive school with Academy status and educates students aged 11–18 years old. The current Head Boy and Head Girl of the school is Jamie Smith, in 2011 at GCSE level, 90% of students achieved 5 A* to C grade including 62%5 A* to C including English and Mathematics. Notable former students of Brighouse High School have included actor Matthew Wolfenden, politician Holly Lynch, footballer Cameron Murray, and young comedian Jack Carroll
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Britain's Got Talent
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Britains Got Talent is a British television talent show reality TV competition which started in June 2007 and originated from the Got Talent franchise. The show is a Thames production distributed by FremantleMedia and is produced in association with Syco TV, the show is broadcast on ITV and its sister show Britains Got More Talent is broadcast on ITV2. Anyone of any age with some sort of talent can audition for the show, acts compete against each other in order to gain the audience support while trying to win the title of The winner of Britains Got Talent. The original judging panel consisted of the shows creator Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Kelly Brook was brought in briefly as a fourth judge in series 3, but was axed after one audition site. Morgan did not return for series 5 and Cowell was only present during the shows, while David Hasselhoff. Alesha Dixon and David Walliams joined the panel in series 6 as replacements for McIntyre, throughout the show, contestants must perform in front of the judges, and each year initial auditions have been held in front of a live audience. Auditions precede live semi-finals, where the final 45 contestants perform nightly for a week in order to impress the British public, each night, two acts from each semi-final progress to the live final. There have been ten winners to date, Paul Potts, George Sampson, Diversity, Spelbound, Jai McDowall, Ashleigh and Pudsey, Attraction, Collabro, Jules ODwyer & Matisse and Richard Jones. A significant show in British popular culture, Britains Got Talent is the UKs biggest television talent competition, the series 3 live final brought in 17.3 million viewers, a 64. 6% audience share. On 29 February 2016, it was announced that ITV had signed a contract to renew Britains Got Talent until 2019. The shows format was devised by The X Factor creator and Sony Music executive Simon Cowell, a pilot episode was filmed in September 2005, with the judging panel consisting of Cowell, then-This Morning presenter Fern Britton, and tabloid journalist Piers Morgan. It was originally planned that the show would be broadcast in 2006, however, after defection to Channel 4 for The Paul OGrady Show, he refused to appear on another ITV show, so the show was put on hold. The pilot remained unbroadcast on television until it was shown during The Talent Show Story in January 2012, in a 2010 interview, OGrady said, I did the pilot for Britains Got Talent – which was originally going to be called Paul OGradys Got Talent. But I told the producers they were having a joke if they thought I would front a show with that title, the original panel of judges was going to be Simon Cowell, Fern Britton and Piers Morgan. Then when I had the row with ITV I was banned from the studios, I remember I rang Simon and told him he had a huge hit on his hands, but there was no way I could do it. I said, if I am banned I have to be banned from everything, I can’t be a hypocrite and come in and do this. On 12 February 2007, following the success of Americas Got Talent the previous year, it was announced that the show would air in June 2007 with Cowell, Morgan and actress Amanda Holden as judges. Ant & Dec were announced as presenters, with Stephen Mulhern as the presenter of ITV2 spin-off series Britains Got More Talent, the auditions take place in front of the judges and a live audience at different cities across the UK
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Trollied
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Trollied is a British sitcom about employees in a fictional supermarket named Valco, which debuted on Sky 1 on 4 August 2011. At the conclusion of series 1, Sky 1 confirmed that the series had been recommissioned for two series of 13 episodes each, and a Christmas Special in 2012. The third series airing from 22 August 2013 and ended on 7 November 2013. A second Christmas Special for 2013 aired on 24 December 2013, on 20 March 2014 it was announced that Sky had commissioned a fourth series of Trollied which aired in October 2014. The fourth series started filming in Bristol in June 2014 and began transmission on 3 November 2014, a fifth series began airing on 2 November 2015 and ended on 14 December 2015. A Christmas special aired in December 2015, in April 2016, Jason Watkins confirmed that a sixth series had been commissioned, with filming to begin in June. A sixth series began airing on 7 November 2016, ending with a Christmas special on 19 December 2016. The show takes place in the supermarket of Valco in Warrington. This includes customer stereotypes and rivalries with other branches such as Valco in Wigan. He felt that it was a shame there was not more customer interaction, the first five series of Trollied are currently available on DVD on Region 2 in the United Kingdom. From 2011 to 2015, distribution rights to the series were held by FremantleMedia International, for which they released series one to four, after which, rights to the series were acquired by Network who commenced releasing from series five in 2016. Network will release series six in 2017, and a box set consisting of one to five will also be made available in 2017. The series was filmed on a set built by Sky TV at the Bottle Yard Studios in Bristol, UK. After filming on the location had completed and the set was ordered struck, the segment aired on Top Gear Series 21, Episode 1. Official website Trollied at the Internet Movie Database Trollied at British Comedy Guide
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Live at the Apollo (TV series)
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Live at the Apollo is a British stand-up comedy programme performed from the Hammersmith Apollo Theatre in west London. Jack Dee hosted the first two series and the show of the third series, performing a short segment before introducing a guest comedian. Until 2015, all episodes were broadcast on BBC One, the show moved to BBC Two in November 2015. The programme was renamed for its series which was filmed over three evenings in October 2007. The format was changed to suit with one of the nights performers assuming hosting duties, a fourth series began transmission on 28 November 2008. After hosting the first episode, Michael McIntyre got his own show of a similar format, a fifth series aired in late 2009 and early 2010, the recordings of which took place in October 2009. This series was initially broadcast as edited 30 minute episodes, but the full versions were then shown in May, June. A sixth series of Live at the Apollo began airing in late November 2010, the episodes are 30 minutes in length but may be extended once they reach the repeat channels such as Dave and Comedy Central. The first four series were repeated on digital channel Dave. The theme tune used on the BBC broadcasts has been replaced with another piece for the digital repeats. The instrumental track is called Monster Funk and is from the KPM Production Music Library and it had previously been used for the end titles of Live At The Apollo but is used on the opening and closing titles for digital repeats and DVD issues. The eleventh series of Live at the Apollo was broadcast on BBC Two for the first time, the twelfth series of Live at the Apollo will be broadcast on BBC Two from 8 November 2016. Dara OBriains appearance on Live At The Apollo appears on his stand-up DVD as an extra, Live at the Apollo at BBC Programmes Live at the Apollo at the Internet Movie Database Live at the Apollo at British Comedy Guide
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Hipperholme
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Hipperholme is a village in the Calderdale area of West Yorkshire, England, located between the towns of Halifax and Brighouse. The appropriate Calderdale Ward is called Hipperholme and Lightcliffe, the population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 11,308. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is located on the busy A58 road and includes Hipperholme Grammar School, a recent addition is the reopening of the former Country House as the Tannery. Lightcliffe is an adjacent to Hipperholme, so close that the boundary between the two is blurred. Some regard the boundary as being at the surgery, where addresses change from Lightcliffe to Hipperholme. The local state schools are Lightcliffe Church of England School. Secondary schools are Hipperholme Grammar School and Lightcliffe Academy, which is in Lightcliffe, Hipperholme stands at a crossroads, which makes travel easy. There are frequent bus routes from Hipperholme to Halifax, Brighouse, Leeds, the Halifax rail line runs through Hipperholme and Lightcliffe, though neither village now has their former stations. Hipperholme and Lightcliffes social institutions include the Old Brodleans Rugby Club, the Masonic Hall, Lightcliffe Golf Club, the villages major employer is Crosslee plc, based on the site of the former Philips electrical factory
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Britain's Got Talent (series 7)
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The seventh series of Britains Got Talent began airing on ITV on 13 April 2013 and ended on 8 June 2013. Ant & Dec returned to present the show on ITV. The judges were Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon and David Walliams, the auditions took place in January and February 2013. Auditions began in Cardiff for two days and then moved to London for four days and they then took place in Glasgow on 28 January and Manchester for two days, before concluding with three days in Birmingham. The live semi-finals began on 27 May and concluded on 1 June, the live final took place on 8 June 2013 and was won by Hungarian shadow theatre troupe Attraction. Dixon confirmed her return for the series on 26 July 2012. On 13 October, during an appearance on The Jonathan Ross Show, Walliams announced that he had signed on until 2014, on 13 December, Cowell and Holden were confirmed to be returning to the show as well. Ant & Dec returned to present the show on ITV. Open auditions were held at The Oval in London on 25 February 2013, the auditions took place in January and February 2013. Auditions began in Cardiff for two days and then moved to London for four days and they then took place in Glasgow on 28 January and Manchester for two days, before concluding with three days in Birmingham. Cowell missed the first part of the day of auditions in Manchester due to illness. The first auditions aired from 7. 00pm until 8. 35pm, the third aired from 7. 00pm until 8. 15pm and the fourth from 7. 15pm until 8. 15pm. The fifth episode aired from 7. 45pm until 8. 45pm. The sixth aired from 7. 30pm until 8. 45pm, each semi-final episode aired from 7, 30–9, 00pm and the results half-an-hour later at 9. 30pm after a 30-minute episode of Coronation Street. Each results show featured a guest performance, the guests were Ashleigh and Pudsey, Demi Lovato, Olly Murs, Jennifer Lopez and Ellie Goulding. Winner Runner-up Third place Finalist Semi-finalist Guest performers, Ellie Goulding – Explosions / Anything Could Happen ^1 The judges vote was a split decision, Arisxandra was announced to have received more public votes and was sent through to the final. Guest performer, Jennifer Lopez – Live It Up Guest performer, ^3 Holden claimed that Cowell buzzed on her behalf. ^4 The judges vote was a split decision, pre Skool were announced to have received more public votes and were sent through to the final. ^6 The judges vote was a split decision, Jordan OKeefe was announced to have received more public votes and was sent through to the final
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CBBC (TV channel)
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CBBC is a British free-to-air childrens television channel operated by the BBC. CBBC is primarily aimed at viewers 6 to 12 years old, CBBC was named Channel of the Year at the Childrens BAFTA awards in November 2008 and 2015. The channel averages 300,000 viewers daily, the channel originally shared bandwidth on the digital terrestrial television platform with BBC Knowledge, and later BBC Three, necessitating that CBBC sign off at 7,00 p. m. daily. Beginning on 11 April 2016, following the closure of the linear BBC Three television service, on 22 August 2008, the BBC announced that the channel would be available live on its website from 16 September. CBBCs reach further expanded with the addition of the channel on the Sky line-up in the Republic of Ireland on 12 May 2011, since 27 March 2013, CBBC has been carried by the British Forces Broadcasting Service, sharing a channel with BBC Two. Along with CBBC, the CBBC channel is operated by the BBC Childrens department within the BBC and is part of the BBC North group, the CBBC channels programming output is very similar to the strand shown on BBC One. The channel often complements this strand with programmes shown earlier than on the channels, repeats or whole series shown in a day. The following is a list of the ten most watched shows on CBBC, as part of the channels original remit, the channel originally needed to show 100 hours a year of factual and schools programmes. Much of this programming was old BBC Schools programming shown, in cases, decades before. Very little new schools programmes were commissioned, the CBBC channel has had relatively similar presentation to that of its strand counterpart. The logo has remained the same as the service, green coloured blobs at the beginning of its life. At the beginning of September 2007, along with the relaunch, when the channel launched, presentation was located in TC2 at BBC Television Centre, where the channel shared studio facilities with the channels original magazine show Xchange. A further change was to place on 4 December 2006 when all output moved to a Chroma key set within TC12. This short live decision lasted until the 2007 relaunch, which involved a new office set being constructed, initially in TC12, in 2011, the CBBC Channel moved to MediaCityUK, and has been presented from there since 5 September. On 16 July 2013, the BBC announced that a high-definition simulcast of CBBC would be launched by early 2014, the channel launched on 10 December 2013. The channel broadcasts on the BBCs existing HD multiplex on Freeview, prior to launch, the majority of CBBCs HD output was broadcast on BBC HD before its closure on 26 March 2013. The HD channel was not added to the Sky EPG in the Republic of Ireland, as from 2013, CBBC Extra is now also accessed by the CBBC website. CBBC Extra is an interactive television service from CBBC provided by the BBC Red Button
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Jason Manford
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Jason John Manford is an English comedian, television presenter, radio presenter and actor. His presenting credits have included Comedy Rocks, The One Show, Show Me the Funny and A Question of Sport, Manford was born in Salford, Greater Manchester. His mother, Sharon, is of Irish Catholic extraction, her mother, Nora and his father, Ian Manford, is a courtroom stenographer. Jason and his four siblings grew up in a house in what is known as the Triangle of Death area of Manchester notorious for its gang activity. When Manford was seventeen, he got a job as a collector at a local pub. While working there, Manford became interested in comedy after watching the likes of Peter Kay, Eddie Izzard, Kay recommended him to do the Higher National Diploma in media and performance at the University of Salford. Despite not having the required A Level grades, he was accepted into the programme, Manfords brother, Colin, a University of Salford graduate, followed him into performing and is also a stand-up comedian, based in Manchester. Manfords first bit-part acting job was on Ideal, where he had a part as Jack. He later made another appearance in five of that series. He hosted a breakfast show on Xfm Manchester until May 2008, from June to November 2007, Manford was Paramount Comedys continuity announcer and writer. In June 2007, he took over from Dave Spikey as a captain on 8 Out of 10 Cats. In March 2010, Manford was announced as host of a new show called Comedy Rocks, featuring stand up comedians. A pilot was shown on ITV on 26 March 2010 and a series began on the channel on 14 January 2011. On 26 May 2010, Manford was announced as the new presenter of BBC Ones The One Show from July 2010 and he resigned from the programme in November 2010 following allegations surrounding his private life. He also made up one half of the Home Team with Peter Andre on the ITV game show Odd One In, in July 2011, Manford presented Show Me The Funny, a reality show on ITV involving 10 comedians in which one is voted off each week. In 2013, Manford hosted three pilots, Good News, Bad News and Oh, what a Week for ITV, and You and Whose Army. None of them have yet been commissioned for a full series and he wrote and presented A Funny Old Year which was broadcast on ITV on New Years Eve in 2012,2013 and 2014. The show saw Manford take a look back over the past years humorous events, since 21 June 2014, Manford has hosted a BBC One show called A Question of Sport, Super Saturday, a spin-off from BBC panel show A Question of Sport
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St George's Hall, Bradford
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St Georges Hall is a grade II* listed Victorian building located in the centre of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. Originally designed with a capacity of 3,500, the hall seats 1,500 people. It is the oldest concert hall still in use in the United Kingdom, german Jewish wool merchants who had moved to Bradford because of its textile industry financed the building of St Georges Hall, Jacob Moser being instrumental in its construction. The buildings design, by Henry Francis Lockwood and William Mawson, was chosen more than twenty-two designs submitted during an 1849 competition. Built of ashlar masonry in neoclassical style, the building was opened on 29 August 1853. The interior underwent extensive remodelling after the Second World War and again after fires in the 1980s, in March 2016 a 4 million pound restoration scheme was started, St Georges Hall will open again in 2017 once the renovations and interior refurbishment is complete. In the early century, as Bradford grew in size, it became clear there was a need in the city for a venue for public meetings. The buildings that were in use for this purpose - the Exchange Buildings, as a result, a group of shareholders was brought together by the citys mayor, Samuel Smith, in 1849 for the purpose of building a music hall. £16,000 of capital was raised, in £10 shares, the site on the corner of Bridge Street and Hall Ings was chosen as the location and the foundation stone was laid in 1851 by the Earl of Zetland. For a time in the 1980s and early 1990s it was a venue for touring international bands before the development of the Sheffield Arena. In March 2016, the hall closed its doors to undergo a £4 million refurbishment plan after securing funding from both the Heritage Lottery Fund and Bradford Council. As part of the plans, the exterior will undergo a full restoration. As well as this, the entrance will be reinstated on Hall Ings. The History of Bradford and Its Parish, With Additions and Continuation to the Time, Bradford, Longman, Green, Reader and Dyer
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BBC One
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BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service and it was renamed BBC TV in 1960, using this name until the launch of sister channel BBC2 in 1964, whereupon the BBC TV channel became known as BBC1, with the current spelling adopted in 1997. The channels annual budget for 2012–13 is £1.14 billion, the channel is funded by the television licence fee together with the BBCs other domestic television stations, and therefore shows uninterrupted programming without commercial advertising. It is currently the most watched channel in the United Kingdom, ahead of its traditional rival for ratings leadership. As of June 2013 the channel controller for BBC One is Charlotte Moore, the BBC began its own regular television programming from the basement of Broadcasting House, London, on 22 August 1932. BBC Television returned on 7 June 1946 at 15,00, Jasmine Bligh, one of the original announcers, made the first announcement, saying, Good afternoon everybody. Do you remember me, Jasmine Bligh, the Mickey Mouse cartoon of 1939 was repeated twenty minutes later. The competition quickly forced the channel to change its identity and priorities following a reduction in its audience. The 1962 Pilkington Report on the future of broadcasting noticed this, and it therefore decided that Britains third television station should be awarded to the BBC. The station, renamed BBC TV in 1960, became BBC1 when BBC2 was launched on 20 April 1964 transmitting an incompatible 625-line image on UHF. The only way to all channels was to use a complex dual-standard 405- and 625-line, VHF and UHF, receiver. Old 405-line-only sets became obsolete in 1985, when transmission in the standard ended, although standards converters have become available for enthusiasts who collect, BBC1 was based at the purpose-built BBC Television Centre at White City, London between 1960 and 2013. In the weeks leading up to 15 November 1969, BBC1 unofficially transmitted the occasional programme in its new colour system, to test it. At midnight on 15 November, simultaneously with ITV and two years after BBC2, BBC1 officially began 625-line PAL colour programming on UHF with a broadcast of a concert by Petula Clark, colour transmissions could be received on monochrome 625-line sets until the end of analogue broadcasting. In terms of share, the most successful period for BBC1 was under Bryan Cowgill between 1973 and 1977, when the channel achieved an average audience share of 45%. On 30 December 1980, the BBC announced their intention to introduce a new breakfast television service to compete with TV-am. On 17 January 1983, the first edition of Breakfast Time was shown on BBC One, becoming the first UK wide breakfast television service and continued to lead in the rating until 1984. The first major overhaul was to axe the deeply unpopular Sixty Minutes current affairs programme and its replacement was the BBC Six OClock News, a straight new programme in a bid to shore up its failing early evening slot
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The One Show
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The One Show is a BBC Television magazine and chat show programme. Broadcast live on BBC One on weekdays at 7pm, it features topical stories and it is currently co-hosted by Angela Scanlon or Michelle Ackerley, alongside Matt Baker and a guest host on Fridays. Various reporters also assist with subject-specific presenting, both in the studio and on location, or through filmed segments, originally produced in Birmingham and then in BBCs Media Village in White City, London, since 2014 the studio is in Broadcasting House, the BBCs headquarters in London. Prior to the introduction of Evans, the longest presenting partnership was Adrian Chiles and their easy and approachable on-screen chemistry is credited with boosting ratings after an unpromising start, establishing the show as a popular staple of British viewing. The programme is ordinarily 30 minutes long, although it is extended to an hour. As a topical magazine programme, The One Show covers a variety of stories, the broadcast features a mix of in-studio presenting, outside live broadcasting, and pre-recorded segments. Reporters and other experts are included to provide contributions on various topics, special guests are usually introduced at the top of the show, and remain throughout, often being encouraged to interact with it in various ways, as opposed to simply answering questions. Inside the studio, filming is done in front of a standing audience. Use of the forecourt of Broadcasting House for outside live broadcasts is common, the show will often take an active part in events such as Comic Relief/Sport Relief and Children In Need. Cross-promotion of other BBC shows is common, although under BBC rules the show cannot give the BBC preferential coverage, the One Show was initially commissioned for a four-week trial run. It was broadcast on weeknights at 6,55 pm between 14 August and 8 September 2006, the programme was billed as a topical magazine show that was to showcase stories of interest from around the United Kingdom. The trial was hosted by Adrian Chiles and Nadia Sawalha, featuring reports from a variety of people across the UK, the show was intended to be an updated version of the BBC news magazine show Nationwide. After favourable viewing figures for the pilot, the show returned for a series after being revamped on 9 July 2007. Team members were Adrian Chiles, studio presenter, Hardeep Singh Kohli, head roving reporter, a number of changes were made to the format. The show was moved from Birmingham to London, Sawalha was replaced by Myleene Klass. Klass then left in August to give birth to her first child, the line-up was completed by the addition of a new team of reporters. The show replaced Real Story, and Holiday, on 18 March 2009, the show aired for the 400th episode, which was an hour long instead of the usual 30 minutes. From September 2009, The One Show included a 60-minute episode every week, the hour-long format continued until December 2009 and was revived in April 2011
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Vic Reeves
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James Roderick Jim Moir, better known by the stage name Vic Reeves, is an English comedian, artist, actor and television presenter, best known for his double act with Bob Mortimer. He is known for his surreal and non sequitur sense of humour, in 2003, Reeves and Mortimer were listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. In a 2005 poll to find the Comedians Comedian, Reeves and Mortimer were voted the 9th greatest comedy act ever by fellow comedians, after school, Reeves undertook an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering, before moving to London. Reeves also formed the Fashionable Five, a group of five friends who would follow bands like the Enid and Free onto stage, eventually, they formed their own band. Reeves had a breakthrough with the help of comedian Malcolm Hardee. In 1983, Reeves began a course at a local art college, developed his love of painting. Although still primarily known as a comedian, Reeves is gaining a reputation as an artist and his drawings and paintings have been used in his television shows and form a major part of his 1999 book, Sun Boiled Onions. These included a loudmouthed American called Jim Bell, a poet called Mister Mystery and, eventually. His stage show Vic Reeves Big Night Out began life as a regular Thursday night gig at Goldsmiths Tavern, here, he met Bob Mortimer, a solicitor who attended the show and enjoyed it so much that he soon began to participate. Reeves television début came in December 1986 on Channel 4 Televisions The Tube in a game show segment called Square Celebrities. His next appearance was on the short-lived chat/comedy show One Hour with Jonathan Ross in a show segment known as Knock Down Ginger. Reeves growing TV profile led to Big Night Out being given a slot on Channel 4 the following year and it was about this time that Reeves and Mortimer rented a back room at Jools Hollands office/recording studio in Westcombe Park, Greenwich where they would spend hours writing material. Reeves is due to his fondness of the late American singer Jim Reeves, Reeves is one of the few comedians to have had a number one record in the UK Singles Chart, which he did in company with The Wonder Stuff, singing Dizzy. Including Dizzy, he released two singles from his 1991 album I Will Cure You. A1994 pilot written by Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson entitled The Honeymoons Over was due to feature Chris Bell, however, the series was never commissioned. The same year, Reeves made a guest appearance on the Radio 1 series Shuttleworths Showtime, between August 1998 and May 1999, Reeves and Mortimer presented the Channel X produced BBC Saturday game show Families at War with Alice Beer. The same year, Reeves presented a radio show on BBC Radio 1. In 2004 Reeves and Sorrell were both contestants in the series of Im a Celebrity
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Big School (TV series)
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Big School is a British sitcom, starring David Walliams, Catherine Tate, Steve Speirs, Frances de la Tour and Philip Glenister. It is set in a school and follows the comedic relationships of the teachers. The first series airing on BBC One on 16 August 2013. The final episode of the first series aired on 20 September 2013, on 2 December 2013, BBC One controller Charlotte Moore announced that Big School had been renewed for a second and final series, which concluded on 10 October 2014. In June 2015, it was announced that Big School was not to be returning for a third series. However, she is getting attention from the arrogant and rude sports teacher Trevor Gunn. The pupils at the school are portrayed as being interested in social networking, texting and partying and as being bored by the attempts of Mr Church. The most prominent of them in the first series is a pupil called Manyou, played by Joivan Wade. The show was written by David Walliams, along with Dawson Bros. many scenes for the series were shot at Bishopshalt School, Hillingdon, West London. The pupils gave up their holidays to come to the school. Other inside shots were filmed at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, the titles were scrapped in Series 2 and were replaced by simple text at the centre of the screen. Overnight ratings are not official and do not include views on BBC iPlayer and they are just a note of the number of viewers on the BBC channel at the time of airing, and therefore are not an accurate representation. Official accurate figures are released 10 days after original transmission by BARB, the series was met with mixed feedback. Christopher Stevens of the Daily Mail commented, If we were expecting old-fashioned comedy, were getting it. Theres no wobbly handheld camera work, no improvised dialogue, no barrage of foul language, instead, theres a brisk script with plenty of jokes. This has the feel of a sitcom that will win viewers over, dan Owen of MSN described it as An amusing and pleasant way to spend 30 minutes, and The Guardian said of Walliams, This performance, and his writing, gives the show good jokes and heart. MSN UK said, Like most BBC comedies aiming to please audiences, there were plenty of moments that didnt work. A family show like this simply cant please everyone all the time, the series opened to 4. 2m viewers
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Sky One
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Sky 1 is the British flagship channel operated and owned by Sky plc. It is the entertainment channel operated in the United Kingdom. Sky 1 launched across Europe on 26 April 1982 by founder Connor Baskey as Satellite Television and is the oldest non-terrestrial TV channel in the United Kingdom. In the UK, the channel is available via satellite on Sky, digital cable on Virgin Media, IPTV on TalkTalk TV. In Ireland, the channel is available via Sky Ireland, Virgin Media Ireland, on 27 June 1983, the shareholders of Satellite Television agreed a £5 million offer to give News International 65% of the company. Murdoch extended the broadcast hours and the number of countries the station broadcast to including the United Kingdom, on 16 January 1984 the channel was renamed Sky Channel. On 8 June 1988, Murdoch announced his plans to expand Skys service to four channels, the show had a mix of entertainment, gossip, fashion, etc. The Channel continued with the childrens programmes, soaps, and US action series. On 31 July 1989, the channel was renamed Sky One and closed in most European countries, broadcasting to only the United Kingdom, in 1990 Sky One begin to acquire more recent programming, an early success being Moonlighting, which the BBC had previously screened but not repeated. Sky One also picked new programming such as The Simpsons,21 Jump Street and the last series of Falcon Crest, the channel also commissioned a number of home grown programmes while also expanding its Australian television series to include E Street, Chances and Paradise Beach. In contrast to the Sky2 that was relaunched, this channel featured even more first-run programmes. In 2000, a feed of Sky One for Ireland was launched. For most of this Irish feeds existence, the difference between it and the United Kingdom feed has been differing commercials and programme promotions. In June 2003, the channel started broadcasting in 16,9 widescreen, however, all TV commercials were broadcast in 4,3 until November 2005, because they were played off the same servers for all Sky channels, many of which were not broadcast in widescreen. On 21 September 2004, Sky One Mix was subsequently renamed Sky Mix, on 31 October 2005, Sky Mix was renamed as Sky Two with the launch of a second sister channel Sky Three. An on-screen message instead appears redirecting viewers to Sky 1, to coincide with launch of Sky HD, Sky 1 HD began broadcasting on 22 May 2006. Programmes that are not available in HD are upscaled, a new Sky 1 HD logo was introduced along with the rebrand on 31 August 2008. On 1 October 2010, Sky 1 HD launched on Virgin Media channel 122, with Sky 2 moving to channel 123 and Sky 3 moving to channel 180 on 22 September 2010, to make way for the new channel
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Doctors (2000 TV series)
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Doctors is a British medical soap opera which first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 26 March 2000. Doctors is produced by BBC Birmingham and is screened on BBC One and it was created by Chris Murray, with Mal Young developing it and Carson Black the original producer. The show has shown at lunchtime since its inception, originally at 12. 30pm as a lead-in to the BBCs One OClock News. When the BBC lost Neighbours to Channel 5 in January 2008, it moved into the Australian soaps old slot of 1, Doctors was originally produced and broadcast in blocks of episodes, ranging from blocks of 40 to 130 episodes in the first three years. For example, from five in 2002 until January 2007, Doctors took lengthy breaks in transmission over the Summer, usually for six weeks. However, the audience has developed and increased, prompting the BBC to commission Doctors as a year-round continuing series. Currently, the breaks in the summer for the Wimbledon Tennis matches held for two weeks, broadcasting of the Olympic Games, Christmas and Easter period holidays and for bank holidays. On 26 March 2010, Doctors celebrated its 10th Anniversary and 1800th episode, under the title Decade of Doctors, the BBC aired five-minute programmes about the show after each days episode during the anniversary week. On 16 February 2011, Doctors aired its 2, 000th episode, Quarantine, on 10 September 2015, Doctors aired its 3, 000th episode, The Heart of England, which was also extended and ran for 60 minutes. On 4 June 2016, it was confirmed that Doctors was to take a three-month transmission break from 10 June 2016 and this was to accommodate the BBCs coverage of Euro 2016, Wimbledon and the Rio 2016 Olympics. The series returned on 30 August 2016, in Ireland, the series is shown on RTÉ One at 12. 30pm on Mondays and Wednesdays and at 12. 15pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. They are currently airing episodes a year behind the BBC, as well as being viewable on RTÉ Player, the series is also shown on BBC Entertainment and is currently just over two years behind in Iceland on Stöð2 at 09.35 weekdays. Until mid-2004, Doctors was filmed at the BBCs Pebble Mill studios in Edgbaston, the show utilised space originally occupied by Pebble Mill at One /Pebble Mill. As Studio A had been mothballed a year before production started, the Pebble Mill foyer was used as a street frontage and sets such as the police station and The Lether Bar used other areas of the studio complex alongside the Riverside surgery. Later in the storyline, The Best Practice was also introduced, real houses were used for the homes of the staff and patients. After the closure of Pebble Mill, BBC Birmingham moved to a smaller production base in Birmingham City Centre which had no studio space for the show. The shows storylines deal with the lives of staff and patients at the fictional Mill Health Centre, Dr McGuire is shown dealing with an elderly couple, Margaret and her husband Derek Richmond, who is suffering from the onset of Alzheimers Disease. After years of marriage, she is reluctant to part with him but is persuaded by Mac that he would be better being cared for in a home, also,2009 saw the departure of long-standing major characters Ronnie, George and Bracken Woodson
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4 O'Clock Club
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4 OClock Club is a BAFTA nominated British childrens television series, which premiered on 13 January 2012 on CBBC and CBBC HD. A second series airing on 4 January 2013, and the third series premiered on 20 December 2013. Series 4 began airing on 28 January 2015, and Series 5 began airing on CBBC and CBBC HD on 25 February 2016, a sixth series was commissioned, and will air on 2 March 2017. A seventh series has been commissioned, in March 2011, auditions were held for 4 OClock Club, and the show was publicly announced the next month. In January 2012, the first episode aired, with the wrapping up in March of the same year. The first series centres on Josh Carter, a pupil at Elmsbury High, and his older brother Nathan, Nathan, former Elmsbury High student and famous rapper, soon learns that only he will able to stop Josh from his schemes. In the second series, Nathan leaves Elmsbury and new music teacher Dexter Harris joins the school, Dexter becomes Josh and his mothers new lodger, taking Joshs room as a result. As such, Josh antagonizes Dexter through much of the series, until he accepts his presence. The series also featured Crispin Bell as the new headmaster, who replaces Byron, Mr Thorne was a brutal enemy of Josh and Dexter for the remainder of the series. The third series featured Nathans proposal and marriage to Melanie Poppy, when the school burns down due to an issue with candles, Elmsbury is merged with another school, Fowlmere, renaming the school Elmsmere as of the fourth episode of the third series. After the series, Nero and his gang, Isaac, Ash, Mr Nunn and Mr Harris all starred in Mr Bells own Elmsmere documentary show and this series also features mini cameos from Joshs gang as shown in the series premiere and series finale. Nathan also makes his comeback in two episodes, in the fifth series, all the characters from the fourth series remain, but with three new characters, who want to fit in with the cool kids, like Nero and his gang. Throughout the series, both Nero and Clem try to tell each other how they feel each other. Dexter and Lizzie are dating but must hide it from others, amber, and her gang try to beat their bully Ingrid and Dexter and Nero face problems living together. 4 OClock Files is a spin off from 4 OClock Club, set during the end of term at Elmsmere, it focuses on Crispin Bell, filming a documentary with the help of Eleesha and Fleur. He focuses on Elmsmeres curriculum, sporting activities and education, and also discusses the history of Elmsmere, about how Elmsbury, the series features clips from the second and third series, as the many topics of the documentary are discussed. The series also features Nero and his friends, who discuss the events of the third series, Isaac and Ash made their final appearances in Elmsmere uniform, discussing Joshs mishaps with Rachel and the adventures they had in Elmsbury and Elmsmere. Dexter and Nunn were also caught teasing each other, at the expense of Dexters end-of-year reports, Josh is absent from the series
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Hungary
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Hungary is a unitary parliamentary republic in Central Europe. With about 10 million inhabitants, Hungary is a member state of the European Union. The official language is Hungarian, which is the most widely spoken language in Europe. Hungarys capital and largest metropolis is Budapest, a significant economic hub, major urban areas include Debrecen, Szeged, Miskolc, Pécs and Győr. His great-grandson Stephen I ascended to the throne in 1000, converting the country to a Christian kingdom, by the 12th century, Hungary became a middle power within the Western world, reaching a golden age by the 15th century. Hungarys current borders were established in 1920 by the Treaty of Trianon after World War I, when the country lost 71% of its territory, 58% of its population, following the interwar period, Hungary joined the Axis Powers in World War II, suffering significant damage and casualties. Hungary became a state of the Soviet Union, which contributed to the establishment of a four-decade-long communist dictatorship. On 23 October 1989, Hungary became again a democratic parliamentary republic, in the 21st century, Hungary is a middle power and has the worlds 57th largest economy by nominal GDP, as well as the 58th largest by PPP, out of 188 countries measured by the IMF. As a substantial actor in several industrial and technological sectors, it is both the worlds 36th largest exporter and importer of goods, Hungary is a high-income economy with a very high standard of living. It keeps up a security and universal health care system. Hungary joined the European Union in 2004 and part of the Schengen Area since 2007, Hungary is a member of the United Nations, NATO, WTO, World Bank, the AIIB, the Council of Europe and Visegrád Group. Well known for its cultural history, Hungary has been contributed significantly to arts, music, literature, sports and science. Hungary is the 11th most popular country as a tourist destination in Europe and it is home to the largest thermal water cave system, the second largest thermal lake in the world, the largest lake in Central Europe, and the largest natural grasslands in Europe. The H in the name of Hungary is most likely due to historical associations with the Huns. The rest of the word comes from the Latinized form of Medieval Greek Oungroi, according to an explanation the Greek name was borrowed from Proto-Slavic Ǫgǔri, in turn borrowed from Oghur-Turkic Onogur. Onogur was the name for the tribes who later joined the Bulgar tribal confederacy that ruled the eastern parts of Hungary after the Avars. The Hungarians likely belonged to the Onogur tribal alliance and it is possible they became its ethnic majority. The Hungarian endonym is Magyarország, composed of magyar and ország, the word magyar is taken from the name of one of the seven major semi-nomadic Hungarian tribes, magyeri
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Simon Cowell
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Simon Phillip Cowell is an English reality television judge and producer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Cowell is the founder and chief executive of the British entertainment company Syco. As a judge, Cowell often makes blunt and controversial comments, including insults and wisecracks about contestants and he combines activities in both the television and music industries. Cowell has produced and promoted singles and albums for various singers that he has taken under his wing and he was most recently featured on the tenth series of Britains Got Talent and the thirteenth series of UKs The X Factor. In 2004 and 2010, Time named Cowell one of the 100 most influential people in the world, in 2008 The Daily Telegraph ranked him sixth in their list of the 100 most powerful people in British culture. Simon Phillip Cowell was born on 7 October 1959 in Lambeth, London and his mother, Julie Brett, was a ballet dancer and socialite, and his father, Eric Selig Phillip Cowell, Sr. was an estate agent developer and music industry executive. Cowells father was from a mostly Jewish family, though he did not discuss his background with his children, Cowells mother was from a Christian background, and was of English descent. He has a brother, Nicholas Cowell, three half-brothers, John, Tony, and Michael Cowell, and a half-sister, June Cowell. Cowell attended Radlett Preparatory School and the independent Dover College as did his brother and he passed English Language and Literature, and then attended Windsor Technical College where he gained another GCE in Sociology. However, after failing to get a promotion, he left to try out other jobs before returning to EMI, in the early 1980s, he left EMI to form E&S Music with his former boss at EMI, but quit in 1983. He then formed Fanfare Records with Iain Burton, initially selling exercise videos and he had his first hit song in 1986 with So Macho by Sinitta, success also came through Stock Aitken Waterman who produced a number of hits in the 1980s. However, in 1989, the company went under and Simon Cowell nearly became bankrupt, Simon Cowell then found a job with BMG as an A&R consultant, and set up S Records under BMG. He restarted his career in the business by creating novelty records with acts such as the puppets Zig and Zag, Power Rangers. The recording by the duo, now named Robson & Jerome, quickly reached number 1 in the UK and it became the best selling single of 1995, and their self-titled album released later in the year also became the best-selling album of 1995. They would release an album and 2 more singles before quitting, selling 7 million albums and 5 million singles in total. According to Cowell, they made him his first million, later acts he signed included Five, Westlife and Teletubbies. He also became a judge on the first season of American Idol in 2002, with his notoriously critical reputation, Cowell is likened to TV personalities such as Judith Sheindlin, and Anne Robinson of her show. Cowells prominence grew, fed by his phrase, I dont mean to be rude
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Syco
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Syco Entertainment, often known simply as Syco, is a British entertainment company established by British entertainment mogul Simon Cowell. The company operates a record label, talent agency, film, music and it operates a global joint venture between Cowell and Sony Music Entertainment focused on the production and marketing of music, television, film and digital content. Syco was initially owned by Simon Cowell, then sold to Sony, but in 2010, a new company was formed as a 50/50 partnership between Cowell and Sony, keeping the pre-existing name Syco but titled as Syco Entertainment. In 2015, it was announced that the Syco Entertainment joint venture would be extended for a further 6 years, retail billionaire Sir Philip Green, a close friend of Cowell, serves as an advisor to the company. Karren Brady, television personality and vice-chairman of West Ham United F. C. also serves as an advisor to the company, Syco has three main divisions - Syco Music, Syco TV and Syco Film. Syco TV is responsible for The X Factor and the Got Talent television franchise, Syco Film is involved in the production of films such as One Direction, This Is Us. Syco is also involved in the production of the musical I Cant Sing, Syco TV primarily operates in the UK and the US. Its key franchises are The X Factor and Got Talent and it was launched by Simon Cowell in 2003. The X Factor, which launched in September 2004, is one of the most popular shows in the UK. Internationally, The X Factor is produced individually in 41 countries including major markets like France, additionally, The X Factor USA is screened in 166 countries around the world. Americas Got Talent matched a series high 4.6 rating among adults 18-49 in the summer of 2011 for its sixth season. Since launching in 2006, Americas Got Talent has consistently been the most watched show of the summer in the U. S. Britains Got Talent consistently tops UK ratings when it is broadcast in April, May and June. In 2009, nearly 20 million people tuned into the series 3 final to see Diversity crowned winners, Syco produces other shows outside its key brands. In 2011, ITV series Red or Black, Syco were also behind American Inventor which ran for two seasons on ABC and the unsuccessful Celebrity Duets on Fox. In addition to its major formats, Syco also produce entertainment specials and this includes I Dreamed a Dream, The Susan Boyle Story, which broke ratings records in the U. S. on TV Guide network and scored 10 million viewers on ITV in the UK. In 2013, Syco and Optomen launched ITV series Food Glorious Food, Syco Entertainment were the executive producers of the film One Direction, This Is Us from director Morgan Spurlock, which follows the life of pop sensations One Direction. The band had come third in the 2010 UK X Factor series, in March 2013, Syco in partnership with YouTube, launched The You Generation channel which is listed as the worlds first global audition. The X Factor The Xtra Factor Live Americas Got Talent American Inventor Britains Got Talent Britains Got More Talent Celebrity Duets I Dreamed a Dream, Food Glorious Food The You Generation Planets Got Talent La Banda The Investigator, A British Crime Story I Cant Sing
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CBBC
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CBBC is a BBC childrens television strand aimed for older children aged from 6 to 12. BBC programming aimed at under six year old children is broadcast on the CBeebies channel, CBBC broadcasts from 7 am to 9 pm on the digital CBBC Channel, available on most UK digital platforms. CBBC programmes were also broadcast in high definition alongside other BBC content on BBC HD, generally at afternoons on weekends and this ended when BBC HD closed on 26 March 2013, but CBBC HD launched on 10 December 2013. BBC-produced childrens programming, in languages of Scotland and Wales, also airs on BBC Alba. The BBC has produced and broadcast television programmes for children since the 1930s, the first children-specific strand on BBC television was For the Children, first broadcast on what was then the single BBC Television Service on Saturday 24 April 1937, it was only ten minutes long. It lasted for two years before being taken off air when the service closed due to the Second World War in September 1939, the 1964 launch of BBC Two allowed additional room for childrens programming with an edition of Play School technically being the first official programme. On 1 October 1980, Watch with Mother was replaced by See-Saw, meanwhile, weekday afternoon childrens programmes on BBC One were introduced by the usually off-screen continuity announcer, though often specially-designed menus and captions would be used. On 9 September 1985, this block of childrens programming was rebranded as Childrens BBC, and for the first time the childrens block had dedicated idents. Previously the BBC had broadcast childrens programming using BBC1s team of regular duty announcers, the launch presenter for this block, and thus the first Childrens BBC presenter of the current format, was Phillip Schofield. During the 1990s, Childrens BBC began to be referred to informally on-air as CBBC, the official billing name of Childrens BBC remained in place, however, until the BBCs network-wide branding refresh of October 1997, when the official on-air branding changed to CBBC. From 1996 to 1999, CBBC programmes were shown on the channel Nickelodeon, in 2002, the launch of the CBBC Channel and the CBeebies Channel saw a wide variety of programmes, both new and archive, being shown again on the new channels from 6/7 am until 7pm. Ms Jowell responded that it was the Governments job to develop a charter for the BBC, and then the BBCs job to determine standards of taste, decency and appropriateness. In 2009, a report published by the BBC Trust found that changes which took place in February 2008. It was found that the majority of viewers watched the programmes on these channels already. Childrens programming on BBC One ended on 21 December 2012 with the CBeebies morning strand on BBC Two ending on 4 January 2013, the two new hours are aimed towards an older youth audience. On 14 March 2016, CBBC unveiled a new logo and on-air presentation, featuring an abstract, CBBC controller Cheryl Taylo stated that the new brand was designed to be fun and unpredictable and would appeal to both ends of our broad age spectrum. The logo was meant to be suitable for use across digital platforms. On 11 April 2016, CBBC officially extended its broadcast day to be from 7,00 a. m. to 9,00 p. m. CBBC is operated by the BBC Childrens division, part of BBC North
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Sam & Mark's Big Friday Wind-Up
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Sam & Marks Big Friday Wind-Up is a British childrens entertainment series aired on the CBBC Channel since 16 September 2011. It is presented by Sam & Mark and it is effectively the replacement for TMi. A fifth series started airing from 18 December 2015 A sixth series has been commissioned, each episode begins with Sam & Mark speaking to children in the audience who are said to have an embarrassing member of their family. They happen to bring out one of the audience members mother/father and they allow their children to get back at them by playing a game called Mum/Dad on a Wheel which has been recently changed to Mum/Dad Pin Bowling. Another segment is In Yer House which involves Sam & Mark having to put on a disguise and play-act towards a certain child/victim without being seen, there are four rounds to this game. Sam & Marks Big Friday Wind-Up has been nominated for 6 British Academy Childrens Awards and it won twice for Best Presenter in 2013 and 2015 and won Best Entertainment in 2016. Sam & Marks Big Friday Wind-Up at the Internet Movie Database Sam and Marks Big Friday Wind Up - CBBC
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Tonight at the London Palladium
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Tonight at the London Palladium is a British television variety show that is hosted from the London Palladium theatre in Londons West End. From 2016, the show is called Tonight at the London Palladium and is presented by Bradley Walsh, the regular hosts of the show were Tommy Trinder, Bruce Forsyth, Don Arrol, Norman Vaughan, Jimmy Tarbuck, Jim Dale and Ted Rogers. Other guest comperes were, Hughie Green, Alfred Marks, Robert Morley, Arthur Haynes, Dickie Henderson, Dave Allen, Des OConnor, Bob Monkhouse, the first ever show was compered by Tommy Trinder with Gracie Fields and Guy Mitchell being the nights big guests. However, according to the book Televisions Greatest Hits written and researched by Paul Gambaccini and this was on Sunday 19 April when Bruce Forsyth introduced the Bachelors, Hope and Keen and Frank Ifield with the Pamela Devis Dancers. It featured words stuck to a board and people had to arrange them into a well known phrase or saying in 30 seconds as the second hand moved around a large clock face. Other times couples had to perform a trick or stunt, like even changing clothes with each other within a set time, the second part of the show was where the big stars shone. met the Tiller Girls in 1961. Other star guests included, Judy Garland, Bob Hope, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, Petula Clark, the Seekers, the Beatles, italian mouse puppet Topo Gigio came back a number of times. The Beatles publicist Tony Barrow said that after the bands first appearance on the show on 13 October 1963, Beatlemania took off in the UK. The show always ended using the revolving stage where the Tiller Girls, the compere. Perhaps the most famous took place during a strike by the British acting union Equity. Exempt from this, Bruce Forsyth and comedian Norman Wisdom performed the show themselves. In 1967, the head of ATV Lew Grade axed the show, the reasons for this remain obscure, but he was first to admit that axing this series and the soap opera Emergency Ward 10 at the same time, were the two biggest mistakes he made. This revival was hosted by Jim Dale, with each episode being broadcast live, two episodes were cancelled mid-broadcast due, apparently to a reported bomb scare. On 29 August 2010, Gareth Parnells Sunday Night at the London Palladium was performed by the staff of the theatre as a commemorative show for the centenary of the Palladium. A further revival in 2014, called Sunday Night at the Palladium began airing on ITV from 14 September 2014, the series aired for six episodes. On 19 October 2014, it was announced that the show had been recommissioned for a revived series. This series began airing on 3 May 2015 for five episodes, presenters of the revived series have included Bradley Walsh, Jimmy Carr and Alexander Armstrong. Episodes 20142015 The format of Sunday Night at the London Palladium was revived in 2000 as Tonight at the London Palladium and was fronted by Bruce Forsyth and it was pre-recorded and aired on Friday evenings
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BBC Two
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BBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands. It covers a range of subject matter, but tending towards more highbrow programmes than the more mainstream. Like the BBCs other domestic TV and radio channels, it is funded by the television licence and it is a comparatively well-funded public service network, regularly attaining a much higher audience share than most public service networks worldwide. Originally styled BBC2, it was the third British television station to be launched, a high-definition version of the channel launched on 26 March 2013, replacing BBC HD. British television at the time of BBC2s launch consisted of two channels, the BBC Television Service and the ITV network made up of regional companies. Both channels had existed in a state of competition since ITVs launch in 1955, the 1962 Pilkington Report on the future of broadcasting noticed this, and that ITV lacked any serious programming. It therefore decided that Britains third television station should be awarded to the BBC, prior to its launch, the new BBC2 was promoted on the BBC Television Service, the soon to be renamed BBC1. The animated adverts featured the campaign mascots Hullabaloo, a mother kangaroo, however, at around 18,45 a huge power failure, originating from a fire at Battersea Power Station, caused Television Centre, and indeed much of west London, to lose all power. BBC1 was able to continue broadcasting via its facilities at Alexandra Palace, associated-Rediffusion, the London weekday ITV franchise-holder, offered to transmit on the BBCs behalf, but their gesture was rejected. At 22,00 programming was officially postponed until the following morning, there was believed to be no recording made of this bulletin, but a videotape was discovered in early 2003. By 11,00 on 21 April, power had restored to the studios and programming began. The launch schedule, postponed from the night before, was successfully shown that evening. In reference to the cut, the transmission opened with a shot of a lit candle which was then sarcastically blown out by presenter Denis Tuohy. To establish the new identity and draw viewers to it. The production chosen was The Forsyte Saga, a adaptation of the novels by John Galsworthy, featuring well-established actors Kenneth More. Unlike BBC1 and ITV, BBC2 was broadcast only on the 625 line UHF system and this created a market for dual standard receivers which could switch between the two systems. On 1 July 1967, during the Wimbledon Championships, BBC2 became the first channel in Europe to begin broadcasts in colour. The thirteen part series Civilisation was created as a celebration of two millennia of western art and culture to showpiece the new colour technology, BBC1 and ITV later joined BBC2 on 625-line UHF band, but continued to simulcast on 405-line VHF until 1985
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BBC Radio 4
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BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967, the station controller is Gwyneth Williams, and the station is part of BBC Radio and the BBC Radio department. The station is broadcast from the BBCs headquarters at Broadcasting House and it is also available through Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media and on the Internet. It is notable for its news bulletins and programmes such as Today and The World at One, BBC Radio 4 is the second most popular British domestic radio station by total hours, after Radio 2 – and the most popular in London and the South of England. It recorded its highest audience, of 11 million listeners, in May 2011 and was UK Radio Station of the Year at the 2003,2004 and 2008 Sony Radio Academy Awards and it also won a Peabody Award in 2002 for File On 4, Export Controls. Costing £71.4 million, it is the BBCs most expensive national radio network and is considered by many to be its flagship. There is no comparable British commercial network, Channel 4 abandoned plans to launch its own speech-based digital radio station in October 2008 as part of a £100m cost cutting review, in 2010 Gwyneth Williams replaced Mark Damazer as Radio 4 controller. Damazer became Master of St Peters College, Oxford, music and sport are the only fields that largely fall outside the stations remit. It broadcasts occasional concerts, and documentaries related to forms of both popular and classical music, and the long-running music-based Desert Island Discs. As a result, for around 70 days a year listeners have to rely on FM broadcasts or increasingly DAB for mainstream Radio 4 broadcasts – the number relying solely on long wave is now a small minority. The cricket broadcasts take precedence over on-the-hour news bulletins, but not the Shipping Forecast, as well as news and drama, the station has a strong reputation for comedy, including experimental and alternative comedy, many successful comedians and comedy shows first appearing on the station. The BBC Home Service was the predecessor of Radio 4 and broadcast between 1939 and 1967 and it had regional variations and was broadcast on medium wave with a network of VHF FM transmitters being added from 1955. Radio 4 replaced it on 30 September 1967, when the BBC renamed many of its radio stations. For a time during the 1970s Radio 4 carried regional news bulletins Monday to Saturday and these were broadcast twice at breakfast, at lunchtime and an evening bulletin was aired at 5. 55pm. There were also programme variations for the parts of England not served by BBC Local Radio stations and these included Roundabout East Anglia, a VHF opt-out of the Today programme broadcast from BBC Easts studios in Norwich each weekday from 6.45 am to 8.45 am. Roundabout East Anglia came to an end in 1980, when local services were introduced to East Anglia with the launch of BBC Radio Norfolk. All regional news bulletins broadcast from BBC regional news bases around England ended in August 1980 apart from in the south west, in September 1991 it was decided that the main Radio 4 service would be on FM as coverage had extended to cover almost all of the UK. Opt-outs were transferred to long wave, currently Test Match Special, extra shipping forecasts, The Daily Service, long wave very occasionally opts out at other times, such as to broadcast special services, the most recent being when Pope Benedict XVI visited Britain in 2010
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The Now Show
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The Now Show is a British radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4, which satirises the weeks news. The show is a mixture of stand-up, sketches and songs presented by Steve Punt, the show also features skits from Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, a monologue by Marcus Brigstocke, and music by Mitch Benn, Pippa Evans or Adam Kay. Most episodes will feature a special guest, Jon Culshaw has featured on the 2004 and 2005 Christmas editions and also starred in the 2008 Christmas edition. Guests have also stood in for absent cast members, the programme first aired on 26 September 1998. Repeats of The Now Show can be heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra, in October 2016, longrunning cast member Jon Holmes reported that he had been fired because want to recast with more women and diversity. The programme is recorded in front of an audience on the Thursday evening before the Friday broadcast. On Friday 22 July 2005, The Now Show was broadcast without an audience due to the attempted 21 July 2005 London Bombings. Hugh Dennis opened the show with the words with us are Laura Shavin, Jon Holmes, Marcus Brigstocke and Mitch Benn. and this podcast was the fourth most popular podcast in August 2006, according to Schotts Almanac. However, due to the end of the trial, the twenty-second series, the podcast has returned, as part of the Friday Night Comedy podcast, alternating with The News Quiz. A version of the show entitled The Vote Now Show has been broadcast in the run-up to the 2010 and 2015 UK General Elections, the format is broadly the same, incorporating many of the shows regular performers and an additional political guest interviewed by Punt and Dennis. The episodes are more frequent than usual and the programme is transmitted at 11pm on the day of recording, the first series had three programmes a week on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, in 2015 it was twice weekly. Clips of politicians are more likely to feature, as the restrictions for House of Commons footage do not apply to election events. During the London 2012 Olympics a similar run of six live programmes based on the events entitled The Now Show 2012 Live was broadcast. The Now Show was voted as the Best British Radio Panel Show/Satire for 2008 in The Comedy. co. uk Awards, in March 2009, Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis were criticised for comparing the planned comeback of 80s pop star Michael Jackson with that of the IRA. Punt and Dennis, together with Holmes and other cast members, a collection of four episodes of the series from 2002 were released on CD and audio cassette on 29 July 2002. A further collection of highlights from the 2004–2005 series was released for download through Audible. com, official site The Now Show at epguides. com The Now Show at British Comedy Guide
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Jeremy Corbyn
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Jeremy Bernard Corbyn is a British politician who was elected Leader of the Labour Party in 2015, thus becoming Leader of the Opposition. He has been Member of Parliament for Islington North since 1983, born in Chippenham, Wiltshire, Corbyn attended Adams Grammar School and later North London Polytechnic, leaving without a degree. Before entering politics he worked as a representative for trade unions. As a backbench MP he was known for activism and rebelliousness, frequently voting against the Labour whip, including when the party was in government under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. As Labour leader, Corbyn advocates reversing austerity cuts to services and welfare funding made since 2010, and proposes renationalisation of public utilities. A longstanding anti-war and anti-nuclear activist, Corbyn supports a policy of military non-interventionism. He was the chair of the Stop the War Coalition. After Labours defeat in the 2015 general election and the resignation of Ed Miliband and he was elected leader of the Labour Party on 12 September 2015, with a vote of 59. 5% in the first round of the ballot. In June 2016, Labour MPs passed a vote of no confidence in Corbyn by 172 votes to 40 following the resignation of around two-thirds of Corbyns Shadow Cabinet. On 24 September 2016, following a leadership contest, Corbyn retained leadership of the party with a vote share of 61. 8%. Corbyn was born in Chippenham and brought up in nearby Kington St Michael in Wiltshire and he is the youngest of the four sons of Naomi, a maths teacher, and David Benjamin Corbyn, an electrical engineer and expert in power rectifiers. His brother Piers Corbyn is a weather forecaster and his parents were peace campaigners who met in the 1930s at a committee meeting in support of the Spanish Republic at Conway Hall during the Spanish Civil War. When Corbyn was seven years old, the moved to Pave Lane in Shropshire. Corbyn was educated at Castle House Preparatory School, an independent school near Newport, while still at school, he became active in The Wrekin constituency Young Socialists, his local Labour Party, and the League Against Cruel Sports. He achieved two E-grade A-Levels before leaving school at 18, Corbyn joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1966 whilst at school and later became one of its three vice-chairs. After school, Corbyn worked briefly as a reporter for a local newspaper, at around the age of 19 he spent two years doing Voluntary Service Overseas in Jamaica. Returning to the UK in 1971, he worked as an official for the National Union of Tailors, Corbyn began a course in Trade Union Studies at North London Polytechnic but left after a series of arguments with his tutors over the curriculum. He worked as a union organiser for the National Union of Public Employees and Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union
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Leeds United F.C.
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Leeds United Football Club is a professional association football club in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The club was formed in 1919 following the disbanding of Leeds City F. C. by the Football League and they play in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. Leeds United have won three First Division league titles, one FA Cup and one League Cup, the club has also won two Inter-Cities Fairs Cups. The majority of the honours were won under the management of Don Revie in the 1960s and 1970s, Leeds lost the 1975 European Cup Final against Bayern Munich and reached the semi-finals of the tournaments successor, the Champions League, in 2001. Leeds play in all-white kits, leading to their nickname being the whites, the clubs badge features the White Rose of York together with the monogram LUFC. The clubs anthem is Marching On Together, Leeds Uniteds predecessor team, Leeds City, was formed in 1904, and were elected League members in 1905. At first they found it hard to draw big crowds to Elland Road, in 1919, Leeds United was formed and they received an invitation to enter the Midland League, being voted into it on 31 October, taking the place vacated by Leeds City Reserves. Following Leeds Citys disbanding, Yorkshire Amateurs bought their stadium Elland Road, Yorkshire Amateurs offered to make way for the new team under the management of former player Dick Ray. The chairman of Huddersfield Town, Hilton Crowther loaned Leeds United £35,000 and he brought in Barnsleys manager Arthur Fairclough and on 26 February 1920, Dick Ray stepped down to become Faircloughs assistant. On 31 May 1920, Leeds United were elected to the Football League, over the following few years, they consolidated their position in the Second Division and in 1924 won the title and with it promotion to the First Division. They failed to establish themselves and were relegated in 1926–27, after their relegation, Fairclough resigned, which paved the way for Ray to return as manager. In the years up until the start of World War II Leeds were twice relegated, on 5 March 1935, Ray resigned and was replaced by Billy Hampson, who remained in charge for 12 years. In the 1946–47 season after the war, Leeds were relegated again, after this season, Hampson resigned and was replaced in April 1947 by Willis Edwards. In 1948, Sam Bolton replaced Ernest Pullan as the chairman of Leeds United, Edwards was moved to assistant manager in April 1948 after just one year as manager. He was replaced by Major Frank Buckley, Leeds remained in the Second Division until 1955–56, when they once again won promotion to the First Division, inspired by John Charles. Charles was hungry for success at the highest level, and manager Raich Carter was unable to convince him that Leeds could satisfy his ambitions, Charles was sold to Juventus for a then world record of £65,000. The loss of Charles resulted in Leeds being relegated to the Second Division in the 1959–60 season, in March 1961, the club appointed former player Don Revie as manager, following the resignation of Jack Taylor. His stewardship began in adverse circumstances, the club was in financial difficulty, Revie implemented a youth policy and a change of kit colour to an all-white strip in the style of Real Madrid, and Leeds soon won promotion to the First Division in 1963–64
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Elland Road
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Elland Road is a football stadium in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, which has been the home of Leeds United F. C. since the clubs foundation in 1919. The stadium is the 13th largest football stadium in England, the ground has hosted FA Cup semi-final matches as a neutral venue, and England international fixtures, and was selected as one of eight Euro 96 venues. Elland Road was used by rugby league club Hunslet in the mid-1980s, the stadium has hosted concerts, including performances by rock bands Queen, U2, Happy Mondays and the Kaiser Chiefs. Elland Road has four stands – the Revie Stand, the East Stand, the South Stand and the John Charles Stand–, the record attendance of 57,892 was set on 15 March 1967 in an FA Cup 5th round replay against Sunderland. This was before the stadium became a venue as stipulated by the Taylor Report. The first occupants were Holbeck Rugby Club who moved from Holbeck Recreation Ground after buying the Old Peacock Ground from Bentleys for £1,100, the club erected a new stand in readiness for the 1898–99 season. The ground eventually became simply as Elland Road. Helens and the ground was put on the market, after a meeting at the Griffin Hotel in Boar Lane in August, a new club, Leeds City, was formed and it was agreed that the Elland Road ground would be rented for the upcoming season. The lease was signed on 13 October 1904, for a rent of £75 per year, the club had an option to buy the ground for £5,000 in March 1905, but in November, the price was reduced to £4,500. After Citys first season in the Football League, the built an 5. Attendances were rising, culminating in over 22,500 people cramming into the stadium to watch a local derby with Bradford City on 30 December, an expansion programme continued and the clubs directors ensured that the initial success was built upon, employing a ground committee to oversee developments. In February 1906,3,961 square yards of land on the Churwell, the committee built a 4, 000-seater grandstand which the Lord Mayor, Joseph Hepworth unveilled before a match against Chelsea on 17 November. The project cost £3,000 and over half a mile of steel was used, there was a training track for the players that ran the length of the stand, dressing and officials rooms and a motor garage. Drainage work was carried out on the pitch to prevent it from becoming waterlogged, City experienced financial hardships jeopardising the clubs future but after much uncertainty an offer of £1,000 and an annual rental of £250 was accepted for the ground. The ground was used during the Great War as a venue for drill, City started that season brightly, but scandal arose involving illegal payments to players during the war years and the club was expelled from the Football League after only eight games. This led some local businessmen to contemplate digging up the clay deposits under the pitch, Yorkshire Amateurs became the tenants, and that club played there for a brief spell saving the ground from development. In 1920, Yorkshire Amateurs sold Elland Road to the newly formed Leeds United for £250, in the 1920s, the South Stand terrace was covered with a wooden barrel-shaped roof and came to be known as the Scratching Shed. Another stand was built on the east side terracing called the Lowfields, no significant changes were made to Elland Road in the 1930s, and 1940s, although it did see some large attendances
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Twitter
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Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, tweets, restricted to 140 characters. Registered users can post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them, users access Twitter through its website interface, SMS or a mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco, California, United States, Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, in 2012, more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has described as the SMS of the Internet. As of 2016, Twitter had more than 319 million monthly active users. On the day of the 2016 U. S. presidential election, Twitter proved to be the largest source of breaking news, Twitters origins lie in a daylong brainstorming session held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. Jack Dorsey, then a student at New York University. The original project name for the service was twttr, an idea that Williams later ascribed to Noah Glass, inspired by Flickr. The developers initially considered 10958 as a code, but later changed it to 40404 for ease of use. Work on the project started on March 21,2006, when Dorsey published the first Twitter message at 9,50 PM Pacific Standard Time, Dorsey has explained the origin of the Twitter title. we came across the word twitter, and it was just perfect. The definition was a short burst of inconsequential information, and chirps from birds, and thats exactly what the product was. The first Twitter prototype, developed by Dorsey and contractor Florian Weber, was used as a service for Odeo employees. Williams fired Glass, who was silent about his part in Twitters startup until 2011, Twitter spun off into its own company in April 2007. Williams provided insight into the ambiguity that defined this early period in a 2013 interview, With Twitter and they called it a social network, they called it microblogging, but it was hard to define, because it didnt replace anything. There was this path of discovery with something like that, where over time you figure out what it is, Twitter actually changed from what we thought it was in the beginning, which we described as status updates and a social utility. It is that, in part, but the insight we eventually came to was Twitter was really more of an information network than it is a social network, the tipping point for Twitters popularity was the 2007 South by Southwest Interactive conference. During the event, Twitter usage increased from 20,000 tweets per day to 60,000, the Twitter people cleverly placed two 60-inch plasma screens in the conference hallways, exclusively streaming Twitter messages, remarked Newsweeks Steven Levy
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STV (TV channel)
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STV is a television channel serving the majority of Scotland. It operates the two ITV licensees in northern and central Scotland, formerly known as Grampian Television and Scottish Television, the brand was adopted on Tuesday 30 May 2006 replacing both franchises identities. In 2013, STV won licences to launch local TV channels in Glasgow, STV Glasgow launched on 2 June 2014, with STV Edinburgh following on 12 January 2015. In spring 2017, the city channels are to be rebranded as STV2 and operated in combination with new franchises centred on Aberdeen, Dundee, there is no STV South as Southern Scotland is part of the ITV Border region and programmes are presented there under the ITV Border brand. Emphasising the fact that STV is essentially one channel across the two regions, there is a director of channels, and a single head of news. Terms in the renewed licences for both STV Central and STV North also mean that regional non-news programmes are shared across both licences. Although the stations are required to produce 1.5 hours a week of regional non-news programmes, the chief executive of STV Group plc. Today, news and current affairs forms the bulk of STVs regular programming on Channel 3, on a network scale, one of STVs most famous exports is the long-running crime drama Taggart, set in Glasgow. The networks range of programmes was dramatically expanded during the 1990s under director Alistair Moffat, another of the stations best-known programmes, Scotsport, ran continuously for 51 years until May 2008 and remains one of the worlds longest-running television sports programmes. ITVs coverage of the FA Cup was also dropped, ITV plc claimed that STV were in breach of their network agreements by making this decision and sued STV for £38 million. STV launched its own legal action against ITV plc, claiming the company was owed money, the then executive chairman of ITV plc, Michael Grade claimed his company was the victim in the ongoing dispute. The company pledged to continue with its plan to more regional programming. On 27 April 2011, ITV plc and STV settled their legal dispute, the programming rights payment is capped at a maximum of £15 million. In addition, STV will receive £2.4 million of credit for programme opt outs in 2011, STV said it believed it was in the best interests of shareholders to end the long period of uncertainty. The parties have agreed the basis of a collaborative relationship for the future. The deal would see STV and UTV become affiliates of the network, at the time, the licence holders paid a percentage of the Channel 3 network costs based on their share of qualifying revenue. On 23 August 2012 STV confirmed the new agreement with ITV was in operation. The STV studios in Glasgow were originally located in the former Theatre Royal in the Cowcaddens area of the city, the first programme broadcast by STV from the Theatre Royal studios was This is Scotland on 31 August 1957
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Telegraph & Argus
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The Telegraph & Argus is the daily newspaper for Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. Now printed early morning in Oldham, Lancashire it is published six times each week, locally, the paper is known as the T&A. It also breaks news 24/7 on its website, founded in 1868, the paper was a broadsheet until 1989 when it became tabloid. It features a range of news, features, sport, lifestyle articles and classified advertising, with weekly supplements on motoring and property and a weekly television guide. The Telegraph & Argus is owned by Newsquest, the third largest publisher of newspapers in the United Kingdom. The current editor is Perry Austin-Clarke, who has now held the post since 1992 and he has presided over the worst circulation decline in the papers history. He is now also the editor of the Evening Press at York, the Argus Weekly occupied Argus Chambers in the Britannia House building over a century ago. Bradford was dropped from the title in the 1930s, when the circulation area spread across much of West Yorkshire. At one time it had offices in nine towns across the region, as well as an office in Morecambe. At its height the papers daily sale exceeded 130,000 and it is now less than one eighth of that figure. Thirty-six years ago a new wing with a skin of glass was added to house the printing presses. Much of the advertising content is now typeset in India. There are plans to sell the building itself now that the presses have been sold off piecemeal, media related to Bradford Telegraph and Argus at Wikimedia Commons Official website
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Newsquest
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Newsquest Media Group Ltd. is the second largest publisher of regional and local newspapers in the United Kingdom with 205 brands across the UK, publishing online and in print. It reaches 28 million visitors a month online and 6.5 million readers a week in print, based in London, Newsquest employs a total of more than 5,500 people across the UK. It also has a specialist arm that publishes both commercial and business-to-business titles such as Insurance Times, The Strad, and Boxing News, the next year it floated on the London Stock Exchange realising a market capitalisation of £500 million. In 1998, Newsquest added the Sussex-based Contact-a-Car, the London Property Weekly titles, in 1999, The US Gannett media groups newly formed UK subsidiary paid £922 million for Newsquest and took on the company’s debt. The Competition Commission again inquired into this purchase but cleared it, in 2005, Newsquest’s Exchange Enterprises division paid £50. Newsquest also owned the formerly named Brentford, Chiswick and Isleworth Times, later known as the Hounslow and Brentford Times, Gannett had replied by saying, There is no truth in the report. Newsquest is a part of the Gannett company. It was hardly a picture of a company suffering from poor health, the company hoped to launch the gallery across the whole of the Newsquest network, the press release added. In April 2014, following CEO/Chairman Paul Davidsons retirement, Henry Faure Walker was appointed CEO at Newsquest. On 26 May 2015, Newsquest announced that it had acquired Romanes Media Group, the Romanes newspaper portfolio comprises one daily,19 weekly paid-fors and nine weekly frees, and associated websites, and the company employs 270 staff. On 28 April 2016, Newsquest announced that the latest comScore figures showed that users spend more time per month on Newsquest sites than any other regional press group, Newsquest has a digital audience of 28 million unique users including the Scottish jobs website s1jobs. com. Wishart had written to the commission in June 2007 to express his concern about standards, union members were holding a ballot over whether they should strike over five redundancies on the Glasgow Evening News, one of the papers bought from SMG. Newsquest’s Glasgow NUJ members went on again on 3 and 4 August 2007. She was not surprised staff had walked out and they have a long list of causes for dissatisfaction - redundancies, staffing shortages, poor working conditions and high stress levels. This is damaging the health of the workers and the health of the paper, rather than discuss the problems, Newsquest has derecognised the NUJ, Peattie continued. Peattie had tabled a motion in the Scottish Parliament expressing concerns about the Herald newspapers
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British Comedy Guide
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British Comedy Guide or BCG is a British website covering all forms of British comedy, across all media. The website also runs The Comedy. co. uk Awards and hosts several podcast series, reportedly, British Comedy Guide attracts over 500,000 unique visitors a month, making it Britains most-visited comedy-related reference website. The website was founded in August 2003 as the British Sitcom Guide, the website was established by Mark Boosey, a freelance web developer, originally as a hobby. The website went through another relaunch in 2016, where it underwent a re-design of the layout, a new logo, and increased coverage of online comedy and people working in British comedy. In 2015, BCGs data specialist Ian Wolf was awards the inaugural Unsung Hero at the first FringePig Ham Fist awards for his work collating reviews during that years Edinburgh Festival Fringe, BCG hosts a range of podcasts, some of which have gone on to win awards. In June 2013, an episode of Richard Herrings Leicester Square Theatre Podcast saw host Richard Herring interviewing Stephen Fry, the story was also reported widely across the media, including the BBC and Sky News. The awards are notable for allowing the public to choose the winners via an online poll and this differs from the British Comedy Awards which relies on broadcasters to put their programmes forward for nomination, and only uses a small panel of judges to determine the results. Additionally, The Comedy. co. uk Awards seeks to not just the winners. The only exception is shows which span across the new year, the vote for top favourite scores two points for the selected programme, and a vote for a second favourite scores one. The comedy programme with the most points is declared the winner in that category, the show which receives the highest number of worst votes is declared the worst comedy in that category. In the first week of voting all comedies from the year could be voted on, the first awards were presented in January 2007 and were known at the time as The British Sitcom Guide Awards 2006, but have since been renamed. The second awards were presented in January 2008, originally under the title The British Sitcom Guide Awards 2007, the third awards were presented in January 2009 and were the first to include radio shows. The 2008 awards were known as the British Comedy Guide Awards 2008, the fourth awards were presented in January 2010. The fifth awards were presented in January 2011, the sixth awards were presented on 23 January 2012. The seventh awards were presented on 21 January 2013, the eighth awards were presented on 20 January 2014. The ninth awards were presented on 26 January 2015, the tenth awards were presented on 1 February 2016. The 11th awards will be presented on 23 January 2016, British Comedy Guide on Facebook @BritishComedy on Twitter - Feed providing general comedy news and features. @BritComedyShop on Twitter - Feed concentrating on DVD release news and deals, British Comedy Guides channel on YouTube British Comedy Guide on Google+
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Digital Spy
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Digital Spy is a British entertainment and media news website launched in 1999. The site focuses on reporting breaking entertainment news related to movies, music, television, in addition to news articles there are regular reviews posted on popular films, theatre, and concerts. On 9 April 2008 it was announced that the website had been purchased by magazine publisher Hachette Filipacchi UK, on 1 August 2011, ownership of Hachette UK was sold to Hearst Magazines UK. As well as articles, the site also features forums, which went live in March 2000, representatives of several major companies, including Top Up TV, Joost, BSkyB, Goodmans, and Amstrad CEO Lord Alan Sugar are registered members who have posted on the forums. Iain Chapman launched the website, providing news, rumours. At the same time, Chris Butcher launched the ONfaq website, offering similar news, both sites proved to be popular, attracting a lot of attention from visitors eager for more news about these rapidly developing TV platforms. Very quickly, Iain and Chris discussed the idea of a merger of the two sites, to create the digiNEWS Network, on 28 February 1999 digiNEWS and ONfaq merged and were rebranded as sites of the new digiNEWS network. Both sites were redesigned with common branding, and new header graphics identifying the digiNEWS network, more sites continued to join the network - Chris Norriss cablenews, uk, Mark Hughes DVDNews and Neil Wilkes TV, uk. The network was growing, but technically it was disjointed, served from personal webspace from ISPs such as Freeserve. Discussions with website guru Jose Cardoso began, and work started on integrating the multitude of sites into a single portal. It was important for the new site to be accessible, so a. COM address was preferable, unfortunately the diginews. com address was already taken. After many many emails back and forth, the name Digital Spy was chosen, the new Digital Spy forums went live on 1 March 2000. They were built on the UBB forum platform, the new Digital Spy news portal went live on 19 May 2001, running on a custom-built content management system developed by Jose and called RAMS. In November 2015, Digital Spy hired ex editor of Heat Julian Linley in the role of editor-in-chief as the attempts to challenge BuzzFeed
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The Guardian
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The Guardian is a British daily newspaper, known from 1821 until 1959 as the Manchester Guardian. Along with its sister papers The Observer and The Guardian Weekly, The Guardian is part of the Guardian Media Group, the Scott Trust became a limited company in 2008, with a constitution to maintain the same protections for The Guardian. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than to the benefit of an owner or shareholders, the Guardian is edited by Katharine Viner, who succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. In 2016, The Guardians print edition had a daily circulation of roughly 162,000 copies in the country, behind The Daily Telegraph. The newspaper has an online UK edition as well as two international websites, Guardian Australia and Guardian US, the newspapers online edition was the fifth most widely read in the world in October 2014, with over 42.6 million readers. Its combined print and online editions reach nearly 9 million British readers, notable scoops include the 2011 News International phone hacking scandal, in particular the hacking of murdered English teenager Milly Dowlers phone. The investigation led to the closure of the UKs biggest selling Sunday newspaper, and one of the highest circulation newspapers in the world, in 2016, it led the investigation into the Panama Papers, exposing the then British Prime Minister David Camerons links to offshore bank accounts. The Guardian has been named Newspaper of the Year four times at the annual British Press Awards, the paper is still occasionally referred to by its nickname of The Grauniad, given originally for the purported frequency of its typographical errors. The Manchester Guardian was founded in Manchester in 1821 by cotton merchant John Edward Taylor with backing from the Little Circle and they launched their paper after the police closure of the more radical Manchester Observer, a paper that had championed the cause of the Peterloo Massacre protesters. They do not toil, neither do they spin, but they better than those that do. When the government closed down the Manchester Observer, the champions had the upper hand. The influential journalist Jeremiah Garnett joined Taylor during the establishment of the paper, the prospectus announcing the new publication proclaimed that it would zealously enforce the principles of civil and religious Liberty. Warmly advocate the cause of Reform, endeavour to assist in the diffusion of just principles of Political Economy and. Support, without reference to the party from which they emanate, in 1825 the paper merged with the British Volunteer and was known as The Manchester Guardian and British Volunteer until 1828. The working-class Manchester and Salford Advertiser called the Manchester Guardian the foul prostitute, the Manchester Guardian was generally hostile to labours claims. The Manchester Guardian dismissed strikes as the work of outside agitators –, if an accommodation can be effected, the occupation of the agents of the Union is gone. CP Scott made the newspaper nationally recognised and he was editor for 57 years from 1872, and became its owner when he bought the paper from the estate of Taylors son in 1907. Under Scott, the moderate editorial line became more radical, supporting William Gladstone when the Liberals split in 1886
