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.

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* 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.

Terms used to describe the motor neuron diseases can be confusing ; in the UK " motor neuron disease " ( with " neuron " sometimes spelt " neurone ") refers to both amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( the most common form of disease ) and to the broader spectrum of motor neuron diseases including progressive muscular atrophy, primary lateral sclerosis, and progressive bulbar palsy.

Where British and American vocabulary differs, Australians sometimes favour an Australian usage, as with footpath ( for US sidewalk, UK pavement ) or capsicum ( for US bell pepper, UK sweet pepper ).

In other instances, it either shares a term with American English, as with truck ( UK: lorry ) or eggplant ( UK: aubergine ), or sometimes with British English, as with mobile phone ( US: cell phone ) or bonnet ( US: hood ).

In the UK and the rest of Europe, comic strips are also serialized in comic book magazines, with a strip's story sometimes continuing over three pages or more.

It is widespread practice in the media in the UK ( and elsewhere ) to use the word Europe to mean continental Europe ; that is, " Europe " excludes Britain, Iceland and Ireland ( though the term is sometimes used to refer to the European Union ).

This led to the addition of the number sign (#, sometimes called ' octothorpe ,' ' pound ' or ' diamond ' in this context-' hash ' or ' gate ' in the UK ) and asterisk or " star " (*) keys as well as a group of keys for menu selection: A, B, C and D. In the end, the lettered keys were dropped from most phones, and it was many years before these keys became widely used for vertical service codes such as * 67 in the United States of America and Canada to suppress caller ID.

* Mullions-Smaller optional vertical boards that run between two rails, and split the door into two or more columns of panels, the term is used sometimes for verticals in doors, but more often ( UK and Australia ) it refers to verticals in windows.

The latter tend to supply alcohol ( and, in the UK, usually soft drinks and sometimes food ), but less commonly accommodation.

An SE ( sometimes called the S4 Sport due to model designation on rear bumper ), a sort of halfway point between a normally equipped S4 and the more race-oriented Club Sport, became available to the UK.

In the 1980s in the UK, punks were sometimes involved in brawls with Teddy Boys, greasers, bikers, mods and members of other subcultures.

The hobby is sometimes called " fusilately " in the UK and a collector is known as a " fusilatelist "; In the USA it is called " telegery ".

Radiation therapy ( in American English ), radiation oncology, or radiotherapy ( in the UK, Canada and Australia ), sometimes abbreviated to XRT or DXT, is the medical use of ionizing radiation, generally as part of cancer treatment to control or kill malignant cells.

Poor ratings for a UK flagship serial sometimes brings with it questions about the associated channel.

Electric buses, which use twin trolley poles ( one for live current, one for return ) but have wheels with tyres rolling on a hard surface rather than tracks, are called trolleybuses, trackless trolleys ( particularly in the Northeastern U. S .), or sometimes ( in the UK, as well as in Seattle and Vancouver ) simply trolleys.

In the UK and Europe, the triage process used is sometimes similar to that of the United States, but the categories are different:

Victorian and Edwardian tablespoons used in the UK are often 25 ml or sometimes larger.

The UK, like several other states, has sometimes been called a " two-and-a-half " party system, because parliamentary politics is dominated by the Labour Party and Conservative Party, with the Liberal Democrats holding a significant number of seats ( but still substantially less than Labour and the Conservatives ), and several small parties ( some of them regional or nationalist ) trailing far behind in number of seats.

The rhetorical technique is sometimes called an Aunt Sally in the UK, with reference to a traditional fairground game in which objects are thrown at a fixed target.

British shows are also sometimes shown on the three commercial television networks in Australia ; in particular Network Seven screened many popular UK sitcoms during the 1970s.

Turnip leaves are sometimes eaten as " turnip greens " (" turnip tops " in the UK ), and they resemble mustard greens in flavor.

In the UK, these are sometimes called Yorkshire sash windows, presumably because of their traditional use in that county.

In the UK, these bets are sometimes called spread bets, but rather than a simple win / loss, the bet pays more or less depending on how far from the spread the final result is.