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TNT Sports (formerly BT Sport) is a group of pay television sports channels in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Owned by Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe and BT Group, they first launched on 1 August 2013. The channels are based at Warner Bros. Discovery's complex in Chiswick Business Park, London, having been based at Here East, the former ...
4 December – The standard definition feeds of BT Sport stop broadcasting on Virgin Media. 2019. 2 August – BT Sport 4K is rebranded as BT Sport Ultimate. 3 November – BT Sport ends its coverage of the WTA, having broadcast women's tennis since 2014. The rights pass to Amazon Prime for the 2020 season.
The Levellers proposed that elections be held on the first Thursday in every second March in The Agreement of the People in 1647. [3] Historically, elections took place over the course of a four-week period until 1918. Election days were then as follows: 14 December 1918 – Saturday. 15 November 1922 – Wednesday.
This is a list of United Kingdom general elections (elections for the UK 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.
The 2024 United Kingdom general election is scheduled to be held on Thursday, 4 July 2024. [1] It will determine the composition of the House of Commons, which determines the Government of the United Kingdom. Significant constituency boundary changes will be in effect, the first such changes since before the 2010 general election.
On the day of the election, polling stations across the country were open from 7 am, and closed at 10 pm. The date chosen for the 2019 general election made it the first to be held in December since the 1923 general election.
The Three-Day Week was one of several measures introduced in the United Kingdom in 1973–1974 by Edward Heath 's Conservative government to conserve electricity, the generation of which was severely restricted owing to industrial action by coal miners and railway workers. From 1 January 1974, commercial users of electricity were limited to ...
Electoral registration Advertisement in London publicised by the Electoral Commission encouraging voter registration ahead of the 2015 general election. The total number of names in the United Kingdom appearing in Electoral Registers published on 1 December 2010 and based on a qualifying date of 15 October 2010 was 45,844,691.