Until Moscow resumed nuclear testing last September 1, the US and UK had released more than twice as much radiation into the atmosphere as the Russians, and the fallout from the earlier blasts is still coming down.

Yinka Ebo of Cancer Research UK disputed the findings, concluding that " there is still not enough evidence to suggest that using mouthwash that contains alcohol will increase the risk of mouth cancer ".

It hit number 1 in the UK singles chart in April 1972, spending 24 weeks total on the charts, topped the RPM national singles chart in Canada for three weeks, and rose as high as number 11 in the U. S. It is also a controversial instrumental, as it combined pipes with a military band.

; Assaulting an immigration officer: This offence is created by section 22 ( 1 ) of the UK Borders Act 2007.

There exist pairs of long and short vowels with overlapping vowel quality giving Australian English phonemic length distinction, which is unusual amongst the various dialects of English, though not unknown elsewhere, such as in regional south-eastern dialects of the UK and eastern seaboard dialects in the US .< ref >

* The Carnegie Faculty of Sport and Education, at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, is named after him.

Since 1995 the UK government has advised that regular consumption of 3 – 4 units a day for men, or 2 – 3 units a day for women, would not pose significant health risks, but that consistently drinking four or more units a day ( men ), or three or more units a day ( women ), is not advisable.

Received Pronunciation ( RP ) refers to a way of pronouncing Standard English that is actually used by about two percent of the UK population.

* Lit as the past tense of light is more common than lighted in the UK ; American English uses lit to mean " set afire " / " kindled " / " made to emit light " but lighted to mean " cast light upon " ( e. g., " The stagehand lighted the set and then lit a cigarette .").

This kind of abbreviation is known as a contraction in the UK.

In the UK, Germanic Neopaganism is more commonly known as Odinism or as Heathenry.

This is mostly a matter of terminology, and US Asatru may be equated with UK Odinism for practical purposes, as is evident in the short-lived International Asatru-Odinic Alliance of folkish Asatru / Odinist groups.

UK production is now concentrated at Gaydon on the former RAF V-bomber airfield.

NTSC is currently only used with system M, even though there were experiments with NTSC-A ( 405 line ) and NTSC-I ( 625 line ) in the UK.

In November 2008, the UK based think tank Demos published an influential pamphlet entitled ' It's a material world: caring for the public realm ', in which they argue for integrating the public directly into efforts to conserve material culture, particularly that which is in the public, their argument, as stated on page 16, demonstrates their belief that society can benefit from conservation as a paradigm as well as a profession:

Spin is induced by gun barrels having rifling which engages a soft metal band around the projectile, called a " driving band " ( UK ) or " rotating band " ( U. S .).

Areas similar to that of the council area are covered by the Angus Westminster constituency for the UK Parliament and the area is also represented at the Scottish Parliament by both the Angus and North Tayside Holyrood constituencies.

Aberfoyle is also home to the largest Go Ape adventure course in the UK, featuring the longest zip-line in the UK.

It is also reputed to be the only UK town with a railway station and a pub in the middle of a roundabout.

Bass music ( often known in the UK as UK Bass ) is a collection of various styles of urban dance music that draw influences from American club hip-hop, UK garage and a variety of world ghettofunk genres.

In the United Kingdom, bass music, or UK Bass, as it is often known there, has had major mainstream success since the late 2000s and early 2010s, with artists such as Example, Chase & Status, Skream, Benga and Wretch 32.

In the UK, the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985 outlawed the procedure in Britain itself, and the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 and Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation ( Scotland ) Act 2005 made it an offence for FGM to be performed anywhere in the world on British citizens or permanent residents.

In the UK ( but applying only to England ), the Road Traffic ( Vehicle Emissions ) ( Fixed Penalty ) Regulations 2002 ( Statutory Instrument 2002 No. 1808 ) introduced the concept of a " stationary idling offence ".

* The Computer Misuse Act 1990 is an Act of the UK Parliament making computer crime ( e. g. hacking ) a criminal offence.

In the UK, the relevant laws are the Criminal Justice Act 1993 Part V Schedule 1 and the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, which defines an offence of Market Abuse.

Unlike certain other jurisdictions ( notably the USA and much of Europe ), UK money laundering offences are not limited to the proceeds of serious crimes, nor are there any monetary limits, nor is there any necessity for there to be a money laundering design or purpose to an action for it to amount to a money laundering offence.

A money laundering offence under UK legislation need not involve money, since the money laundering legislation covers assets of any description.

In consequence any person who commits an acquisitive crime ( i. e. one from which he obtains some benefit in the form of money or an asset of any description ) in the UK will inevitably also commit a money laundering offence under UK legislation.

His diaries contain references to unconsummated or barely consummated homosexual dalliances, which he describes as " traditional matters " or " tradiola " ( since male homosexual activity was a criminal offence in the UK before 1967, outright admission would have been held against him if anyone had read the diaries ).

An offence is generally only triable in the jurisdiction where the offence took place, unless a specific statute enables the UK to exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction.

Driving whilst using a mobile is a criminal offence in the UK, but critics feel the law is little observed or enforced.

It is an offence to advertise in the UK, gambling that physically takes place in a non-European Economic Area ( EEA ), or in the case of gambling by remote means, gambling which is not regulated by the gambling laws of an EEA state.

Turkey and Britain have an extradition treaty, however, Home Office officials have stated " Under UK extradition law a judge must order the discharge of extradition request if it is not an offence under UK law and in the country requesting extradition.

In this case there is no offence in UK law so there will be no extradition ".

In the United Kingdom, the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985 outlawed the procedure of female genital mutilation in Britain, and the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 and Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation ( Scotland ) Act 2005 made it an offence for FGM to be performed anywhere in the world on British citizens or permanent residents in the UK.

Exceptionally, it is not an offence for pedestrians to cross against a red light in the United Kingdom, where pedestrian lights officially give advice, rather than an instruction, although UK pedestrians do commit an offence if they cross a road against the signals of a police officer controlling traffic.

In the UK abandoning a child under the age of 2 years is a criminal offence.

* Arrestable offence ( obsolete term in UK law )

In the UK, breaching this order is a criminal offence.

Sedition was a common law offence in the UK.

* In 1982, John Swenson wrote Bill Haley: The Daddy of Rock and Roll ( published in the UK under the title, Bill Haley ).

British Standards are the standards produced by BSI Group which is incorporated under a Royal Charter ( and which is formally designated as the National Standards Body ( NSB ) for the UK ).

The CIRA is an illegal organisation under UK ( section 11 ( 1 ) of the Terrorism Act 2000 ) and Irish law due to the use of ' IRA ' in the group's name in a situation analogous to that of the Real Irish Republican Army ( RIRA ).

Membership of the organisation is punishable by a sentence of up to ten years imprisonment under UK law.

The episode where Alan met his death under the tram gave Coronation Street its highest ever viewing figures of 26. 9 million, and is still the 9th most watched UK broadcast of all time.

In a wider sense, most companies in the UK are created under statute since the Companies Act 1985 specifies how a company may be created by a member of the public, but these companies are not called ' statutory corporations '.

Boney M had a number one hit in the UK with a similar song in 1978 under the title Rivers of Babylon, which was not based on this one, although using the same text from Psalm 137.

* 1952 – The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to " set the people free ".

In the UK, city councils have the power to take action against the owner of any property that has been defaced under the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 ( as amended by the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 ) or, in certain cases, the Highways Act.

There also appeared one foreign release by Hardfloor under Harthouse UK, by the English UCMG department.

In the UK, it is listed as a Class A drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.

In the UK, hydrocodone is not available for medical use and is listed as a Class A drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.

After the campaign appeared in the Metro newspaper London the business news website www. mad. co. uk remarked that the IKEA campaign had amazing similarities with the marketing activity of UK home refurbishment company Onis living who had launched their own Not For Sale advertising campaign two years prior and was awarded the Interbuild 2006 Construction Marketing Award for best campaign under £ 25, 000.

Although the Isle of Man is not an integral part of the United Kingdom, its people are British citizens under UK law-there is no separate Manx citizenship.

Following the 1869 finalisation of UK telegraph nationalisation into a General Post Office monopoly, the Isle of Man Telegraph Company was nationalised in 1870 under the Telegraph Act 1870 ( an Act of Parliament ) at a cost to the British Government of £ 16, 106 ( paid in 1872 following arbitration proceedings over the value ).

In many countries, such as the US and the UK, the tax law provides that the interest on this cash value is not taxable under certain circumstances.

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.

Most RNOs are operated as independent entities working under contract to Janet ( UK ), though Janet operates a small number of RNOs directly.

It is available in the UK as Ketoflam and Oruvail, in Finland as Ketorin, Keto, Ketomex, and Orudis '; in France as Profénid, Bi-Profénid and Ketum, in Italy as Ketodol, Fastum Gel, Lasonil, Orudis or Oki, in Poland, Serbia, Slovenia and Croatia as Knavon or Ketonal, in Romania as Ketonal, in Mexico as Arthril, in Norway as Zon or Orudis, in Russia as ОКИ ( OKI ) and Ketonal, in Spain as Actron and in Venezuela as Ketoprofeno under an injectable solution of 100 mg and 150 mg capsules.

Two implementations of KRC were written: David Turner's original one in BCPL running on EMAS, and Simon Croft's later one in C under Unix, and KRC was the main language used for teaching functional programming at the University of Kent at Canterbury ( UK ) from 1982 to 1985.

In the May 16, 2007 edition of TIME magazine, it was reported that " His ( Gore's ) Tennessee mansion consumes 20 times the electricity used by the average American home " On October 30, 2010, under the headline A VERY inconvenient truth, the UK Telegraph reported that " Al Gore ' left car engine running during hour-long environment lecture ".

Eventually UK Foreign Secretary Robin Cook persuaded the Americans to accept a trial of the suspects in the Netherlands under Scottish law, with the UN Security Council agreeing to suspend sanctions as soon as the suspects arrived in the Netherlands for trial.

* V-LIB 1. 2 ( 2008 Vartavan Library Classification for over 700 fields of knowledge, currently sold under license in the UK by Rosecastle Ltd. ( see http :// rosecastle. atspace. com / index_files / Page382. html ).