What happened in Britain in 1999?

Here are the biggest news, sports and entertainment stories of 1999 ...

The UK is ready to celebrate the new millennium in style with the official opening of the Queen of £ 758m Millennium Dome. It 'was also the budget, and received negative reviews, but was still much to expect. Unfortunately, the Millennium Wheel came into conflict with the millennium opening was delayed due to technical problems. The Millennium Bug, in general, proved too much confusion aboutNothing but the toaster and hairdryer successful nation, with the change of date and not to deal with burning spontaneously! As for humans, too large events in the city went to many pubs and clubs, went a few streets went to parties and some just open a bottle of champagne at home.

Another cause for celebration for many in '99, the government was the introduction for the first time in a binding minimum wage for all workers in the United Kingdom. Set at £ 3.60hour, about two million people have benefited from moving their package of salary, plus up to one third.

On the dark side of 'years has suffered three nail bomb attacks in London in two weeks and has been for some time, wrapped in fear. Fortunately, the police quickly found guilty (which claims to have pursued a Nazi) and sentenced him to life imprisonment sentence to life imprisonment Another was Tony Martin, the farmer who shot a burglar who was in home. Under these circumstances,Many saw his sentence as unfair and large campaigns have been fixed so that a man who felt the victim was a free man, not a criminal.

Lawrence Dallaglio was another not to celebrate the millennium, when the captain cast off the English rugby national team. Tabloid had claimed that the cut, the savior of the game, and took drugs to treat, while at the University and the unwelcome publicity enough to commit the rugby federation, something they may regret ifThe lack of evidence (certainly should arrive before the publication of stories?) Has led to the charges acquitted. Football-wise, Manchester United won the Premier League for the 5th time in the '90s, making them the undisputed heavyweight of the new game at home.

In the entertainment world, the leader of the Staines Massive, Ali G, his career was launched as part of the show clock 11 on Channel 4 masquerading as a simple, Streetwise "Gangster" (who lived with the Great), SachaBaron Cohen silly personalities of political life by asking questions about drugs, violence and sex and to show how they were out of touch. Besides the BBC, the license was money well spent on big-budget program of Natural History, "Walking With Dinosaurs," to see the audience fascinated, really realistic computer-generated dinosaurs roaming the earth.

The British film industry returned to work with Guy Ritchie's "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking barrels. The mixture ofprofessional actors with Real East End villains (including football hard man Vinnie Jones was involved) was a success and took the money when millions of people took to the story of a group of London boys are desperate to see had come to £ 500,000. Another film of 1999 was made "Fight Club" with Brad Pitt (which is all I know about that, even if the first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club!) Legends.

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