2014 Breiðablik UBK season
After 8 years as head coach of Breiðablik Ólafur Kristjánsson signed as manager of FC Nordsjælland on 2 July, he left the club after the Stjarnan game on 2 June. He was replaced by his assistant coach Guðmundur Benediktsson 6 league games into the season.


2014 Breiðablik UBK season
On 25 April Breiðablik finished 2nd in Lengjubikarinn, losing the final 4–1 to FH.


2014 Breiðablik UBK season
Despite their good pre-season and finishing 2nd in Lengjubikarinn Breiðablik struggled in the league and went 9 league games without a victory. Their first league victory came on 2 July against Þór. Breiðablik finished the season in 7th place, their lowest finish since 2008, with 12 draws in 22 games.


2014 Breiðablik UBK season
Breiðablik were eliminated in the quarter finals of Borgunarbikarinn on 6 July to eventual winners KR after beating HK and Þór in the 32nd-finals and 16th-finals.


2014 Breiðablik UBK season
On 13 October former Breiðablik's player Arnar Grétarsson was confirmed as the new head coach of Breiðablik following the departure of Guðmundur Benediktsson.


2014 Breiðablik UBK season, First Team
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2014 Breiðablik UBK season, Pre-Season, Fótbolti.net Cup
Breiðablik took part in Fótbolti.net Cup, a pre-season tournament for clubs outside of Reykjavík, in January. The team played in Group 1 with FH, Keflavík and Grindavík. Breiðablik played 4 games, won 2 and lost 2. The team won ÍBV in the game for 5th place.


2014 Breiðablik UBK season, Pre-Season, Atlantic Cup
Breiðablik took part, for the first time, in The Atlantic Cup held in Algarve, Portugal, a pre-season friendly tournament contested of 8 teams from 6 countries. The team played 3 games, 1 win 1 draw 1 loss, against SV Mattersburg, FC Midtjylland and F.C. Copenhagen and finished in 5th place. FH were the other Icelandic team in the tournament.


2014 Breiðablik UBK season, Lengjubikarinn
Lengjubikarinn, the Icelandic league cup, was held from 14 February to 25 April. It was played in 3 groups and Breiðablik were drawn in Group 1 along with 7 other teams. Breiðablik finished in 2nd place in the group and went on to play in the quarter-finals where they beat Víkingur. In the semi-finals they beat Þór but lost in the finals to FH thus getting the silver.


2014 Breiðablik UBK season, Úrvalsdeild
Breiðablik started the season on 5 May with a game against FH. The game ended with a 1–1 draw and from their Breiðablik started too struggle. They only took 6 points from their first 9 games, 6 draws and 3 defeats. Ólafur Kristjánsson's last game in charge was against Stjarnan on 2 June, game that ended with a 1–1 draw and Ólafur left Breiðablik without a league win in 2014 season. Their first win came on 2 July against Þór, that was Guðmundur Benediktsson first league win as head coach of Breiðablik.


2014 Breiðablik UBK season, Úrvalsdeild
After collecting 12 points in the first half of the season from 11 games (2 wins, 6 draws, 3 defeats), the team improved slightly in the second half off the season and only lost 2 games of the last 13, but too many draws, 12 in total, left the team only securing safety in the 20th round. Breiðablik finished the season in 7th place only 3 points shy of 4th place which gave Europa League Qualification after KR's win in Borgunarbikarinn.


2014 Breiðablik UBK season, Borgunarbikar
Breiðablik entered the Borgunarbikarinn in the 3rd round (32nd finals) with the other teams from Úrvalsdeild where they were drawn against local rivals HK. Breiðablik won the game 2–1 and the win was their first win of the 2014 summer season. In the 4th round (16th finals) Breiðablik defeated Þór 3–1 after extra time. Breiðablik then lost in the 5th round 2–0 to eventual winners KR in a disappointing game.


2014 Breiðablik UBK season, Squad information, Players' statistics
Appearances (Apps.) numbers are for appearances in competitive games only(Úrvalsdeild, Borgunarbikar and Lengjubikar). Right side of + are sub appearancesRed card numbers denote: Numbers in parentheses represent red cards overturned for wrongful dismissal.


2014 Brent London Borough Council election
The 2014 Brent London Borough Council  election took place on 22 May 2014 to elect members of Brent London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour Party stayed in overall control of the council.


2014 Brent London Borough Council election, Background
At the last election in 2010 Labour gained control of the council with 40 councillors, compared to 17 for the Liberal Democrats and 6 for the Conservatives. In July 2012 the Labour majority was increased when a Liberal Democrat councillor for Alperton, James Allie, defected to the Labour party. The Liberal Democrats lost another councillor in June 2013 when Brondesbury Park councillor Carol Shaw switched back to the Conservatives, ten years after she had defected from the Conservatives to the Liberal Democrats. However the Liberal Democrats did gain from a defection, when in December 2013 a Welsh Harp councillor Dhiraj Kataria left Labour to join the Liberal Democrats.


2014 Brent London Borough Council election, Background
A seat was vacant before the 2010 election in Dudden Hill, after Liberal Democrat councillor David Clues resigned from the council less than 6 months before the election, after having moved to Brighton. A total of 222 candidates stood for election in 2010, contesting the 63 seats on the council across 21 wards. The candidates included full slates from the Labour, Liberal Democrat and Conservative parties, as well as Green Party candidates across the council and a number of UK Independence Party, Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition and independent candidates.


2014 Brent London Borough Council election, Election result
Labour increased their majority on the council making 16 gains and reducing the Liberal Democrats to just 1 seat on the council. Labour gained seats in Alperton, Dollis Hill, Dudden Hill, Mapesbury, Queens Park, Sudbury, Welsh Harp and Willesden Green from the Liberal Democrats, as well as seats in Northwick Park and Preston from the Conservatives. The 15 seats lost by the Liberal Democrats included the group leader Paul Lorber in Sudbury and meant Helen Carr in Mapesbury was the only Liberal Democrat remaining on the council.


2014 Brent London Borough Council election, Election result
The Conservatives stayed steady on 6 councillors after losing seats to Labour, but gaining 2 seats from the Liberal Democrats in Brondesbury Park. They finished second in vote share with 21%, but well behind Labour who got 47% of the vote. Overall turnout at the election was 36%.


2014 Brent London Borough Council election, Election result
Following the election Labour councillor Muhammed Butt remained leader of the council, defeating a challenge within his party from Neil Nerva. Meanwhile, the Conservative group split in half, with the 3 councillors from Brondesbury Park ward forming their own Brondesbury Park Conservatives group, after failing to replace Kenton councillor Suresh Kansahra as leader of the Conservative group, while the 3 Kenton Conservative councillors remained in the Conservative group.


2014 Brentwood Borough Council election
The 2014 Brentwood Borough Council election took place on 22 May 2014 to elect members of Brentwood Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.


2014 Bretagne–Séché Environnement season
The 2014 season for Bretagne–Séché Environnement began in January at the Tour de San Luis. Bretagne–Séché Environnement is a French-registered UCI Professional Continental cycling team that participated in road bicycle racing events on the UCI Continental Circuits and when selected as a wildcard to UCI ProTour events.


2014 Brickyard 400
The 2014 Crown Royal Presents the John Wayne Walding 400 at the Brickyard Powered by BigMachineRecords.com, the 21st running of the event, was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on July 27, 2014, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana. Contested over 160 laps, it was the 20th race of the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season.


2014 Brickyard 400
Twenty years after he won the inaugural race, Jeff Gordon of Hendrick Motorsports took the lead on the final restart and drove away from the field for his 90th career victory and a record-breaking fifth win at Indianapolis. Kyle Busch finished second, while Denny Hamlin, Matt Kenseth and Joey Logano rounded out the top five. The top rookies of the race were Kyle Larson (7th), Austin Dillon (10th), and Justin Allgaier (27th).


2014 Brickyard 400, Previous race
Two weeks prior, Brad Keselowski held off a green-white-checker charge by Kyle Busch to win the Camping World RV Sales 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Keselowski described the performance as "definitely good for when we come back here in September", but also stated that his team "have to keep working and plugging away".


2014 Brickyard 400, Report, Background
Indianapolis Motor Speedway is a four-turn rectangular-oval track that is 2.5 miles (4.023 km) long. The track's turns are banked at 9 degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, has no banking. The back stretch, opposite of the front, also has a zero degree banking. The track's front and back straightaway are both 3,300 ft (1,000 m), while the short straightaways between turn one and two, as well as between turn three and four are 660 feet (200 m) long. The racetrack has seats for more than 250,000 spectators. The defending race winner from 2013 was Ryan Newman.


2014 Brickyard 400, Report, Background
Crown Royal's "Your Hero Name Here" program selected John Wayne Walding for the race name. Walding, a former member of the Green Berets, was serving in Afghanistan when a sniper shot, in the Battle of Shok Valley, forced the amputation of his lower right leg.


2014 Brickyard 400, Report, Background
The 2014 race also marked the introduction of a new video board at the start-finish line replacing the scoring pylon in use since 1994. The board debuted for this weekend.


2014 Brickyard 400, Report, Entry list
The entry list was released on Tuesday, July 22, 2014 at 10:26 a.m. Eastern time. Forty-six drivers were entered for the race.


2014 Brickyard 400, Report, Entry list
2013 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion Matt Crafton entered the race in the No. 29 RAB Racing Toyota, attempting to make his Cup debut. IndyCar Series driver and former Cup driver Juan Pablo Montoya returned to NASCAR in the No. 12 Team Penske Ford to make his second start of the season. 2000 Brickyard 400 winner Bobby Labonte entered the race in the No. 37 Tommy Baldwin Racing Chevrolet. Crafton, Montoya, and Trevor Bayne were required to make the race via speed, due to having no owners' championship points or being too low in owners' points, while Labonte had the advantage of using a past champion's provisional.


2014 Brickyard 400, Practice
Two practice sessions were held at the track, on Friday at 11:35 am local time, and on Saturday at 9 am, three hours before the qualifying session.


2014 Brickyard 400, Practice, First practice
Matt Kenseth was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 48.313 and a speed of 186.285 mph (299.797 km/h).


2014 Brickyard 400, Practice, Final practice
Jimmie Johnson was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 47.544 and a speed of 189.298 mph (304.646 km/h).


2014 Brickyard 400, Qualifying
In qualifying, Kevin Harvick won the pole with a new track record time of 47.753 and a speed of 188.470 mph (303.313 km/h); he had been quickest in each of the three segments of the session. Harvick noted the benefit of having the last pit stall on pit road, stating that it was "going to take some pressure off the guys for sure". and also felt that if he had fallen down the order, he believed that his car was quick enough as he believed that "track position is definitely important".


2014 Brickyard 400, Qualifying
Jeff Gordon joined Harvick on the front row, almost two tenths of a second in arrears. Gordon referred to the performance of Harvick and his team as "they had the field covered". Gordon's teammate Dale Earnhardt, Jr. – who was second in points to Gordon coming into the race weekend – could only qualify 23rd, describing his session as “pretty pathetic" and "real slow". Matt Crafton, Brett Moffitt and David Stremme failed to make the race. Aric Almirola and Marcos Ambrose started at the rear of the field for switching to a backup car and a transmission change respectively.


2014 Brickyard 400, Race, First half
The race was scheduled to start at 1:19 p.m. Eastern time, but started a few minutes later with Kevin Harvick leading the field to the green flag, but he ceded the lead to Jeff Gordon on lap two. Due to overnight downpours, a competition caution came out on lap 21. Joey Logano stayed out when the others pitted and assumed the lead, leading the field to the restart on lap 26. Kasey Kahne took the lead from Logano on lap 32 while Paul Menard brushed the wall in turn 3 after being bumped by Juan Pablo Montoya.


2014 Brickyard 400, Race, First half
However, Kahne gave up the lead on lap 38 to pit, with Kyle Larson assuming the lead, handing the lead to Austin Dillon after pitting on lap 43. Dillon made his stop and handed the lead to Denny Hamlin the next lap. Hamlin made his stop on lap 55 and handed the lead back to Kevin Harvick. Gordon retook the lead from Harvick on lap 66 and then both ducked onto pit road. Hamlin retook the lead as a result.


2014 Brickyard 400, Race, Second half
Danica Patrick broke the rear axle of her when trying to leave pit road and stalled on the exit of pit road bringing out the second caution of the race on lap 68. The race restarted on lap 73 and Denny Hamlin lost the lead to Kasey Kahne. The caution flag came out for the third time on lap 97 when Trevor Bayne got loose and collected the inside wall in turn 3. Clint Bowyer did not pit during the caution period so he assumed the lead. The race restarted on lap 102 and Bowyer lost the lead to Kahne.


2014 Brickyard 400, Race, Second half
Kahne made his final stop on lap 127 and handed the lead to his teammate Gordon. With 31 laps to go, Gordon made his final stop and handed the lead to Martin Truex, Jr.; Truex made his stop and gave the lead to Michael Annett. Kahne cycled back to the lead with 30 laps to go, before Ryan Truex stalled in turn 2 bringing out the fourth caution of the race with 22 laps to go.


2014 Brickyard 400, Race, Second half, Finish
Gordon took the lead on the ensuing restart and took the checkered flag for the 90th time in his career. The win guaranteed Gordon a spot in the Chase for the Sprint Cup; Carl Edwards, Jimmie Johnson and Joey Logano also clinched spots. Kahne fell to fifth on the restart, and ran out of fuel on the final lap, finishing sixth. Gordon described his race win as "nothing better, especially in a big race, coming to Victory Lane with your family here", while he "was trying so hard with 10 to go not to focus on the crowd".


2014 Brickyard 400, Race, Second half, Finish
Kahne reflected on his position at the final restart, stating that he should have picked the outside line, also stating "pretty much let Jeff control that restart. I took off and never spun a tire and the inside had been more grip throughout the race and I started on the inside and I thought it was a great decision. But I didn't spin a tire and Jeff drove right by me."


2014 Brickyard 400, Race, Post-race
"Approved parts that fail or are improperly installed to fail in their intended use of great importance (e.g. ; rear wheel well panels that fail and allow air evacuation in the trunk area; oil box cover that fails and allows air evacuation in the driver compartment; shifter boot cover that fails and allows air evacuation through the floor pan.)"


2014 Brickyard 400, Race, Post-race
Section 12-4.5 A (9) of the 2014 NASCAR rule book.


2014 Brickyard 400, Race, Post-race
On the Tuesday following the race, NASCAR announced that the No. 11 team of Joe Gibbs Racing – the car of Denny Hamlin, who had finished the race in third place – had been penalized for a rules infraction in post-race inspection. This infraction was levied as a P5 penalty – the second-highest level – outlined in Section 12–4.5 A (9) of the 2014 NASCAR rule book.


2014 Brickyard 400, Race, Post-race
Per the subsequent Section 12–4.5 B of the regulations, any P5 penalty resulted in a 50-point penalty for both the driver and team owner, a fine of between $75,000 and $125,000 as well as race suspension and probation periods for team members in relation to the infraction. As the infraction was detected during a post-race inspection, a further 25 championship points were deducted as well as a further fine of $50,000.


2014 Brickyard 400, Race, Post-race
The infraction also violated several other Sections from the rule book:


2014 Brickyard 400, Race, Post-race
Accordingly, crew chief Darian Grubb was fined $125,000 post-race, suspended for the next six races and placed on NASCAR probation for a six-month period – until January 29, 2015 – while car chief Wesley Sherrill was also suspended six races and placed on NASCAR probation until the same date. Denny Hamlin lost 75 drivers' championship points, while the team lost 75 points in the owners' championship.


2014 Brisbane Broncos season
The 2014 Brisbane Broncos season was the 27th in the club's history. Coached by Anthony Griffin and co-captained by Justin Hodges and Corey Parker, they competed in the NRL's 2014 Telstra Premiership, finishing the regular season eighth (out of sixteen) to make it into the finals. The Broncos were then knocked out of contention in the first game of the finals against the North Queensland Cowboys.


2014 Brisbane Broncos season, Season summary
On 10 January, Sam Thaiday announced he was standing down from the Broncos captaincy. Thaiday had captained the Broncos since 2012 when he took over the captaincy from the retired Darren Lockyer. Justin Hodges and Corey Parker were named the club's new co-captains.


2014 Brisbane Broncos season, Season summary
On 21 July, Coach Anthony Griffin was informed his services would not be required in 2015. Griffin agreed to see out the remainder of the 2014 season. When asked by the media what he said to the players, Griffin said "I told them I got the arse". At the time of his sacking Griffin had a coaching record of 51 wins from 93 games.


2014 Brisbane Broncos season, Season summary
Later the same day, it was announced that Wayne Bennett had signed a three-year deal to coach the Broncos from 2015. Bennett is the inaugural coach of the Broncos having coached them from 1988 to 2008.


2014 Brisbane Broncos season, Fixtures, Pre-season, NRL Auckland Nines
The NRL Auckland Nines is a pre-season rugby league nines competition featuring all 16 NRL clubs. The 2014 competition was played over two days on 15 and 16 February at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand. The Broncos featured in Pool Green and played the Bulldogs, Eels and Roosters. The top two teams of each pool qualified for the quarter finals.


2014 Brisbane Broncos season, Representatives
The following players have played a representative match in 2014


2014 Brisbane International
The 2014 Brisbane International was a joint 2014 ATP World Tour and 2014 WTA Tour tennis tournament, played on outdoor hard courts in Brisbane, Queensland. It was the sixth edition of the tournament and took place at the Queensland Tennis Centre in Tennyson. It was held from 29 December 2013 to 5 January 2014 and was part of the Australian Open Series in preparation for the first Grand Slam of the year.


2014 Brisbane International
In a major coup for the tournament, it was announced on 24 July 2013 that former world no. 1 and 17-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer had committed to the event for the first time, thus breaking from his tradition of beginning the season in the Middle East. This announcement was dubbed "the biggest announcement in the history of the Brisbane International". Defending champion Serena Williams, two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka, 2013 Wimbledon finalist Sabine Lisicki, former world number ones Caroline Wozniacki and Jelena Janković and former ATP world No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt were also big drawcards for the event.


2014 Brisbane International, Points and prize money, Prize money
1 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money* per team


2014 Brisbane International, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2014 Brisbane International, ATP doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2014 Brisbane International, WTA singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2014 Brisbane International, WTA doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2014 Brisbane International – Men's Doubles
Marcelo Melo and Tommy Robredo were the defending champions, but decided not to participate this year. Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Daniel Nestor won the title, defeating Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah in the final, 6–7(4–7), 6–4, [10–7].


2014 Brisbane International – Men's Singles
Andy Murray was the two-time defending champion, but decided to participate in Doha instead. Lleyton Hewitt won the title, defeating Roger Federer in the final in their 27th and last meeting, 6–1, 4–6, 6–3.


2014 Brisbane International – Men's Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2014 Brisbane International – Women's Doubles
Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Sania Mirza were the defending champions, but they decided not to participate.


2014 Brisbane International – Women's Doubles
Alla Kudryavtseva and Anastasia Rodionova won the title, defeating Kristina Mladenovic and Galina Voskoboeva in the final, 6–3, 6–1.


2014 Brisbane International – Women's Singles
Serena Williams was the defending champion, and successfully defended her title, defeating Victoria Azarenka in the final, 6–4, 7–5. Williams became the first woman to defend her title at the event.


2014 Brisbane International – Women's Singles, Seeds
The top two seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2014 Brisbane Lions season
The 2014 Brisbane Lions season is the club's 18th season in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club also fielded its reserves team in the NEAFL.


2014 Brisbane Roar W-League season
The 2014 Brisbane Roar FC W-League season was the club's seventh participation in the W-League, since the league's formation in 2008.


2014 Brisbane Roar W-League season, Players, Squad information
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2014 Brisbane hailstorm
The 2014 Brisbane hailstorm struck Brisbane, the capital city of Queensland, Australia on 27 November 2014. The storm caused severe damage to many buildings and cars in the city. Around 40 people were injured. Wind speeds of 141 km/h (88 mph) were recorded with multiple reports of hail in the city and surrounding areas.


2014 Brisbane hailstorm, Climatology and conditions
Warm, humid air over South East Queensland was hit by a cooler southerly change causing instability. Multiple cells formed near the New South Wales border and tracked northwards, with one storm intensifying into a strong supercell.


2014 Brisbane hailstorm, Progression of the storm
The storm struck during peak hour. It was of short duration, lasting just half an hour. Wind gusts of 141 km/h (88 mph) were recorded at Archerfield. While supercell storms form every year in the region it was rare for one to strike the central parts of Brisbane. Reports of giant hail were widespread across the city. The storm continued to track north, threatening suburbs in the Moreton Bay region. It passed near Redcliffe and North Lakes, around 30 or 40 minutes after the city impact, not causing anywhere near as much damage. By this time it had turned north east, and eventually shifted out to sea not long before dusk.


2014 Brisbane hailstorm, Aftermath
A senior forecaster at the Bureau of Meteorology described the storm as the worst in a decade. More than 100,000 homes lost power supply. 642 power-lines were brought down. Around 2,000 homes experienced roof damaged caused by hail. 39 people were injured with 12 treated at hospitals. A number of planes were flipped over at Archerfield Airport. More than 12 schools were closed following the storm. Brisbane City Council and State Government buildings suffered $50 million worth of damage.


2014 Brisbane hailstorm, Aftermath
In mid February 2015, it was estimated the storm caused $1.1 billion worth of damage. Many drivers were caught unaware and unable to escape the hail. According to the Insurance Council of Australia 100,000 insurance claims have been lodged with almost two thirds for vehicles. Hail-damaged cars are expected to be undergoing repairs until the end of 2015.


2014 Bristol City Council election
The 2014 Bristol City Council election took place on 22 May 2014 to elect members of Bristol City Council in England, as part of the United Kingdom 2014 Local Elections.


2014 Bristol City Council election
214,544 people were eligible to vote in the elections, of which 58,907 turned out to do so. Consequently, overall turnout was 27.5%.


2014 Brit Awards
The 2014 Brit Awards were held on 19 February 2014. It was the 34th edition of the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music awards. The awards ceremony was held at The O2 Arena in London and was presented by James Corden for the fourth consecutive year. Leading the nominations was Ellie Goulding with five nominations. Arctic Monkeys and One Direction both won the most awards, winning two awards each. For the first time ever, a backstage livestream was broadcast on the internet, via YouTube. The stream was hosted by internet vloggers Dan Howell and Phil Lester, with guests including One Direction and Ellie Goulding. 67-year-old David Bowie became the oldest winner to date of the British Male Solo Artist award.


2014 Brit Awards
A new glossy black finish design statue designed by fashion designer Philip Treacy was presented for the first time.


2014 Brit Awards, Statuette design
The statuette for the 2014 BRIT Awards was designed by Irish milliner Philip Treacy. Taking the form of Britannia (the national personification of Britain), the trophy has been redesigned by various artists since the BRIT Awards revamp in 2011. Treacy stated that music has always been his inspiration, with the 2014 trophy being inspired by "a uniquely British genre of music, Punk." It was unveiled on 28 November 2013. The statuette has a glossy black finish, with a black and white circular hat that represents a mohawk, which sits atop the helmet at the apex of the trophy.


2014 Brit Awards, Performances, The Brits Are Coming: Nominations Launch Party
Nick Grimshaw hosted the launch show inside the ITV Studios in London on Thursday 9 January.


2014 Brit Awards, Performances, Main show performances
The following performances took place during the live broadcast on 19 February 2014.


2014 Brit Awards, Performances, Main show performances
Select performances were made available for purchase on iTunes following the ceremony, and "Pompeii/Waiting All Night" by Bastille, Rudimental and Ella Eyre debuted at number 21 on the UK Singles Chart, whilst Lorde and Disclosure's "White Noise/Royals" debuted at number 72.


2014 Brit Awards, Winners and nominees
1 Harry Styles went late after other One Direction members have been ended, during Global Success Award.


2014 Brit Awards, Brit Awards 2014 album
The Brit Awards 2014 is a compilation and box set which includes the "62 biggest tracks from the past year". The box set has three discs with a total of sixty-two songs by various artists.


2014 Brit Awards, Brit Awards 2014 album, Track listing
The set has three discs; the first disc includes twenty-one songs, the second disc includes twenty songs and the third disc includes twenty-one songs. Sam Smith, Ellie Goulding and Calvin Harris are the only artists to have more than one song in the album.


2014 British Academy Scotland Awards
The 24th British Academy Scotland Awards were held on 16 November 2014 at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Glasgow, honouring the best Scottish film and television productions of 2013. Presented by BAFTA Scotland, accolades are handed out for the best in feature-length film that were screened at British cinemas during 2013. The Nominees were announced on 23 October 2014. The ceremony was broadcast online via YouTube and was hosted by Hazel Irvine.


2014 British Academy Scotland Awards
Tommy Gormley, Alex Graham and Lorraine Kelly were honoured with Outstanding Contribution awards at this ceremony.


2014 British Academy Scotland Awards, Winners and nominees
Monkey Love Experiments – Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson, Cameron Fraser


2014 British Academy Scotland New Talent Awards
The 2014 British Academy Scotland New Talent Awards were held on 25 March 2014 at The Arches (Glasgow). Presented by BAFTA Scotland, the accolades honour the best upcoming talent in the field of film and television in Scotland. The Nominees were announced on 7 March 2014. The ceremony was hosted by Muriel Gray.


2014 British Academy Scotland New Talent Awards, Winners and nominees
Finding Family – Carol Cooke, Chris Leslie, Garret Tankosic Kelly, Oggi Tomic


2014 British Academy Television Awards
The 60th British Academy Television Awards nominations were announced on 7 April 2014. The awards ceremony sponsored by Arqiva was held on 18 May 2014 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London.


2014 British Academy Television Awards, Programmes with multiple nominations
Channel 4 lead the most nominations for any network with 28, 9 ahead of BBC One who had 19. Channel 4's The IT Crowd and Southcliffe as well as ITV's Broadchurch lead the nominations for programming with four nods each.


2014 British Academy Television Craft Awards
The 15th Annual British Academy Television Craft Awards were presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) on 24 April 2014, with Stephen Mangan presiding over the event. The awards were held at The Brewery, City of London, and given in recognition of technical achievements in British television of 2013.


2014 British Academy Television Craft Awards, Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface; the nominees are listed below.


2014 British Athletics Championships
The 2014 British Athletics Championships was the national championship in outdoor track and field for athletes in the United Kingdom, held from 27-29 June at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham. It was organised by UK Athletics. It served as a selection meeting for the 2014 European Athletics Championships.


2014 British Columbia New Democratic Party leadership election
The 2014 British Columbia New Democratic Party leadership election was to be held from September 24 to 27 with the results announced on September 28; however, as John Horgan was the only candidate to be officially nominated by the deadline of May 1, 2014, at 5 pm, he was acclaimed leader. The election was called following Adrian Dix's resignation announcement on September 18, 2013, several months after the party's unexpected defeat in the 2013 election after pre-campaign polls had shown the NDP ahead by as much as 20 points.


2014 British Columbia New Democratic Party leadership election
The party set the entrance fee for candidates at $25,000 and a spending maximum of $350,000.


2014 British Columbia New Democratic Party leadership election
The leadership vote was to be conducted by preferential ballot cast via internet and telephone with all party members being eligible to vote. The voting was to occur from September 24 to 27 with the results announced on September 28. Unlike the previous leadership election, which was also conducted on a One Member One Vote basis, members would not have had the option of voting at the convention itself or on a live ballot by ballot basis but can only cast a preferential ballot and do so by internet or phone.


2014 British Columbia New Democratic Party leadership election
The deadline for candidates to be nominated was May 1, 2014. The deadline to join the NDP and be eligible to vote was to be June 26, 2014.


2014 British Columbia New Democratic Party leadership election, Candidates, John Horgan
MLA for Juan de Fuca since 2005, Horgan had been Opposition Critic for Education and, until his candidacy was announced, he was Opposition Energy Critic (2006–2014) and Opposition House Leader (2011–2014). Horgan ran in the 2011 leadership election, placing third.


2014 British Columbia New Democratic Party leadership election, Withdrawn candidates, Mike Farnworth
Farnworth was MLA for Port Coquitlam (1991–2001, 2005–present), Opposition Finance Critic, former Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing (1997–98), Minister of Employment and Investment and Minister Responsible for Housing (1998–2000), Minister of Health and Minister Responsible for Seniors (2000), and Minister Social Development and Economic Security (2000–01). He placed second in the 2011 leadership election.


2014 British Columbia New Democratic Party leadership election, Potential candidates who declined to run
MLAs Rob Fleming, David Eby, Judy Darcy and George Heyman, federal MPs Kennedy Stewart, Nathan Cullen, Fin Donnelly and Peter Julian, mayors Derek Corrigan and Gregor Robertson and Vancouver School Board chairperson Patti Bacchus have all announced that they will not be candidates for the party leadership.


2014 British Columbia Scotties Tournament of Hearts
The 2014 British Columbia Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship for British Columbia, was held January 6 to 12 at the Prince George Golf & Curling Club in Prince George. The winning team represented the province at the 2014 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Montreal.


2014 British Columbia municipal elections
Municipal elections were held in the Canadian province of British Columbia on November 15, 2014. Races were held in all municipalities and regional district electoral areas.


2014 British Columbia municipal elections, Kamloops, Kamloops City Council election, Mayoral and city council by-elections
Held on September 30, 2017 to replace mayor Milobar who was elected to the British Columbia legislature. Council by-elections were held to replace Ken Christian who was running for mayor and Marg Spina, who is battling breast cancer.


2014 British Columbia municipal elections, Nanaimo, Nanaimo City Council election, City council by-election
Held on July 8, 2017 to replace councillor Wendy Pratt.


2014 British Columbia municipal elections, Saanich, Saanich District Council election, City council by-election
Held on September 23, 2017 to replace councillor Vic Derman who had died.


2014 British Figure Skating Championships
The 2014 British Figure Skating Championships were held in Sheffield on 26–30 November 2013. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior level, junior, and novice levels. The results were among the criteria used to determine international assignments.


2014 British Formula 3 International Series
The 2014 Cooper Tires British Formula 3 International Series season was a multi-event motor racing championship for open wheel, formula racing cars held across England, and one round in Belgium. The championship featured a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded drivers competing in 2 litre Formula Three single seat race cars that conformed to the technical regulations for the championship. The 2014 season was the 64th British Formula Three Championship. The series, promoted by the Stéphane Ratel Organisation, began on 4 May at Rockingham Motor Speedway and concluded on 14 September at Donington Park after a 21 race schedule held at seven meetings.


2014 British Formula 3 International Series
In a season that saw only four drivers contest the entire championship, it was Chinese driver Martin Cao who won the championship, driving for Fortec Motorsports. Cao started the season with a run of seven successive second-place finishes to a series of drivers, but his consistent finishing kept him towards the top of the championship standings.


2014 British Formula 3 International Series
Cao took his first win at Thruxton, and went on to take four overall wins – plus a further two class wins behind drivers who were ineligible to score championship points – in the final three race meetings, to ultimately win the championship title by two points, ahead of team-mate Matt Rao. Rao won five races over the course of the season, with one fewer podium finish over the season, compared to Cao. Third place went to Camren Kaminsky, who took three podium finishes over his full season campaign.


2014 British Formula 3 International Series
Another Fortec driver, Sam MacLeod, finished fourth in the championship with four race victories, but he did not contest the whole campaign as his main focus for the season was in the German Formula Three championship with Van Amersfoort Racing. Marvin Kirchhöfer took two wins at Silverstone, when he was learning the circuit for the GP3 Series round at the circuit later in the season. Egor Orudzhev also won at Silverstone, while Roberto Merhi (two wins) and John Bryant-Meisner shared class victories at Spa-Francorchamps. Of the ineligible drivers, Ed Jones won all three races at Spa-Francorchamps, Santino Ferrucci won two out of three at Brands Hatch, while Sean Gelael finished second to Jones twice.


2014 British Formula 3 International Series, Race calendar and results
A seven-round calendar was announced on 23 September 2013. In a change of direction from recent seasons, the championship held only a single round outside the UK, in Belgium, supporting the 2014 24 Hours of Spa. The remaining six rounds were all be held in England. The three race format used in previous seasons was retained for all rounds of the championship.


2014 British Formula 3 International Series, Race calendar and results
After appearing on the 2013 calendar, the international round held at the Nürburgring was dropped from the 2014 calendar. Donington Park, Rockingham and Snetterton all returned to the calendar after a one-year hiatus, while Thruxton returned to the calendar for the first time since 2010.


2014 British Formula Ford Championship
The 2014 Dunlop MSA Formula Ford Championship of Great Britain was a multi-event, open-wheel single seater motor racing championship held across England and Scotland. The championship featured a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded drivers, competing in Formula Ford cars that conformed to the technical regulations for the championship. This, the 38th British Formula Ford season, was the second year of the single class format, with all drivers using the latest cars built to the Formula Ford EcoBoost specification. There was also an award for the highest placed Rookie.


2014 British Formula Ford Championship
Part of the TOCA tour, it formed part of the extensive program of support categories built up around the BTCC centrepiece. The season commenced on 30 March at Brands Hatch – on the circuit's Indy configuration – and concluded on 12 October at the same venue, utilising the Grand Prix circuit, after 30 races held at 10 meetings, all in support of the 2014 British Touring Car Championship season.


2014 British Formula Ford Championship
The championship was won by South African driver Jayde Kruger of the JTR team, finishing six points clear of Falcon Motorsport's Harrison Scott. Kruger won the most races during the season with 13 (to Scott's 5), but Scott's greater consistency – 24 podiums from 30 races – compared to Kruger (17 podiums) allowed him to remain in contention entering the final round at Brands Hatch, as both drivers entered the weekend with 651 points apiece. Scott won the first race to take the championship lead, before the two drivers collided on the second lap of race two.


2014 British Formula Ford Championship
Kruger went on to win the race, while Scott failed to finish. Falcon Motorsport protested the result, before a JTR counter-appeal allowed the race result to stand as it was. Thus, Kruger's eighth place finish in the final race was enough for the championship, despite Scott winning. Falcon Motorsport again contested the result, with the case being heard at the court of appeal, for the Motor Sports Association. Kruger was confirmed champion in November after Falcon's protest was rejected.


2014 British Formula Ford Championship
The battle for third place in the championship was equally fraught, with a quartet of drivers being split by 11 points at season's end. Top Scholarship class runner Ashley Sutton, a five-time race winner for MBM Motorsport, was the victor in the battle; he finished six points clear of Radical Motorsport's Juan Rosso, who took his only win during the season at Thruxton. Rosso himself finished a point clear of Kruger's team-mate Max Marshall, who won a pair of races at Snetterton and Rockingham respectively.


2014 British Formula Ford Championship
James Abbott, another Radical Motorsport driver, was also a two-time winner, and he finished sixth in the drivers' championship, taking wins at the opening Brands Hatch meeting and Croft. The only other winner, with two wins, was Sam Brabham for JTR, before his season was cut short due to budgetary issues; he had won two of the three races to be held at Thruxton. Sutton was a comfortable winner of the Scholarship class along with his third place overall finish, finishing almost 200 points clear of his next best class rival, Ricky Collard, Scott's team-mate at Falcon Motorsport. The Teams' Cup was won by JTR, despite Falcon Motorsport closing in at the final round; JTR were still able to finish clear by 33 points, while the Nations' Cup was won by South Africa, on the basis of Kruger's results.


2014 British Formula Ford Championship, Championship changes
To bring the championship into line with many other junior single seater championships, series organisers announced that the second race of each meeting would be held with a partially reversed grid.


2014 British Formula Ford Championship, Race calendar and results
The provisional calendar was announced on 14 September 2013, with no major changes from 2013. All races were held in the United Kingdom.


2014 British GT Championship
The 2014 Avon Tyres British GT season was the 22nd season of the British GT Championship. The season began on 19 April at Oulton Park and finished on 14 September at Donington Park, after ten rounds held over seven meetings. Ecurie Ecosse driver Marco Attard won the GT3 championship, while Ross Wylie and Jake Giddings took the GT4 championship for Beechdean Motorsport.


2014 British GT Championship, Race calendar and results
The provisional 2014 calendar was announced on 5 October 2013. Spa-Francorchamps replaced Zandvoort as the overseas round. All races except Belgian round at Spa, were held in the United Kingdom.


2014 British Grand Prix
The 2014 British Grand Prix (formally the 2014 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 6 July 2014 at the Silverstone Circuit in Silverstone, United Kingdom before a crowd of 122,000 people. It was the ninth round of the 2014 Formula One World Championship, and the 65th British Grand Prix to be held as part of the series. Lewis Hamilton of the Mercedes team won the 52-lap race, from a sixth position start. Williams driver Valtteri Bottas finished second, with Daniel Ricciardo third for the Red Bull squad. It was Hamilton's fifth victory of 2014, his second at Silverstone, and the 27th of his career.


2014 British Grand Prix
Hamilton's teammate Nico Rosberg recorded the fastest lap in qualifying to start from pole position. The race was suspended for one hour, five minutes after a first-lap accident involving Kimi Räikkönen left a section of guardrail barrier needing repair. Rosberg led for 18 laps after the restart as Hamilton moved to second, then made a pit stop for tyres, giving the lead to Hamilton for six laps. Hamilton took the lead for good when Rosberg retired from a gearbox fault on the 29th lap; he won by more than 1⁄2 a minute over Bottas. Ricciardo held off McLaren's Jenson Button in the final laps to take third.


2014 British Grand Prix
Rosberg's non-finish left him with a reduced lead of four points over Hamilton in the Drivers' Championship. Ricciardo and Fernando Alonso of Ferrari maintained third and fourth respectively, and Bottas passed Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel for fifth. In the Constructors' Championship, Mercedes held a 158-point lead over Red Bull and Ferrari was third. Williams overtook Force India for fourth with ten races left in the season.


2014 British Grand Prix, Background
The 2014 British Grand Prix was the 9th of the 19 races in the 2014 FIA Formula One World Championship and the 65th edition of the event as a round of the World Championship. It was held at the 18-turn 5.891 km (3.660 mi) Silverstone Circuit in Silverstone, Northamptonshire, England on 6 July. Tyre supplier Pirelli brought a white-banded Medium and orange-banded Hard dry-compounds to the race as well as two wet-weather compounds, the intermediate and full wet tyres.


2014 British Grand Prix, Background
The drag reduction system (DRS), an adjustable flap at the back of each car that helps with overtaking when activated, had two activation zones for the race: one on the Wellington Straight linking the Arena and Brookands turns, and one on the Hangar Straight between Chapel and Stowe corners. After the 2013 race, artificial grass was removed at the exits at three corner, the inside side barrier at the entrance to Brooklands corner was enlargened, and circuit drainage was improved.


2014 British Grand Prix, Background
After the Austrian Grand Prix two weeks earlier, Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg led the Drivers' Championship with 165 points, ahead of his second-placed teammate Lewis Hamilton with 136 points. Daniel Ricciardo of the Red Bull team was third with 83 points, and Ferrari's Fernando Alonso followed close behind in fourth with 79 points. Sebastian Vettel, in the second Red Bull car, was fifth with 60 points. Mercedes led the Constructors' Championship with 301 points with Red Bull second with 143 points. Ferrari (98 points), Force India (87) and Williams (85) battled for third position.


2014 British Grand Prix, Background
After a series of errors in the previous four rounds left Hamilton 29 points behind Rosberg, the Mercedes non-executive chairman Niki Lauda suggested this would motivate Hamilton to perform better at the British Grand Prix and saw no reason to guide him in his driving, "Lewis will fight back, there is no worry on my case about this at all. He is not in any way disturbed. He will keep fighting. Don't worry." Valtteri Bottas said Williams intended to run well at Silverstone and sought to build on the momentum from Austria, "I am really looking forward to Silverstone. It's always a great event and means a lot to us as it's the team's home Grand Prix, so hopefully some of the guys from the factory can come up and support us as well." Ricciardo said he was looking forward to the race as he liked the Silverstone track.


2014 British Grand Prix, Background
There were a total of 11 teams (each representing a different constructor) each fielded two race drivers for the Grand Prix with four driver changes for the first practice session. Williams development driver Susie Wolff drove for the team in lieu of Bottas, becoming the first woman to take part in a Formula One Grand Prix weekend since Giovanna Amati's attempted to qualify for the 1992 Brazilian Grand Prix. Force India gave Daniel Juncadella, the team's reserve and simulator driver and Mercedes-Benz Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters racer, his first Formula One race appearance in Nico Hülkenberg's car at Silverstone. Former GP2 Series competitor Robin Frijns drove Kamui Kobayashi's Caterham for the second time in the 2014 season; the Bahrain Grand Prix in April was the first. Finally, and for the fourth time in 2014, Giedo van der Garde took Adrian Sutil's Sauber seat.


2014 British Grand Prix, Practice
Per the regulations for the 2014 season, three practice sessions were held: two 90-minute sessions on Friday and another 60-minute session on Saturday. In the first session, Rosberg set the fastest lap at 1 minute, 35.424 seconds. Hamilton, Alonso, Ricciardo, Kimi Räikkönen, Vettel, Jenson Button, Daniil Kvyat, Jean-Éric Vergne and Kevin Magnussen were in positions two to ten. Four minutes in, Felipe Massa ran onto artificial grass at the exit of Stowe corner and was sent backwards into a sideways spin, hitting the outside tyre barrier at 130 mph (210 km/h).


2014 British Grand Prix, Practice
His damaged Williams FW36 car stopped near the entry to the pit lane and the session was halted for 17 minutes as track marshals removed it. Later, an oil pressure problem caused Wolff's engine to shut down after four laps, and Marcus Ericsson spun at Becketts turn. After the session, Ricciardo and Rosberg were summoned to the stewards for overtaking Alonso and Kvyat under red flag conditions. Both drivers were deemed to have driven safely under series regulations after data examination and their explanations convinced the stewards not to penalise them.


2014 British Grand Prix, Practice
Hamilton used soft compound tyres to record the fastest lap of the second session with an early time of 1 minute, 35.508 seconds; his running was curtailed because his engine cut out with 1⁄2 an hour to go. Rosberg, Alonso, the Red Bull pair of Ricciardo and Vettel, Bottas, Button, Magunssen, Räikkönen and Vergne rounded out the top ten. A localised explosion tore through the left-hand side of Bottas' engine cover and loosened it with five minutes to go. Vergne's left-front wheel detached at Abbey corner and he had to stop at the side of the track.


2014 British Grand Prix, Practice
On Saturday morning, FIA race director Charlie Whiting adopted a "zero tolerance policy" and cautioned drivers not to run wide leaving Copse and Club without being forced or their lap times would be deleted in a bid to enforce stricter regulations on driving off the track. Overnight rain made the track wet and a north-westerly wind was a factor in the final session; four drivers chose not to set a timed lap and some went off the slippery track. Vettel set the fastest lap of 1 minute, 52.522 seconds, with his teammate Ricciardo second. Pastor Maldonado, Romain Grosjean, Sutil, Kvyat, Magnussen, Button, Bottas and Räikkönen completed the top ten. Jules Bianchi broke his front wing in an impact with the barrier at Stowe corner. Sutil also avoided hitting the wall at Stowe turn and exited the corner's gravel trap.


2014 British Grand Prix, Qualifying
Saturday afternoon's qualifying session was divided into three parts. The first part ran for 18 minutes, eliminating cars that finished qualifying 17th or below. The 107% rule was in effect, requiring drivers to reach a time within 107 per cent of the fastest lap to qualify. The second part lasted 15 minutes, eliminating cars that finished 11th to 16th. The final session lasted 12 minutes and determined pole position to tenth.


2014 British Grand Prix, Qualifying
Cars who progressed to the final session were not allowed to change tyres for the race's start, using the tyres with which they set their best lap times in the second session. A damp track worsened as rain began to fall with increasing, if intermittent, severity; all drivers used intermediate compound tyres for the first two sessions. The rain stopped at the start of the third session and drivers used dry tyres in its first minutes. Rain soon returned and they drove to the pit lane.


2014 British Grand Prix, Qualifying
Several drivers returned to the circuit with three minutes left for one last try at improving their laps. Rosberg took his fourth pole position of the season and the eighth of his career with a 1-minute, 35.766 seconds lap. He was joined on the grid's front row by Vettel who bowed out of his first try due to the rain. Third-place Button went wide at Aintree corner and oversteered on the run to the Hangar Straight and began from the top three at Silverstone for the first time since the 2005 British Grand Prix.


2014 British Grand Prix, Qualifying
Hülkenberg in fourth briefly held pole position as he was the first driver to improve his lap on the drying track. Magnussen was fifth. Hamilton provisionally held the pole position after all first timed laps; he fell to sixth after he abandoned his final attempt because it was slower and he felt the track was not dry enough to improve his lap times.


2014 British Grand Prix, Qualifying
Sergio Pérez in seventh ran wide at Chapel turn and lost heat in his tyres. Eighth-placed Ricciardo did not anticipate the improvement in track conditions and he remained in the pit lane. The Toro Rosso duo of Kvyat and Vergne were ninth and tenth. Grosjean was the fastest driver not to advance to the final session, because a yellow flag at Brooklands corner required him to slow. Marussia fuelled their cars for the second session and its reaction to the changing weather saw Bianchi qualify 12th and Max Chilton 13th.


2014 British Grand Prix, Qualifying
However, Chilton incurred a five-place grid penalty for changing his gearbox after the third practice session. Esteban Gutiérrez lost traction in his vehicle on a kerb leaving Brooklands corner and was sent backwards into a guardrail barrier at Luffield turn. He was 14th and also incurred a ten-place grid penalty for an unsafe release at the preceding round in Austria. Maldonado in 15th had a fuel pressure problem in the second session requiring him to stop his car.


2014 British Grand Prix, Qualifying
He was demoted five places for not providing the FIA with at least 1 l (0.22 imp gal; 0.26 US gal) of fuel for analysis. Hence, Sutil started 13th after he lost control of his car's rear and got beached in a gravel trap. A strategy error left the Williams pair of Bottas and Massa to drive on a wet track on dry compound tyres and took 14th and 15th.


2014 British Grand Prix, Qualifying
Alonso in 16th (who spun at Brooklands turn) and his teammate Räikkönen in 17th were also caught out by the weather and used the incorrect tyre compound, after Ferrari spent longer than most teams deciding their strategy. The Caterham cars of Ericsson and Kamui Kobayashi were slow enough to transgress the 107 per cent rule. The stewards granted them dispensation to start the race.


2014 British Grand Prix, Qualifying, Qualifying classification
The fastest lap in each of the three sessions is denoted in bold.


2014 British Grand Prix, Race
The weather at the start was dry and sunny with the air temperature between 17 and 19 °C (63 and 66 °F) and the track temperature from 33 to 39 °C (91 to 102 °F); no rain was forecast. The 52-lap race began before 120,000 people at 13:00 local time, with Rosberg making a brisk start to hold the lead into Abbey corner. Vettel in second had a slow start and Button and Magnussen passed him. Hamilton moved from sixth to fourth as Massa stalled from 15th.


2014 British Grand Prix, Race
On the Wellington Straight, the rear of Räikkönen's Ferrari F14 T car got loose and he drove onto the run-off area. He identified a run-off area without grass to reemerge on the track, rejoining at an angle at 150 mph (240 km/h), causing him to hit a bump on a grass verge and unsettling his car. He was vaulted right at an angle and into the guardrail barrier close to the pillar of an overhead bridge in a 47 g0 (460 m/s2) impact. The Ferrari's right-front tyre flew by Chilton, who had to duck his head to avoid being struck; his front wing and front-left brake duct were damaged.


2014 British Grand Prix, Race
Räikkönen ricocheted across the track and into the path of Kobayashi and Massa. Kobayashi grazed the front of the Ferrari and veered onto the grass; Massa applied the brakes upon seeing the impact, trying to spin to the right to avoid a T-bone collision. The rear of Massa's car made contact with the front of Räikkönen's. A track marshal assisted Räikkönen, who had hip and heel injuries, out of his car and into an ambulance for transport to the circuit's medical centre.


2014 British Grand Prix, Race
The safety car was deployed for a lap until Whiting discovered the barriers were dented and needed repair, and stopped the race. Every driver was directed to stop on the grid. Damage to Massa's rear suspension necessitated his retirement. In the meantime, Chilton incurred a drive-through penalty for entering the pit lane under red flag conditions. Repairs to the barrier prevented the resumption of the race for an hour, five minutes until course workers were finished at 14:05 local time. The race was restarted behind the safety car with the drivers in the positions held before the suspension.


2014 British Grand Prix, Race
Both Red Bulls switched to the hard-compound tyres on the grid during the stoppage and Alonso used the softer compounds to improve the possibility of making a solitary pit stop by driving on the more durable harder tyres later on. Rosberg was first, followed by the McLarens of Button and Magnussen. Bottas overtook Kvyat at Brooklands corner to move into ninth and Hamilton began to challenge Magnussen for third. On lap three, Hamilton drew alongside Magnussen through Woodcote turn and passed him for third entering Copse corner as Magnussen ran off the track.


2014 British Grand Prix, Race
That same lap, Bottas overtook Ricciardo on the Hangar Straight for seventh as Alonso passed Gutiérrez for twelfth. During the next lap, Hamilton drew alongside Button and overtook him on the outside at Brooklands turn for second. Alonso passed Sutil for eleventh before Brooklands corner and then Bianchi for tenth as Hülkenberg lost sixth to Bottas in Stowe turn on the fifth lap. DRS was enabled on lap six. That lap, Alonso used DRS to pass Kvyat on the outside leaving Woodcote corner and into Luffield turn for ninth. Ricciardo overtook Hülkenberg at Stowe corner and the subsequent loss of momentum allowed Alonso to get by him around the outside at Vale corner for eighth on lap seven.


2014 British Grand Prix, Race
On lap eight, Alonso used DRS to pass Hülkenberg on the outside at Brooklands turn after a short battle. Further back Sutil passed Bianchi for eleventh as Ricciardo battled Hülkenberg for eighth at Luffield turn on lap ten but could not pass due to the latter's higher straight-line speed. Ricciardo tried again into Stowe corner and succeeded. On the inside at Club turn on the same lap, Gutiérrez attempted to pass Maldonado, who sought to overtake Bianchi. Gutiérrez hit Maldonado's left-hand side; contact continued through the corner and Maldonado was launched airborne off Gutiérrez's right-front tyre.


2014 British Grand Prix, Race
Gutiérrez got beached in a gravel trap and retired with rear car damage. The first pit stops for tyres occurred on lap 11 as Vettel entered the pit lane to try and pass the McLarens; the faster Bottas, behind him, was thus freed to try to catch Magnussen. On the next lap, Ericsson's suspension failed on the Brooklands corner kerb and he drove to the pit lane to retire. Alonso incurred a five-second stop-and-go penalty on the 13th lap because he was deemed to have been out of position on his grid slot for the restart.


2014 British Grand Prix, Race
By the 14th lap Bottas had caught Magnussen, and entering Stowe corner used his DRS and better speed to pass him on the outside for fourth. Alonso overtook Magnussen around the outside of Stowe corner for fifth as Ricciardo made a pit stop for the soft compound tyres on lap 15. Two laps later, Bottas passed Button at Stowe turn for third. On that lap, Ricciardo passed Sutil on the approach to Stowe corner for ninth. Rosberg made his first pit stop from the lead on the 18th lap.


2014 British Grand Prix, Race
Hamilton led for six laps; the plan was for him to run the middle stint on the hard-compound tyres before his own stop at the conclusion of lap 24. In the meantime, Rosberg began developing gearbox problems on lap 20. As Alonso battled with Button, a stone lodged in his rear wing slot gap that remained there for the rest of the Grand Prix. He twice oversteered coming through Becketts corner as Ricciardo passed Hülkenberg for eighth. Rosberg had increased his advantage over Hamilton, whose pit stop lasted 1.7 seconds than expected as his hard-compound left-rear wheel was slow to install at his pit box, to six seconds.


2014 British Grand Prix, Race
On the 25th lap, Vettel passed Magnussen for sixth at the exit of Luffield turn. Three laps later, Alonso overtook Hülkenberg through Copse corner for eighth after the former took his five-second stop-and-go penalty. As Hamilton reduced Rosberg's lead from six to four seconds within three laps on his newer tyres, the latter had gear-selection problems. Rosberg attempted to change his gearbox's settings; this did not work as he slowed at Village corner and Hamilton took the lead on the Wellington Straight on lap 29.


2014 British Grand Prix, Race
Rosberg steered onto the grass down the approach to Becketts corner, and retired due to his gearbox. Attention then focused on the battle for third. Ricciardo's pit stop allowed him to change his strategy into a one-stopper, as tyre degradation rates were less than during the two Friday practice sessions. Bottas made his second pit stop on lap 32 and emerged in third behind Vettel. Two laps later, Bottas glimpsed space and passed Vettel for second on the Hangar Straight.


2014 British Grand Prix, Race
Vettel immediately made a second pit stop at the end of the lap. He rejoined ahead of Alonso in fifth place. Alonso twice passed Vettel around the outside at Copse corner during a duel for fifth between laps 35 and 36. On lap 37, Vettel had optimum tyre temperature, and used DRS on the Wellington Straight to pass Alonso on the outside under braking. Alonso then went across the front of Vettel leaving Brooklands corner to retain fifth. Vettel saw space to pass Alonso at Brooklands corner on lap 42, but the latter blocked his pass on the racing line.


2014 British Grand Prix, Race
Three laps later, Vettel turned to the outside of Luffield corner. Although he did not pass Alonso, Vettel entered the straight faster than the former who reacted by turning to the inside past the former Grand Prix pit lane to block him. On the 47th lap, Vettel turned to the outside at Brooklands corner to draw alongside Alonso through Woodcote turn but Alonso kept fifth by braking later than him.


2014 British Grand Prix, Race
Vettel was aided by the rear of Alonso's car stepping out into Copse corner and overtook him on the outside for fifth. Once through, Vettel pulled away from Alonso. In the meantime, Button drew closer to Ricciardo; he had made a pit stop earlier than the latter, and his two-stop strategy left him the faster of the two. Maldonado's exhaust failed on the 51st lap, and he retired at the side of the track at Abbey turn with smoke billowing from the rear of his car.


2014 British Grand Prix, Race
Unchallenged in the final 23 laps, Hamilton achieved his second victory at Silverstone, his fifth of the season, and the 27th of his career to equal three-time World Champion Jackie Stewart's race wins total. Bottas followed 30.135 seconds later in second and Ricciardo was another 16 seconds behind in third. Button could not get close enough to pass Ricciardo and finished fourth. Vettel, Alonso and Magnussen were in positions five to seven. Hülkenberg held off Kvyat in ninth to take eighth and Vergne was tenth. The final finishers were Pérez, Grosjean, Sutil, Bianchi, Kobayashi, Chilton and Maldonado.


2014 British Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
At the podium interviews, conducted by former driver David Coulthard, Hamilton said that his weekend had demonstrated perseverance, "Yesterday wasn't a case of giving up, I didn't think I could do the lap, I was really shocked that the last sector was so fast. But coming here today I had my family with, just focused, the support from the fans, as I said, just spurred me on, and I really couldn't have done it without them."


2014 British Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
Bottas said he was enjoyed to pass other drivers and was complimentary of his team and car, "The plan was to come as high as possible, as high as the pace of the car is giving the possibility. I think as a team we made the most out of it." Ricciardo spoke of his feeling that had the race lasted one more lap, Button would have passed him.


2014 British Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
In the subsequent press conference, Hamilton said the fans' positive attitude helped him and that the win had no comparison to his one in 2008 as that race was held on a wet track. Bottas said Williams predicted Mercedes and Red Bull would be strong opponents and the team targeted points not the podium. Ricciardo stated Red Bull restarted on the hard tyres for track position and called his third-place result "one of my best podiums" of the season.


2014 British Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
Räikkönen was declared fit for the following German Grand Prix, and said he felt the crash was not his largest and hoped to avoid such incidents in the future. Mercedes non-executive chairman Niki Lauda claimed that the delay to repair the damaged wall was too long, unnecessary, and an over-regulation by Formula One. "This over-nursing of F1, being over cautious, over-controlling and over-regulating, drives me mad. This little guardrail issue is another example. There are too many people involved in making F1 as safe as the roads, which is wrong.


2014 British Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
They should have fixed it quickly, done something instantly, and then 10–15 minutes later the race would have gone on." Massa stated his belief that Räikkönen might not have crashed had he been more cautious in slowing and remerging onto the track. The FIA rejected suggestions Räikkönen should have been penalised because it decided he did not rejoin unsafely. Whiting responded to Lauda by noting safety was enhanced following Massa's 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix injury from being struck in the helmet by a spring.


2014 British Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
Alonso told the press he expected to lose the battle with Vettel because his car's rear-wing aerodynamic deficiencies led it to not operate correctly, and Ferrari contemplated retiring him. "Vettel overtook me by going out of the track. He finished in front, but I was very proud of my 13 laps. If he had not passed me on the lap he did it would have been the next one because we were in slow motion and they were at real speed."


2014 British Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
Vettel described a series of radio transmissions where he complained of a series of suspected illegal manoeuvres such as driving off the track during his duel as "silly"; "I got the message that I should respect the limits and that he was complaining, so I was doing the same thing. I'm not sure who won the list-keeping. I think twice it was maybe a bit too harsh into Turn 6 [Brooklands], but it was good to get the move at the end."


2014 British Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
Nevertheless, former driver Allan McNish said on a BBC Sport online column the battle was "some of the best racing you will ever see" and it demonstrated "two world champions having to really work for their living." Gutierrez was found to be "predominantly at fault" for his collision at Club corner on lap line, and incurred a five-place grid penalty for the following German Grand Prix and three penalty points on his super licence.


2014 British Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
The result reduced Rosberg's Drivers' Championship lead to four points over Hamilton. Ricciardo's third-place finish increased his points tally over fourth-place Alonso to eleven and Bottas' second-place finish advanced him past Vettel and from seventh to fifth. In the Constructors' Championship, Mercedes maintained its lead with 326 points; their advantage over Red Bull remained at 158 points. Ferrari stayed third while Williams overtook Force India for fourth with ten races left in the season.


2014 British Indoor Athletics Championships
The 2014 British Indoor Athletics Championships was an indoor track and field competition held from 8–9 February 2014 at the English Institute of Sport, Sheffield, England. A full range of indoor events were held.


2014 British Indoor Athletics Championships
At this event, Katarina Johnson-Thompson broke the women's British record in the high jump.


2014 British Indoor Athletics Championships
The event acted as the trials for the World Championships that year in Sopot, Poland.


2014 British National Track Championships
The 2014 British National Track Championships are a series of track cycling competitions held from 24–28 September 2014, at the Manchester Velodrome. They were organised and sanctioned by British Cycling, and were open to British cyclists.


2014 British National Track Championships, Competition
Separate competitions were held for both men and women, and 6 events were also included for paracyclists, an increase on 4 in 2013. No events were held in Omnium or Madison; the men's and women's programme was broadly identical, and otherwise matched the programme of the UCI World Track Cycling Championships. The women's team pursuit was held over 4000m for four cyclists for the second year.


2014 British National Track Championships, Competition
Open to British cyclists, the winners of each event are entitled to wear the national champion's jersey - a white jersey with a red, white and blue front stripe - for the next year when competing in that discipline.


2014 British National Track Championships, Competition
The sprint events were dominated by Callum Skinner and Jessica Varnish picking up four gold each, and a clean sweep of sprint events; Skinner shared team sprint gold with Olympic champions Jason Kenny and Philip Hindes, while Varnish secured team sprint gold with Dannielle Khan. All women's individual sprint medals were shared among Varnish, Khan, Victoria Williamson and Katy Marchant. Matthew Crampton took silvers in each of the individual sprint events.


2014 British National Track Championships, Competition
The endurance events produced more unpredictable racing with Paralympian Dame Sarah Story securing points race gold, and Katie Archibald beating World, Olympic and Commonwealth champions Joanna Rowsell and Laura Trott in the individual pursuit.


2014 British National Track Championships, Competition
Almost forty years after Maurice Burton, Britain's first black national champion on the track won the last of his senior national titles, his son Germain won his first, in the team pursuit.


2014 British National Track Championships, Competition
Rachel James, sister of absent former World Champion Becky James achieved a unique double, medalling in both able bodied and paralympic events; she achieved a bronze in the team sprint, and piloted double Commonwealth Games champion Sophie Thornhill to two National titles for blind or visually impaired cyclists, in Kilo and 200m flying lap time trials.


2014 British National Track Championships, Medal summary, Para-cycling Events
A series of para-cycling national championships are also held over combined categories using a points system.


2014 British Rally Championship
The 2014 MSA British Rally Championship was the 56th season of the British Rally Championship. The season began on 3 May in Carlisle with the Pirelli Richard Burns Foundation Rally and ended on 13 September in Douglas with the Rally Isle of Man powered by Microgaming.


2014 British Rally Championship
The championship was won by the Irish crew of Daniel McKenna and Arthur Kierans, who won four of the season's six rallies, to win the championship by eleven points ahead of Osian Pryce and Dale Furniss; Pryce and Furniss won the other two events to be held.


2014 British Rally Championship, Event calendar and results
The 2014 calendar consisted of six rounds at five events with a double header held at the Rally Isle of Man. A seventh event, Rallye Dorset, was cancelled in July.


2014 British Rally Championship, Championship standings, Drivers' championship
A driver's best five scores counted towards the final championship standings. Points were awarded to the highest placed registered driver on each event as follows: 20, 18, 16, 15, and so on deleting one point per placing down to one single point for all finishers. The second leg of the Rally Isle of Man awarded points at a coefficient of 1.5; thus 30 points were awarded to its winner.


2014 British Rowing Junior Championships
The 2014 British Rowing Junior Championships were the 43rd edition of the National Junior Championships, held from 19–20 July 2014 at the National Water Sports Centre in Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham. They were organised and sanctioned by British Rowing, and are open to British junior rowers.


2014 British Rowing Senior Championships
The 2014 British Rowing Senior Championships were the 43rd edition of the National Senior Championships, held from 18–19 October 2014 at the National Water Sports Centre in Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham. They were organised and sanctioned by British Rowing, and are open to British rowers. Bad weather in the forms of gusts of wind resulted in the medals (for the quadruple sculls and coxed eights) being awarded based on the crews positions during qualifying races.


2014 British Speedway Championship
The 2014 British Speedway Championship was the 54th edition of the British Speedway Championship. The Final took place on 16 June at Monmore Green in Wolverhampton, England. The Championship was won by the defending champion Tai Woffinden, who beat Craig Cook, Ben Barker and Chris Harris in the final heat. It was the second time Woffinden had won the title.


2014 British Speedway Championship, Results, The Final
m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance •  t - exclusion for touching the tapes •  x - other exclusion •  e - retired or mechanical failure •  f - fell •  ns - non-starter •  nc - non-classify


2014 British Superbike Championship
The 2014 British Superbike Championship season was the 27th British Superbike Championship season. Shane Byrne took the championship, riding a Kawasaki for Paul Bird Motorsport. Byrne's fourth title – after previous triumphs in 2003, 2008 and 2012 – saw him set a new record for the series. He scored 11 victories during the season, and was able to win the championship by 62 points ahead of Ryuichi Kiyonari, a three-time series champion.


2014 British Superbike Championship
Kiyonari had trailed by 12 points going into the final round of the season at Brands Hatch, but Kiyonari crashed out of contention during a free practice session, and fractured a collarbone in the process. Kiyonari won seven races during the season for the Buildbase BMW team. Third place in the championship was decided in the final race between Milwaukee Yamaha team-mates; a third-place finish for Tommy Bridewell, compared to a fifth place for Josh Brookes, allowed Bridewell to take the position by three points. Brookes took four race victories to his team-mate's single victory at Cadwell Park, which was his first in British Superbikes.


2014 British Superbike Championship
Outside of the Showdown, Stuart Easton was the winner of the BSB Riders' Cup, finishing in seventh place in the overall championship standings. Although only recording two podium finishes during the season, consistent finishing allowed Easton to remain in front of the chasing pack, most notably GBmoto's James Ellison. Ellison started the season with six successive podium finishes and had been in contention to make the Showdown, but he was forced to miss several rounds after a crash at the second Brands Hatch meeting which resulted in a broken femur.


2014 British Superbike Championship
The only other riders to win races during the season were three more first-time winners in the series; Tyco Suzuki rider Josh Waters won at the second Brands Hatch meeting, Peter Hickman won at Cadwell Park for the RAF Reserves team – having replaced Simon Andrews in the team, after his death at the North West 200 road race in May – and Quattro Plant Kawasaki's Howie Mainwaring won the opening race of the final Brands Hatch meeting.


2014 British Superbike Championship
Kawasaki won the manufacturers' championship, 124 points clear of Yamaha. Byrne, Kiyonari and Brookes all scored seven points towards the Speedy Fastest Lap League, with all three riders each setting a lap record at some point during the 2014 campaign.


2014 British Superbike Championship
To increase the emphasis of a main season win, the playoff bonus points was changed to five points for a win (up from three), three points for second (up from two), and one point for third.


2014 British Supersport Championship
The 2014 British Supersport season was the 27th British Supersport Championship season.


2014 British Supersport Championship, Race calendar and results
The 2014 MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship calendar has been announced on 10 October 2013 by MSVR.


2014 British Touring Car Championship
The 2014 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship was a multi-event motor racing championship for production-based touring cars held across England and Scotland. The championship features a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded amateur drivers competing in highly modified versions of Family cars which are sold to the general public and conform to the technical regulations for the championship. It is one of the most popular domestic motor racing series in the United Kingdom, with an extensive program of support categories built up around the BTCC centrepiece. It was the 57th British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) season.


2014 British Touring Car Championship
It was the fourth season that cars conforming to the Next Generation Touring Car (NGTC) specification competed in, and the first season that S2000 specification cars did not contest since their introduction to the BTCC in 2004. The Jack Sears Trophy, which was introduced in 2013 for the top S2000 finisher over the duration of the season, was awarded to the Independent driver who achieves the greatest improvement from their respective grid positions over the entire season. The start and finishing positions of all Independent drivers will be logged for all 30 races and the driver with the highest total number of positions gained over the season will become the Jack Sears Trophy champion.


2014 British Touring Car Championship, Race calendar
The provisional calendar was announced by the championship organisers on 14 September 2013. The Oulton Park round will switch from the Island layout to the International circuit, which was last used during the 1996 season. All races were held in the United Kingdom.


2014 British Touring Car Championship, Championship standings, Manufacturers'/Constructors' Championship
MG won the Manufacturer's Championship in 2014, just three years after returning to the British Touring Car Championship. The MG/Triple Eight team ended Honda's four year dominance of the sport after securing 7 wins and 20 podiums throughout the season.


2014 British Touring Car Championship, Championship standings, Jack Sears Trophy
After its introduction in 2013, the Jack Sears Trophy will now be awarded to the independent driver who makes up the most places over the course of the 2014 season. Any drivers who are penalised at a meeting will not accrue points towards the Trophy.


2014 British cabinet reshuffle
British prime minister David Cameron reshuffled the Conservative members of his coalition government on 15 July 2014. The reshuffle, intended to strengthen his party's position in advance of the 2015 general election, had been long anticipated, as Cameron had maintained an unusually high level of stability amongst the senior ranks of his government, with only one prior reshuffle of significance, and many ministers having remained in place since their election in 2010. The reshuffle also featured the appointment of a new European Commissioner representing the United Kingdom, as the term of Lady Ashton was set to expire later in 2014.


2014 British cabinet reshuffle
Liberal Democrat ministers, led by the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, were unaffected.


2014 British cabinet reshuffle, Reaction, Promotion of women
Downing Street had long briefed that the promotion of "as many as ten" women, both into the lower ranks of government and the cabinet, would be pursued aggressively in the reshuffle. This led to much media speculation over the future of male ministers, and lowered the expectations of male backbenchers, with one reported to have said "If you're white and male, you've got no chance of promotion".


2014 British cabinet reshuffle, Reaction, Promotion of women
This attracted attacks on Cameron from both the right and left before the reshuffle even began, with Tory peer Lord Ashcroft saying that the "impending ministerial reshuffle will be determined by optics rather than ability", and Labour's Shadow Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, decrying the appointments as a "last-minute worry" about the female vote in the next spring's election.


2014 British cabinet reshuffle, Reaction, Promotion of women
Despite the preemptive criticism, Cameron promoted many of the women he had been subject to speculation prior to the reshuffle, including Liz Truss, who replaced Owen Paterson as Environment Secretary and became the youngest female cabinet minister in history. Cameron also promoted Nicky Morgan to the full cabinet as Education Secretary, while granting the incumbent employment minister Esther McVey and new Leader of the House of Lords, Baroness Stowell of Beeston the right to attend cabinet meetings. The reshuffle ultimately resulted in five of 17 Conservative full cabinet members being women, and a quarter of the total Conservative ministerial team.


2014 British cabinet reshuffle, Reaction, Promotion of women
Further controversy erupted the day after the reshuffle, when the Daily Mail ran the front-page headline "Thigh-flashing Esther and the battle of the Downing St catwalk", with an accompanying graphic on pages 4 and 5 titled "Esther: Queen of the Downing Street Catwalk", which prominently featured images of McVey, Truss, Morgan and Stowell, as well as newly minted junior ministers Penny Mordaunt, Amber Rudd, Priti Patel, Anna Soubry, and Claire Perry walking up Downing Street to receive their commissions from Cameron.


2014 British cabinet reshuffle, Reaction, Promotion of women
The headline and graphic were criticised by female politicians from all parties, with former Tory Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan saying she was "appalled", Liberal Democrat whip Jenny Willott describing the coverage as "outrageous", and Labour MP Anne McGuire declaring that it "made Blair's Babes look positively PC". Despite widespread condemnation of the piece, McVey, the primary focus of it, refused to be drawn into the issue, merely saying that she was "delighted to be in what must be one of the most important jobs".


2014 British cabinet reshuffle, Reaction, Controversy over the Leadership of the House of Lords
Controversy erupted on multiple fronts over Baroness Stowell of Beeston becoming the first Leader of the House of Lords in memory to not be a full member of the cabinet. This was ostensibly to save a seat for William Hague, the Leader of the House of Commons which is not a role which usually comes with a place in the cabinet. Labour peers attacked Cameron over the decision, and even figures on the right, such as Lord Forsyth declared it "vital" that the leader of the Lords carry the authority of a cabinet minister.


2014 British cabinet reshuffle, Reaction, Controversy over the Leadership of the House of Lords
On 22 July, Cameron expressed his regret over the situation in a letter to Lord MacGregor of Pulham Market, the Chairman of the Association of Conservative Peers, saying that the Leader of the Lords "should, as a general rule, always be a full member of the Cabinet" but that "unfortunately it was not possible on this occasion". A later report by the House of Lords Constitution Committee found that "core part of our constitution that ministers are drawn from the legislature and that the legislature is bicameral. It sits very uneasily with those principles for one House of Parliament to be unrepresented in the full Cabinet".


2014 British cabinet reshuffle, Reaction, Controversy over the Leadership of the House of Lords
Labour MPs also attacked the decrease in salary which accompanied the loss of full cabinet status, pointing out that Stowell would be earning £22,000 less per annum than her male predecessor. In response, it was announced that Stowell's pay would be topped up by the Conservative Party. This in itself stirred controversy, as many believed that receiving payment from the Conservative Party would constitute a conflict of interest in the performance of her duties as Leader of the Lords; Stowell ultimately declined the party's offer to top up her salary.


2014 British cabinet reshuffle, Reaction, Sacking of Owen Paterson
The removal of Owen Paterson as Environment Secretary after his response to summer flooding and call for a cull of badgers were criticised was poorly received by many on the right. Christopher Booker called his removal an "insult to the countryside", and one of Cameron's worst mistakes as leader.


2014 British cabinet reshuffle, Reaction, Sacking of Owen Paterson
Paterson, who reportedly told Cameron that his sacking was a "big mistake" and would be taken as a "kick in the teeth" by rural Conservative voters likely to defect to the UK Independence Party, would go on to criticise the government from the right on a diverse number of issues, and alleged that he was removed due to pressure from a consortium environmental groups, renewable energy companies, and environmentalist public officials which he described as "the green blob".


2014 British cabinet reshuffle, Reaction, Sacking of Owen Paterson
In the days after his sacking, Paterson was often seen with Liam Fox, the former Defence Secretary tipped in the media for a return to the cabinet, who was said to have felt "humiliated" by Cameron's offer of a junior position at the Foreign Office during the reshuffle, prompting fears amongst Cameron's advisers that Paterson and Fox would come to lead opposition to Cameron within the party.


2014 British cabinet reshuffle, Reaction, Moving of Michael Gove
Michael Gove's move from Education Secretary to Chief Whip, widely perceived as a demotion, came after Conservative campaign chief strategist Lynton Crosby warned Cameron that Gove's brand was "toxic" in polling. The move was criticised by many on the right, including Gove's wife, Sarah Vine, and his special adviser, Dominic Cummings, who said the move constituted Cameron's "surrender" to education pressure groups.


2014 British cabinet reshuffle, Reaction, Moving of Michael Gove
Despite the downwards perception of the move, both Gove and Cameron downplayed that it was a demotion, with Cameron saying that the "chief whip is one of the most important jobs in government" and he wanted one of his "big hitters" who had done "extraordinary things for the country" to fill the role. Cameron also pointed to the fact that Gove's brief as Chief Whip would be more expansive than was tradition, with Gove playing a major role in both the government's communications strategy and the Conservative Party's general election planning. Gove himself declined to call the move a demotion, saying that while it was a "wrench" to leave as Education Secretary, it was "exciting to be given a role at the heart of government".


2014 British cabinet reshuffle, Reaction, Appointment of Lord Hill as European Commissioner
The selection of the little known Jonathan Hill to serve as the United Kingdom's European Commissioner was criticised both domestically and on the continent. The position, which fell to Hill as a self described "reluctant conscript", had widely been expected to go to the former Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, former chief whip Andrew Mitchell, retiring universities minister David Willetts, or the former Conservative leader Michael Howard. Hill, who had responded "non, non, non" when asked if he was interested in the job just a month before the reshuffle, did not fit incoming Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker's preference for high-profile or female commissioners, leading to fears that the United Kingdom would receive an insignificant portfolio in retaliation.


2014 British cabinet reshuffle, Reaction, Appointment of Lord Hill as European Commissioner
Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party attacked Hill, asking "who are you?" and saying that there "is nothing in Mr Hill's career path to suggest that he is the one to renegotiate radical reform". Mats Persson, then the director of Open Europe, also attacked the appointment, saying that the fear of a by-election was allowed to "trump sending the highest profile candidate to Brussels", and that as a result the "chances of the UK securing one of the key portfolios in the next European Commission – internal market, competition or trade – have worsened".


2014 British cabinet reshuffle, Reaction, Appointment of Lord Hill as European Commissioner
Hill's confirmation hearings before the European Parliament did not pass without incident. Hill, who was viewed by left-wing MEPs as too close to the City of London for the financial portfolio he had been allocated, was forced to appear before a second confirmation hearing, at which he was called "charming but empty". Hill was ultimately confirmed, and served until his resignation after the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum.


2014 British cabinet reshuffle, Reaction, Knighthoods for sacked ministers
Cameron was also attacked by some on the left for awarding knighthoods to three sacked ministers, Alan Duncan of the Department for International Development, Hugh Robertson of the Foreign Office, and Solicitor General Oliver Heald. Duncan and Robertson were both made Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George, while Heald was made a Knight Bachelor.


2014 British cabinet reshuffle, Reaction, Knighthoods for sacked ministers
Labour MP Sarah Champion took particular issue with the fact that Cameron had appointed more men knights than he had women to the full cabinet, saying that the "patronage for the old boys' club shows just how out of touch" Cameron had become.


2014 British cabinet reshuffle, Reaction, Knighthoods for sacked ministers
Cameron's appointment of Kenneth Clarke, one of the longest serving cabinet members in modern history, to become a Companion of Honour was not met with criticism, however, and was generally praised, with Labour MP Stephen Pound drawing a distinction by saying that he had "nothing against long-service medals but using honours to sweeten the pill of dismissal is an abuse". Cameron responded the criticism by saying that he found it "interesting to take a lecture from a party that gave a knighthood to Fred Goodwin", referring to the disgraced Royal Bank of Scotland executive, knighted under Tony Blair in 2004, who had recently been stripped of the honour.


2014 British motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2014 British motorcycle Grand Prix was the twelfth round of the 2014 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It was held at the Silverstone Circuit in Silverstone on 31 August 2014.


2014 British motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round twelve has concluded.


2014 Brno municipal election
Brno municipal election in 2014 was held as part of 2014 Czech municipal elections. It was held on 10 and 11 October 2014. 55 Members of Assemby were elected. Election was a victory for ANO 2011. Joke party called To Live Brno was also successful. To Live Brno is inspired by Icelandic Best Party.


2014 Brno municipal election
ANO formed coalition with To Live Brno, Green Party and Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party. Petr Vokřál became Mayor of Brno.


2014 Bromley London Borough Council election
Elections to Bromley Council were held on 22 May 2014.


2014 Bromley London Borough Council election
The Liberal Democrats lost all four of their seats on Bromley Council to Labour in the Cray Valley East, Crystal Palace and Clock House wards. UKIP gained two seats from the Conservative Party in Cray Valley West.


2014 Bromley London Borough Council election, Results by ward
In January 2018, both incumbent councilors defected from the Conservative Party to sit as Independents due to the deselection of Cllr Stevens.


2014 Brown Bears football team
The 2014 Brown Bears football team represented Brown University in the 2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by 17th year head coach Phil Estes and played their home games at Brown Stadium. They were a member of the Ivy League. They finished the season 5–5, 3–4 in Ivy League play to finish in fifth place.


2014 Brown Tournament
The Jim Brown Memorial Trophy Tournament is an annually awarded interstate ice hockey championship trophy in Australia. In 2014 it was for senior men aged 17 years and older with the condition that players of the Australian Ice Hockey League that are 20 years and younger must have played less than 6 games to remain eligible. The current trophy is in the form of a shield and is the third trophy to bear the Brown family name. The trophy is named after Scottish born James Archibald Brown. The Brown Trophy is competed for in a series of games between state representative teams in what is called The Brown Tournament.


2014 Brown Tournament, Jim Brown Memorial Trophy Tournament
The 2014 national tournament was held from 2 October - 5 October and consisted of 4 teams, 3 teams represented a state while a 4th team were a combination of Western Australian and Queensland players called Barbarians. The Barbarians team was formed after Victoria pulled out of the tournament.


2014 Brown Tournament, Jim Brown Memorial Trophy Tournament
The tournament was held at Xtreme Ice Arena in Mirrabooka, Western Australia.


2014 Brownlow Medal
The 2014 Brownlow Medal was the 87th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Australian Football League (AFL) home and away season. Matt Priddis of the West Coast Eagles won the medal by polling twenty-six votes during the 2014 AFL season. Defending Brownlow Medallist Gary Ablett of the Gold Coast Football Club was the short-priced favourite for the medal until he suffered a season-ending shoulder injury in round 16. Betting on the medal was suspended while the extent of the injury to Ablett was determined.


2014 Brownlow Medal
Geelong captain Joel Selwood, Collingwood captain Scott Pendlebury and Sydney's Josh Kennedy were considered to be among the new favourites in the wake of Ablett's injury, but at the end of the season Ablett was still second favourite to have polled enough votes before his injury to win the award. He ended up polling the equal-third most votes, tying with Sydney's Lance Franklin on 22 votes.


2014 Brownlow Medal, Leading vote-getters
* The player was ineligible to win the medal due to suspension by the AFL Tribunal during the year.


2014 Brownlow Medal, Voting procedure
The three field umpires (those umpires who control the flow of the game, as opposed to goal or boundary umpires) confer after each match and award three votes, two votes, and one vote to the players they regard as the best, second-best and third-best in the match, respectively. The votes are kept secret until the awards night, and they are read and tallied on the evening.


2014 Brownlow Medal, Voting procedure
As the medal is awarded to the fairest and best player in the league, those who have been suspended during the season by the AFL Tribunal (or, who avoided suspension only because of a discount for a good record or an early guilty plea) are ineligible to win the award; however, they may still continue to poll votes.


2014 Brownlow Medal, Voting procedure
The most notable 2014 case was Fremantle's Nat Fyfe; after Ablett's injury, Fyfe became the strong favourite to poll the most votes, but he was already ineligible after being suspended for two weeks for a bump on Gold Coast's Michael Rischitelli in round 2, and he was suspended again for two weeks after striking Hawthorn's Jordan Lewis in round 21.


2014 Broxbourne Borough Council election
The 2014 Broxbourne Borough City Council election took place on 22 May 2014 to elect members of Broxbourne Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.


2014 Bruce County municipal elections
Elections were held in Bruce County, Ontario on October 27, 2014 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.


2014 Bruce County municipal elections, Bruce County Council
Bruce County Council consists of the mayors of the constituent municipalities.


2014 Brunei Super League
The 2014 Brunei Super League is the second season of the Brunei Super League. It is organized by the National Football Association of Brunei Darussalam and sponsored by DST Group.


2014 Bryant Bulldogs football team
The 2014 Bryant Bulldogs football team represented Bryant University in the 2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by eleventh year head coach Marty Fine and played their home games at Bulldog Stadium. They were a member of the Northeast Conference. They finished the season 8–3, 4–2 in NEC play to finish in third place.


2014 Bucaramanga Open
The 2014 Bucaramanga Open was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Bucaramanga, Colombia between 20 and 26 January 2014.


2014 Bucaramanga Open, Singles main draw Entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2014 Bucaramanga Open – Doubles
Marcelo Demoliner and Franko Škugor were the defending champions, but lost in the quarterfinals to Kevin King and Juan-Carlos Spir.


2014 Bucaramanga Open – Doubles
Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah won the final 7–6(7–3), 6–3 against Kevin King and Juan-Carlos Spir.


2014 Bucaramanga Open – Singles
Federico Delbonis was the defending champion but chose not to compete.