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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
