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Title: Gordon Brown announces £70m investment in UK manufacturing research
Runtime: 1:54
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has announced (7th January), a £70 million investment in manufacturing, to boost the economy and create new jobs across the country. The announcement was made at The Department of Business, Innovation and Skills in London EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) will launch three new state-of-the-art EPSRC Centres for Innovative Manufacturing, concentrating on three areas of pioneering research: Regenerative Medicine, Liquid Metals and Photonics. The three new centres receiving investment will be based at Southampton, Loughborough and Brunel universities. It follows a strong tradition of EPSRC financial support for manufacturing research, with £120 million provided over the past ten years. EPSRC the largest UK government agency for funding research and training in engineering and the physical sciences says this centres will bring researchers and businesses together to develop new fields of innovation, helping create much needed jobs...

Title: Racing For Change decimal betting announcement
Runtime: 2:58
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: Racing For Change, the commercial arm of British Horseracing, has announced the start of an ambitious programme to transform the sport. One major change this year will see the introduction of decimal betting, set to replace the traditional fractional betting.

The aim of the programme is to make the sport more appealing and accessible to younger audiences, as they believe they are unfamiliar with the current betting system.

Title: Courvoisier's Architectural Punch Bowl
Runtime: 1:34
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: Architectural Punch Bowl so big you can boat across it! Courvoisier launched a 4,000 litre bowl at 33 Portland Place in London last night. The bowl is enough to serve 25,000 people. The largest cocktail ever created is open to thirsty Londoners from 8th to 10th December.

Title: Guinness World Records Day 2009
Runtime: 3:04
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: Today, Thursday 12th November 2009 around 200,000 people around the world came together to attempt a wide range of records in celebration of the fifth annual Guinness World Records Day. The global event attracted record breakers from every continent who strove to make their mark in the famous book, which is currently enjoying the number 1 spot in the official UK top 50 chart.

From the wondrous and weird, to the sublime and downright silly, this years Guinness World Records Day featured events such as The Most People to Hug for 1 Minute and the Furthest distance to pull a double decker bus by the hair in London, the Longest Bicycle Jump in Italy and the Largest cheerleading dance in the USA.

Title: Chris Packham backs £18million investment in UKs parks
Runtime: 2:46
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: A huge boost of over £18million has been given to six of the UKs public parks by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and BIG Lottery Fund (BIG).

The cash injection, backed by environmentalist and TV presenter Chris Packham (Springwatch and The Really Wild Show), has been distributed to parks in Leicester, Bolton, Trafford, Middlesbrough, Letchworth Garden City and Southampton.

However, there are fears that all the good work achieved through lottery investment over last 15 years could so easily be undone without long term support from councils to maintain the parks.

Title: Guinness World Records unveils New Tallest Man!
Runtime: 2:27
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: The 2010 edition of the Guinness World Records book unveils a world exclusive in the shape of a new Worlds Tallest Man.

Guinness World Records Editor-in-chief, Craig Glenday, travelled to Turkey earlier this year to personally validate the claim of 27 year old Sultan Kosen who measures a staggering 8ft 1in (246.5cm). Sultan also has the worlds largest hands and largest feet measuring 27.5 cm and 36.5 cm respectively. He is the first person to officially measure over 8 ft in more than a decade and is a triple record holder. He stole the record from Bao Xishun (Mongolia), after Leonid Stadnyks (Ukraine) claim to the title was discredited when he refused to be independently measured.

Title: Celebrity Equinox Naming Ceremony
Runtime: 2:58
Date posted: 18 years ago
Description: Celebrity Equinox, the only cruise ship to launch in the UK this year, has been officially named and christened by its Godmother, Walk the Walk breast cancer charity founder, Nina Barough CBE, in an onboard ceremony in Southampton today (29 July 2009). The christening saw an acrobat somersaulting a pink ribbon to the stage for the Godmother to cut, which set in motion the iconic moment when a champagne bottle was smashed against the side of the ship. However, instead of the bottle breaking against the hull, Celebrity Equinox had her bottle smashed on the funnel above the onboard Lawn Club a real grass lawn on the top deck of the ship. During the ceremony, the ship was also blessed by a Rabbi and a Seamans Pastor. The ceremonious cutting of a ribbon to release the champagne bottle by the Godmother marks a ships official christening, a moment which is considered to be extremely important by the ships captain and crew. Nina Barough was invited to be Godmother to Celebrity Equinox in recog...

Title: TNR Showreel 2009
Runtime: 3:13
Date posted: 18 years ago
Description: TNR is a specialist communications consultancy offering PR services from a journalistic perspective.

Our close relationship with the Press Association makes our unique, editorial approach both objective and reliable. Whats more, our advice is completely free.

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