She won the game, beating Noel Clarke (Mickey Smith) in the final round, splitting the prize money of £16,550 evenly between multiple sclerosis and children who are carers.
The original release included a competition prize of a £500 moped.
As the price of silver continued to fall, so too did the exchange value of the rupee, when measured against sterling.
The new building would cost over £35 million and plans have been made to include high tech features such as solar panels, wind turbines and a cyber cafe.
The Kremer prize had been set up in 1959 by Henry Kremer, a British industrialist, and offered £50,000 in prize money to the first group that could fly a human-powered aircraft over a figure-eight course covering a total of a mile (1.6 kilometers).
The term Queens Heads is a reference to the Queens face on British pound notes.
Records indicated Private W. Cunningham was paid £20 for service in the Regiment of Rangers, under command of Capt. John Caldwell, from June 26 to July 26, 1775.
On 22 October 2010, the British media reported that Julian Messent, a former executive in the reinsurance firm PWS (owned by Lord Pearson), had pleaded guilty in Southwark Crown Court to paying £ 1.2 million in bribes to three Costa Rican officials, in exchange for a contract with the state insurance monopoly, the Instituto Nacional de Seguros (INS).
In accordance with the Treaty of Union, the currency of the 'united kingdom' was sterling with the pound scots being replaced by sterling at the pegged value.
Trevor Francis, for example, is regarded as Britain's first £1m player but was officially transferred for £975,000.
However, in April 2004 Hargreaves's wife Christine sold the rights to the Mr. Men characters to the UK entertainment group Chorion, for £28 million.
Although they ask for a £25,000 ransom, they plan to return the money with the girl after Myra has become famous for helping find her.
They persuade the Bank of England to issue a one million pound banknote, which they present to Adams in an envelope (only telling him that it contains some money).
Philip had previously recognised John as suzerain of Anjou and the Duchy of Brittany, but with the treaty of Le Goulet he extorted 20,000 marks sterling in payment for recognition of John's sovereignty of Brittany.
Prior to this the thresholds were based on monetary revenue: Platinum (£1,000,000), Gold (£150,000 from April 1973 to September 1974, £250,000 from September 1974 to January 1977, and £300,000 from 1977 until 1979) and Silver (£75,000 from April 1973 to January 1975, £100,000 from January 1975 to January 1977, and £150,000 from 1977 until 1979).
On 26 February 2007, the WRU agreed a new £1 million three-year sponsorship deal with SWALEC, who had previously sponsored the event from the 1992–93 season until the 1998–99 season; the Cup will again become the SWALEC Cup.
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On 7 December 2002, Zakayev returned to the UK but the British authorities arrested him briefly at London Heathrow Airport; he was released on 50,000 GBP bail, which was paid by British actress Vanessa Redgrave, his friend who had travelled with him from Denmark.
The son of the Reverend E. W. S. Estcourt, of Swindon, Wiltshire, and a nephew of George Sotheron-Estcourt, 1st Baron Estcourt, Estcourt began his education at Mr C. E. F. Stanford's School, Rottingdean, from where in 1907 he won a Fishmongers' Company Open Scholarship of £50 a year to Gresham's School, Holt, where he remained from 1907 to 1912.
On Saturday 22 August 2009, Ugo Verni, a player from Bagnone won an estimated €146.9 million (£128 million / US$211 million) in Italy's SuperEnalotto.
Injured at the start of the 1998–99 season he never really regained his place in the midfield under new manager David O'Leary, and was eventually transferred to Sheffield United in October 1999 for £500,000, where he scored once against West Bromwich Albion.
His career took off, quickly establishing himself in the side, and after 64 league games, in which he scored two goals, he moved to Reading in December 1990 for a fee of £50,000 as the first signing under new owner John Madejski.
Glovers manager Russell Slade was reportedly interested in signing the English defender, but it was Dario Gradi of fellow League One side Crewe Alexandra who managed to sign Woodards for a fee of £30,000 and a 20% sell-on clause.
The perpetrators of the scam, owner Ken Richardson and trainer Stephen Wiles, saw an opportunity to make a quick profit and backed their horse with £20,000, spreading their money around betting shops to avoid detection.
The financing of Dalhousie college, now Dalhousie University in Halifax had largely come from custom duties collected by Sir John Coape Sherbrooke, then lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia during the occupation of Castine, Maine during the War of 1812, investing GBP£7000 as the initial endowment and GBP£3000 reserved for the actual construction of the college.
García was signed by former Tenerife coach Benítez for Liverpool in August 2004, for a fee of £6 million.
The kwacha replaced other types of currency, namely the UK pound sterling, the South African rand and the Rhodesian dollar, that had previously circulated through the Malawian economy.
When the car collection of Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone was auctioned in October 2007 it included five pre-war Mercedes, and his 500K Special Cabriolet fetched almost £700,000 (US$1.45 million).
In June 2008, Nankhwala Catholic School in Monkey Bay received a gift of £1,110 from a partner school, St Bernadette’s Primary School in Tullibody, Scotland.
In earlier times, fines and other charges were usually prescribed in terms of ordinary money (pounds or later dollars).
One such work, by the artist R. B. Kitaj, sold for £640 in an auction, making it the most valuable Post-it note on record.
In 2006, David James entered talks with MG Rover's new owners the Nanjing Automobile Group to buy the MG brand in order to produce a number of sports cars based on the out of production Smart Roadster design following discussions with DaimlerChrysler to buy the Roadster's design, technology and equipment for approximately £13 million.
It was designed by W. A. Fairhurst & Partners, and constructed by Cementation Construction Ltd. and the Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company at a cost of £4.9 million.
The yuan (元/圆) (sign: ¥) is the basic unit of the renminbi, but is also used as a synonym of the currency, especially in international contexts – the ISO 4217 standard code for renminbi is CNY, an acronym of “Chinese yuan” (a similar case is the use of the terms sterling and pound to designate the British currency and unit).
He brokered his deal with Arsenal for a £3 million transfer fee, and the pair parted ways in December 2006 when the player signed with mega-agency Creative Artists.
An article published in The Cairns Post, an Australian newspaper, on 22 August 1941, reported that £15,000,000 in gold bullion — packed in 1500 crates and requiring 30 trucks — had been smuggled past German troops from Oslo to Åndalsnes, 300 miles to the north, where British warships were waiting.
Sophia received many gifts from those seeking patronage; e.g. between 1715 and 1720, she received £9,545 from the Duke of Chandos and 1720, was given £15,000 of stock by the South Sea Company, with a bonus of £120 for every point the stock rose above £154.
Negotiations were taking place with Vivendi Universal to sell the company for an estimated £275 million, but those coincided with the internet bubble bursting and the deal collapsed.
In reply, the President of the Board of Trade, Leslie Burgin replied that there was only one British subject on board the ship, and he was paid £7 per month.
In 1979, Paton was fired as manager, and went on to develop a multi-million pound real estate business based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
So it remained until the 1960s when a group of local people led by Air Vice Marshal Stanley Vincent raised over £37,000 to restore and re-open the Theatre Royal in 1965.
John Trevor Roche Baines (born 19 December 1939), is a British former businessman and tycoon, who claimed to have amassed an estimated fortune of over £130 million, through banking, financial trading, and investment in the Miss World competition.
They have received the David Bellamy Conservation Award for Environmental Cleanliness 2005, with £8,000 which was spent on a new wildlife garden, with a Pond, insect hotel and a Hedgehog 'house'.