A community portal about United Kingdom with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country and sovereign state that is situated in north west Europe. Its...
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A community portal about United Kingdom with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country and sovereign state that is situated in north west Europe. Its territory and population are primarily situated on the island of Great Britain and in Northern Ireland on the island of Ireland. The United Kingdom is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, and its ancillary bodies of water, including the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea, and the Irish Sea. The mainland is linked to France by the Channel Tunnel, with Northern Ireland sharing a land border with the Republic of Ireland.
The British government is preparing to change how it procures missiles with an announcement during the Farnborough Air Show that a team of top U.K. producers has been awarded a string of contracts to start new programs or update existing weapons without a competition being held. Procurement minister Baroness Taylor is expected to unveil concept phase or assessment phase contracts to a partnership of companies here known as Team Complex Weapons. The companies involved include leading... Read Full Story
Supermarkets in Britain have started a petrol price war – with three of the biggest chains decreasing the cost of unleaded petrol and diesel by as much as 5 pence a litre. Supermarket chain Asda announced yesterday that it would reduce the cost of unleaded and diesel by 3 pence a litre and Morrisons then jumped in saying it is prepared to cut the cost by 4 pence a litre (and thus did so). Another supermarket – Sainsbury’s – said that it was cutting petrol by 5 pence a litre from Thursday for... Read Full Story
Britain later this summer to be cut up for scrap. Able UK has been awarded a contract to recycle the Clemenceau, now known simply as Q790, at its facility at Graythorp on the River Tees. Clemenceau is 238m long and sailed more than a million nautical miles during a 40-year naval career that ended in 1997. Plans to scrap her in 2005 in Spain or India fell through, but not before the ship had been towed all the way to the sub-continent and back. Work on the Clemenceau will be the biggest... Read Full Story
The town name is Anglo-Saxon, though excavations in the town centre in 1985 found an Iron Age hillfort dating from around 650BC. The town is sited on an outcrop of Portlandian limestone which accounts for its prominent position in the surrounding landscape, which is largely clay. Aylesbury was a major market town in Anglo-Saxon times, famous in addition as the burial place of Saint Osyth, whose shrine attracted pilgrims. The Early English parish church of St. Mary (with many later additions... Read Full Story
‘UK Muslims feel like aliens in their own country’LONDON, July 5: Britain’s first Muslim minister Shahid Malik, who is of Pakistani origin, has kicked up a media uproar here, saying that many Muslims in the UK feel targeted like ‘the Jews of Europe’.
Mr Malik who heads the Department for International Development (DFID) has said that it has become legitimate to target Muslims in the media and society at large in a way that would be unacceptable for any other minority.
Hastening to add that... Read Full Story
