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Website. www.national-lottery.co.uk. The National Lottery is the state- franchised national lottery established in 1994 in the United Kingdom. It is regulated by the Gambling Commission, and is operated by Allwyn Entertainment, who took over from Camelot Group (who had been running the National Lottery since its inception) on 1 February 2024.
This is a list of United Kingdom general elections (elections for the House of Commons) since the first in 1802.The members of the 1801–1802 Parliament had been elected to the former Parliament of Great Britain and Parliament of Ireland, before being co-opted to serve in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom, so that Parliament is not included in the table below.
Cape Town Stadium, Cape Town. South Africa 17–22 British & Irish Lions. 31 July 2021. Cape Town Stadium, Cape Town. South Africa 27–9 British & Irish Lions. 7 August 2021. Cape Town Stadium, Cape Town. South Africa 19–16 British & Irish Lions. The match against Japan on 26 June 2021 is not classed as a Test by the Lions.
Saturday sports paper. In the UK, a Saturday sports paper was a local newspaper published on a Saturday evening containing information about sports matches played on that day. Throughout most of the twentieth century they were very popular, representing one of the few up to date sources of information available to sports fans.
This is a timeline of British history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of England, History of Wales, History of Scotland, History of Ireland, Formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and History of the United Kingdom
The number of workforce deaths in the coal industry is reported to have fallen to a record low since nationalisation two years ago. [24]With an average Central England temperature of 10.64 °C or 51.15 °F, the record for the hottest year in that series set in 1834 and equalled in 1921 is broken. 1949's record stands until 1990 by when anthropogenic global warming has come largely to control ...
21 February – Cunard liner RMS Aquitania arrives at the scrapyard in Faslane at the end of a 36-year career. 23 February – 1950 United Kingdom general election: Labour, led by Clement Attlee, win a second term in government, though with a parliamentary majority of just five seats, a stark contrast to the 146-seat majority gained in 1945.
The 1948–49 FA Cup was the 68th staging of the world's oldest football cup competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup. Wolverhampton Wanderers won the competition for the third time, beating Leicester City 3–1 in the final at Wembley. Matches were scheduled to be played at the stadium of the team named ...