Municipal corporations and boards of health would later be able to absorb the powers of the improvement commissioners by promoting private acts.

This has increased the awareness of a new edgy style of African entertainment that has helped promote Nigerian acts to the world.

In 1993, he founded The Tip Sheet, which continues online as a message board promoting unknown and unsigned musical acts.

The festival actively promotes local acts as well as hosting musicians from across the United Kingdom.

"It's designed to promote acts that have had raw deals in the past."

It is difficult to promote popular acts from the mainland due to its geographical isolation, and the smaller group of people interested in the music.

The English government of the period was concerned that plays such as Robin Hood would promote rebellious acts.

That was standard music-business mentality - the Beatles were popular, so the industry rushed to promote similar acts - because they'd sell.

Many UK groups and organisations have been set up to promote acts of kindness.

Unforgivably, that promise has often been exploited to promote acts of terror.