Talk:Terminology of the British Isles/Archive 3

England and Wales
Should England and Wales be included in this? --Wonderfool 10:31, 14 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I wouldn't list it as a key term but it might be worth a sentence somehwere lower down in the page. --Robdurbar 11:30, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Some kind of explanation as to why England and Wales appear as they do in the venn diagram might be appropriate. I presume this relates to Wales being part of the Kingdom of England when it unified with the Kingdom of Scotland in 1707 to form Great Britain?  194.203.110.127 15:59, 29 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, England and Waqles is a significant historical and legal entity... AnonMoos 16:16, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Nice article
Thanks for writing and updating this article. It helped me to understand the terms United Kingdom, Great Britan and others. I love the Venn Diagram because it is very helpfu.

Keep up the good work! Cheers. --Starionwolf 19:06, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Venn Diagram
Am I being stupid, or does the Venn diagram say that England and Wales are part of Scotland? Shouldn't Scotland either be in the same circle as England and Wales, or otherwise shouldn't England, Wales, and Scotland all have their own circles? Lexy lexy 21:50, 29 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I changed the circle back to an ellipse, and moved some captions around a little, so the new version of the image should be clearer now. "England and Wales" is a significant legal and historical entity. --  AnonMoos 06:52, 30 May 2006 (UTC)


 * P.S. The general idea is that the "label" for the overal whole contents of a circle is always horizontally centered near the top of that circle (and the word "Scotland" is not horizontally-centered within its enclosing circle, nor near the top of the circle). AnonMoos 16:08, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Britain
"Britain in its modern usage is the usual short form for Great Britain and also for United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland." - This is, more or less, what the OED says but I don't think I have ever seen it used as the short form of Great Britain. Does anyone have any citations of it actually being used that way? Naomhain 09:26, 30 May 2006 (UTC)


 * the Shorter OED is clear: "Britain: More fully (esp. as a political term) Great Britain. As a geographical and political term: (the main island and smaller offshore islands making up) England, Scotland, and Wales, sometimes with the Isle of Man. Also (as a political term) the United Kingdom, Britain and its dependencies, (formerly) the British Empire." The Collins Cobuild cd-rom dictionary is wonderful--it gives over 800 usage examples from written and spoken English on "Britain" (and 1500 on "England"). Rjensen 09:38, 30 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, no arguments about that: As I say, the OED says more or less the same thing. But I was after an example of it actually being used to mean Great Britain. I don't remember ever having heard it myself and I haven't found one. Can you give one or two of the examples from Collins? Naomhain 09:46, 30 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for that! ;-) But actually, although it's difficult to tell without context, I think all of those refer to Britain as in the UK, none to Britain as in Great Britain (the island.) Naomhain 12:43, 30 May 2006 (UTC)


 * . --Robdurbar 16:31, 30 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I hadn't thought of that usage but I suggest that these refer to the ancient Celtic "nation" of Britain rather than the island (though I guess they may be fairly coincident.) The article says that it is the "usual short form for Great Britain" but my feeling is that it is highly unusual to refer to the island (or the political unit that is the UK less Northern Ireland) this way. Naomhain 17:16, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Collins CoBuild examples -- from definitions
accede 		Britain would not accede to France's request. age 		Recycling is an issue that has come of age in Britain in the last decade. agency 		...the government agency which monitors health and safety at work in Britain... almost 		Storms have been hitting almost all of Britain recently... altogether 		Britain has a dozen warships in the area, with a total of five thousand military personnel altogether... amid 		A senior leader cancelled a trip to Britain yesterday amid growing signs of a possible political crisis... back away 		Until yesterday, Britain had backed away because it didn't like the cost. backbone 		The small business people of Britain are the economic backbone of the nation. backwater 		Britain could become a political backwater with no serious influence in the world... bad 		Many old people in Britain are living in bad housing... bake 		Britain bakes in a Mediterranean heatwave. because 		Because of the law in Ireland, we had to work out a way of getting her over to Britain. bilateral 		...bilateral talks between Britain and America. bind 		...the social and political ties that bind the USA to Britain. bolster 		Britain is free to adopt policies to bolster its economy. brand name 		When it comes to soft drinks Coca-Cola is the biggest selling brand name in Britain. breadth 		She has travelled the length and breadth of Britain. breakout 		High Point prison had the highest number of breakouts of any jail in Britain. brief 		...customs officials with a brief to stop foreign porn coming into Britain. cause 		Both had much cause to be grateful for the secretiveness of government in Britain. centralize 		Nowhere in Britain has bureaucratic centralization proceeded with more pace than in Scotland. chalk 		...the highest chalk cliffs in Britain... chip 		The information could be used as a bargaining chip to extract some parallel information from Britain... class-conscious 		Nineteenth-century Britain was a class-conscious society. clime 		He left Britain for the sunnier climes of Southern France... code of conduct 		Doctors in Britain say a new code of conduct is urgently needed to protect the doctor-patient relationship. coinage 		It took four years for Britain just to decimalise its own coinage. come under 		There was more news about Britain, but it came under the heading of human interest. conquest 		He had realized that Britain could not have peace unless she returned at least some of her former conquests. consortium 		The consortium includes some of the biggest building contractors in Britain. construction 		...the only nuclear power station under construction in Britain. convert 		The programme to convert every gas burner in Britain took 10 years. course 		In the course of the 1930s steel production in Britain approximately doubled... create 		We set business free to create more jobs in Britain... cruelty 		Britain had laws against cruelty to animals but none to protect children... cultural 		...the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation which promotes cultural and educational exchanges between Britain and India. cycle 		Britain could save *4.6 billion a year in road transport costs if more people cycled... detail 		He said he had been in various parts of Britain but did not go into details... differential 		During the Second World War, industrial wage differentials in Britain widened. disagreement 		Britain and France have expressed some disagreement with the proposal. disruption 		The strike is expected to cause delays and disruption to flights from Britain... drop 		Britain has dropped from second to third place in the league. dwarf 		The US air travel market dwarfs that of Britain. entente 		The French entente with Great Britain had already been significantly extended... entry 		Prize-money of nearly *90,000 has attracted a record entry of 14 horses from Britain and Ireland... eurozone 		Homeowners in the eurozone enjoy cheaper mortgages than we do here in Britain. exclusive 		Many of their cheeses are exclusive to our stores in Britain. exercise 		Britain has warned travellers to exercise prudence and care. extension 		He first entered Britain on a six-month visa, and was given a further extension of six months... extinct 		It is 250 years since the wolf became extinct in Britain. extradite 		He was extradited to Britain from the Irish Republic to face explosives charges... farm 		Farms in France are much smaller than those in the United States or even Britain. fight 		In a few hours' time one of the world's most famous boxers will be fighting in Britain for the first time... firm up 		Looking to the future, the Government will firm up their plans for a cleaner, greener, safer Britain... flourish 		Britain has the largest and most flourishing fox population in Europe. forested 		Only 8 per cent of Britain is forested. freeze 		Britain has already frozen its aid programme... gamble 		Britain is the only country in Europe that allows minors to gamble... gap 		Britain needs to bridge the technology gap between academia and industry. gateway 		Lyons is the gateway to the Alps for motorists driving out from Britain. generation 		...second generation Asians in Britain... governance 		They believe that a fundamental change in the governance of Britain is the key to all other necessary changes. government 		...democratic governments in countries like Britain and the US. gravitate 		Traditionally young Asians in Britain have gravitated towards medicine, law and engineering. grip 		Britain is still in the grip of recession. guide 		...the Pocket Guide to Butterflies of Britain and Europe. height 		During the early sixth century emigration from Britain to Brittany was at its height... henceforward 		Henceforward France and Britain had a common interest... holiday 		New Year's Day is a public holiday throughout Britain... hoped-for 		The hoped-for economic recovery in Britain did not arrive... how 		Franklin told them all how happy he was to be in Britain again. humble 		It is, in my humble opinion, perhaps the best steak restaurant in Great Britain. illustration 		...a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences. import 		Britain last year spent nearly *5000 million more on importing food than selling abroad... impose 		Britain imposed fines on airlines which bring in passengers without proper papers... indulge 		He returned to Britain so that he could indulge his passion for football... infant 		...the infant mortality rate in Britain. -ing 		Gardening is very popular in Britain... innovation 		The vegetarian burger was an innovation which was rapidly exported to Britain. intensify 		Britain is intensifying its efforts to secure the release of the hostages... intercede 		It has also asked Britain and the United States to intercede. invade 		The Romans and the Normans came to Britain as invading armies. invasion 		...seven years after the Roman invasion of Britain... lag 		Britain still lags behind most of Europe in its provisions for women who want time off to have babies... lag 		The restructuring of the pattern of consumption in Britain also lagged behind... left 2 		In Britain cars drive on the left. link 		...the Channel Tunnel linking Britain and France. look 2 		Britain looks set to send a major force of over 100 tanks and supporting equipment... mainland 		...the islands that lie off the coast of mainland Britain. mainline 		...the first mainline railway to be built in Britain for almost a hundred years... male 		The rate of male unemployment in Britain is now the third worst in Europe. marshal 		...the way in which Britain marshalled its economic and political resources to protect its security interests. materialistic 		During the 1980s Britain became a very materialistic society. member 		Britain is a full member of NATO. monolingual 		...a largely monolingual country such as Great Britain. need 		Mr Forrest believes there is a need for other similar schools throughout Britain... neither 		Britain does not agree and neither do Denmark, Portugal and Ireland. not 		I was not in Britain at the time... not 		There is always a `black market' not just in Britain but in Europe as a whole... oblique 		He obliquely referred to the US, Britain and Saudi Arabia. offence 		In Britain the Consumer Protection Act makes it a criminal offence to sell goods that are unsafe. on 		The Queen now doesn't even appear on the list of the 40 richest people in Britain. once 		If we act fast, we can once and for all prevent wild animals in Britain from suffering terrible cruelty. overdone 		In fact, the panic is overdone. As the map shows, the drought has been confined to the south and east of Britain. overtake 		Sales are booming in Japan, which has overtaken Britain as the Mini's biggest market. overtax 		You can't help Britain by overtaxing its people. ownership 		...the growth of home ownership in Britain... panic 		There was a moment of panic in Britain as it became clear just how vulnerable the nation was... partition 		Britain was accused of trying to partition the country `because of historic enmity'... pay 		Britain was to pay dearly for its lack of resolve... peripheral 		The Marshall Plan did not include Britain, except peripherally. persist 		Why does Britain persist in running down its defence forces?... pirate 		Pirate copies of the video are already said to be in Britain. place 		Jane's goals helped Britain win third place in the Barcelona games... playhouse 		The Theatre Royal is one of the oldest playhouses in Britain. poised 		Britain was poised to fly medical staff to the country at short notice... polarize 		Missile deployment did much to further polarize opinion in Britain... political asylum 		...a university teacher who is seeking political asylum in Britain... popular 		Once again the popular press in Britain has been rife with stories about their marriage. poverty 		Britain has suffered from a poverty of ambition. prevalent 		...the prevalence of asthma in Britain and western Europe. primary 		Britain did not introduce compulsory primary education until 1880... private 		Bupa runs private hospitals in Britain... private school 		He attended Eton, the most exclusive private school in Britain. proclaim 		Britain proudly proclaims that it is a nation of animal lovers... produce 		We manage to get most of our produce in Britain... promoter 		...one of the top boxing promoters in Britain. propose 		Britain is about to propose changes to some institutions... purist 		Britain wanted a `more purist' approach. rank 		Britain appears unlikely to break ranks with other members of the European Union. rearm 		They neglected to rearm in time and left Britain exposed to disaster. rebadge 		The car was rebadged as a Vauxhall and sold in Britain. recognition 		His government did not receive full recognition by Britain until July. rejuvenate 		The way Britain organises its politics needs rejuvenation. related 		...people in countries like Bangladesh who have been able to show they are related to a spouse or parent living in Britain. relationship 		...the friendly relationship between France and Britain... remark 		She has made outspoken remarks about the legalisation of cannabis in Britain... reopen 		Britain and Argentina reopened diplomatic relations. represent 		My only aim is to represent Britain at the Olympics. restrictive 		Britain is to adopt a more restrictive policy on arms sales. rise 		Tourist trips of all kinds in Britain rose by 10.5% between 1977 and 1987... risque 		But the risque headlines don't necessarily reflect a new sexual libertinism in Britain. Roman 		When they conquered Britain, the Romans brought this custom with them. safe conduct 		Her family was given safe conduct to Britain when civil war broke out. screen 		Britain has an enviable record on breast screening for cancer. second 2 		Britain came second in the Prix St Georges Derby. seep 		...the tide of racism which is sweeping Europe seeps into Britain. seizure 		Police have made one of the biggest seizures of heroin there's ever been in Britain. send 		More than half a million sheep are sent from Britain to Europe for slaughter every year. separate 		...establishing Australia's cultural separateness from Britain. service 		Britain still boasts the cheapest postal service... service 		In June 1945, Britain still had forty-five per cent of its workforce in the Services and munitions industries. set 2 		A new world marathon record of 2 hrs, 8 min, 5 sec, was set by Stephen Jones of Great Britain... settle 		Refugees settling in Britain suffer from a number of problems... sexuality 		In Britain, the growing discussion of women's sexuality raised its own disquiet. shadow boxing 		...the tedious shadow boxing that we normally see between bosses and unions in Britain. shape 		He suggested that the shapes represented a map of Britain and Ireland. she 		Britain needs new leadership if she is to help shape Europe's future. silver 		Britain went on to take bronze and then followed it up by winning silver in the World Cup. sixty 		...the sunniest April in Britain for more than sixty years. sketch 		Luxembourg sketched out an acceptable compromise between Britain, France and Germany. slow lane 		Germany was not trying to push Britain into the slow lane... snapshot 		The interviews present a remarkable snapshot of Britain in these dark days of recession. social 		...one of the most socially deprived areas in Britain. sorely 		...the potential to earn sorely needed money for Britain from overseas orders... speak 		...a marked decline in the standards of written and spoken English in Britain. stake 		Britain lags behind in the European childcare stakes. straddle 		He straddles two cultures, having been brought up in Britain and later converted to Islam. stroke 		How can Britain reduce its prison population in one stroke? struggle 		He died in a struggle with prison officers less than two months after coming to Britain. such 		Britain is not enjoying such prosperity as it was in the mid-1980s. surface 		Back in Britain, things appear, on the surface, simpler... surpass 		Warwick Arts Centre is the second largest Arts Centre in Britain, surpassed in size only by London's Barbican. tag 		In Britain, jazz is losing its elitist tag and gaining a much broader audience. tempt 		...a million dollar marketing campaign to tempt American tourists back to Britain... time 		...an area five times the size of Britain. title 		It has become the biggest publisher of new poetry in Britain, with 50 new titles a year. to 1 		The annual rate of inflation in Britain has risen to its highest level for eight years. unaccompanied 		It is estimated that every year 50 unaccompanied children arrive in Britain... unaccustomed 		It is a part of Britain as yet largely unaccustomed to tourists. unfavourable 		Childcare facilities in Britain compare unfavourably with other European countries. upside down 		Tony had an upside-down map of Britain on his wall. usage 		It's very definitely a usage which has come over to Britain from America. via 		Mr Baker will return home via Britain and France. victory 		...the former Welsh rugby union skipper who led Great Britain to victory over France. way 		She is a long way from being the richest person in Britain... way 		He has been allowed to leave the country and is on his way to Britain... well 2 		There are well over a million Muslims in Britain. whole 		As a whole we do not eat enough fibre in Britain. win 		She won bronze for Great Britain in the European Championships. wintry 		Wintry weather continues to sweep across Britain... withdraw 		Unless Hitler withdrew his troops from Poland by 11 o'clock that morning, a state of war would exist between Great Britain and Germany... withhold 		Financial aid for Britain has been withheld...

Collins CoBuild: written examples (from published sources)
Rjensen 10:08, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * He wore a soberly expensive suit and horn-rimmed bifocals and could have been a banker, except that bankers, in Britain anyway, rarely had perfect tans, an athlete's muscle tone, and a Benelli B76 tucked under their left armpit.
 * Whatever other good reasons he has for not going back to Britain, your mother doubles them!' He managed to make her smile.
 * Ellen is exasperated that just when Britain is increasing its nuclear fire-power eightfold by introducing Trident, public protest has been lulled to sleep.
 * After Ellen left university she became involved in CNVA, the equivalent of CND in Britain: `marches along the Pacific coast for 60O miles, vigils outside nuclear power stations, that sort of thing."
 * Ellen went to the States to complete the adoption process, but felt so alien there that she longed to get back to Britain.
 * Each one greeted me with uncomplicated smile and outstretched hand.    This was the Darvell Bruderhof in Sussex, the only Hutterian community in Britain.
 * She took it for granted that Britain was their life, its system of justice beyond compare.
 * Stewart never lost his desire for the link with Britain to be retained: `I mean, I'm an atheist.
 * He has fought hard to carry on his psychiatric work, but his priesthood comes first: `If my Provincial [head of the Jesuits in Britain] told me to go and do a PhD in rubber technology because that's what we need in Bolivia, I'd go and do that.'    So perhaps it's just as well that Jesuits can't marry: it is impossible to put down roots, Jim says.
 * In Britain it provides accommodation for some 4,000 homeless people - more than any other single organization.
 * But since he had no acquaintance with the Liberal and Reform traditions in Britain he was not sure where to turn.
 * He is a sheikh, a spiritual leader in the Sufic tradition of Islam: `one who has passed through the barriers of phenomenal existence", Saba explains, `and then returned to teach and guide others. " He was the representative in Britain of a Moroccan sheikh, the `man of prayer" who responded, Saba says, to her cry for help in Spain.
 * When Margaret came to Britain its class-consciousness intimidated her, although `I'm a great chameleon in terms of accent and I instinctively know what I have to bloody well do to be accepted."
 * Northern Ireland, he says, is one of the unresolved areas of Europe, but with this difference: that it belonged to the winning side in both World Wars and Britain could not ditch it.
 * But he had sympathy with the unionist tradition, `so Britain would have been his point of identity".
 * She describes herself as `a Buddhist with Korean tendencies"; other members of the Community had a different training.    Although people come from far afield to the conferences and talks - on shamanism, Tibetan medicine, the `Way of Tao" and more - the Community is there above all to serve the local people, says Martine; and Totnes is famous as the `alternative capital" of Britain.
 * From there, on lecture tours across the States and Britain, he was received with rapt attention.
 * Swami Bhavyananda's quarter of a century in Britain has not utilized his medical skills.
 * Nobody has been able to stick it out since Hereward, who joined in his early twenties almost ten years ago.    It is the `robotic" culture of modern Britain, particularly suburbia, which Graigianity abhors.
 * He wore a thick woollen jumper with a red scarf knotted at the neck; and to stop me shivering in my city clothes, lent me a Mexican poncho he had picked up on his travels.    Britain, `the centre of politics and culture", lured his family to London when Eric was three.
 * And I realized, in order to find that out, I'd have to come back to Britain.'    He did, and toured a show based on his work with the Aborigines.
 * He realized he had become `tuned in" to Britain as a pagan when it took him two years to stop working to British seasons.
 * In the evening he lights a candle or incense to `centre again and tune back into myself"; and later does a half-hour dance or meditation to express his relationship with the two worlds, the physical and spiritual.    His spirituality is bound up with Britain.
 * Since Chinese forces occupied the country more than thirty years ago, its literature, philosophy and art have faced extinction.    Among those who fled the occupation were two young abbots, Akong Rinpoche and Trungpa Rinpoche, who ended up in Britain.
 * So the research on obsessions may well give some understanding about the nature of `normal" habits. {SURVEYS} National Surveys of all children born in Britain in one week in 1958 and 1970 have found the following rates of habits when the children were followed up at five years old: * Nail-biting: 30 per cent *  Thumb-sucking: 30 per cent *  Eating problems: 36 per cent *  Sleep problems: 25 per cent *  Tics and twitches 4 per cent.
 * And over the years so many thousands of words have been written about my innings that you would have thought the entire population of Great Britain and the Commonwealth was at the match to see it.
 * At the time there were widely differing interpretations of how the Gleneagles Agreement should apply to sport and although Britain was one of the signatories, pledging `vigorously to combat the evil of apartheid" in the field of sport, the attitudes of the white and non-white cricketing nations seemed some way apart.
 * `All I want you to do," he said, `is put me ten cents on every seat.' Hudson replied enthusiastically: `Botham will give you ten cents; he'll give you a million kids in Britain, a million in Australia and even more than that in India and Pakistan." (Although where he got that idea from I'll never know.) `Well, I'll tell you," Golan responded, `he's better looking than Tom Selleck."
 * Brussels has backed Britain until now, threatening Germany with legal action if it banned British beef, but there were immediate fears yesterday that the disclosure could have a devastating affect on the industry.
 * Britain also exported 242,000 tonnes of beef, worth * 520 million.
 * In recent years, an unusually large number of CJD cases in Britain, ten, have occurred in people under 42.
 * Flextech, which is half owned by Telecommunications Inc, America's largest cable company, has agreed to buy the 61 per cent of the Family Channel in Britain that it does not already own, from International Family Entertainment Inc.
 * Harrisons jointly owns the New Britain Palm Oil plantation with the Papua New Guinea Government.
 * The purchase, which transformed Trinity into the biggest regional newspaper company in Britain, was completed on January 8 and had no impact on financial results for 1995.
 * Trading conditions were described as tough, with Sir George Russell claiming that prospects for the current year depended on the levels of activity in the housing and refurbishment markets in both Britain and the US.
 * As a result, there is a good chance that anyone seeking a broadcast outlet in Britain will have to knock on Flextech's door.
 * But in Britain, Scotch drinking is in managed decline, consumption falling at about 2 per cent a year, in spite of the growing popularity of expensive single malts.
 * In 1985, the year before BSE was identified in cattle, 1.13 million tonnes of beef were consumed in Britain.
 * In a measure similar to one operating in Britain, sale of British beef offal has been banned in Europe since 1990 as a safeguard.
 * It called for a ban on the sale in France of beef offal from cows aged less than six months originating in Britain.
 * A former football ground leased from the local council for one peseta a year has been turned into a cricket club which is now taking on visiting teams from all over Britain.
 * The Majorcan tourist authorities have been concerned by a sharp drop in the number of visitors from Britain taking a traditional two-week summer holiday.
 * For a time his job was to watch over the radar blips representing passenger aircraft flying across Britain `wriggling maggots" as he describes them and see them safely through his patch before handing them on.
 * `Our principle concern is to ensure that the right advice is given so that the number of people dying from malaria in Britain does not increase."
 * The number of visitors from Britain also rose markedly.
 * He also had two more Mercedes and a Rolls-Royce in Britain with a clutch of similar cars in Spain, where he owned yet more houses.
 * But police who investigated his activities are convinced that he dishonestly obtained an estimated * 3.5 million in Britain alone.
 * The Chief Rabbi said Britain was still a powerfully moral nation, but had lost sight of its reserves of vital moral energy.
 * `For a moment we caught sight of Britain as it truly is: not a nation of individuals living disconnected lives in pursuit of self-interest, but a people united by a sense of fellow feeling and kinship, joined by a covenant of shared suffering and fate."
 * The coypu, a South American rodent imported into Britain early this century for fur, caused havoc to river banks on the Norfolk Broads before being eradicated.
 * Nigel Dauncey, who runs Barrow Boars near Yeovil, Somerset, said there were now about 400 head of breeding stock in Britain.
 * Losses to Customs & Excise were last year estimated at * 110 million, with 3 per cent of all beer drunk in Britain imported.
 * Shortfall in holidays forecast;Travel News Linsey McNeil ONE MILLION people in Britain will be unable to get the package holiday they want this summer because the number on sale has been heavily reduced, according to a leading tour operator.
 * The theme of the Central Council meeting in Harrogate, to be attended by the party's senior activists, will be the Government's plans to take Britain into the next century.
 * The Government promised at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 that Britain would be recycling 25 per cent of its waste by the turn of the century.
 * There are only about 160,000 red squirrels left in Britain, the majority in Scotland.
 * Meanwhile, the state of club finances in the Super League in Great Britain is revealed as parlous in some cases in a Radio Five Live investigation tonight.
 * Neville's boys united in England cause;Football;Profile;Gary Neville; Philip Neville Peter Ball Peter Ball looks at the latest achievement of probably the most successful sporting family in Great Britain Terry Venables, the England football coach, does not get a universally good press, but his decision, yesterday, to pick Gary and Philip Neville, the Manchester United defenders, in his squad for the game against Bulgaria at Wembley next week will be widely applauded.
 * Almost every other leading swimming nation has opted to have its trials mirror the Olympic Games programme, but Britain has proved penny-pinching over providing conditions that would have better suited its swimmers and prepared them for the summer ahead.
 * Britain to give * 17m for Bosnian repairs Michael Binyon, Diplomatic Editor BRITAIN yesterday announced a * 17 million repair programme for electricity, water, transport and public services in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
 * Baroness Chalker of Wallasey, the Overseas Development Minister, yesterday said the grant, boosting the * 12 million Britain announced for Bosnia in December, would cover projects in the Bosnian federation and in Serb-controlled areas.
 * The first, My Beginnings, a Very Special Story, is aimed at the estimated 16,000 couples in Britain whose children were born as a result of successful IVF.
 * That year also saw the admittance to Miss Lambert's Fashion Hall of Fame of such troupers as `Mrs David Bruce, wife of the US Ambassador to Great Britain, Mrs Walther Moreira Salles, a Brazilian living in Paris, Mrs T. Charlton Henry, of Philadelphia, in her late 70s but still celebrated for her taste in dress, and Rosalind Russell, the film star".
 * This debate is so fundamental to the future of Britain that both Government and Opposition thought it wise to bury the issue with a one-line whip.
 * This shows how far the Europeanisation of Britain has undermined the vitality and integrity of British politics.
 * We have saved Britain and Europe twice in a century, and we are now called upon to do so again.
 * Britain may face a wave of cases contracted in childhood that only become apparent years from now.
 * The ruling Congress Party, which has been in power almost without interruption since 1947 the year of India's independence from Britain cannot be certain this time of retaining its grip on the Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament.
 * It is ironic that you published a report on the same day that Britain boasts the longest working week in Europe.
 * In fact, the Gambols were well known far beyond Britain.
 * Together they provided a vision of Britain which never varied.
 * He was entitled to practise in Britain by virtue of his Italian qualifications but after suffering some deprecating comments on these from British colleagues, he threw himself into further study at Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
 * Bankoff did not like to work within fixed government parameters, and while he did not actually disagree with the introduction of the National Health Service in Britain, he did not have much to do with it.
 * The advertisements for the post self-consciously called it the hardest PR job in Britain.
 * Dr Thomas Stuttaford, page 24 Belize interests that began to 'hurt' in Britain; The Ashcroft affair; The Partner.
 * He told a long-standing business partner that he was quitting running the Belize flag of convenience shipping register and the offshore companies register because, with his increasingly high profile in Britain, the association had started `hurting" him.
 * Mr Brown said yesterday that he believed the tough standards imposed on the beef industry in Britain were necessary.
 * He assured the industry that the Government would play its part in helping Britain to regain lost markets.
 * THE BBC's u 25 million line-up of millennium programmes will include an educational history of Britain since the invasion of the Romans and a mountain-top broadcast from Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, the corporation disclosed yesterday.
 * Other major projects include The Century Speaks -- a radio series involving interviews with 6,000 people revealing their memories of the 1900s -- which will be transmitted from September 1999; History 2000, an educational history of Britain, which will recount the experiences of the people of the British Isles since the invasion of the Romans; and BBC FutureWorld, an interactive high tech touring exhibition which will offer a glimpse of the future of broadcasting.
 * Diplomats said Britain would contribute logistics units for the 3,000-strong force, most of which will be from Africa.
 * Concerns were raised in Britain recently when the Shanghai-based Foster's brewery applied for a license to export Chinese beer to Britain.
 * Foster's says that its Shanghai Beer brand is bottled according to a new Chinese standard and there are no known cases of bottle explosions in Britain.
 * Blackbirds, thrushes and skylarks do not usually migrate to Africa but if the weather deteriorates in Britain they fly to the Continent, mainly southwest France and northern Spain.
 * Thousands more songbirds common in Britain, such as the thrush and skylark, will die because of the extension, which is in breach of European Union law.
 * The new opening of the French hunting season on Saturday comes more than a month before those in Spain and Italy, and six weeks before the season starts in Britain.
 * Yesterday conservationists said that they were particularly concerned about migrating birds returning to Britain and other north European countries after the winter.
 * A poster is to appear throughout Britain to highlight the campaign.
 * A Jacobin decree that every man has the right to hunt transformed the practice into a lower-class activity far removed from the aristrocratic origins of hunting in Britain.
 * But we now know that some governments -- notably Britain -- had begun to plan for a ground offensive, an initiative that was to prove crucial to Milosevic's climbdown.
 * End of first week -- alarm mounts: In Britain, Germany and France, public support was holding up better than alliance leaders had expected against this catalogue of humiliations.
 * April 4: Thousands of ethnic Albanians to be given temporary shelter in Britain and other Western countries.
 * April 25: 161 men, women and children, the first Kosovan refugees to arrive in Britain, land in Leeds.
 * UN accuses Britain of not sharing the burden of refugees.
 * Britain increases its military committment to Kosovo by sending 2,000 more troops, a frigate and eight Harrier GR7s.
 * ED COODE was confirmed yesterday as the No3 man in the Great Britain coxless four for the world championships in St Catharines, Ontario, Canada, next month, finally ending speculation as to whether Tim Foster would regain the seat that he filled in the world champion crew until a back operation last December.
 * It was not an easy decision for Jurgen Grobler, the Britain coach, who said that he had two principal considerations: `First, never change a successful crew and, secondly, if we can win with a new guy, that's a bonus."
 * The championships are being used for Olympic qualifying places and only two Olympic events - the women's eights and the men's double sculls -- will not be contested by Britain.
 * Searle's brother, Jonny, his 1992 Olympic gold medal-winning pairs partner, returns to the Britain team for Canada in a coxed four.
 * Great Britain made an impressive start to the European junior championships in Moscow yesterday, winning four medals.
 * To finish as leading Great Britain and Ireland player: 15-8: Colin Montgomerie.
 * Great Britain and Ireland unless stated Most victories: 6: Harry Vardon, 1896, 1898, 1899, 1903, 1911, 1914. 5: James Braid, 1901, 1905, 1906, 1908, 1910; J H Taylor, 1894, 1895, 1900, 1909, 1913; Peter Thomson (Aus), 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1965; Tom Watson (US), 1975, 1977, 1980, 1982, 1983.
 * In Chile last year, he won a gold medal with Great Britain and Ireland in the Eisenhower Trophy, the world amateur team championship -- Gribben, Gary Wolstenholme and Lorne Kelly were his team-mates -- and this year he has been the best college player in the United States.
 * Britain make buoyant start; Sailing; Admiral's Cup.
 * The Great Britain team started the Champagne Mumm Admiral's Cup in the best possible style yesterday, emerging as the overall leaders after an action-packed first two races around the buoys on the Solent.
 * At the end of it all, Britain held a four-point lead over the three-boat Dutch team, with the Germans a further six points back in third.
 * STANDINGS (after two races): 1, Great Britain 17pts; 2, The Netherlands 21; 3, Germany 27; equal 4, Australia, Europe, United States 28; 7, Italy 34; 8, Commonwealth 37; 9, France 54.
 * But compare it with most of the comedy-drama being made in Britain (Hope & Glory, Bad Girls, Always And Everyone, Barbara and, God help us, Babes in the Wood) and Ally McBeal has an inventiveness, sophistication, dialogue, an ability to blend humour and drama, and an ambition that is rare over here.
 * Orangemen from all over Britain converge on this seaside town, although most are from Liverpool, the centre of English Orangeism.
 * Neither should it be surprising that John Redwood, the Shadow Secretary for Environment and Transport, scored a direct hit on Monday with his soundbites about `standstill Britain" and Labour's policy of `jams today and jams tomorrow".
 * Grandiose posturing will not get Britain back on the move.
 * What hope, then, can there be for a government in democratic Britain to discourage car use, to deter `unnecessary" travel and generally to `reduce mobility", in the slightly chilling Soviet-style phrase fashionable among the environment lobby?
 * Britain has a duty of care to its former colony';Opinion Does the brotherhood of man stop at the Balkans?
 * But Britain has a duty to Sierra Leone, its former colony.
 * So far, Britain has pledged $10 million and the World Bank $9.1 billion for a demobilisation and disarming programme.
 * The National Insurance Act came into force in Britain, 1912.
 * His insistence that Britain would go ahead with proposals to cut its gold reserves by more than half came as a South African delegation started a tour of London aimed at reversing the planned sales.
 * Every European state has its troubled province -- Corsica, Sicily, Catalonia -- yet Britain alone fails to achieve devolution or civil peace in Ulster.
 * Britain lectures democracy to Bosnia, Serbia, Iraq, Austria, even bombing those who refuse to listen.
 * Britain and America's most senior leaders cannot persuade the IRA to do what a Los Angeles cop gets a street gang to do every month, hand over a few guns.
 * As Conor Cruise O'Brien has always said, there will be political violence in Ulster as long as Britain holds the Province.
 * The only question is whether Britain wants to contain and ignore the violence, or allow it a veto over political reform.
 * Britain is responsible for Northern Ireland.
 * Britain is the sovereign power.
 * The meeting will further enrage Wiliam Hague -- still seething over Clarke's appearance on a platform with Blair at the launch of Britain in Europe last year.
 * Ask Chief Superintendent Steve Parnell of the Cambridgeshire Constabulary, the nation's snowdrop czar, who has just circulated the names and details of known bulb rustlers to every force in Britain.
 * Both Britain and Zimbabwe sit on the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group, the body that suspended Pakistan for infringing the Harare Declaration.
 * Kingdom;Leading Article The initial months of devolved government in Britain were destined to be experimental.
 * If the IRA had made any moves on its arsenal after the Executive was established, the Province would have enjoyed a greater degree of autonomy than any other part of Britain by the end of this year.
 * RYANAIR, Europe's biggest no frills airline, yesterday pledged to create 250 jobs in Britain by the summer on the back of a surge in profits and passenger traffic.
 * The arch sceptics of Denmark -- the only EU country besides Britain with a euro opt-out clause -- are also steadily moving towards euro membership.
 * Only Britain remains uncertain as to its EMU future, with any potential entry date slipping ever further into the distance.
 * If Britain was truly serious about watching and learning from the euro project, the experience of the other EMU outs should provide an important new element to the increasingly sterile debate.
 * Like Britain, the Swedes have been concerned that the Maastricht strictures and loss of economic sovereignty would damage their own relatively successful economic model.
 * However, other EU states, notably France, Germany and Italy, have been far more outspoken in their opposition to Austria than Britain.
 * BRITAIN yesterday made its most foreceful protest so far against Austria's new rightwing Government, when the Prince of Wales cancelled a trip to open a trade show there in May.
 * St James's Palace confirmed that the Prince had postponed the planned official visit to Austria, and the British Ambassador, Sir Anthony Figgis, told Michael Haeupl, the Mayor of Vienna, that the `Britain Now" show -- a series of cultural and commercial events -- would be cancelled.
 * A supporter of the Dalai Lama, the Prince was a noticeable absentee from the state banquets and other formalities which attended last year's state visit to Britain by President Jiang Zemin of China.
 * Apart from the four who jumped out of the plane, nine hostages have been freed since the plane landed in Britain and three -- from one family -- have applied for asylum.
 * The Chancellor will call for a new spirit of civic patriotism in Britain and announce a new public-private partnership to set up a register of volunteers through the Internet.
 * Government lawyers have won the right to appeal against a court ruling that threatens to render speed cameras useless in prosecuting motoring offences across Britain.
 * A report by the Society of British Neurological Surgeons says that Britain is so short of brain surgeons that it risks becoming a second or third-rate nation in terms of healthcare.
 * There are 180 neurosurgeons in Britain who carry out 49,000 operations a year.
 * He returned to Britain but when he arrived he was driven to a carpark and surrounded by a gang of motorcyclists.
 * Middlesex Guidhall Crown Court in London heard that Mr Youmbi, an illegal immigrant turned asylum-seeker, arrived in Britain in 1997.
 * Not long afterwards, the two conmen fled Britain.
 * TAXES on earnings are lower in Britain than in almost every other European country, according to research published by the independent Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
 * Despite the low levels of taxes on earnings, the overall tax burden in Britain remains higher than in many of our major trading partners - partly because of relatively high rates of indirect tax.
 * Nervous hijackers 'can stay in Britain' AFTER two days of talks the hijackers have yet to make a single political demand.
 * The disclosure served to heighten suspicions that many or even all of the passengers hope to take the opportunity to claim asylum in Britain.
 * The idea that the hijackers forced the plane to fly to Britain in order to escape the Taleban regime in Afghanistan was bolstered by the lack of immediate reaction from the hostage-takers to the escape last night of four of their victims.
 * A Home Office source said: `Technically they have entered Britain so we have to find out what they want to do now."
 * The six claimed asylum immediately they arrived in Britain.
 * But she admitted that Britain was obliged to consider all requests.
 * Fuertes was refused re-entry to Britain after he went on a club trip to Portugal and was discovered on his return to be carrying a forged Italian passport.
 * Yesterday, the two compulsory dances took five hours to complete and Julie Keeble and Lukasz Zalewski, of Great Britain, who are competing in their first European championship, performed to the best of their abilities in both compulsory dances and are sixteenth.
 * Matthew Davies, of Britain, completed seven of the eight elements without error and is now lying seventeenth.
 * TIM HENMAN gave up part of a rare day off yesterday to announce his participation in a revamped Samsung Open tournament, to be held in Brighton in November, but soon found himself answering questions about differences of opinion between the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) and David Lloyd, the Great Britain Davis Cup captain.
 * TENNIS: Louise Latimer, the Great Britain No1, battled gamely before falling to Anne Kremer, of Luxembourg, ranked more than 100 places above her, in the opening round of the indoor Paris Open at the Coubertin stadium yesterday.
 * Ice Hockey: Great Britain travel to Poland this weekend to play France, Romania and the host nation for a place in the Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games in 2002.
 * Britain will be without Tony Hand, who is injured, and Jonathan Weaver, the best young British-born player, who has been unable to obtain a release from his team, Mississippi Sea Wolves, of the East Coast League in the United States.
 * Britain backs Ashes revival; Rugby League.
 * Six years after the last Ashes series, the principle is laudable, but there are problems with timing and the commitment to a tri-nations competition between Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand in this country in 2001.
 * FIVE years ago he became the most expensive footballer in Britain, but yesterday the market value placed on his head reflected the downward spiral that has charted the career of Stan Collymore, the Aston Villa forward, since then.
 * Long hours (we in Britain work the longest week in Europe), increased communication (by fax, e-mail, mobile phones) and the struggle to fight your way up the corporate ladder (which at times feels greased and rungless) can make your present job seem less than appealing.
 * These jobs can be anywhere in Britain but presumably, with no commitments, you might be able to relocate.
 * There's one good thing about rainy old Britain -- you can wear a fashion classic every day.
 * Zimbabwe is confronted by its worst financial crisis since independence from Britain in 1980, with chronic fuel and foreign exchange shortages paralysing much of the economy.
 * Britain gave visas to tens of thousands of refugees from Germany and Austria, mainly Jews, trade unionists and socialists.
 * But what, ask some Labour politicians, about Scots teachers and nurses who want to hear how their colleagues are being treated in another part of Britain?
 * `Few companies, says the ASB discussion paper, `have taken advantage of the freedom to adopt terminology that is more comprehensible to the lay reader than the statutory terminology. Company reports and accounts may be the most frequently binned documents in Britain.
 * The tax differences are now so wide between Britain and Europe that it encourages organised criminal activity."
 * Some of the 220 acute hospitals in Britain limit spending on infection protection to u 500 a year.
 * Mr Gardner, who came to Britain from Zimbabwe in 1997, was reported to be in London last week when, police said, he told a friend that he was contemplating suicide.
 * A BOY of 12 has become the youngest person in Britain to be excluded from the centre of his home town under Government measures to curb unruly beheaviour by tearaways.
 * Queen Margrethe of Denmark, pecked the cheek of her distant and shorter cousin, Queen Elizabeth II, and then more formally her hand, at the start of a three-day state visit to Britain.
 * Bread consumption in Britain was then about twice as high per head as it is today.
 * Nevertheless, he had several imitators in Britain, including Screamin' Lord Sutch.
 * Here we see Morrison as Foreign Secretary pointing out features of the Festival of Britain and the Dome of Discovery to Prince William of Gloucester, on the extreme left, and Prince Michael of Kent, during a visit to the South Bank exhibition on May 4, 1951.
 * Born in Brixton on January 3, 1888, Morrison was a politician who would always be closely associated with London and not only for his enthusiasm for the Festival of Britain.
 * Mr Brown also said he wanted the cost of using the Internet in Britain to be as low as in the US by the end of 2002 and that he would `not allow any foot-dragging".
 * Lord Macdonald of Tradeston, Transport Minister, denied Britain was being protectionist but said officials had to protect British interests.
 * We have every reason to demand a quid pro quo for greater access to our markets but there is a more fundamental issue at stake for Britain.
 * Peter Williams, finance director, said: `We have interviewed every major property developer in Britain, and they are all very excited about the idea."
 * Britain will eventually have to abandon stamp duty on big shares or persuade our main continental rivals to match our rate.
 * The City, which was once fulsome in its praise for Souter's genius and his prospects for building a worldwide transport empire, is becoming increasingly worried about his chances of doing to the world what it did for Britain.
 * A TEENAGER has been given a minder to protect her from school bullies in what is believed to be the first scheme of its kind in Britain.
 * Buying votes: Overseas donors could pour millions of pounds into referendum campaigns in Britain because of a loophole in electoral reforms, the Conservatives claimed.
 * The pollsters, ICM, argued that `opposition looks increasingly backward looking" and that once the emotional distaste towards `Krauts, frogs and eyeties" had been discounted there was growing evidence that attitudes were changing because of the Channel Tunnel, and fears for the future if Britain did not join the euro.
 * However, if the economic balance changes, the focus group and polls suggest that the public might be won over, especially if a sense of `inevitability" is created that Britain has no choice or else it will be isolated.
 * Conversion to euro 'will cost Britain Pounds 36bn'; Politics.
 * IN establishing himself as the leading novice hurdler in Britain, Monsignor increasingly has acquired the look of an immovable object at Cheltenham next month.
 * James Hickman headed a five-medal haul for Great Britain on the first day of the final round of the World Cup in Malmo last night.
 * The losers in all this are those who live and work in the wildest and most beautiful parts of Britain.
 * In the country, human beings too may be an endangered species. magnus.linklater·virgin.net Broken-down Britain; Comment; Opinion.
 * Britain is definitely buzzing and London's becoming a pretty popular place to live.
 * I suspect that the emptiness of the Dome and the slipping clutches of the giant wheel may come to symbolise the growing scepticism around the world about Tony Blair's glitzy image of `New Britain".
 * Take telecommunications -- the fastest growing and most profitable major industry in Britain.
 * Surely it is not representative of the new Britain?
 * Britain today is full of people with new ideas.
 * But in Britain, the obsessive, finickity culture of getting things right first time seems lamentably weak.
 * In Britain today all the emphasis is on innovation, flexibility and trying out new ideas.