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Hinckley
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Hinckley is a market town in southwest Leicestershire, England. It is administered by Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council, Hinckley is the second largest town in the administrative county of Leicestershire, after Loughborough. Hinckley is situated approximately at the mid-point between the cities of Leicester and Coventry and is near to the town of Nuneaton in Warwickshire. Hinckley has a history going back to Anglo-Saxon times, the name Hinckley is Anglo Saxon, Hinck is someones name and ley is a meadow. By the time of the Domesday Book in 1086, Hinckley was quite a large village, there is evidence of an Anglo Saxon church – the remnants of an Anglo Saxon sun-dial being visible on the diagonal buttress on the south-east corner of the chancel. In 2000, archaeologists from Northampton Archaeology discovered evidence of Iron Age and Romano-British settlement on land near Coventry Road, in 2011 this area was officially named and signed as Saxon Paddock. In the 17th century, the town developed an industry, producing stockings. Hinckley played a prominent part in the English Civil War, the local townsfolk were forced to decide whether to declare their allegiances openly or attempt to remain neutral—with the risk of having to pay levies, ransoms, and fines to both sides. In March 1644, Hinckley was occupied by a group of Royalist troops, though they were driven out by a force of Parliamentarians. The Civil War years were a particularly unsettled time for the clergy in, the town was visited by both parliamentary and royalists troops from the rival garrisons, particularly parliamentary troops from Tamworth, Coventry and Astley Castle in Warwickshire. Troops from Coventry garrison were particularly active in the town, taking horses and free quarter and availing themselves of dyett and Beere, Royalist troops raided the town to threaten those with parliamentary sympathies. These prisoners were herded into Hinckley church and asked in a jeering manner, why come they not to redeem you. The Parliamentarians responded in a memorable Skirmish or Great Victory for Parliament, colonel Grey with 120-foot soldiers and 30 troopers from Bagworth House rushed to Hinckley and re-took the town, routed the Royalists, rescued the cattle and released their imprisoned countrymen. At the time of the first national census in 1801, Hinckley had a population of 5,158, the largest industry in the early 19th century was the making of hosiery and only Leicester had a larger output of stockings. In the district, it was estimated ca.1830 that 6,000 persons were employed in this work, Castle Street is the first known location of Luddism, where disgruntled workers, replaced by machinery in their jobs, took sledgehammers to the machines. Joseph Hansom built the first Hansom cab in Hinckley in 1835, in 1899 A Cottage Hospital was built to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria two years earlier. Money was raised by the townspeople and factory owners notably John. The corner stone was laid by Sir John Fowke Lancelot Rolleston and this hospital was central to the people of Hinckley and supported by local workers who donated one penny a week for its upkeep until it was adopted by the NHS in 1948
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Bablake School
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Bablake School is a co-educational Independent school located in Coventry, England and founded in 1344 by Queen Isabella, making it one of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom. Bablake is part of the Coventry School Foundation, a charity, along with King Henry VIII School, King Henry VIII Preparatory School. The current headmaster is John Watson, who succeeded Dr Stuart Nuttall following his retirement in 2006, today Bablake is a selective, fee-paying independent school and a member of the HMC. Started by Edward IIs widow Isabella in 1344, Bablake was a school first sited at Hill Street in Coventry. Isabella endowed the Guild of St John with the Babbelak land on which was founded the St Johns chapel, Bablake church, now known as St Johns, still stands adjacent to the schools original buildings. The Bablake Carole service is held in the church, a custom which has continued since medieval times. Many of the pupils were originally choristers of the church, the relationship continued through the figure of Edward Jackson, who from 1734 was both vicar of the church and headmaster of the school. The expansion of the Bablake site continued throughout the 14th century with the aid of further land granted by the Black Prince, in 1563 the schools principal benefactor, Thomas Wheatley, who had been mayor of Coventry in 1556, endowed it with much of his estate. Wheatley had ordered some steel wedges from Spain, in their place, he received by mistake a chest of silver ingots. Unable to discover to whom this cargo rightly belonged, Wheatley decided to bestow it upon the school. In 1833 a new schoolroom, at this time there were twenty boys in the school. In 1855 this number increased to seventy, even under the great F. W. Humberstone, who took over as headmaster in 1870, Bablake boys were largely confined to the premises and a most monotonous routine. In the 1890s, Bablake began to move to its current site in Coundon Road, in the 1930s fifty acres of land on Hollyfast Road were purchased to expand the playing fields of the school. During the war, the school was evacuated to Lincoln, in the 1970s the first female pupil was admitted. The school had ceased taking boarders, what had been the bedrooms became the Mathematics department. The arms of Bablake School are those of its benefactor, Thomas Wheatley, Sanguine a Lion Rampant Argent, on a Chief Or. The Bablake site houses two schools, a school that takes children between year 3 and year 6, and a senior school that takes children between year 7 and sixth form. Although the junior school is independent, its intake generally move up as a group to the senior school. In the main school, there are allocated to specific subjects, such as science, art, design and technology, music and English combined
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University of Leeds
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The University of Leeds is a redbrick university located in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, established in 1831. In 1904, a charter, created in 1903, was granted to the University of Leeds by King Edward VII. The Leeds University Business School hold the Triple Crown accreditations from AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS, the university has 31,790 students, the seventh largest university in the UK. From 2006 to present, the university has consistently ranked within the top 5 in the United Kingdom for the number of applications received. Leeds had an income of £634.9 million in 2015/16. The university has financial endowments of £67.7 million, ranking outside the top ten British universities by financial endowment, for 2016-17, Leeds is ranked nationally between 13th and 16th. Internationally, the university is ranked as the 32nd best in Europe, Leeds was ranked top three in the UK and top 20 in the world for graduate employability, also ranked as the 5th most targeted British university by the UKs top graduate employers in 2016-17. Leeds was ranked 10th in the UK for research power in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework, the best result in the Yorkshire, the university was named the 2017 Sunday Times University of the Year, having been runner-up in 2016. Notable alumni include former Secretary of State Jack Straw, former co-chairman of the Conservative Party Sayeeda Warsi, American actor Chris Pine, Piers Sellers and five Nobel laureates. The universitys history is linked to the development of Leeds as a centre for the textile industry. The universitys roots can be traced back to the formation of schools of medicine in English cities to serve the general public, prior to 1900, only five universities had been established in England and one in Wales. These consisted of the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of London, Durham University, and the federal Victoria University, Owens College was the sole college of Victoria University from 1880 to 1884, in 1887 Yorkshire College was the third to join the university. In 1831, the Leeds School of Medicine was established with the aim of serving the needs of the five institutions which had been established in the city. In 1874, the Yorkshire College of Science was created to provide education for the children of middle-class industrialists and merchants, financial support from local industry was crucial in setting up the College and aiding the students. The university continues to recognise these elements of its history, for example, the religious qualification ceased in the 1850s but the classics-based education continued at Oxford and Cambridge. When classics, modern literature and history went on offer a few years later, in 1884, the Yorkshire College absorbed the Leeds School of Medicine and subsequently joined the federal Victoria University on 3 November 1887. Students in this period were awarded external degrees by the University of London, Leeds was given its first university in 1887 when the Yorkshire College joined the federal Victoria University on 3 November. The Victoria University had been established by charter in 1880
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BBC News (TV channel)
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BBC News is the BBCs 24-hour rolling news television network in the United Kingdom. For a time, looped news, sport and weather bulletins were available to view via BBC Red Button, on 22 February 2006, the channel was named News Channel of the Year at the Royal Television Society Television Journalism Awards for the first time in its history. The judges remarked that this was the year that the channel had really come into its own, from May 2007, UK viewers could watch the channel via the BBC News website. In April 2008, the channel was renamed BBC News as part of a £550,000 rebranding of the BBCs news output, complete with a new studio and presentation. Its sister service, BBC World was also renamed BBC World News while the news bulletins became BBC News at One, BBC News at Six. Across the day the channel averages about twice the audience of Sky News, as a major part of the BBC News department, the channel is based at and broadcast from Broadcasting House in Central London. It was named RTS News Channel of the Year again in 2017, BBC News 24 was originally available to digital terrestrial, satellite and cable television subscribers. To this day, it and BBC Parliament remain the only BBC digital channels which are available to analogue cable subscribers. This coverage was improved in 1998 with the advent of television in the United Kingdom allowing satellite. The BBC had run the news channel BBC World for two and a half years prior to the launch of BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997. Sky News had had a hand with domestic news for over eight years. Sky News objected to the breaking of its monopoly, complaining about the associated with running a channel that only a minority could view from the licence fee. Sky News claimed that a number of British cable operators had been incentivised to carry News 24 in preference to the commercial Sky News. However, in September 1999 the European Commission ruled against a complaint made by Sky News that the publicly funded channel was unfair and illegal under EU law. The Commission ruled that the fee should be considered state aid but that such aid was justified due to the public service remit of the BBC. The channels journalistic output has been overseen by Controller of the channel, Kevin Bakhurst and this was a return to having a dedicated Controller for the channel in the same way as the rest of the BBCs domestic television channels. At launch, Tim Orchard was Controller of News 24 from 1997 until 2000, editorial decisions were then overseen by Rachel Atwell in her capacity as Deputy Head of television news. Her deputy Mark Popescu became responsible for content in 2004
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BBC World News
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BBC World News is the BBCs international news and current affairs television channel. It has the largest audience of any BBC channel, with an estimated 76 million viewers weekly in 2014, part of the estimated 265 million users of the BBCs four main international news services. Launched on 11 March 1991 as BBC World Service Television outside Europe, its name was changed to BBC World on 16 January 1995 and it broadcasts television programming including BBC News bulletins, documentaries, lifestyle programmes and interviews. It employs more correspondents and reporters and has more international bureaux than any other news channel and it is not owned by BBC Worldwide. It was launched on 11 March 1991, after two weeks of real-time pilots, initially as a half-hour bulletin once a day at 19,00 GMT. The programme editor was Johan John Ramsland from World Service Radio News with John Exelby from domestic BBC TV News as his managing editor, the original picture editing team consisted of Bob Scholes, Peter Hodge and Mike Casey. Monday,30 January 1995 at 19,00 GMT, 24-hour English cable lifestyle, variety and entertainment channel such, variety, culture, leisure, lifestyle, art, since 1995, the service has gone through several branding changes. From 1995 to 1997, the channel used relatively few graphics to display the name of the channel, as part of a major BBC corporate redesign the channel received its first main refresh on 9 November 1997, the day BBC News 24 was launched. Various fictional flags with some real ones were used, the idents were computer generated and developed by the Lambie-Nairn design agency. Another large relaunch for BBC World took place on 3 April 2000, on 8 December 2003 a second makeover, using the same drums and beeps style music but new graphics took place, although on a much smaller scale to that of 1999. The music was changed slightly while the colour scheme became black and red, with studios using frosted glass, white. Later in 2004, the slogan became Putting News First. The graphical refresh introduced in 2003 was refreshed in May 2006 with a more red output, on 22 January 2007 a new refresh was presented based on the previous graphics, a red coloured labels covering a red and black earthglobe along with the BBC World logo. The channels present name was introduced on 21 April 2008 as part of a £550,000 rebranding of the BBCs news output, BBC World News later moved to the renovated former studio of BBC News 24. New graphics were produced by the Lambie-Nairn design agency and music reworked by David Lowe, BBC World News relocated to Broadcasting House from its previous home at BBC Television Centre on 14 January 2013. This was part of the move of BBC News and other audio, Broadcasting House was refurbished at a cost of £1 billion with a new newsroom and several state-of-the-art news television studios being built. Live news output originates from studios B and C in Broadcasting House with some recorded programming from Broadcasting House studio A, the BBC World News newsroom is now part of the new consolidated BBC Newsroom in Broadcasting House along with BBC World Service and UK domestic News services. Previously, the channel was broadcast in 4,3, with the news output fitted into a 14,9 frame for both digital and analogue broadcasting, resulting in black bands at the top and bottom of the screen
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BBC News at Nine
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The BBC News at Nine was a nightly news programme on BBC News. It aired Monday to Sunday from 9 p. m. to 10 p. m, the programme was fronted by Rebecca Jones, Clive Myrie, or Martine Croxall. The show included a look at the news, as well as analysis with guests and business, sport, newspapers review. The bulletin ended on 31 May 2015 and was replaced by Outside Source, the weather and business updates were generally presented from the screen away from the main desk, unless they preceded each other. Sports updates were presented from the BBC Sport Centre at MediaCityUK, from 30 June 2014, the programme aired an extended Weather for the Week Ahead at 9. 55pm. This looked at the weather, generally over the British Isles, on Fridays, from 9.45 pm, the programme Newswatch used to air. This was moved to an earlier timeslot,9. 30pm-9. Newswatch features viewer opinions and criticisms on how BBC News has covered events during the week. On Friday night, a repeat of The Film Review follows and it is presented by the anchor of the BBC News at Five and a film critic, usually Mark Kermode, from the Studio C with the background and lighting changed to resemble a cinema effect. It features reviews of all the main releases. During weekends and bank holidays, BBC News at Nine resembled an unbranded BBC News channel bulletin and it was presented from the News Channels main studio, studio E. On weekends Our World is shown between 9, 30pm and 10, 00pm, BBC News at Nine at BBC Programmes
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World News Today
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World News Today is a current affairs news programme, produced by BBC News, presented by Philippa Thomas, Kasia Madera, Alice Baxter, Alpa Patel and Karin Giannone. It was originally conceived as a television show aimed at American audiences, hosted by George Alagiah. There is now one daily edition only, aimed as a news programme for the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa part-simulcast on BBC Four, BBC News Channel. Since April 2008 the standard title used by the BBCs English Regions has been used, with some graphical alterations. The first 30 mins of each broadcast is still simulcast on BBC Four, on 5 June 2015, a new edition was launched on the BBC News Channel & BBC World News at 21,00 BST or GMT on Friday–Sunday. Half an hour was dropped in November for the return of Business Edition and this replaced the BBC News at Nine and a standard edition of BBC World News on weekends. The remaining original edition shown on BBC Four and BBC World News is presented When Badawi presented, however, when she did not, as she was often on assignment, the titles only showed World News Today, regardless of the alternate presenter. This only happened if she wasnt reporting from a location on a topic covered in the show, Thomas, Giannone and Madera still present from different parts of the world. Giannone presented from South Africa in December 2013 following the death of Nelson Mandela, Madera presented from Poland during the Polish parliamentary election,2015
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News presenter
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They may also be a working journalist, assisting in the collection of news material and may, in addition, provide commentary during the program. News presenters most often work from a studio or radio studio. The role of the news presenter developed over time, classically, the presenter would read the news from news copy which he may or may not have helped write with a producer or news writer. This was often taken almost directly from services and then rewritten. Prior to the era, radio-news broadcasts often mixed news with opinion. These presenters were referred to as commentators, the last major figure to present commentary in a news broadcast format in the United States was Paul Harvey. With the development of the 24-hour news cycle and dedicated cable news channels, many anchors also write or edit news for their programs, although modern news formats often distinguish between anchor and commentator in an attempt to establish the character of a news anchor. The mix of news and commentary varies depending on the type of program. In 1948, anchor man was used in the game show Who Said That. to refer to John Cameron Swayze, the anchor term then became commonly used by 1952 to describe the most prominent member of a panel of reporters or experts. The term anchorman also was used to describe Walter Cronkites role at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, the widespread claim that news anchors were called cronkiters in Swedish has been debunked by linguist Ben Zimmer. Anchors occupy a role in news broadcasts. Some argue anchors have become sensationalized characters whose identities overshadow the news itself, while others cite anchors as necessary figureheads of wisdom and truth in the news broadcast. Brian Williams, a minor character in NBCs sitcom 30 Rock. A criticism levied against the role of anchor stems from this dynamic, regurgitat or reproduc the report of others. Differentiating them from the occupations of journalists and on-site reporters. The identity of a particular anchor seems to influence viewer perception less than the presence of an anchor in general. More specifically, the media may do an important social good when using the techniques of dramaturgy to make governance more interesting to people than would be the case otherwise. At the same time, however, there is an important difference between drama and democracy, with the former requiring spectators and the latter participants
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BBC
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The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. It is headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, the BBC is the worlds oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees. It employs over 20,950 staff in total,16,672 of whom are in public sector broadcasting, the total number of staff is 35,402 when part-time, flexible, and fixed contract staff are included. The BBC is established under a Royal Charter and operates under its Agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. The fee is set by the British Government, agreed by Parliament, and used to fund the BBCs radio, TV, britains first live public broadcast from the Marconi factory in Chelmsford took place in June 1920. It was sponsored by the Daily Mails Lord Northcliffe and featured the famous Australian Soprano Dame Nellie Melba, the Melba broadcast caught the peoples imagination and marked a turning point in the British publics attitude to radio. However, this public enthusiasm was not shared in official circles where such broadcasts were held to interfere with important military and civil communications. By late 1920, pressure from these quarters and uneasiness among the staff of the licensing authority, the General Post Office, was sufficient to lead to a ban on further Chelmsford broadcasts. But by 1922, the GPO had received nearly 100 broadcast licence requests, John Reith, a Scottish Calvinist, was appointed its General Manager in December 1922 a few weeks after the company made its first official broadcast. The company was to be financed by a royalty on the sale of BBC wireless receiving sets from approved manufacturers, to this day, the BBC aims to follow the Reithian directive to inform, educate and entertain. The financial arrangements soon proved inadequate, set sales were disappointing as amateurs made their own receivers and listeners bought rival unlicensed sets. By mid-1923, discussions between the GPO and the BBC had become deadlocked and the Postmaster-General commissioned a review of broadcasting by the Sykes Committee and this was to be followed by a simple 10 shillings licence fee with no royalty once the wireless manufactures protection expired. The BBCs broadcasting monopoly was made explicit for the duration of its current broadcast licence, the BBC was also banned from presenting news bulletins before 19.00, and required to source all news from external wire services. Mid-1925 found the future of broadcasting under further consideration, this time by the Crawford committee, by now the BBC under Reiths leadership had forged a consensus favouring a continuation of the unified broadcasting service, but more money was still required to finance rapid expansion. Wireless manufacturers were anxious to exit the loss making consortium with Reith keen that the BBC be seen as a service rather than a commercial enterprise. The recommendations of the Crawford Committee were published in March the following year and were still under consideration by the GPO when the 1926 general strike broke out in May. The strike temporarily interrupted newspaper production and with restrictions on news bulletins waived the BBC suddenly became the source of news for the duration of the crisis. The crisis placed the BBC in a delicate position, the Government was divided on how to handle the BBC but ended up trusting Reith, whose opposition to the strike mirrored the PMs own
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Stoke Golding
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According to the 2001 census the total population was 1,721, living in just over 700 houses. The population at the 2011 census was 1,684 living in 723 households, the village is bordered on one side by the Ashby Canal, well-used for recreational purposes. Stoke Goldings unique historical claim to fame is that in 1485 the people of the village witnessed the coronation of Henry VII. So doing Stoke Golding claims to be the Birthplace of the Tudor Dynasty, henrys entourage retired to hilly ground near the village of Stoke Golding. Here the impromptu coronation of King Henry VII was performed with a circlet by tradition retrieved from a thorn bush. This area became known as Crown Hill and Crownhill Field, historical local accounts of the Battle of Bosworth field tell of the villagers climbing on to the battlements of the church of St Margaret of Antioch to view the bloody battle on 22 August 1485. The window sills of the Church show grooves which legend has it were caused by the soldiers sharpening their swords and axes on the eve of the battle. After the fighting large pits were dug around Stoke Golding and the villages of Dadlington and Fenny Drayton, King Henry VII then rewarded some of his followers and Knighted the more senior of his supporters. Stoke Golding has an impressive Grade I listed Saxon church, that of St Margaret of Antioch, the church is roughly in the centre of the village and is a good example of the churches of that period. There is a Methodist church in the village that was first opened in 1857, three pubs and The Stoke Golding Club have regular entertainment. The primary school children of Stoke Golding and nearby villages mostly attend St Margarets Church of England Primary School that is located next to the church within the village, St Martin’s Catholic Voluntary Academy is a secondary school located in the village. Francis Brokesby Martine Croxall - English journalist and television news presenter, Sir William Edge, 1st Baronet Sir Henry Firebrace Link showing details of Scouting in the Village Stoke Golding village website The annotated Stoke Golding Country Dance, English Folk Dance
