Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust said it had tendered for an external provider to supply GPs to allow it to reopen.

BBC: Pontefract A&E department to reopen overnight

It tendered directly for houses (a process riddled with corruption and kickbacks), assigning them by fiat to beneficiaries.

ECONOMIST: Laying the foundations of a property-owning democracy

Phillips was to pay Tosco investors 0.8 Phillips shares for every Tosco share they tendered.

FORBES: M&A for the Little Guy

The mediator entrusted with ending the crisis that has left Belgium without a government for nearly seven months has tendered his resignation.

BBC: Belgian mediator resigns over government deadlock

In a statement, the authority said Mr Jones had confirmed to his fellow authority members on Tuesday night that he had tendered his resignation to Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Jeremy Hunt.

BBC: S4C says chairman Jones has quit, but he denies it

That run of reaching five successive major finals - and his time in charge of Sweden - was halted by failure to qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and Lagerback tendered his resignation.

BBC: Lars Lagerback and Sven-Goran Eriksson in 2005

It is a quirk of the Church's practice that Cardinal O'Brien had already tendered his resignation, as he approached his 75th birthday, the official retirement age for bishops.

BBC: Cardinal O'Brien's departure leaves a rudderless Church

Earlier in the day, Mrs Clinton officially tendered her resignation to President Barack Obama, her former bitter rival in the 2008 race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

BBC: Hillary Clinton says goodbye to state department

"I'm very sorry that without even waiting for an update at this afternoon's gathering of the transport advisers Pip Sheard has tendered her resignation, " Mr Ferguson added.

BBC: Bristol harbourside bus route changes agreed