In January 2009 Aon was fined £ 5. 25 million in the UK after it made more than $ 7 million worth of " suspicious " payments to overseas firms and individuals.

* Since Big Brother 2, the UK series always opens with a twist which have included the public being able to choose the final housemate out of three possibilities ( Big Brother 2 ), the public voting for a housemate to leave during the first week and then the housemates choosing between the two housemates with the least number of votes ( Big Brother 3 ), First Night Nominations ( Big Brother 4 ), Suitcase Nominations ( Big Brother 5 ), Unlucky Housemate 13 ( Big Brother 6 ), Big Brother Hood ( Big Brother 7 ), an all-female House and the first inclusion of twins as contestants ( Big Brother 8 ), the first couple to enter as housemates and set a secret task to hide their real relationship ( Big Brother 9 ), all " housemates " really being " non-housemates " who had to earn their housemate status ( Big Brother 10 ), a mole entering the House with an " Impossible Task " ( Big Brother 11 ), Jackie Stallone entering a house containing her son's ex-wife ( Celebrity Big Brother 3 ), the entrance of a non-celebrity in a celebrity edition ( Celebrity Big Brother 4 ) and Jade Goody's family announced to be visiting.

USA 25. 7 %, China 14. 1 %, Netherlands 10. 9 %, UK 6. 3 %, Mexico 5 % ( 2007 )

The third single from Woodface, " Weather With You ", peaked at No. 7 in early 1992 giving the band their highest UK chart placement.

Released in late 1973, the song topped the singles chart in February 1974, and reached the lower regions of Billboard's Hot 100 ( it eventually also charted in the UK, reaching No. 7 in 1976, representing Parton's first UK success ).

" Rage Hard " eventually hit Number 4 in the UK singles charts and Number 1 in Germany ( for two weeks ), # 5 in Switzerland, # 7 in the Netherlands, # 12 in Austria, # 19 in Sweden and # 32 in France.

Figures from the CIA World Factbook show the main export markets in 2006 were United Kingdom 30. 8 %, Spain 22. 7 %, Germany 13. 7 %, Turkmenistan 10. 4 %, Switzerland 8. 3 %, Italy 6. 7 % while the corresponding figures for imports are Spain 23. 4 %, Russia 12. 3 %, Italy 12 %, UK 9 %, France 8. 9 %, Netherlands 6. 8 % and United States 4. 7 %.

Following his Washington visit Holt went on to London and in a speech there given on 7 July he was sharply critical of the UK, France and other U. S. allies that had refused to commit troops to the Vietnam War.

A more recent study by the UK Kennel Club puts the average age of death at 7 years.

Most American and European gold jewellery is made of an alloy of gold, the purity of which is stated in karats, indicated by a number followed by the letter K. American gold jewellery must be of at least 10K purity ( 41. 7 % pure gold ), ( though in the UK the number is 9K ( 37. 5 % pure gold ) and is typically found up to 18K ( 75 % pure gold ).

* Partners: EU 62. 6 %, Others 21. 1 %, Germany, the US, the UK, France, Italy, Austria, Taiwan and Japan, Switzerland 15. 7 % as of ( 2008 )

Italy ( 4, 1 %), Poland ( 3, 4 %), UK ( 3, 3 %), Sweden ( 3, 1 %), Bulgaria ( 2, 7 %), Japan ( 2, 4 %), France ( 2, 3 %) and the Netherlands ( 2, 0 %).

In the Netherlands 9. 5 % of young adults ( aged 15 – 34 ) consume soft drugs once a month, comparable to the level of Finland ( 8 %), Latvia ( 9, 7 %) and Norway ( 9. 6 %) and less than in the UK ( 13. 8 %), Germany ( 11, 9 %), Czech Republic ( 19, 3 %), Denmark ( 13, 3 %), Spain ( 18. 8 %), France ( 16, 7 %), Slovakia ( 14, 7 %) and Italy ( 20, 9 %) but higher than in Bulgaria ( 4, 4 %), Sweden ( 4, 8 %), Poland ( 5, 3 %) or Greece ( 3, 2 %).

He had a string of hits in 1963 with " In Dreams " ( U. S. number 7 / UK number 6 ), " Falling " ( U. S. number 22 / UK number 9 ), " Mean Woman Blues " ( U. S. number 5 / UK number 3 ) coupled with " Blue Bayou " ( U. S. number 29 / UK number 3 ).

Tuesday Night Music Club went on to sell more than 7 million copies in the US and UK during the 1990s.

UK 21. 1 %, France 19. 1 %, Mauritius 10. 1 %, Japan 7. 9 %, Italy 7. 8 %, Netherlands 6 % ( 2008 )

This remix was itself sampled in the remix of " Pump Up the Volume " by MARRS that reached # 1 in the UK, also in October 1987.

Up until the mid-1930s, the majority of fighters in the US, the UK, Italy and Russia remained fabric-covered biplanes.

Cranked Up Really High: Genre Theory and Punk Rock ( Hove, UK: Codex ).

* April 4 – The UK pop group Bucks Fizz wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1981 with the song, " Making Your Mind Up ".

Up until the early 20th century, it was mainly visited by the European royals and elites, including Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany and Empress Elisabeth of Austria ; today it is also widely visited by middle class families ( primarily from the UK, Scandinavia and Germany ), leading to mass tourism.

* " Rip It Up " – # 25, 08 / 1956 ; # 4 UK, 11 / 1956

; 7 Up Free: 7 Up Free is sold in the UK, Ireland, Norway, Argentina, Iceland, Finland, UAE, Uruguay and Pakistan.

They are known in the UK for their hit songs " Cool for Cats ", " Up the Junction ", " Tempted ", " Labelled With Love ", " Black Coffee In Bed ", " Another Nail in My Heart "," Pulling Mussels ( From the Shell )" and " Hourglass ".

The band's second album, Cool for Cats ( 1979 ), contained the band's two highest charting UK singles in " Cool For Cats " and " Up The Junction ", both of which peaked at No. 2.

The band will be undertaking a full UK ' Pop Up Shop ' Tour in November and December 2012.

Senser's first album, Stacked Up, was released in May 1994, and entered the UK Albums Chart at number 4.

The Digital TV Group the industry association for digital television in the UK, is responsible for co-ordination between Freeview, Top Up TV, and other digital services.

In 1984, the group released its third album, Waking Up with the House on Fire ( UK No. 2, US No. 26 ).

* 1993: Wake Up Call ( Silvertone ) UK # 61

Burke appeared on Junkie XL's album, Radio JXL: A Broadcast From the Computer Hell Cabin, performing " Catch Up To My Step ", which reached # 63 on the UK charts on 7 January 2003.

On 1 November 1990, shortly before Thatcher was ousted as Prime Minister, Delors bore the brunt of British Euroscepticism ; tabloid newspaper The Sun's headline declaimed " Up Yours Delors " in response to his supposed attempts to force European federalism upon the UK.

* The famous headline from The Sun in the UK: " Up Yours Delors "

* 1984: I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down ( Edsel ED 133 UK: Atlantic & Stax singles not previously released )

Despite receiving little promotion, the single hit the number one position on the UK Singles Chart, beating " U Know What's Up " by Donell Jones to the top.

The Pacifica Radio Archives feature in their own 30-minute slot on BBC Radio 5 Live's Up All Night programme, at 3. 30am UK time on Mondays.

Up until then, international distribution was handled by Warner Home Video, including in the UK, Europe, Japan, and South America.

Some of those artists include Dubblestandart from Vienna, Austria ( who recorded the album " Return from Planet Dub " in collaboration with, and performs live with, Lee Scratch Perry ), Liquid Stranger from Sweden, New York City artists including Ticklah, also known as Victor Axelrod, Victor Rice, Easy Star All-Stars, Dub Trio ( who have recorded and performed live with Mike Patton, and are currently touring as the backing band for Matisyahu ), Subatomic Sound System ( who have remixed material by Lee Scratch Perry and Ari Up ), Dub is a Weapon, King Django, Boom One Sound System, Dr. Israel, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad from Rochester, NY, Heavyweight Dub Champion from San Francisco and Colorado, Ott from the UK who has released several influential albums through Twisted Records, Future Pigeon from Los Angeles, German artists like Disrupt and Rootah from the Jahtari label, and Twilight Circus from the Netherlands.

It provided them with their first UK Top Ten hit in the shape of The Sun Goes Down ( Living It Up ).

The UK brought together several countries ( including some bordering the EEC ) and decided to form the European Free Trade Association in about 1959, soon after the establishment of the 6-nation EEC ( France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands ).

* " Free ", by Blue October UK from One Day Silver, One Day Gold

In the UK, the happy face has been associated with psychedelic culture since Ubi Dwyer and the Windsor Free Festival in the 1970s and the dance music culture that emerged during the second summer of love in the late 1980s.

* General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches ( UK )

(" I Feel Free ", a UK hit single, was only included on the American edition of the LP.

Free access to a general practitioner is a core right in the NHS, but private insurers in the UK will not pay for payments to a private primary care physician.

He even entertained a peace treaty proposed by Botha and the other Boer leaders that would have maintained the sovereignty of the South African Republican and the Orange Free State while requiring them to sign a perpetual treaty of alliance with the UK and grant major concessions to the UK such as equal rights for English with Dutch in their countries, voting rights for Uitlanders, and a customs and railway union with the Cape Colony and Natal, although he knew the government in the UK would reject the offer.

His sixth single, the half-spoken love song " Really Free " reached number 27 in the UK Singles Chart in 1977.

* Everybody's Free to Wear Camouflage ( 2000 ) ( CD Single ) written by ; Cat McLean, Don Novello and Narada Michael Walden, which was a top 20 hit in the UK.

It provided for the establishment within a year of an Irish Free State as a self-governing dominion within the British Commonwealth of Nations ( the first use by the UK Government of this term, rather than " British Empire ", in an official document ).

The second single from the album was " Free To Decide "; the single's peak in the UK was 33.

* The Irish Free State Constitution Act 1922 ( enacted by the UK Parliament )

Their 1983 song " Free Nelson Mandela " was a No. 9 UK hit.

The resulting album from the new line-up, In the Studio, was less successful, although the song " Free Nelson Mandela " was a No. 9 UK hit.

Free Radio was only ever used to refer to radio transmissions that were beyond government control, as was offshore radio in the UK and Europe.

Free and subscription providers are available, with differences in the number of channels, capabilities such as the programme guide ( EPG ), video on demand ( VOD ), high-definition ( HD ), interactive television via the red button, and coverage across the UK.

Foot Loose & Fancy Free is Rod Stewart's eighth album, released in November 1977 on Riva Records in the UK and Warner Bros in the US.

After the Anglo-Irish Treaty was approved by Dáil Éireann, the Irish Free State was formed, from which the northeast immediately removed itself, and Northern Ireland remained in the UK.

Despite its harder beat and grittier sound, by now the impact of Free Me was beginning to wear off, and the song only came in at number fifteen on the UK Singles Chart, totalling 25, 000 copies, and becoming Bunton's lowest-selling single.

: Missing laws regulating free parties outside the UK, see Talk: Free party