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	Millbank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Millbank is an area of London, England, that is east of Pimlico and south of Westminster.
		By the 18th century the area was dominated by a jail used in the deportation of prisoners to the British colonies.
		Millbank is also the name of the main road (A3212) along the north bank of the river, extending northwards from Vauxhall Bridge Road to Abingdon Street, just south of Parliament Square.
	www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Millbank (323 words)

	Station Information - Millbank
		Millbank is an area of London, England, that is between Pimlico and Westminster.
		Millbank is a road on the north bank of the river.
		In British politics the term Millbank Machine or Millbank Tendency was used to refer to workers from the Labour Party headquarters which was based in Millbank Tower.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/millbank.html (125 words)

	Guardian \| Office politics
		Millbank Tower owes nothing to the history of the street it rises from, nor to local architectural styles.
		Buildings such as Millbank Tower and its contemporary, Euston Tower, were meant to be domineering, yet at the same time all but anonymous command posts of both the embyronic computer age and of burgeoning global capitalism.
		Remarkably, the irony that Millbank Tower just happens to stand on the site of the house Tony Benn was born in passed most of the apparatchiks by.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4487178-110432,00.html (1732 words)

	Station Information - Millbank Tower
		The Tower stands at 387 feet high (118 metres), constructed in 1963 by Ronald Ward and Partners.
		The most famous resident in Millbank Tower's history is the Labour Party.
		The £1 million per annum rent forced the party to vacate the tower in 2001.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/millbank_tower.html (124 words)

	Millbank -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Millbank is also the name of the main road (A3212) along the north bank of the river, extending northwards from (Click link for more info and facts about Vauxhall Bridge) Vauxhall Bridge Road to Abingdon Street, just south of Parliament Square.
		In British politics the term Millbank Machine or Millbank Tendency was used to refer to these who were regarded by some as (A public relations person who tries to forestall negative publicity by publicizing a favorable interpretation of the words or actions of a company or political party or famous person) spin doctors.
		Millbank Studios, an independent broadcast services company, is based in the area, opposite the (The building in which the House of Commons and the House of Lords meet) Houses of Parliament.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Mi/Millbank.htm (606 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| The towering infernal
		The move to Millbank, therefore, was hugely symbolic and once Mandelson and his pals moved in, the building took on a slightly darker, more intimidating image.
		Mandy Towers became synonymous with spin doctory and control freakery and, as far as the media was concerned, always had a deliberately unfriendly and unwelcoming "attitude".
		This was where the teenage "Millbank tendency" presided over the rapid rebuttal unit, designed to nuke Tory propaganda before it left the launch pad and the infamous Excalibur computer which rivalled MI5 in the information it held on anybody and everybody, friend or foe.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/2211816.stm (699 words)

	Millbank Tower -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is a visible landmark in the London skyline, sitting beside the River (The longest river in England; flows eastward through London to the North Sea) Thames, half a mile upstream from the (Click link for more info and facts about Palace of Westminster) Palace of Westminster.
		The most famous resident in Millbank Tower's history was the (A political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and the socialization of key industries) Labour Party, although contrary to popular perception the Party never occupied any space in the tower itself.
		This use led to the term 'Millbank' becoming an allusion to strict political control and a concentration on (A swift whirling motion (usually of a missile)) spin.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Mi/Millbank_Tower.htm (268 words)

	Strutt & Parker - Mixed-Use - London, Millbank Tower, office and residential complex
		The landmark property is one of London's tallest towers and overlooks the Thames, the Houses of Parliament and central London.
		Millbank Tower was designed by Ronald Ward and Partners and was completed in 1963 as Vickers Plc's headquarters.
		Millbank Tower represents Tishman Speyer's second major acquisition in the West End in 1998, bringing the firm's London portfolio to approximately 600,000 sq ft. The company purchased 10-30 Eastbourne Terrace, a 200,000 sq ft office tower next to Paddington Station, earlier this year.
	www.propertymall.com /press/article/2323 (530 words)

	Tower Power at The Architecture Foundation
		With Cesar Pelli's tower at One Canada Square being the tallest building in Britain to date at 240m and 50 storeys high, Canary Wharf is fast becoming the main financial district in London.
		Integral to the design of 'urban park living', is the Eco-Tower, created by bioclimatic tower expert Ken Yeang with HTA as part of the Elephant and Castle masterplan, pulling together the principles applied at ground level with the piazza tower.
		It is designed as a cluster of three slender, leaf-shaped towers that are structurally connected along their vertical axis so that each tower derives structural support from the other two.
	www.architecturefoundation.org.uk /towerpower/index_ie.html (1540 words)

	Politics \| A farewell to Millbank
		As we all gathered on the grass behind Millbank Tower on the morning of June 8 to welcome a once-more-victorious Tony Blair, it was only in part to show that Labour was more humble in victory this time than in 1997.
		Millbank always looked a whole lot bigger and more sinister from the outside than it did from within.
		Of course it suited the many Millbank-haters (the Millbank Appreciation Society was small and never vocal) to pretend that the Labour party occupied the whole tower.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4218306-107979,00.html (530 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		It is leaving Millbank Tower, the party's headquarters since 1997, and next week staff will open for business in their new London building in Old Queen Street, off St James's Park.
		The party was proud of its Millbank premises, by the Thames, when it moved in there in the run-up to the 1997 general election.
		He said Millbank was "very good in its time" but it had become "lumbered with a good deal of history and mythology".
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/08/23/nmill23.xml (570 words)

	no euro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		CAMPAIGNERS against the euro are preparing to lease offices in Millbank Tower, once Labour’s headquarters, as they make contingency plans for a referendum next year.
		We are looking at Millbank Tower and we understand there is some space there, and one of the things we are looking at is being close to the media hub and close to Parliament.”
		Labour moved its party headquarters in August, leaving Millbank Tower, which became synonymous with the dark political art of spin, for premises in Old Queen Street.
	www.no-euro.com /mediacentre/dossiers/display.asp?IDNO=955 (362 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| R.I.P. Millbank Tower
		Leaving its Walworth Road home, the party took two floors of Millbank Tower in the run-up to the 1997 general election.
		In retrospect, friends will wonder if Millbank's fate was not somehow foreshadowed by the loss of Peter Mandelson, and by the demise of the pager.
		As a Grade II listed building, Millbank's physical form will be preserved, but with its red blood drained, it will be but a shell of its former self.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/uk/newsid_1431000/1431688.stm (413 words)

	WLUML: News and Views
		Millbank Tower, the London office of the UNHCR and the British Labour Party, is halfway between the headquarters of the British secret service and Parliament.
		On Saturday the little band made to become visible, to deliver their message of great injustice borne to the occupants of Millbank Tower.
		Every tower in Khartoum and on the Thames knows Article Two of the 1948 Geneva Convention: genocide is an acted-upon intent to eliminate a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.
	www.wluml.org /english/newsfulltxt.shtml?cmd[157]=x-157-56379 (1288 words)

	Architronic v5n2.06e
		It was permitted because it was thought to be sufficiently far upriver to preclude its interfering with the view of Parliament and Westminster Abbey, although critics have complained that it destroys the delicate and harmonious view of those historic structures.
		Three additional towers built in the early 1960s all won approval because the boroughs and the LCC wanted to make much needed street improvements, but lacked the resources to buy the extraordinarily valuable land at market prices.
		Nonetheless, the tower reinforced the determination of the LCC to prevent the London parks from being hemmed in by high buildings in the way that Central Park in New York became walled in by apartment houses.
	architronic.saed.kent.edu /v5n2/v5n2.06e.html (1125 words)

	Encyclopedia: Millbank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar.
		Millbank Tower, from the north Millbank Tower from the south, taken from Vauxhall bridge.
		It broadcasts live and recorded coverage of the British House of Commons and House of Lords, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Millbank (1257 words)

	Millbank Tower \| Facade Engineering \| Arup
		Millbank Tower is a 32-storey development in London built in the 1960s, and featuring an early unitised system.
		Independent access cradles were suspended from the roof of the tower.
		We advised the client on the refurbishment works for the tower and other buildings when they had purchased the property.
	www.arup.com /facadeengineering/project.cfm?pageid=1796 (151 words)

	Millbank Tower - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Millbank Tower - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This page was last modified 20:39, 27 Apr 2005.
		The article about Millbank Tower contains information related to Millbank Tower and See Also.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Millbank_Tower (303 words)

	Tall buildings in London -[ruv.net : Information Portal]-
		The BT Tower, formerly the Post Office Tower (188m)
		Tower 42, formerly the NatWest Tower; tallest building in the City of London
		The three towers of the Barbican Complex[?] (Shakespeare, Cromwell, Lauderdale)
	www.artpolitic.org /infopedia/ta/Tall_buildings_in_London.html (200 words)

	BBC NEWS \| VOTE2001 \| Let battle commence
		Command and control of each of the main parties' campaigns is exercised from their Westminster nerve centres: Labour's Millbank Tower, Conservative Central Office and the Liberal Democrats' Cowley Street headquarters.
		In the war room itself Mr Gould's importance to Mr Blair is signalled by his seat at the central control desk at which he, Labour general secretary Margaret McDonagh, election co-ordinator Douglas Alexander MP and election organiser Pat McFadden will spend the duration of the campaign.
		Millbank's attack and rebuttal unit, media monitoring team and press officers are each grouped on their own nearby desks.
	amiabstractornot.highlyillogical.org /vote2001/hi/english/newsid_1233000/1233485.stm (1170 words)

	BBC News \| UK POLITICS \| Labour abandons Millbank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Phrases like the "Millbank tendency", coined by left-wingers to deliberately echo the name of the Trostkyite Militant Tendency group which infiltrated the party in the 1980s, have become part of the political vocabulary.
		Labour moved its headquarters to Millbank, which is situated just down the road from the House of Commons, ahead of the 1997 election.
		Union sources said the lease on Millbank was coming to an end and Labour wished to move to cheaper premises.
	212.58.240.133 /hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1424000/1424499.stm (422 words)

	Features Item: Safety Film Becomes Part of the London Skyline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		From 1997 to 2001, Millbank Tower stood as the political nerve center of the United Kingdom’s ruling Labour Party.
		Towering over the city of London, the highly-secure, 34-story building earned a reputation as a symbol of Information Age control.
		By the end of the $28 million renovation, the final step was to eliminate the excessive heat and glare that the tenants had to endure.
	www.securitymagazine.com /CDA/ArticleInformation/features/BNP__Features__Item/0,5411,124555,00.html (463 words)

	London Eye (Millennium Observation Wheel) - Part 3
		Millbank Millennium Pier can be seen on the right between the bridges.
		Westminster Bridge in the foreground leading to the Houses of Parliament with the tower containing the bell, 'Big Ben', on the right and the Victoria Tower on the left.
		Immediately to the right the twin towers of Westminster Abbey, in front of which is the church, St Margaret's, Westminster.
	www.angelfire.com /oz/colinday/londoneye/eye3.html (262 words)

	Reuben Brothers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The building, officially known as the Millbank Centre, is being sold by Tishman Speyer, the private property group run by Jerry Speyer, the billionaire New York property developer.
		Although Labour left Millbank in August in favour of more modest offices in Old Queen Street, near Parliament Square, the building remains associated with the era of spin, when the property's huge media centre was used to brief journalists during the 1997 and 2001 general elections.
		Space in the tower, which is a Grade II listed building, is let to a number of public bodies and leading companies.
	www.reubenbrothers.com /article1.html (344 words)

	Millbank Tower Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	Livingstone’s London: Millbank’s Nightmare
		Millbank had apparently done its sums and calculated that even with a stitched-up electoral college a Livingstone victory was a distinct possibility, such was the level of his support among party members and trade unionists.
		In the two weeks or so before Ken was due to go to the dreaded Millbank Tower for interview along with the other aspiring mayoral candidates, there were contradictory messages coming from the Blairite camp as to what would happen.
		He arrived at Millbank Tower and said in typical Ken style that he would take any oath of loyalty to the Labour Party in any way that they wanted, even with a sword and a mystical stone – as long as they didn’t privatise the Tube!
	www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/Back/Wnext15/Livlon.html (3345 words)

	The Scotsman - Top Stories - Man with a mission to galvanise New Labour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Next month, it will move from the infamous Millbank Tower to its new headquarters just off Parliament Square in Westminster.
		Millbank Tower, the powerbase from which the 1997 and 2001 election victories were planned, has come to represent all that is wrong with modern politics: over-controlling, manipulative and dictatorial.
		It is hoped the move to a new home, an elegant Victorian building a couple of hundred yards from the Commons, will underline Labour’s rediscovered commitment to open debate, independent thought and increased party democracy.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=869652002 (940 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Labour quits its Millbank HQ for new £5.5m office
		The Labour party is set to move its headquarters from the imposing but unloved Millbank Tower back into the warren of streets behind the Palace of Westminster which it abandoned 22 years ago.
		A mere five minutes walk from the Commons, compared with 15 minutes to reach Labour's current home at Millbank - on the site of Tony Benn's birthplace - it is even closer than Transport House in Smith Square, which the party occupied from 1928 until 1980.
		The 1995 move to one floor at Millbank was a gesture to modernisation, though it came to symbolise negative aspects of the Blair revolution, including "control freakery".
	politics.guardian.co.uk /labour/story/0,9061,670547,00.html (325 words)

	New Statesman: Millbank Tower meets the president: Tony Blair is clear that what worked for the party in opposition ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		New Statesman: Millbank Tower meets the president: Tony Blair is clear that what worked for the party in opposition will work now it is in power - Column
		Millbank Tower meets the president: Tony Blair is clear that what worked for the party in opposition will work now it is in power - Column
		It was Mandelson himself who advised Blair in a recent book "to get personal control of the central government machine and drive it hard, in the knowledge that if the government does not run the machine, the machine will run the government".
	findarticles.com /cf_dls/m0FQP/n4333_v126/19553533/p1/article.jhtml (1157 words)

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