John Coxford (25 July 1901 – 1978) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Sunderland, Birmingham and Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic. He played as a centre half.

Life and career
Coxford was born in North Seaton, Ashington, Northumberland. He played for North Seaton Colliery and Stakeford United before joining Sunderland in 1924. He made his debut in the First Division on 18 April 1925, in a 1–1 draw at Blackburn Rovers, but never established himself as a first-team player. In April 1927, after only 11 games for Sunderland, Coxford joined fellow First Division club Birmingham. He was signed as cover for George Morrall, but the developing Tom Fillingham pushed Coxford down the pecking order, and after three years with the club in which he played only 16 games, he left for Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic of the Third Division South. At Bournemouth, Coxford had four seasons of regular first-team football. Towards the end of the 1933–34 season, he played two games for nearby Poole Town before moving on to Northfleet United as player-coach.

Northfleet United acted as a nursery club for Tottenham Hotspur. Wales and Tottenham player Ron Burgess described in his autobiography how  Coxford went on to join the training staff at Tottenham, working under Cecil Poynton, with particular responsibility for the reserve team.

Coxford died in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, in 1978 aged about 77.

References

1901 births
1978 deaths
Footballers from Ashington
English men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Sunderland A.F.C. players
Birmingham City F.C. players
AFC Bournemouth players
Poole Town F.C. players
Northfleet United F.C. players
English Football League players
Tottenham Hotspur F.C. non-playing staff
Date of death missing


KGBR (92.7 FM, "The Bridge") is a radio station licensed to serve Gold Beach, Oregon, United States.  St. Marie Communications, Inc. owns the station, which began regular broadcasting in 1986.

Programming
KGBR broadcasts a classic hits music format from a transmitter located atop Grizzly Mountain, in Curry County, Oregon.  In addition to its usual music programming, KGBR airs the following programs, NW Outdoors Radio, Nationally syndicated Greatest Hits USA, The Ultimate Oldies Show, The Golden Days Of Radio, Locally produced "Ol' Hippie Rock n Roll Oldies Show with Bruce Greive & Country Comfort Radio hosted by Ryan West.  Syndicated series Eye On Veterans, Sunday Morning Gospel, Golf with Jay Delsing.

History
This station received its original construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on January 27, 1981.  The new station was assigned the call letters KGBR by the FCC.  In November 1982, permit holder James N. Hoff applied to transfer the construction permit for this station to George L. Chambers and Bonnie L. Chambers, doing business as Chambers Broadcasting.  The deal was approved by the FCC on February 8, 1983, and the transaction was consummated on April 28, 1983.

Chambers Broadcasting announced a deal in October 1986 to transfer the KGBR permit to Republic Communications of Oregon, Inc.  The deal was approved by the FCC on November 5, 1986.  This would prove short-lived as Republic Communications of Oregon, Inc., reached an agreement in January 1987 to sell this station to St. Marie Communications, Inc.  The deal was approved by the FCC on March 11, 1987, and the transaction was consummated on March 20, 1987.

After multiple extensions and permit holder transfers, KGBR finally received its license to cover from the FCC on June 25, 1987.

Former on-air staff
Ron Lyons, a radio announcer in the San Francisco Bay area for more than 40 years, retired to Gold Beach in 2004 where he hosted the weekday afternoon "The Ron Lyons Show" on KGBR.  Arriving in California in 1960, Lyons worked at several radio stations, sold waterbeds, and did voice work for a Sacramento television station before spending 14 years on KCBS (740 AM) doing traffic reports.  He once advised his son Sean, now a disc jockey known as "Tom Berlin", against a career in radio by saying "Sell coke, run guns ... but don't ever go into radio."  Lyons died on August 3, 2007, after "a battle with cancer".

References

External links
KGBR official website

GBR
Radio stations established in 1986
Gold Beach, Oregon
Classic hits radio stations in the United States
1986 establishments in Oregon
Curry County, Oregon


Lake Gore is a seasonal and semi-permanent freshwater lake in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia located approximately  west of Esperance.  It is an important site for waterbirds.

Description
The lake is almost circular in shape and has several smaller lakes located to the west including Lake Kubitch and Carbul Lake. A larger lake, Quallilup Lake is located further to the south near Shelley Beach. The lake and its surrounds are situated in the Albany-Fraser Orogen with alluvial sediments overlying gneiss, sandstone and limestone on a sub-coastal plain. The lake itself is a sub-terminal drainage basin.  The wetland area has a total volume of  and a total catchment area of .

Hydrology
The lake is recharged mostly via surface flow from the Dalyup River directly into Lake Gore with Coobidge Creek supplying many of the surrounding lake systems. The maximum depth of Lake Gore is recorded as  in 1986 when the lake was inundated but with a mean depth of  and the lake has dried up several times the last being in 1984.

The water is colourless and has low tannin levels. The salinity of the river varies depending on rainfall, the minimum salinity is recorded as 6.5ppt but the September mean is 52ppt. Salinity levels rise as the lake dries out in summer.  The pH of the lake water fluctuates between 7.1 and 9.4.  The water quality and salinity levels are regularly monitored by local school students as part of the Ribbons of Blue program.

Flora and fauna
The wetlands support a narrow zone of woodland composed of saltwater paperbark, with an understorey of sedges such as coastal saw-sedge and Schoenus brevifolius.  The area is a suitable habitat for a variety of birds, with over 20,000 visiting the lake each year.  It supports the largest known population of hooded plover, holding up to one third of the global population.  It is important as a moulting site for Australian shelduck, and as a drought refuge for large numbers of ducks and shorebirds.  It also supports up to 10% of the global population of banded stilt.  The Lake Gore system has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports over 1% of the world population of hooded plovers and has also supported over 1% of the world populations of Australian shelducks and banded stilts.

Protection
Lake Gore is part of Nature Reserve 32419, set aside for conservation purposes.  The Dalyup River flows into the eastern end of the lake. The wetlands of which the lake is a part cover an area of  and were recognised as being of international importance through designation under the Ramsar Convention on 5 January 2001 as Ramsar Site 1049. The lake is also a DIWA-listed wetland.

See also

 List of lakes of Western Australia

References

Gore
Gore
Gore
Important Bird Areas of Western Australia


Minuscule 439 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Scrivener 439, ε 240 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1159.
The marginal apparatus is complete. The text represents the Byzantine tradition.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 219 parchment leaves (). The text is written in two columns per page, in 23 lines per page.

The text is divided according to the  (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their  (titles) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).

It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables, tables of the  (tables of contents) before each Gospel, pictures (portraits of Evangelists), and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx. Aland placed it in Category V.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it re presents the textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20, and belongs to the textual cluster 877. In Luke 10 no profile was made.

History

The manuscript was written by Nephon, a monk from Athos in April, 1159. It once belonged to Anthony Askew (1722–1774) (as codices 438 and 443). It was examined by Bloomfield. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794–1852).
C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.

It is currently housed at the British Library in London (Add MS 5107) .

See also

 List of New Testament minuscules
 Biblical manuscript
 Textual criticism

References

Further reading

External links
 Add MS 5107 Digitised Manuscripts at the British Library

Greek New Testament minuscules
12th-century biblical manuscripts


The Swansea History Journal - Minerva is a journal started in 1993 containing articles on historical and artistic topics related to the Swansea area of Wales.

It is published by The Royal Institution of South Wales, founded in 1835 as Swansea Philosophical and Literary Society. Its aims are to advance the study of natural history, local history, the arts and literature. Its principal activities have been the foundation and management of Swansea Museum, and holding lectures and other events.  It now acts as the Friends of Swansea Museum.

The journal was launched as Minerva in 1993  as an English language popular journal containing topics related to the Swansea area. From 1995 it was retitled into Minerva – Swansea's Local History Journal. In 1999 it changed again; this time into Minerva – The Journal of Swansea History. And in 2007/08 it became the Swansea History Journal – Minerva.

The first fourteen volumes of the journal (from 1993 to 2006) have been digitized by the Welsh Journals Online project at the National Library of Wales.

References

External links

Minerva at Welsh Journals Online

Magazines published in Wales
Academic journals established in 1993
History of Wales
Welsh history journals
History of Swansea
English-language journals
1993 establishments in Wales
Annual journals


Sir Samuel Servington Savery (March 1861 – 27 December 1938)  was a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Holderness from 1923 to 1938. He was also founder and the first Headmaster of Bramcote School, Scarborough.

Early life and education
Savery was born in Oxford the son of Rev. George Savery. He was educated at Kingswood School in Bath, Somerset. He obtained a Master of Arts from Christ Church, Oxford before going to Scarborough, North Yorkshire and founding Bramcote Preparatory School.

Political career
During his career he was a member of Holderness County Council, North Riding County Council and was also a Justice of the Peace in Scarborough.

Savery was elected Chairman of the Scarborough and Whitby Conservative Association, although he was eventually chosen by Holderness Conservative Association to contest the 1923 general election for that constituency. At the 1923 general election he was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Holderness. He defeated the Liberal Party incumbent, Audley Bowdler, who had enacted the first change of party allegiance of the constituency in its history. He held the seat until his death in 1938, aged 77. In 1937, Savery was knighted for "public and political services."

Death
Until his death, Savery's age was a mystery with Debrett's giving his age as "Born 18..." and Whitaker's Almanack simply as "Born..." Several hours after his death, however, his age, which was 77, was revealed to the world.

References

1861 births
1938 deaths
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1923–1924
UK MPs 1924–1929
UK MPs 1929–1931
UK MPs 1931–1935
UK MPs 1935–1945
Politicians from Oxford
Politicians from Scarborough, North Yorkshire


The UWA World Featherweight Championship (Campeonato Mundial peso Pluma de UWA in Spanish) was a professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican wrestling promotion Universal Wrestling Association (UWA) from 1983 until the promotion closed in 1995. The official definition of the Featherweight weight class in Mexico is between  and , but is not always strictly enforced. the UWA World Featherweight Championship was not among the UWA titles that were kept active even after the UWA closed, like the UWA World Heavyweight Championship, but was abandoned when the UWA closed down.

As it was a professional wrestling championship, the championship was not won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match determined by the bookers and match makers. On occasion the promotion declares a championship vacant, which means there is no champion at that point in time. This can either be due to a storyline, or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship, or leaving the company.

Title history

Footnotes

References

External links
UWA Featherweight Title history at:
Wrestling-titles.com
Cagematch.net
Solie.org

Featherweight wrestling championships
Universal Wrestling Association championships
World professional wrestling championships


is a mountain range of Hokkaidō, Japan. Unlike much of the rest of Japan, the Kitami Mountains are not very seismically active.

The Kitami Mountains are north of the Ishikari Mountains and east of the Teshio Mountains. A depression separates the Kitami Mountains from the Yūbari Mountains. The highest point in the Kitami Mountains is Mount Teshio. Mount Teshio sits atop the Wenshiri horst.

Geology
Rocks from the Kitami mountains are mostly sedimentary from the Cretaceous-Paleogene periods. Volcanic rock was placed down on top of this from volcanoes that erupted in the Miocene or later.

The Kitami Mountains formed in the inner arc of the Kurile Arc.

Mountains
  (1,558m)
  (1,446m)
  (1,345m)
  (1,142m)
  (1,129m)
  (987m)
  (818m)

References

Mountain ranges of Hokkaido


Renato Piccolotto is an internationally renowned Italian chef who was born in Asolo (Province of Treviso) in 1954 and is the Executive Chef of the Hotel Cipriani in Venice where he started working in 1983.

In the recent years he has been the head chef for the events of Elton John for the "Elton John AIDS Foundation" that is set during the Academy Award ceremony.

External links
 Hotel Cipriani Chef's Profile
 http://www.gourmandia.com/chefs/renato-piccolotto
 http://www.entrechefs.co.uk/chef.asp?id=15&Renato-Piccolotto
 http://www.style.it/cont/lifestyle/style-files/0804/2800/Chef-in-crociera-Piccolotto-6.asp

1954 births
Living people
People from Asolo
Italian chefs


Gunnar Aase (born 29 September 1971) is a retired football player from Norway.

He played for Viking FK in the Norwegian Premier League from 1990 to 2000. In 1991 Viking with Aase on the team won the Premier League. He retired after the 2000 season which ended with a loss in the Norwegian Football Cup Final and a conflict with the club who wanted to reduce his salary. Aase was also a prolific youth international.

In 2003, he coached Sola FK together with Børre Meinseth.

References

1971 births
Living people
Norwegian men's footballers
Viking FK players
Norway men's youth international footballers
Norway men's under-21 international footballers
Norway men's international footballers

Eliteserien players
Men's association football midfielders


Thomas Cook House may refer to:

Thomas Cook House (Somerville, Massachusetts), listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)
Thomas Cook House (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), NRHP-listed

See also
Cook House (disambiguation)


This is a list of British television related events from 1997.

Events

January
1 January –
New Year's Day highlights on BBC1 include a TV film adaptation of The Mill on the Floss and Global Sunrise, an 80-minute film presented by Julian Pettifer. It also includes the culmination of a project that saw camera crews at twenty locations around the world on 1 January 1996, recording the rising sun through six continents and all time zones.
ITV introduces a third weekly episode of Emmerdale.
2 January – Test transmissions begin for Channel 5 in some areas. Details of them are made available on Ceefax page 698 for a few weeks.
3 January – The final episode in the second run of the game show Celebrity Squares, presented by Bob Monkhouse, is broadcast on ITV, although it would be revived briefly in 2014 and 2015.
5 January – The network television premiere of Jim Sheridan's 1993 biographical drama In the Name of the Father on BBC2, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite and Emma Thompson.
6 January – Channel 4 closes down for the last time with 24-hour transmissions commencing at 6am the following day. Consequently, after nearly 15 years on the air, 4-Tel On View ends.
7 January – Carlton presents Monarchy: The Nation Decides, a live studio debate discussing the future of the monarchy in the UK. Viewers were encouraged to vote on the issue in what is the UK's largest television phone poll. However, Carlton is forced to extend the deadline for calls following complaints from people unable to get through. Of the 2.6million callers who vote, 66% are in favour of retaining a monarch while 34% are against.
8 January – The serialised children's series The Wild House makes its debut on BBC1.
9 January – BT releases an advert featuring Letitia Dean and nine other former EastEnders stars in its Friends and Family promotion despite the BBC threatening them with legal action. The BBC subsequently withdraws its threat to sue after BT pays them an undisclosed five-figure amount.
14 January – Viewing figures released for 1996 indicate that BBC1 and BBC2 as the only terrestrial channels to increase their audience share during the year.
29 January – Debut of the spoof documentary series Brass Eye on Channel 4.
31 January
The Independent Television Commission receives two applications for the licence to operate digital terrestrial television in the UK. They come from British Digital Broadcasting (BDB), a joint venture between Carlton, Granada and British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) and from Digital Television Network (DTN), a company created by cable operator CableTel, later known as NTL.
Details of Channel 5's schedule are leaked to Broadcast magazine. A spokeswoman for the channel confirms the schedule is largely accurate but that the amount of imported content has been distorted, Channel 5's schedule will be made up of 70% UK-produced content.

February
2 February – BBC2 airs George A. Romero's cult 1978 zombie horror Dawn of the Dead, starring David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott Reiniger and Gaylen Ross.
3 February
Trouble launches, broadcasting programming aimed at teenagers and young adults. It shares space with Bravo whose broadcasting hours change to 8pm to 6am.
The Family Channel relaunches as a game show channel called Challenge TV, although Family Late continues to broadcast as an overnight programming block.
Pre-school programmes block Tiny TCC which aired every morning from 6am until 9am is transferred to UK Living and is renamed Tiny Living with its airtime being changed to 7am to 9am on weekdays and 7am to 10am during the weekend.
5 February – The first Wednesday edition of the National Lottery is broadcast on BBC1 with the introduction of a second weekly draw.
5 February – Debut of the comedy sketch series Armstrong and Miller on the Paramount Comedy Channel and later on Channel 4, starring Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller.
9 February – The live final of the 1997 Masters on BBC2 is interrupted by snooker's first ever streaker, 22-year-old secretary Lianne Crofts who invaded the playing area at the beginning of the third frame. After stewards removed her from the arena, Ronnie O'Sullivan amused the crowd by comically wiping the brow of veteran referee John Street who was refereeing his final match of his career.
12 February – Channel 5 releases details of its programme scheduling. It will introduce the concept of stripping and stranding to British television, stripping being where a programme is shown at the same time each day and stranding being where similar programmes are shown at the same time each day. A full schedule is published on 18 February.
14 February – The cable-only entertainment channel Carlton Select replaces SelecTV which it acquired when Carlton bought Pearson Television.
15 February – The Simpsons is shown for the last time on BBC1 with the episode Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish.
19 February – Ceefax ceases to provide information on Channel 5 test transmissions.
24 February – The final episode of the sitcom The Brittas Empire is broadcast on BBC1.
28 February – The BBC sells its transmitters and transmission services to Castle Transmission Services for £244 million to help fund its plans for the digital age.
February – The Paramount Channel relaunches as the Paramount Comedy Channel, a channel dedicated solely to comedy. Previously, the channel had aired drama alongside its comedy output.

March
3 March – Dave Spikey becomes the sixth host for the final series of the ITV weekday morning game show Chain Letters in the same year as its 10th anniversary.
4 March – The BBC and Flextech agree on a deal to provide BBC-branded channels. BBC Showcase, for entertainment, BBC Horizon, for documentaries, BBC Style, for lifestyle programming, BBC Learning, for schools and BBC Arena, for the arts plus three other channels: BBC Catch-Up, for repeats of popular programmes within days of their original broadcast, a dedicated BBC Sport channel and a TV version of Radio 1.
8 March – ITV takes over the UK television rights to Formula One after 18 years of coverage on the BBC. It shows full coverage of qualifying as well as the race itself, something that the BBC generally did not do.
10 March – The Simpsons is moved from BBC1 to BBC2 and is shown between Monday and Friday at 6pm.
14 March – Among the highlights of that year's Comic Relief telethon is Prime Cracker, a short spoof crossover of ITV stablemate crime dramas Prime Suspect and Cracker, starring Helen Mirren and Robbie Coltrane as their respective characters.
18 March – The final episode of Come Outside is broadcast on BBC2.
21 March – Campaign magazine reports that the BBC and Flextech have ratified their joint venture. They will create two new operational ventures, one that will develop and launch subscription channels in the UK and Ireland and one that will acquire and run UK Gold.
23 March
The science documentary The Language Master makes its debut on BBC2 in which language teacher Michel Thomas taught French to sixth form students for five days at a further education college in London. As a result of the interest generated by this documentary, the publisher Hodder & Stoughton commissioned Thomas to produce commercial versions of his courses.
Debut of the long-running crime drama Midsomer Murders on ITV, starring John Nettles.
25 March – ITV's Network First strand presents a ground-breaking documentary about Edinburgh's Royal Blind School, a boarding school for visually impaired students.
26 March – The network television premiere of Alan J. Pakula's 1993 American thriller The Pelican Brief on ITV, based on John Grisham's novel of the same name starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington.
28 March – The final episode of the children's series Playdays is broadcast on BBC2.
30 March
Channel 5, the UK's sixth and last analogue terrestrial channel, launches at 6pm. The first faces seen are the Spice Girls who perform 1-2-3-4-5, a rewritten version of Manfred Mann's 1964 song 5-4-3-2-1. The opening night's highlights include the launch of a new daily soap Family Affairs and The Jack Docherty Show, a weeknight chat show based on the format of American shows such as The Late Show with David Letterman.
Sky1 airs The Springfield Files, a crossover episode of The Simpsons with The X-Files, featuring the guest voices of David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, as well as Star Treks Leonard Nimoy who appears as himself to feature numerous references of the series.
ITV airs the comedy pilot Cold Feet. It returns for a full series the following year and runs until 2003.
31 March
The hugely popular children's series Teletubbies makes its debut on BBC2.
The game show Blockbusters relaunches on BBC2, presented by Michael Aspel. This is the only version featuring adult contestants and purple hexagons while retaining the same format. The series continues until 28 August.
BBC1 airs a made-for-television version of Michael Flatley's musical Lord of the Dance. The programme is shown on the same evening that Channel 4 airs a relaunched version of Riverdance featuring Colin Dunne and Jean Butler.
Channel 5 becomes the subject of a ratings war with all major channels adopting aggressive scheduling to retain viewers. As well as Lord of the Dance, BBC1 airs two episodes of EastEnders and the thriller Malice, while ITV screens five films, including Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and RoboCop 2. Channel 4 has the films The Goodbye Girl and Breakheart Pass.
The inaugural edition of 5 News features an interview with Labour Party leader Tony Blair.
Among the new shows that made their debut on Channel 5 that day include the game shows 100% and Whittle as well as Hot Property and the children's programming block Milkshake!.
Debut of BBC World's flagship interview series HARDtalk.

April
1 April
At 4:40am, Channel 5 begins a rerun of the Australian soap Prisoner: Cell Block H. This is the series first networked broadcast in the UK as during its earlier run on ITV, scheduling of the show had varied from region to region.
Quincy, a series that was previously shown on ITV, begins airing on BBC1 as part of the their daytime schedule.
3 April
BBC1 airs Episode 2710 of Neighbours in which the character Cheryl Stark, played by Caroline Gillmer, is killed off when she is hit by a vehicle while trying to cross a road to save her daughter. Scenes involving the accident are censored by the BBC before the episode is broadcast. Five seconds of the episode had also been cut before it aired in Australia in September 1996.
Postman Pat returns for a new series of 13 episodes on BBC1, copyrighted the previous year. Two special episodes were aired two and a half years prior to making another 15 episodes in total.
The Learning Channel is renamed Discovery Home & Leisure.
5 April
The 1997 Grand National is delayed after a suspected IRA bomb threat. The race is eventually run on 7 April at 5pm. It was the last of 50 Nationals, including the void race of 1993 to be commentated by Peter O'Sullevan.
Debut of the music game show Night Fever on Channel 5, presented by Suggs.
Debut of the game show Whatever You Want on BBC1, presented by Gaby Roslin.
5–6 April – BBC1 airs a two-part adaptation of The Ice House, the debut novel of crime writer Minette Walters. The miniseries stars Daniel Craig, Corin Redgrave, Kitty Aldridge and Frances Barber.
6 April
The network television premiere of Chris Columbus' 1993 American comedy drama Mrs. Doubtfire on Channel 5, starring Robin Williams.
Debut of the drama series Where the Heart Is on ITV.
7 April
Debut of the children's game show 50/50 on BBC1, presented by Sally Gray.
HTV's main evening news programme is renamed The West Tonight, as the change coincides with the opening of a digital broadcast centre at Bristol studios.
Peter Baldwin makes his final appearance as popular character Derek Wilton in Coronation Street, having appeared on and off since 1976 with Derek dying of a heart attack following a road rage incident. The character was axed in a high-profile cull by producer Brian Park.
8 April
BBC journalist Martin Bell announces that he is to stand as a candidate against Neil Hamilton in the Tatton constituency on an anti-corruption platform.
The American/Canadian children's animated series Arthur makes its UK debut on BBC1.
12 April – The final edition of the game show You Bet! is broadcast on ITV after 9 years on the air.
13 April – The network television premiere of Brian Gibson's 1993 biographical drama What's Love Got to Do with It on Channel 4, based on the life of the legendary American singer Tina Turner and stars Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne and Vanessa Bell Calloway.
14 April – June Brown returns to EastEnders as Dot Cotton after a four-year break.
15 April – The Bookmark documentary film The Thomas the Tank Engine Man airs on BBC2 again as a tribute to the author and creator of The Railway Series and Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends The Rev. W. Awdry who died in his home in Stroud, Gloucestershire after being bedridden and suffering from health problems on 21 March.
16 April – The network television premiere of Andrew Davis' 1993 American action thriller The Fugitive on ITV, starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones.
25 April – The final edition of the daytime game show Chain Letters is broadcast on ITV after 10 years on the air.
27 April – The BBC confirms that the comedy duo Hale and Pace have signed a £1 million two-year deal that will see them move from ITV.

May
1 May – General Election night: for the first time, the brothers David and Jonathan Dimbleby anchor rival results programmes on BBC1 and ITV, respectively. The same arrangement will occur for the General Elections in 2001 and 2005.
2 May – The network television premiere of Falling Down on BBC1, a 1993 American action thriller starring Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall and Barbara Hershey.
3 May – Katrina and the Waves win the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Love Shine a Light, the first time the UK has won the competition since 1981.
10 May – Debut of the crime mystery series Jonathan Creek on BBC1, starring Alan Davies as the titular character.
13 May – Jeremy Paxman speaks to Michael Howard on Newsnight on BBC2 and the interview becomes the programme's most notorious. Howard who had been Home Secretary until thirteen days earlier, had held a meeting with Derek Lewis, head of the Prison Service about the possible dismissal of the governor of Parkhurst Prison, John Marriott. Howard, having given evasive answers, was asked by Paxman the same question, "Did you threaten to overrule him (Lewis)?", a total of twelve times in succession, 14 if the first two inquiries worded somewhat differently and some time before the succession of 12 are included. Howard did not give a direct answer, instead repeatedly saying that he "did not overrule him" and ignoring the "threaten" part of the question. Howard finally answered Paxman's question on his final edition of Newsnight in 2014, saying "No Jeremy, I didn't. But feel free to ask another eleven times."
21 May – Serena Martin wins the 1997 series of Junior MasterChef on BBC1.
23 May – The long-running Channel 4 game show Countdown celebrates its 2000th edition with a special retrospective programme.
24–26 May – Channel 4 dedicates the Spring Bank Holiday weekend to sitcoms. It features classic episodes, 1970s spin-off films and documentaries about the genre's appeal.
25 May – The network television premiere of John Waters 1994 American black comedy Serial Mom on Channel 4, starring Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston and Ricki Lake.
26 May – BBC1 airs the documentary Lenny's Big Amazon Adventure which sees Lenny Henry travel to Peru with survival expert Lofty Wiseman.
30 May
The network television premiere of Russell Mulcahy's 1993 American crime caper The Real McCoy on Channel 5, starring Kim Basinger, Val Kilmer and Terence Stamp.
ITV airs a one-off special programme Kids Behaving Badly, Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan present a live debate spotlighting lawlessness among Britain's youth with video evidence of juvenile crime and live links to troubled areas.
The network television premiere of Carl Reiner's 1993 American spoof erotic thriller Fatal Instinct on BBC1, starring Armand Assante, Sherilyn Fenn, Kate Nelligan and Sean Young.
31 May
Michael Grade steps down from the role of Chief Executive of Channel 4. He is succeeded by Michael Jackson who takes over the following day.
Channel 5 airs its first international football coverage, a match between England and Poland. The channel experiments with a new presenting format which tries to recreate the atmosphere of a bar with presenters supplying coverage against the backdrop of chatter from an invited audience. The format draws criticism with The Independent's Glenn Moore describing it as a "shambles" However, the coverage gives the channel its largest audience so far with a viewership of five million.

June
2 June – BBC Breakfast News is given a revamp. Its studio and theme tune changes. It is now known as Breakfast News, rather than BBC Breakfast News.
4 June – Magdalen College, Oxford wins the 1996–97 series of University Challenge on BBC2, beating The Open University 250–195.
7 June – Debut of the dating game show The Other Half on BBC1, presented by Dale Winton.
8 June
The last football match commentated by Jock Brown for BBC Scotland which was a World Cup Qualifier when Scotland played away to Belarus to win 1–0. He leaves the station at the end of the month to take a role as general manager at Celtic F.C.
Faye Dempsey wins the eighth series of Stars in Their Eyes on ITV, performing as Olivia Newton-John.
The network television premiere of Brian De Palma's 1983 American gangster thriller remake Scarface on BBC2 as part of the Moviedrome strand, starring Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert Loggia, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Steven Bauer and F. Murray Abraham.
10 June
BBC2 airs the documentary Homeground: An Exile's Return, telling the story of Martin McGartland, a former British agent who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
Debut of the docusoap Driving School on BBC1.
11 June – SMG buys Grampian Television, the ITV contractor for Northern Scotland for £105 million.
18 June – The final episode of the supernatural soap Springhill is broadcast on Sky1.
19 June – Media agencies reject Granada Group chairman Gerry Robinson's call for the formation of a single ITV company, expressing concerns it would be extremely damaging to advertisers.
25 June – The Independent Television Commission award the sole digital terrestrial television broadcast licence to British Digital Broadcasting.
26 June – Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television plc is acquired by Granada Group plc.
30 June – BBC1 airs a day of coverage of the Hong Kong handover ceremony, marking the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to China, an event that happens at midnight local time, 5pm in the UK.

July
1 July – MTV launches on all satellite and cable platforms in the UK and Ireland. It replaces the pan-European service and is part of a strategy which sees localised MTV channels launch across Europe.
3 July – After 17 years, Peter Snow presents Newsnight for the last time, although he will continue to make occasional appearances as a political analyst until 2005.
4 July – The Battersby family, described by the media as a "family from hell", make their debut in Coronation Street.
5 July – ITV airs the comedy pilot The Grimleys. A full series begins in 1999 and runs until 2001.
11 July – Debut of Celebrity Ready Steady Cook on BBC1, presented by Fern Britton.
12 July
The network television premiere of John Woo's 1993 American action thriller Hard Target on BBC1, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.
The US fantasy series Xena: Warrior Princess makes its UK debut on Channel 5, starring Lucy Lawless as the titular character.
14 July – Debut of the ...from Hell documentary series on ITV.
18 July – The network television premiere of Bernard Rose's 1992 American horror Candyman on Channel 4, starring Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Xander Berkeley, Kasi Lemmons and Vanessa Williams.
25 July
Channel 5 announces plans to run an advertising campaign on ITV in order to attract more viewers.
The network television premiere of Clive Barker's 1987 supernatural horror Hellraiser on Channel 4, starring Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence and Doug Bradley.
26 July – Midlands Today presenter Alan Towers announces live on air that he is leaving the programme after 25 years in broadcast journalism, describing BBC bosses as "pygmies in grey suits wearing blindfolds".

August
1 August – The US animated series King of the Hill makes its UK debut on Channel 4.
3 August – Julie Friend wins the 1997 series of MasterChef on BBC1.
7 August – The final episode of This Life is broadcast on BBC2.
8 August – The children's animated series Postman Pat has been snapped up by Premiere 12 for broadcasting in Singapore.
24 August – Sky1 airs a special episode of The Simpsons, in which Troy McClure introduces three spin-off segments include references to many different television series, as well as American comedian and actor Tim Conway makes its guest appearance as himself.
26 August
It is reported that former Grandstand presenter Helen Rollason has been diagnosed with cancer and will undergo emergency surgery.
Debut of the fly-on-the-wall documentary series Vets in Practice on BBC1.
31 August
Sky2 and Granada Talk TV both cease broadcasting.
BBC1 stays on the air throughout the night, simulcasting with BBC World News to bring updates of Diana, Princess of Wales's car accident and death. At 6am, a rolling news programme, anchored by Martyn Lewis and from 1pm by Peter Sissons, is shown on both BBC1 and BBC2 until the latter breaks away at 3pm to provide alternative programming. BBC1 continues to provide coverage until closedown when it once again hands over to BBC World News. ITV's unbroken news coverage of the tragedy lasts until well into the evening with the first scheduled programme being Coronation Street. In the days following her death, regular programming is abandoned in order to allow for coverage of events.

September
1–5 September – Extended news bulletins and additional programmes are broadcast all week to keep viewers up to date on the aftermath of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
1 September
The National Geographic Channel is launched. It is an evening-only service, on air each night from 7.00pm until 1.00am.
Channel 5's The Jack Docherty Show returns after the summer break with a relaunch which includes new music and titles. The Friday edition is also dropped at Docherty's suggestion, ending the original five-nights-a-week format.
Magnus Magnusson hosts his final episode of Mastermind on BBC1. John Humphrys would succeed him upon its return in 2003.
5 September
Queen Elizabeth II addresses the nation with a special broadcast in which she pays tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales, only the second time she has done so. The address is broadcast live at 6.00pm, ahead of the early evening news broadcasts.
The former ITV game show Name That Tune returns for a new series on Channel 5, presented by Jools Holland.
6 September – The live broadcast of the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales is watched by 2.5 billion viewers worldwide. The ceremony's footage goes down in the Guinness World Records as the biggest TV audience for a live broadcast. In the UK, 32.10 million viewers watch the broadcast. It is the UK's second most-watched broadcast of all time, behind 1966's World Cup final.
9 September – The network television premiere of the 1993 American crime drama A Perfect World on ITV, starring Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood and Laura Dern.
10 September – BBC2 begins showing the six-part documentary series The Nazis: A Warning from History which examines the rise and fall of the Nazi Party in Germany. The final part is aired on 15 October.
11 September – The US sitcom Suddenly Susan makes its UK debut on Sky1, starring Brooke Shields.
13 September – The network television premiere of the 1991 American romantic drama The Prince of Tides on ITV, starring Barbra Streisand and Nick Nolte.
14 September – Gumby: The Movie is broadcast on The Disney Channel, marking the only time Gumby is aired in the UK.
16 September
The BBC announces a radical shake-up of news and current affairs programming that will see television and radio news services produced by the same production teams.
BBC1 airs the documentary series Holiday Memories in which presenter Esther Rantzen revisits Zimbabwe with her daughter. She became severely ill after filming the episode and was subsequently diagnosed with Giardiasis. She is absent from her BBC2 afternoon talk show Esther for a few months while recovering from the condition, returning to television in early 1998.
19 September – Debut of the garden makeover series Ground Force on BBC2, presented by Alan Titchmarsh, Charlie Dimmock and Tommy Walsh.
20 September – Debut of the BBC promotional film featuring a version of Lou Reed's 1972 song Perfect Day performed by various artists including David Bowie, Bono, Brett Anderson and Laurie Anderson. Due to its popularity, the version is released as a single on 17 November with sales benefiting Children in Need. The song ultimately spends three weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart and raises £2,125,000 for Children in Need. By November 2016, it has sold 1.54 million copies, despite not being available for download.
22–25 September – EastEnders airs a series of episodes from Ireland which attract criticism from viewers and the Irish embassy because of their negative and stereotypical portrayal of Irish people. The BBC later issues an apology for any offence the episodes caused.
29 September – Two new children's animated series, The Enchanted Lands, based on the book series The Faraway Tree and The Wishing Chair by Enid Blyton and Noah's Island, made by Telemagination, the company behind The Animals of Farthing Wood both make their debuts on BBC1. Both of the series first aired in Ireland, prior to airing in their homeland.

October
3 October – The 'Virtual Globe' ident is seen for the final time on BBC1 after six years in use.
4 October – BBC One launches its new hot air balloon globe idents to coincide with the introduction of the network's new corporate logo. Also on that day, new idents feature on BBC Two alongside the existing one's first seen in 1991 with the new logo.
14 October – Debut of the football-based drama series Dream Team on Sky1.
16 October – Emmerdale celebrates its 25th anniversary.
19 October
 The network television premiere of Steven Spielberg's 1993 Oscar-winning drama Schindler's List on BBC One, based on the novel Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally starring Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley and Ralph Fiennes. The film is followed by an interview with Spielberg and a profile of Oskar Schindler.
 Debut of Lynda La Plante's police procedural series Trial & Retribution on ITV which makes frequent use of the split-screen format.
27 October – UK Living changes its name to Living TV to distance itself from the forthcoming UKTV network.
30 October – BBC One airs Clive Anderson's infamous interview with the Bee Gees which ends with them storming out of the studio. He repeatedly jokes about their life and career throughout the interview, but they decide to leave after he refers to them as "tossers".
31 October – Queen Elizabeth II opens a £5.5 million interactive visitors centre, the BBC Experience at Broadcasting House. The venture proved to be loss-making for the corporation and was closed in 2001.

November
1 November
The UKTV network is launched. Existing channel UK Gold is joined by UK Horizons, UK Arena and UK Style. The channels' full broadcast hours are only available on cable due to limited capacity on satellite.
The Movie Channel is rebranded under the Sky Movies banner, now called Sky Movies Screen 1 and Sky Movies Screen 2.
2 November – The network television premiere of Quentin Tarantino's 1994 critically acclaimed thriller Pulp Fiction on BBC Two, starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis and Uma Thurman.
3 November – Debut of the sitcom I'm Alan Partridge on BBC Two, starring Steve Coogan.
4 November – BBC News Online is launched.
9 November – At 6pm, BBC News 24 is launched, but only on cable. It is the BBC's first new channel since BBC Two in 1964. It also broadcasts on BBC One through the night after closedown.
12 November – The network television premiere of In the Line of Fire on ITV, starring Clint Eastwood.
20 November – BBC One airs live coverage of the service of thanksgiving marking the golden wedding of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, held at Westminster Abbey.
21 November – For the first time, Children in Need has its own website which is launched at 4pm ahead of the evening's telethon on BBC One.
26 November – The network television premiere of Trainspotting on Channel 4, starring Ewan McGregor.
 November – The BBC introduces regional news and sports pages to Ceefax. This is the first time that any part of the Ceefax service has been regionalised.

December
1 December
Sky Box Office is relaunched with four movies-on-demand channels.
Konnie Huq presents her first episode of the long-running children's series Blue Peter on BBC One. She will go on to be the longest-running female presenter and the third longest overall in the show's history, presenting for ten years before leaving in January 2008.
5 December – The Canadian/German science-fiction series Lexx makes its UK debut on Channel 5.
7 December
The Teletubbies, the characters from the BBC children's series which first went on the air at the end of March, are at number one in the UK Singles Chart with their debut single Teletubbies say "Eh-oh!". The track is a contender for the coveted Christmas number one, but that title is taken by the Spice Girls with Too Much.
Jeremy Beadle presents his final edition of You've Been Framed! on ITV.
9 December
CNBC Europe announces its intention to merge with the Dow Jones news channel in Europe, European Business News.
The final episode of Soldier Soldier is broadcast on ITV.
14 December – The US/Canadian science-fiction series Earth: Final Conflict makes its UK debut on Sky One.
16 December -  The last regular edition of The Cook Report aired on ITV, the show would continue to air as one hour specials until 1999.
20 December – The ITC award the three pay-TV digital multiplex licences to British Digital Broadcasting.
24 December
Christmas Eve highlights on BBC One include Naked Gun : The Final Insult, starring Leslie Nielsen.
Christmas Eve highlights on Channel 5 include Tim Vine's Christmas Present, an Andy Williams Show-style programme of festive music and guests.
25 December – Christmas Day highlights on BBC One include the network television premieres of The Flintstones starring John Goodman and Elizabeth Taylor and The Mask starring Jim Carrey.
26 December
Boxing Day highlights on BBC One include the films Hook starring Dustin Hoffman and Robin Williams, Beethoven's 2nd starring Charles Grodin and True Lies starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis, as well as Paul McCartney's Standing Stones, the Documentary and Unplugged: Oasis.
After a seven-year absence, the game show Blankety Blank returns to BBC One, presented by Lily Savage.
The network television premiere of Nell on Channel 4, starring Jodie Foster, Liam Neeson and Natasha Richardson.
27 December – Channel 4 airs an evening of programmes chosen by its viewers. The line-up includes episodes of Brookside, Friends, Father Ted, Cutting Edge and Whose Line is it Anyway?, as well as the film Shallow Grave starring Ewan McGregor.
28 December – BBC One airs a two-part adaptation of The Woman in White, based on the novel of the same name. The second part is shown the following day.
29 December – The final episode of Talking Telephone Numbers is broadcast on ITV.
31 December – BBC One airs Cold Enough for Snow, the sequel to Jack Rosenthal's 1996 comedy Eskimo Day.
 December – The first series of Robot Wars is filmed from December of that year to January of the following year with the first episode airing on 20 February 1998.

Unknown
Michael Jackson is appointed Chief Executive of Channel 4.
Chris Smith, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, announces that Channel 4's funding formula with ITV will be abolished from 1998.

Debuts

BBC1/One
1 January – The Mill on the Floss (1997)
6 January – Gadget Boy & Heather (1995–1998)
7 January
The Prince of Atlantis (1997)
Hububb (1997–2001)
8 January – The Wild House (1997–1999)
12 January – Ivanhoe (1997)
19 February – Insiders (1997)
20 February – Chalk (1997)
27 February – A Perfect State (1997)
1 March – Crime Traveller (1997)
15 March – Have Your Cake and Eat It (1997)
29 March – The Missing Postman (1997)
3 April – No Sweat (1997–1998)
5 April
The Ice House (1997)
Whatever You Want (1997–2000)
7 April – 50/50 (1997–2005)
8 April – Arthur (1996–2021)
17 April – Keeping Mum (1997–1998)
22 April – Breakout (1997)
4 May – The Heart Surgeon (1997)
10 May – Jonathan Creek (1997–2004, 2009–2016)
18 May – Plotlands (1997)
20 May – Plasmo (1997)
25 May – Born to Run (1997)
7 June – The Other Half (1997–2002)
10 June – Driving School (1997)
17 June – The Broker's Man (1997–1998)
11 July – Celebrity Ready Steady Cook (1997–2003)
21 July – Match of the Eighties (1997)
31 July – Pilgrim's Rest (1997)
24 August – The Beggar Bride (1997)
26 August – Vets in Practice (1997–2002)
31 August – Full Circle with Michael Palin (1997)
1 September – Bloomin' Marvellous (1997)
14 September – The Lakes (1997, 1999)
15 September – A Prince Among Men (1997–1998)
25 September
 Dad (1997–1999)
 The Locksmith (1997)
29 September – Noah's Island (1997–1999)
4 October – The Fix (1997)
11 October – Bright Hair (1997)
2 November – Get Well Soon (1997)
3 November – Hotel (1997)
9 November – The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling (1997)
16 November – The Phoenix and the Carpet (1997)
29 November – The Student Prince (1997)
2 December – Aquila (1997–1998)
28 December – The Woman in White (1997)
31 December – Cold Enough For Snow (1997)

BBC2/Two
7 January – Grown Ups (1997)
1 February – Nostromo (1997)
21 February – Birding with Bill Oddie (1997–2000)
24 February – Ray Mears' World of Survival (1997–1998)
31 March – Teletubbies (1997–2001, 2002, 2007, 2012, 2015–2018)
14 April – Look and Read: Captain Crimson (1997)
18 April – Sunnyside Farm (1997)
1 June – The Magical Adventures of Quasimodo (1996)
2 September – Holding On (1997)
5 September – VR.5 (1995)
10 September – The Nazis: A Warning from History (1997)
19 September – Ground Force (1997–2005)
4 October – Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror (1997–1998)
28 October – Back to the Floor (1997–2002)
3 November – I'm Alan Partridge (1997–2002)
9 November – Profit (1996)
17 November – Land of the Tiger (1997)
7 December – Love Bites (3 single dramas – Bumping the Odds, In Your Dreams and The Perfect Blue) (1997)
22 December – Stella Street (1997–2001)
28 December – Mothertime (1997)
29 December – Operation Good Guys (1997–2000)

BBC News 24
31 March – HARDtalk (1997–present)
9 November – BBC World News (1991–present)

ITV
5 January – Rebecca (1997)
6 January
 Sooty's Amazing Adventures (1997–1998)
 Adam's Family Tree (1997–1999)
7 January – Quayside (1997)
8 January – The Blobs (1997–1998)
18 January – The Place of the Dead (1997)
24 January – Holding the Baby (1997–1998)
5 February – Supply & Demand (1997–1998)
6 February – Reckless (1997)
25 February – No Child of Mine (1997)
26 February – Dr. Xargle (1997–1998)
28 February – Slim Pig (1996–2005)
8 March – Formula One coverage on ITV (1997–2008)
9 March – Jane Eyre (1997)
23 March – Midsomer Murders (1997–present)
30 March
 Cold Feet (1997–2003, 2016–present)
 Comedy Premieres (1997)
2 April – The Vanishing Man (1997–1998)
4 April – The Grand (1997–1998)
6 April – Where the Heart Is (1997–2006)
29 April – Touching Evil (1997–1999)
9 May – See You Friday (1997)
18 May – Wokenwell (1997)
6 June – The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous (1997)
25 June – Animal Shelf (1997–2000)
8 July – Captain Star (1997–1998)
14 July – ...from Hell (1997–2010)
30 August – Tricky (1997)
2 September – Knight School (1997–1998)
4 September – The Adventures of Paddington Bear (1997–2000)
5 September – Kipper (1997–2000)
8 September – Noah's Ark (1997–1998)
25 September – The Uninvited (1997)
26 September – Titch (1997–2001)
19 October – Trial & Retribution (1997–2009)
24 October – An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1997–2001)
14 November – Bernard's Watch (1997–2005)
18 November – Savage Earth (1997)
21 November – Blind Men (1997–1998)
7 December – Painted Lady (1997)
23 December – The Pale Horse (1997)

Channel 4
3 January – Captain Butler (1997)
13 January – Collectors' Lot (1997–2001)
25 January – Last Chance Lottery (1997)
27 January – Pet Rescue (1997–2003)
29 January
 Brass Eye (1997–2001)
 Fortean TV (1997–1998)
1 February – The Show (1997)
17 February – Under The Moon (1997–1998)
24 March – Light Lunch (1997–1999)
7 April – Armstrong and Miller (1997–2001)
 12 May
 Melissa (1997)
 Soul Music (1997)
30 May – Harry Hill (1997–2003)
15 July – Space Cadets (1997)
1 August – King of the Hill (1997–2010)
9 October – A Dance to the Music of Time (1997)
31 October – TV Offal (1997–1998)

S4C
 Unknown
 Y Clwb Rygbi (1997–present)
 Ffermio (1997–present)

Channel 5
30 March
 Family Affairs (1997–2005)
 The Jack Docherty Show (1997–1999)
31 March
 100% (1997–2001)
 Whittle (1997–1998)
 5 News (1997–present)
 Hot Property (1997–1998, 2001–2003)
 Havakazoo (1997–2002)
 Milkshake! (1997–present)
3 April – Bring Me the Head of Light Entertainment (1997–2000)
4 April – MLB on Five (1997–2008)
5 April – Night Fever (1997–2002)
12 April – Wimzie's House (1995–1996)
May – Football on 5 (1997–2012, 2015–present)
12 July – Xena: Warrior Princess (1995–2001)
5 September – Name That Tune (1997–1998)
22 September – Wing and a Prayer (1997–1999)
5 December – Lexx (1997–2002)

Disney Channel UK
1 September – Studio Disney UK (1997–2005)

Sky 1/One
14 October – Dream Team (1997–2007)

Paramount Comedy Channel
5 February – Armstrong and Miller (1997–1999)

Channels

New channels

Defunct channels

Rebranded channels

Television shows

Changes of network affiliation

Returning this year after a break of one year or longer
 Captain Pugwash (1957–1975 BBC, 1997–2002 ITV)
 Sale of the Century (1971–1983 ITV, 1989–1991 Sky One, 1997 Challenge)
 Birds of a Feather (1989–1994,1997–1998, 2014–2020)
 Blankety Blank (1979–1990, 1997–2002)
 Blockbusters (1983–1993 ITV, 1994–1995 Sky One, 1997 BBC Two, 2000–2001 Sky One, 2012 Challenge, 2019 Comedy Central)

Ending this year
The Woody Woodpecker Show (1957–1997)
Sportsnight (1965–1997)
Rainbow (1972–1992, 1994–1997)
Celebrity Squares (1975–1979, 1993–1997, 2014–2015)
Give Us a Clue (1979–1997)
Postman Pat (1981, 1991–1994, 1996, 2004–2008)
Chain Letters (1987–1997)
You Bet! (1988–1997)
Playdays (1988–1997)
The Brittas Empire (1991–1997)
Soldier Soldier (1991–1997)
Come Outside (1993–1997)
Talking Telephone Numbers (1994–1997)
All Quiet on the Preston Front (1994–1997)
Pie in the Sky (1994–1997)
Oh, Doctor Beeching! (1995–1997)
Paul Merton in Galton & Simpson's... (1996–1997)
This Life (1996–1997)
All Rise for Julian Clary (1996–1997)
Have Your Cake and Eat It (1997)
Plotlands
The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous (1997)
Holding On (1997)
Hotel (1997)
The Prince of Atlantis (1997)
The History of Tom Jones (1997)
Mastermind (1972–1997, 2003–present)

Births
2 February – Ellie Bamber, actress
1 April – Asa Butterfield, actor
15 April – Maisie Williams, actress
3 July – Mia McKenna-Bruce, actress
16 August – Tilly Keeper, actress
25 August – Holly Gibbs, actress
7 September – Dean-Charles Chapman, actor
16 September – Amy-Leigh Hickman, actress

Deaths

See also
 1997 in British music
 1997 in British radio
 1997 in the United Kingdom
 List of British films of 1997

References

External links
List of 1997 British television series at IMDb


Sir Terepai Tuamure Maoate  (1 September 1934 – 9 July 2012) was Prime Minister of the Cook Islands from 18 November 1999 to 11 February 2002. He was a member of the Cook Islands Democratic Party.

Maoate was born in Rarotonga on 1 September 1934, and educated at Ngatangiia Primary School, Fiji School of Medicine, and the University of Auckland (New Zealand).  He worked as a medical doctor before becoming Director of Clinical Services for the Ministry of Health in 1976.

Maoate was elected to the Cook Islands Parliament as MP for Ngatangiia in the March 1983 general election.  He subsequently served as Minister of Health and Agriculture in the Democratic cabinet of Tom Davis, and between 1985 and 1989 was also Deputy Prime Minister.

In 1998, Maoate became Leader of the Democratic party and Leader of the Opposition.  The 1999 election produced a hung Parliament, and following several coalition realignments, Maoate became Prime Minister.  He was ousted by his former Deputy Prime Minister Robert Woonton on 11 February 2002, and subsequently became Leader of the Opposition.

In early 2003 the Democratic Party re-merged, and Maoate was reappointed to cabinet, replacing Cook Islands Party leader Geoffrey Henry as Deputy Prime Minister.  However the arrangement did not last, with Maoate resigning and tabling a motion of no-confidence in the government in November.  Continued factional infighting saw Maoate fail to become Prime Minister after the 2004 elections, when a group of Democratic Party MPs split to back Jim Marurai.  However, a coalition realignment in 2005 saw Maoate reappointed as Deputy Prime Minister again.
In July 2009, he was given the additional position of Foreign Minister.

In December 2009 Maoate was sacked as Deputy Prime Minister in favour of Robert Wigmore, sparking a mass-resignation of Democratic Party cabinet members and the withdrawal of support for the government.  He was subsequently replaced as Democratic Party leader by Wigmore in June 2010.

In September 2010 he failed to be reselected for his Ngatangiia seat after losing a run-off.  He subsequently decided to run as an independent, but was unsuccessful.

Maoate was knighted in 2007.

Maoate died on 9 July 2012 aged 77.

References

External links
 Profile at Cook Islands Parliament.

1934 births
2012 deaths
Prime Ministers of the Cook Islands
Deputy Prime Ministers of the Cook Islands
Agriculture ministers of the Cook Islands
Foreign Ministers of the Cook Islands
Health ministers of the Cook Islands
Members of the Parliament of the Cook Islands
University of Auckland alumni
People from Rarotonga
Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Democratic Party (Cook Islands) politicians
Fiji School of Medicine alumni
Cook Island medical doctors
Cook Island knights
Independent politicians in the Cook Islands


William Cook House may refer to:

 William H. Cook Water Tank House, Jerome, Idaho, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)
 William Cook House (Cambridge, Massachusetts), listed on the NRHP
 William Cook House (Mebane, North Carolina), listed on the NRHP

See also
Cook House (disambiguation)


Roger Haight  (born 1936) is an American Jesuit theologian and former president of the Catholic Theological Society of America. He is regarded as a knowledgeable and pioneering theologian, whose experiences with censorship have led to widespread debate over how to handle controversial ideas in the Catholic church today.

Education and career
A member of the Jesuits, Haight received his BA (1960) and an MA in Philosophy (1961) from Berchmans College in Cebu City, Philippines; his STB from Woodstock College, Maryland (1967); an MA in Theology (1969) and a PhD in Theology (1973) from the University of Chicago; and the STL from the Jesuit School of Theology at Chicago.

Haight was the recipient of the Alumnus of the Year award from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago in April, 2006. He taught at the Jesuit graduate schools of theology in Manila, Chicago, Toronto, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has also been a visiting professor at universities in Lima, Nairobi, Paris, and in the Indian city of Pune.

In 2004, the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) barred Haight from teaching at the Weston School of Theology in response to questions about his book Jesus Symbol of God (Orbis, 1999). The book is the winner of the 1999 top prize in theology from the Catholic Press Association.

In September 2004, Haight began teaching at Union Theological Seminary, a leading multi-denominational seminary, as an adjunct professor of theology. In 2005 he wrote The Future of Christology in response to questions and concerns about Jesus Symbol of God.

In January 2009, the CDF barred Haight from writing on theology and forbade him to teach anywhere, including non-Catholic institutions. However, he remained at Union Theological Seminary as a scholar in residence, focused on the adaptation of Ignatius' Spiritual Exercises for "seekers" today.

In 2015, the era of Pope Francis, Haight was somewhat reinstated, teaching at the Jesuit theologate in Toronto. He had published, in 2014, An Alternate Vision: An Interpretation of Liberation Theology. He also contributed to the Sisters of the Holy Name of Jesus and Mary series commemorating 50 years after Vatican II, with an interview on "Spirituality Today for all Seekers: The Gift of the Spiritual Exercises for All Seekers", which addresses the question of how to connect with the spirituality of people who do not consider themselves religious. In 2016 he published Spiritual and Religious: Explorations for Seekers, and in 2017 his "Theology of the Cross" was the topic of an article in the English Jesuit Heythrop Journal. In 2019 he published Faith and Evolution: A Grace-Filled Naturalism (Orbis, 2019), described by George V. Coyne as "an original and rich contribution to the growing field of studies within the Christian tradition on the dynamic relationship among the natural sciences, theology, and religious faith."

Haight received the John Courtney Murray Award from the Catholic Theological Society of America in 2023.

Critiques of Jesus Symbol of God
The CDF objected to Haight's attempts to separate Christology from Greek philosophical concepts, specifically in relation to the formulation of the mystery of the Trinity, the interpretation of Christ's divinity, and the role of Jesus in salvation. The clarifications Haight provided in 2000 were judged unsatisfactory by the CDF and in January 2001 it initiated a formal investigation which led to his 2004 removal from Catholic universities and 2009 complete silencing.

In 2005 John Allen, after a long review of diverse responses to Haight's Jesus Symbol of God, described it as "a work of vast erudition", and concluded:

The theological community appears divided over the Vatican's recent censure of Jesuit Fr. Roger Haight. Citing "grave doctrinal errors" in Haight's book Jesus Symbol of God, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a notification banning the priest from teaching Catholic theology. While some see Haight's "Christology from below" as a courageous exploration of new horizons, others see it as a cautionary tale about what happens when the culture becomes the lens for reading the Gospel rather than vice versa. Some who fault Haight have included those who have been critical of Vatican treatment of other theologians, but reluctantly concede that the congregation's notification of Haight may be justified, or at least expected.

Scholars are divided on whether the Vatican's reaction is counterproductive by ending debate within scholarly circles or whether it was necessary since Haight's ideas were being taught at a popular level.

In 2009, after the complete silencing of Haight, a response in the Jesuits' America magazine mentioned the usefulness of certain chapters of Jesus Symbol of God and that silencing interrupts the helpful process of scholarly criticism. The silencing received widespread coverage.

References

External links

1936 births
University of Chicago alumni
20th-century American Jesuits
21st-century American Jesuits
Jesuit theologians
American theologians
Living people
Dissident Roman Catholic theologians
Catholicism-related controversies
Presidents of the Catholic Theological Society of America
21st-century American Roman Catholic theologians


Minuscule 440 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 260 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. The marginal equipment is almost complete.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the New Testament except Book of Revelation on 294 parchment leaves () with only one lacunae. It is written in one column per page, in 28-30 lines per page.

The text is divided according to the  (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their  (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 240 Sections, the last in 16:19), without references to the Eusebian Canons.

It contains the Eusebian Canon tables, pictures, lectionary equipment at the margin, Prolegomena to Catholic and Pauline epistles, and subscriptions in Paul. The Synaxarion, Menologion were added by a later hand.

The order of books: Gospels, Acts, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a mixture of text-types. In Book of Acts it is a representative of the Western text-type. Kurt Aland did not place it in any Category. According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 it has a mixture of Byzantine families. It has some relationship to Π groups.

It has some unique readings.

 1 Corinthians 2:14 it reads πνευματος (omit του θεου) along with 2, 216, 255, 330, 451, 823, 1827, and syrp.

History

The manuscript once belonged to Bishop Moore (together with the codex 60), who gave it in 1715 to the library. It was examined by Bentley, Mill, and Griesbach. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852). C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.

The codex is cited in critical editions of the Greek New Testament (NA26).

It is currently housed at the Cambridge University Library (Mm. 6.9) in Cambridge.

See also

 List of New Testament minuscules
 Biblical manuscript
 Textual criticism

References

Further reading

 F. H. A. Scrivener, An Exact Transcript of the Codex Augiensis (Cambridge and London, 1859), pp. 35–38.

Greek New Testament minuscules
12th-century biblical manuscripts
Manuscripts held by the University of Cambridge


The qualification of AFC Youth Championship 1996 was held from 13 May to 28 August.

Group 1
All match played in Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates from 24 to 28 August.

Group 2
All match played in Doha, Qatar from 25 to 29 July.

Group 3
All matches played in Al-Hasa, Saudi Arabia from 15 to 19 May.

Group 4
All match played in Damascus, Syria from 24 to 28 April.

Group 5
All match played in Kannur, India from 9 to 13 July.

Group 6
Both match played in Malé, Maldives from 27 to 29 July.

Group 7
All match played in Bangkok, Thailand from 13 to 17 May.

Group 8
All match played in Baoding, China PR from 19 to 22 June.

Group 9
All match played in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei from 21 to 25 June.

Qualified teams
Total 10 teams qualified for 1996 AFC Youth Championship.
  (host nation)

1996 qualification
Qual


Quatuor Habanera is a saxophone quartet established in 1993. Composed of players from the Conservatoire de Paris, the quartet has won seven international prizes and recorded six albums. Their ability to adapt to varied musical styles is noted, recording contemporary music of Ligeti, Xenakis, Donatoni as successfully as earlier works by Glazunov, Grieg and Dvorak. They have collaborated with jazz musicians, most notably Louis Sclavis and klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer.

International Prizes
1st Prize at the International Jean-Marie LONDEIX, Bordeaux 1996

1st Prix du Concours International de Musique de Chambre, Illzach 1997

1st Prix du 3ème Internationaler Musikwettbewerb für Junge Kultur, Düsseldorf 1997

1st Grand Prix du Concours International de Musique Française, Guérande 1997

1st prize in the Musical Sets Europeans Privas 1998

1st Prix du Concours International de Musique de Chambre "Gaetano Zigetti", Sanguinetto 1999

Grand Prix du 12ème Forum Musical de Normandie, 1996

Discography

Saxophone D'aujourd'hui et de demain (Concours International J.-M. Londeix, Bordeaux 1997)

Les révélations classiques (l'ADAMI 2000)

HABANERA - Quatuor de saxophones

Mysterious Morning (Alpha 010)

Grieg, Glazunov, Dvorak (Alpha 041)

L'Engrenage (Alpha 518)

External links
 http://quatuor.habanera.free.fr/

Saxophone quartets
Musical groups established in 1993


Trent Merrin (born 7 October 1989) is a former Australian professional rugby league footballer who played as a  and  forward for the St George Illawarra Dragons in the NRL and Australia at international level.

He also played for the Dragons, with whom he won the 2010 NRL Grand Final, and the Penrith Panthers in the National Rugby League. He also spent a season with the Leeds Rhinos in the Super League. Merrin has also played at representative level for NSW Country, New South Wales, NRL All Stars and the Prime Minister's XIII sides.

Background
Merrin was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.  Merrin originally played junior rugby league with Marrickville RSL while living in Sydenham. Merrin then moved with his family in his early teens from Sydney to the Illawarra. He then played rugby league with the Port Kembla Blacks and the Shellharbour Sharks. Merrin claims another Shellharbour legend, Australian representative Luke Bailey, was "one of [his] idols growing up".

Playing career
In 2008, Merrin played for St. George Illawarra under-20s team in the Toyota Cup, scoring two tries for the season. He was selected as St. George Illawarra's Toyota Cup Player of the Year in 2008.

In 2009, he was selected to play first grade for St. George Illawarra, being chosen on the interchange bench.  He made his first grade debut for the club in round 12 of the 2009 NRL season against Penrith at WIN Stadium. He made three appearances in his debut season for St. George Illawarra as the club won the Minor Premiership but lost both matches in the finals series.

He was a prominent squad member of the 2010 premiership-winning St. George Illawarra team, and came from the bench to play in the 2010 NRL Grand Final. In May 2011, he was selected on the bench for New South Wales for game 1 of the 2011 State of Origin series. He was selected for the second match but was then dropped for the third. On 2 March 2015, Merrin signed a five-year contract with the Penrith Panthers, starting in 2016.

On 15 September 2015, it was announced that Merrin would captain a representative team for the first time. On 26 September 2015, he led the Prime Minister's XIII in their 2015 clash with Papua New Guinea.

Merrin was a part of the Penrith sides which made the finals series in 2016, 2017 and 2018 bowing out at the second week on each occasion.

After departing Penrith, Merrin signed a contract to join English Super League team Leeds. After just one season with Leeds, it was announced that Merrin was returning to Australia on compassionate grounds.  On 29 November 2019 it was revealed that Merrin had signed a two-year deal with St. George Illawarra.

On 21 April 2021, Merrin announced his retirement from rugby league effective immediately.

Personal life
Merrin was engaged to world-class surfer Sally Fitzgibbons.

Merrin is in a long-term relationship with Jessica Watson and the couple had their first son Mayne Merrin in March 2020 and their second son Sasha Merrin in November 2021.

References

External links

Leeds Rhinos profile
Penrith Panthers profile
Panthers profile
Trent Merrin at St. George Illawarra Dragons
Trent Merrin The World of Rugby League profile
Official Trent Merrin Website
SL profile

1989 births
Living people
Australia national rugby league team players
Australian rugby league players
Country New South Wales Origin rugby league team players
Leeds Rhinos players
New South Wales Rugby League State of Origin players
NRL All Stars players
Penrith Panthers players
Penrith Panthers captains
Prime Minister's XIII captains
Prime Minister's XIII players
Rugby league locks
Rugby league players from Sydney
Rugby league props
Shellharbour City Dragons players
St. George Illawarra Dragons players


Margery Clinton (1931–2005) was a Scottish ceramist and a specialist in reduction lustre glazes. She studied painting at the Glasgow School of Art between 1949 and 1953 and was part of the Young Glasgow group, whose inaugural exhibition was held at the McLellan Galleries in 1958. Clinton developed an interest in ceramics before going on to research reduction lustre glazes at the Royal College of Art in the early 1970s. It was there in London where she began research the lustre glass technique of Louis Comfort Tiffany.

In 1978 she set up a workshop at Newton Port, Haddington in Scotland and worked there in partnership with Jan Williamson until 1981. She was assisted by Evelyn Corbett for many years. Clinton continued there until 1995 when she moved to a new studio at Templelands, Dunbar.

Clinton undertook a number of notable architectural commissions later in her life, and her work with tiles was regarded as spectacular. She has been exhibited at the Tate, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Glasgow Art Gallery and the Royal Museum of Scotland. Her tile work in public place is enduring and durable.  Examples of Clinton's tile work can be seen in the Mary Erskine School in Edinburgh and even the staff toilets at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. In her late work, Clinton worked with paperclay, added about 1.5% paper to clay, totally changing its character.

She authored Working with lustres (also titled Lustres), published by Batsford in 1991, now Anova Books, an accessible treatment of the techniques used in much of her signature work.

A comprehensive inventory of her recipes and research of lustres is held by the National Library of Scotland along with her correspondence, financial records, and working papers 1969 –95.

Her work is included in the collection of the Tate Museum.

References

1931 births
2005 deaths
20th-century British sculptors
20th-century ceramists
20th-century Scottish women artists
Artists from Glasgow
British glass artists
Women glass artists
Scottish ceramicists
Scottish sculptors
Scottish women sculptors
British women ceramicists
Scottish women ceramicists


Nature in Wales was a quarterly scientific journal, mainly written in English but with some Welsh-language content, containing academic and general articles and book reviews, published from 1955 to 1987. From 1955 to 1981 it was published by West Wales Field Society; a new series was started when the National Museum of Wales took over in 1982.

Pembrokeshire Bird Protection Society was formed in 1938; in 1946 it changed its name to West Wales Field Society, then in 1962 to West Wales Naturalists' Trust. In 1981 it became Dyfed Wildlife Trust, and the National Museum of Wales took over publication of Nature in Wales.

The journal has been digitised by the Welsh Journals Online project at the National Library of Wales.

References

External links
Nature in Wales at Welsh Journals Online

1987 disestablishments in Wales
1955 establishments in Wales
Quarterly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Science and technology magazines published in the United Kingdom
Defunct journals of the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 1955
Magazines disestablished in 1987
Magazines published in Wales


Sébastien Perrier (born 19 March 1987) is a French ski mountaineer.

Selected results
 2008:
 4th, World Championship, relay, together with Nicolas Bonnet, Martial Premat and Adrien Piccot
 2010:
 3rd (espoirs), Trophée des Gastlosen (ISMF World Cup), together with Xavier Gachet

External links
 Sébastien Perrier at skimountaineering.org

References

1987 births
Living people
French male ski mountaineers
21st-century French people
20th-century French people


Matthew Walker (born 11 April 1942) is an English-Canadian film and television actor best known for his role in Little Women.

Career
He appeared in many Canadian television productions in the 1990s and 2000s. He played Michael, Nick Eliot's boss in The Crush. He played Father Mac in 22 episodes of the television series Hope Island, and Max Asher in 11 episodes of MythQuest. He also played the recurring character Ian MacLeod, the father of Duncan MacLeod in Highlander: The Series, Father Perry in Mysterious Ways and Merlin in the Stargate television franchise. In 2007, he was nominated for a Leo Award for "Best Supporting Performance by a Male in a Dramatic Series" in the Stargate SG-1 episode "The Quest (Part 2)." He also played Mr. March in Little Women.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

1942 births
English male film actors
English male television actors
Canadian male film actors
Canadian male television actors
Canadian male voice actors
Living people
English emigrants to Canada
Canadian expatriates in England


Cook Farm may refer to:

in the United States
(by state then city)
Cook Farm (Charles City, Iowa), listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)
Cook Farm (Missoula, Montana), listed on the NRHP in Missoula County
John Cook Farm, Harlem, Ohio, listed on the NRHP in Delaware County
Shipley-Cook Farmstead, Lake Oswego, Oregon, listed on the NRHP in Clackamas County
Cook-Bateman Farm, Tiverton, Rhode Island, listed on the NRHP
Fox-Cook Farm, Wallingford, Vermont, listed on the NRHP

See also
Cook House (disambiguation)


Morgannwg: Transactions of the Glamorgan Local History Society is the annual English-language scholarly journal of the Glamorgan History Society, published since 1957, containing historical essays, archaeological reports and book reviews. It also contains society notes and meeting reports. The title comes from the Welsh word for Glamorgan (one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales).

Glamorgan Local History Society (Cymdeithas Hanes Morgannwg) was founded in 1950 to promote the study of the history of the county of Glamorgan; in 1966 it changed its name to Glamorgan History Society.

The journal has been digitized by the Welsh Journals Online project at the National Library of Wales.

References

External links
Glamorgan History Society publications
Morgannwg at Welsh Journals Online

Annual magazines published in the United Kingdom
English-language magazines
History magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 1957
Magazines published in Wales
Local interest magazines published in the United Kingdom


Dig is an American alternative rock band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1991, they achieved success with their 1993 album Dig, which featured the charting single "Believe". The band then released the album Defenders of the Universe in 1996. It was followed by their third album Life Like in 1999, in which they then disbanded that same year. They reunited briefly from 2004 to 2008, and again in 2016. Vocalist/guitarist Scott Hackwith and guitarist Jon Morris are the only members to stay in the band for its entire run, although the current lineup also consists of original guitarist Johnny Cornwell.

History
Dig formed in 1991 within Los Angeles, as vocalist Scott Hackwith had previously produced for The Ramones and had worked in the studio for various bands. Hackwith and drummer Anthony Smedile formed the band together, and they then recruited Jon Morris on guitar and backing vocals, Johnny Cornwell on guitar, and Phil Friedmann on bass. After releasing a demo EP in 1992 titled Runt, they signed with Radioactive Records and issued their first full-length album in 1993, the self-titled Dig. It was produced by Dave Jerden, who was well-known for producing '90s albums by bands such as Alice in Chains and Anthrax. The album peaked at No. 153 on the Billboard 200 and at No. 6 on the Billboard Heatseekers charts. The single "Believe" was played regularly on MTV's Buzz Bin and it had reached No. 19 on the Billboard Modern Rock Chart and at No. 34 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart. Although "Believe" was the band's hit song, the record labels had done an unlikely move, and issued four other singles from the same album, although they all failed to chart in the United States. Overseas in the United Kingdom, Dig had fared a bit better on the UK Singles Chart, as "Believe" peaked at No. 83, "Unlucky Friend" peaked at No. 96, and "I'll Stay High" peaked at No. 97, all in 1994. The single "Unlucky Friend" had featured four tracks recorded by Dig while on Mark Radcliffe's FM radio show while they toured the UK. The band toured with the likes of Prong and Blind Melon to promote the album. Towards the end of 1994, Dig released the promotional Soft Pretzel EP, which included three original songs and also a Pink Floyd cover, "Fearless". Also in 1994, the band's song "Curious George Blues" was exclusively recorded for the soundtrack to the movie Airheads. The following year, their cover of the "Theme From Fat Albert" was included on the compilation Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits. They also recorded another exclusive song, "Hu Hu Hu", for the soundtrack of the movie Virtuosity.

From the beginning of 1995 until the middle of 1996, the band had not gone on any tours due to their prior exhaustive schedule; however, in 1996, they released their second album, Defenders of the Universe. The album was almost entirely mixed by Tom Lord-Alge, a mixer with hundreds of credits to his name. The album and its touring cycle had guitarist Cornwell replaced by Dix Denney, and drummer Smedile replaced by Matt Tecu. Unlike the previous album, none of the songs charted, and the album itself had not charted either. The following year, Dig's record label parent MCA had shifted them from Radioactive Records to their other imprint, Uptown Records.

After the label shift, the band released their third album Life Like in early 1999. Sylvia Massy took over mixing duties for the entirety. The album was recorded as a four-piece, since guitarist Denney left the band and both Hackwith and Morris handled guitar duties. Other changes in the lineup included original bassist Friedmann replaced by Jay Nicholas, and drummer Tecu replaced by Gene Trautmann. For the touring cycle, bassist Nicholas was replaced by Rob Redick, and guitarist Joel Graves was added into the band, to round out the five members; however, with a lack of support from the band's record label and only sporadic shows being played, the band was dropped from Uptown/MCA in July 1999, and the Uptown label itself officially went defunct later in the year. After the small touring cycle, new bassist Redick joined Candlebox and new drummer Trautmann joined Queens of the Stone Age. Original guitarist Morris had stepped away as well, and it signified the end of Dig.

In 2004, the band reappeared, and played sporadic one-off shows. The lineup included frontman Hackwith, original guitarists Morris and Cornwell, second drummer Tecu, and new bassist Jamie Carter; however, when 2007 rolled around, Tecu was replaced by Dave Stedronsky and Carter was replaced by prominent Rocket From the Crypt member Pete Reichert. They recorded the first new Dig song in years, titled "No One's There", and it appeared on a Poison Tree Records: Road to Nowhere compilation, alongside bands such as Fu Manchu and The Dwarves. Afterwards, various sessions of recording commenced; however, nothing ever surfaced.

In 2016, the band was revived yet again to play a singular show in West Hollywood. Along with Hackwith, Morris, and Cornwell, new bassist Marcus Blake and new drummer Charlie George had joined the lineup. After another period of only random updates, the band launched their own independent merch store in early 2020 and had started recording again, but with new bassist Tommy Black joining the band. In November 2020, the band announced a new album with an unknown release date, posting a sample on their official social media outlets. The album's first single, titled "Nothing Is Forever", was released in January 2021 with an accompanying music video. The second song, "Treatment", was released the following month with a music video as well.

On March 10, 2023 former guitarist Denney (who appeared on Dig's second album Defenders of the Universe) died at the age of 65. Dig returned to a live setting in July 2023, and the lineup changed again with the additions of Ernesto Mora on bass and Matt Bennett on drums.

Members

Current members
Scott Hackwith – vocals, guitars (1991–1999, 2004–2008, 2016–present)
Jon Morris – guitars (1991–1999, 2004–2008, 2016–present)
Johnny Cornwell – guitars (1991–1995, 2004–2008, 2016–present)
Ernesto Mora – bass (2023–present)
Matt Bennett – drums (2023–present)

Past members
Phil Friedmann – bass (1991–1997)
Anthony Smedile – drums (1991–1995)
Dix Denney – guitars (1995–1997); died 2023
Matt Tecu – drums (1995–1997, 2004–2006)
Jay Nicholas – bass (1997–1998)
Gene Trautmann – drums (1997–1999)
Joel Graves – guitars (1998–1999)
Rob Redick – bass (1998–1999)
Jamie Carter – bass (2004–2006)
Pete Reichert – bass (2006–2008)
Dave Stedronsky – drums (2006–2008)
Marcus Blake – bass (2016–2020)
Charlie George – drums (2016–2023)
Tommy Black – bass (2020–2023)

Timeline

Discography
Studio albums
Dig (1993, Radioactive / MCA)
Defenders of the Universe (1996, Radioactive / MCA)
Life Like (1999, Uptown / Universal)

EPs and singles
Runt EP (1992, Wasteland)
"Feet Don't Touch the Ground" (1993, Wasteland)
"Fuck You" (1993, Radioactive)
"Believe" (1993, Radioactive)
"I'll Stay High" (1993, Radioactive)
"Unlucky Friend" (1994, Radioactive)
Soft Pretzel EP (1994, Radioactive)
"Whose Side You On?" (1996, Radioactive)
"Live in Sound" (1999, Universal)
"Nothing Is Forever" (2021, Cassette Recordings)

References

External links
 Official Dig Facebook
 Dig Fansite

Musical groups from Los Angeles
Rock music groups from California
Alternative rock groups from California
Musical groups established in 1991
Musical groups disestablished in 1999
Musical groups reestablished in 2006
American grunge groups
American shoegaze musical groups
1991 establishments in California


The UWA World Women's Championship (Campeonato Mundial Feminil de UWA in Spanish) was a singles women's professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican Lucha Libre wrestling based promotion Universal Wrestling Association (UWA) from 1975 until the UWA closed in 1995 and since then defended on the Mexican independent circuit.  Zuleyma was the reigning champion when UWA closed and she sporadically defended the title over the next 10 years, often with over a year between title defenses. The last champion was Miss Janeth with no recorded title defenses after 2003.

As it was a professional wrestling championship, the championship was not won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match determined by the bookers and match makers. On occasion the promotion declares a championship vacant, which means there is no champion at that point in time. This can either be due to a storyline, or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship, or leaving the company.

Reigns

Footnotes

References

Universal Wrestling Association championships
World professional wrestling championships
Women's professional wrestling championships


Elizabeth Capell, Countess of Essex (1 December 1636 – 5 February 1718; née Percy) was an English noblewoman, the daughter of Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland. She was the wife of Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex. Elizabeth was the subject of a portrait by court painter Sir Peter Lely.

Family
Lady Elizabeth was born on 1 December 1636 at Petworth Manor, Sussex, England, one of the five daughters of Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland by his first wife, Lady Anne Cecil. She had one older surviving sister, Anne who married Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield. Her paternal grandparents were Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, known by his sobriquet of The Wizard Earl, and Dorothy Devereux, the sister of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.

Elizabeth's maternal grandparents were William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury and Lady Catherine Howard. When Elizabeth was just a year old, her mother died; her father married secondly in 1642, Lady Elizabeth Howard. Elizabeth had a younger half-brother from her father's second marriage, Joceline Percy, 11th Earl of Northumberland.

Marriage and issue
On 19 May 1653 at Petworth, Elizabeth married Arthur Capell, 2nd Baron Capell of Hadham. On 20 August 1661, he was created Viscount Malden and the first Earl of Essex by King Charles II of England; Elizabeth was henceforth styled as the Countess of Essex. The marriage produced one surviving son and a daughter:
 Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex (28 December 1670 – 10 January 1710), married Mary Bentinck, by whom he had one son William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex who in his turn married Lady Jane Hyde, by whom he had issue.
 Anne de Vere Capell (1675- 14 October 1752), married on 25 July 1688, Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, by whom she had two sons and four daughters. She had five other sons who all died in early infancy.
 Unknown Child (1668- )

In 1672, Elizabeth's husband was made a Privy Counsellor, and appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He was dedicated to stamping out English corruption in Ireland; one of his many acts was to prevent Phoenix Park in Dublin from being granted to King Charles's former mistress Barbara Villiers who had been promised the Park as well as the fertile lands surrounding it as a gift from the king. In point of fact, it was due to the Earl of Essex that Phoenix Park continues to exist in the 21st century.

In 1677, the Essexes returned to England; in 1679, the Earl was appointed First Lord of the Treasury. He was implicated in the Rye House Plot in June 1683 and sent to the Tower of London. It was there on 13 July 1683 that he committed suicide by cutting his own throat, leaving Elizabeth a widow at the age of forty-six. She never remarried.

Death
She died on 5 February 1718, and was buried in Watford, Hertfordshire.

Art

Elizabeth Percy was the subject of a portrait by the celebrated court painter, Sir Peter Lely. It was painted in 1653, the year of her marriage, when she was sixteen years old.

Ancestry

References

1636 births
1718 deaths
English countesses
Daughters of British earls
People from Petworth
Elizabeth
Elizabeth
17th-century English women


Lennox Tower is a ruinous fifteenth-century tower house at Lymphoy, near the Water of Leith, between Balerno and Currie,  south-west of Edinburgh, Scotland.

History

The tower was built by the Earls of Lennox, who belonged to the Stewart family. It was known as "Lumphoy" or "Lymphoy." Mary, Queen of Scots and Regent Morton visited the castle, while James VI used it as a base for hunting. He dined there on 18 April 1598. It was later acquired by George Heriot, the goldsmith and founder of George Heriot's School. The castle became so ruinous that at one stage it became a rock garden.

Description

The structure a rectangular tower containing a narrow spiral staircase.  The only part remaining intact is the basement, the entrance of which is in the north-east corner, and the base of a turnpike stair.  The north and west walls of the tower are about  high, while the other two sides are less than .

There was a tunnel from the building to Colinton Tower which was accessible until the 19th century. The castle is on a promontory.  There is a ditch to the south of this, about two metres deep, where an inner rampart may have been.  It is thought that a barmkin once surrounded the site, while other buildings probably stood between the tower and the ditch.

Tradition

The tower is said to be haunted by a white lady.  The tradition is that she is the daughter-in-law of the family at Lymphoy House.  After her husband died in battle she turned to his family, who had never approved of her, for help.  When they rejected her she, and her child, died in the snow. A white lady has been seen gliding around the area several times since.

Related websites
Photograph of Lennox Tower

References

Houses completed in the 15th century
Towers completed in the 15th century
Castles in Edinburgh
Category B listed buildings in Edinburgh
Listed castles in Scotland
15th century in Scotland
Reportedly haunted locations in Edinburgh