In the UK in 2009 it was estimated that up to 12 million shoppers appeared at the sales ( a rise of almost 20 % compared to 2008, although this was also affected by the fact that the VAT would revert to 17. 5 % from 1 January ).

* UK Copyright Law fact sheet ( April 2000 ) a concise introduction to UK Copyright legislation

Individualism is often contrasted either with totalitarianism or with collectivism, but in fact there is a spectrum of behaviors at the societal level ranging from highly individualistic societies through mixed societies ( a term the UK has used in the post-World War II period ) to collectivist.

Despite the Rhodesian Constitution of 1965 coming into effect as a result of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence, appeals continued to be accepted by the Privy Council as late as 1969 due to the fact that under international law, Rhodesia remained a UK colony.

In fact, the EU ’ s four most populated states all have modest levels of unionisation, with Italy at 30 %, the UK 29 %, Germany 27 % and France at only 9 %.

According to a UK site on work etiquette, the " fact that swearing is a part of everyday life means that we need to navigate a way through a day in the office without offending anyone, while still appreciating that people do swear.

Moliner ( 2006 ) states that as a consequence of the ' fact ' that Sikh migration to the UK had " become virtually impossible since the late 1970s ", Sikh migration patterns altered to continental Europe.

Despite the fact that the group had not signed a contract with EMI, the single reached the UK Top 40 and began selling well.

The comic was reprimanded by the United Nations after featuring a strip called " The Thieving Gypsy Bastards " During the resulting court case, UK newspaper The Sun ran a story revealing that the principal Roma man who initiated the action against them was in fact also being tried for ( and was later found guilty of ) handling stolen property.

The UK and some other European countries tax authorities designate financial spread betting as gambling and not investing, meaning it is free from capital gains tax and stamp tax, despite the fact that its regulated as a financial product by the Financial Services Authority in the UK.

Catatonia, in fact, only ever released 5 Welsh tracks-International Velvet being the only one to appear on a UK album ( As well as Gyda Gwen, which was a hidden track on their debut album " Way Beyond Blue ".

There was controversy in the rest of the UK — especially in Wales — over the fact that two of the three winners of the 2000 competition were English towns, so 2002 was run as four separate competitions.

In fact, when Serge Danot was interviewed by Joan Bakewell on Late Night Line-Up in 1968 his associate ( perhaps Jean Biard ) said that in France it was thought at first that the UK version of Pollux had been renamed De Gaulle, mishearing the name Dougal ( as seen in the Channel 4 documentary The Return Of The Magic Roundabout ( broadcast 08: 50 on December 25, 1991 and 18: 00 on January 5, 1992 ), and in the BBC4 documentary The Magic Roundabout Story ( 2003 )).

The Politicalcompass. org website does not reveal the people behind it, beyond the fact that it seems to be based in the UK.

In the UK, changes in the way teenagers spend their money ( and the fact that there were fewer of them, though they had more cash ) led to many casualties in the 1990s because titles were unable to compete with mobile, digital and online media.

It became apparent that there were no enemy agents transmitting from the UK-in fact, all German agents entering the UK were promptly captured and either interned or " turned " to operate as double agents under the supervision of the " XX Committee ".

It joined an elite group of multiple Queen's Award winners and was recognition of the fact that over half of all new customers now come from outside the UK and they account for 44 % of all revenue.

This is largely a reflection of the fact that France has more than double the land area of the UK.

According to the ' Patterns 3 ' report by Universities UK, " The Russell Group and the 1994 Group share many features, but are distinguished chiefly by the fact that most members of the Russell Group have medical schools, and an emphasis on science and technology.

Vizs founder and main contributor Chris Donald has said that the character of Roger Mellie was inspired by the off-screen behaviour of Rod Griffiths, a 1980s Northern UK regional TV presenter but that Mellie is actually nothing like Griffiths in fact and other presenters have been worked into the character, including Look North presenter Mike Neville.

Grampian stated that only 2 p / kg of this was due to the ban on stalls ; the majority of the extra costs resulted from the then strength of sterling and the fact that at that time meat and bone meal had been banned in the UK but not on the continent.

In fact this tradition has been revived in parks and stately homes around the UK at promenade concerts such as the Battle Proms.

As a matter of fact, this latter approach has already been tried, and with pleasing results.

We do know that he was not expected to succeed to the throne after his brother king Agis II, largely due to the fact that he was crippled from birth, and since the latter had a son, named Leotychidas.

The latter poem in fact paraphrases verses from Hesiod, re-casting them in Asclepiad meter and Aeolian dialect.

The fact that the allomorph does not appear after stem-final, despite the fact that the latter is voiceless, is then explained by the fact that appears in that environment, together with the fact that the environments are ordered.

This latter construal is sometimes expressed by saying " there is no fact of the matter as to whether or not P ." Thus, we may speak of anti-realism with respect to other minds, the past, the future, universals, mathematical entities ( such as natural numbers ), moral categories, the material world, or even thought.

These animals were, in fact, descendants of the small ancestral ungulates that retained all the primitive characteristics of the latter, accompanied by a huge increase in body size.

" The latter track is, in fact, one of Love's most raw and vulnerable vocal performances to date.

In fact, most professional languages are the work of non-linguists, while many amateur languages were in fact created by linguists, and in general the latter are better developed.

The latter became as famous as the best-known fourierist communes ( Brook Farm in Massachusetts & the North American Phalanx in New Jersey ) — in fact, Modern Times became downright notorious ( for “ Free Love ”) & finally foundered under a wave of scandalous publicity.

Another source distinguishes Islamist from Islamic " by the fact that the latter refers to a religion and culture in existence over a millennium, whereas the first is a political / religious phenomenon linked to the great events of the 20th century ".

This latter appointment made overt the fact that an emperor's authority depended on the power of the army.

The Dialogue is a later work than the First Apology ; the date of composition of the latter, from the fact that it was addressed to Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, and Lucius Verus his adopted sons, must fall between 147 and 161.

They insist that the latter had been co-opted and that in fact Lebanon's Government was a Syrian puppet.

The source or justification of this system may be thought to be, for instance, human nature, shared vulnerability to suffering, the demands of universal reason, what is common among existing moral codes, or the common mandates of religion ( although it can be argued that the latter is not in fact moral universalism because it may distinguish between Gods and mortals ).

The latter is not a consequence of the fact that delocalization is absent in diamond, but simply that carbon is not electron deficient.

Little else is known about his childhood, although there is a persistent tradition that he was educated by his maternal great-grandfather Jean de St. Rémy — a tradition which is somewhat undermined by the fact that the latter disappears from the historical record after 1504, when the child was only one year old.

At around the same time, the atomic theory and the corpuscular theory of light ( as updated by Einstein ) first came to be widely accepted as scientific fact ; these latter theories can be viewed as quantum theories of matter and electromagnetic radiation, respectively.

Not until the beginning of the 19th century did it become clear that reptiles and amphibians are in fact quite different animals, and Pierre André Latreille erected the class Batracia ( 1825 ) for the latter, dividing the tetrapods into the four familiar classes of reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals.

The common contemporary Latin legal term used in documents of the Holy Roman Empire was for a long time regnum (" rule, domain, empire ", such as in Regnum Francorum for the Frankish Kingdom ) before imperium was in fact adopted, the latter first attested in 1157, whereas the parallel use of regnum never fell out of use during the Middle Ages.

The latter definition comes from the fact that the path to water is the whole way of life in an arid desert environment.

The structure of the latter event is such that it … justifies a belief that intelligent design is the cause … Despite the fact that the probability of winning three consecutive 1-in-1, 000 games is exactly the same as the probability of winning one 1-in-1, 000, 000, 000 game, the former event … warrants an inference of intelligent design.