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In the UK, on-track bookies still mark up the odds on boards beside the race course and use tic-tac or mobile telephones to communicate the odds between their staff and to other bookies, but, with the modernisation of United Kingdom Bookmaking laws, online and high street gambling are at an all-time high, with a so-called Super Casino having been planned for construction in Manchester prior to the government announcing that this plan had been scrapped on 26 February 2008.
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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 ".
Buddy – as it is abbreviated on occasion – is still running in the UK after 22 years, with a UK tour that went out in February 2011.
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.
The House of Lords of the UK parliament had, for example through the 1990s, over 700 members with a hereditary right to being a lawgiver ; this practice was reformed in 2004, still some 92 parliamentary seats are set aside for hereditary peers as of 2012.
Now retired ( though still active ), he is based in Arundel, Sussex, UK.
Dennis the Menace may refer to separate UK and U. S. comic strip characters that both appeared in March 1951 in their respective readership areas, and are still published as of 2012.
It is still used for everyday temperature measurements by the general population in the United States and Belize and, less so, in the UK and Canada.
DASS2 is still offered by BT and other UK
Thanks to the Bristol-based Aardman Animations, the UK is still recognised as a world leader in the use of stop-motion animation.
The first and perhaps still best known UK ' punk zine ' was Sniffin ' Glue, produced by Deptford punk fan Mark Perry.
Guilds also survive in the UK in Preston, Lancashire, as the Preston Guild Merchant where among other celebrations descendants of Burgesses are still admitted into membership.
Though the gallon has ceased to be the legally defined primary unit, it can still be legally used in both the UK and Ireland as a supplementary unit.
About 15 % of all spending on health in the UK is still privately funded but this includes the patient contributions towards NHS provided prescription drugs, so private sector health care in the UK is quite small.
The band's success peaked between 1980 and 1981 with a number of UK chart hits, including the classic single " Ace of Spades ", which is still a crowd favourite today and the # 1 on the live album No Sleep ' til Hammersmith.
The commercials are still shown on Australian and UK television.
* A small Roman shrine to Minerva ( the only one still in situ in the UK ) stands in Handbridge, Chester.
However, one can still find smaller mosques in more suburban and rural regions throughout Europe where Muslims populate, an example of this is the Shah Jahan Mosque in Woking, the first purpose built mosque in the UK.
The labels of the UK product still carry the image of a marmite.
The UK tax year still starts on 6 April which is 25 March + 12 days, eleven for the conversion from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar plus a dropped leap day in 1800 not in 1900.
OS / 2 is still used by The Co-operative Bank in the UK for its domestic call centre staff, using a bespoke program created to access customer accounts which cannot easily be migrated to Windows.
OS / 2 is still used on ticket machines for Croydon Tramlink in outer-London ( UK ).
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.
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Multihull Designers that have made their mark and are considered the pioneers of multihull design and the ones that have made multihulls so popular today are: James Wharram ( UK ), Derek Kelsall ( UK ), Loch Crowther ( Aust ), Hedly Nicol ( Aust ), Malcolm Tennant ( NZ ), Jim Brown ( USA ), Arthur Piver ( USA ), Chris White ( US ), Ian Farrier ( NZ ), LOMOcean ( NZ ).
A. Walsh describes how certain products originating from Brazil on sale in the UK, are not entitled to bear the CE mark.
In 2002, Lisburn and Newry were two of the five towns in the UK that were granted city status by Queen Elizabeth II to mark her Golden Jubilee.
" That same year would also mark his biggest hit on the UK Singles Chart, a remake of " Don't Go Breaking My Heart " with Elton John, which went to number seven.
* 6 July 2012: An Emirates Airbus A380 operated the type's first scheduled service from Gatwick to mark the airline's 25th anniversary at the airport, in the UK and Europe, as well as to test the aircraft's suitability for the airport.
On 25 October 2008, to mark the 30th anniversary of the song " Saturday Night Fever " topping the UK charts, Gibb performed with special guests including Ronan Keating, Stephen Gateley, Sam Sparro, Sharleen Spiteri, Gabriella Climi and Bryn Christopher at the London music festival BBC Electric Proms.
Alpines could not be sold in the UK under their own name because Sunbeam owned the trade mark ( because of the mid-50s Sunbeam Alpine Mk I ).
The UK passed the five point mark and received eight votes, while Germany did indeed receive the maximum 12 points, but too late to win.
EMI continued to operate the Columbia record label in the UK until the early 1970s, and everywhere else except for the US, Canada, Mexico, Spain and Japan, until it sold its remaining interest in the Columbia trade mark to Sony Music Entertainment in 1990.
Today, Sony Music prefers using the " walking eye " logo ( previously used by the old CBS Records and based on the Columbia Records logo introduced in the US and Canada in 1955 ) for the Columbia Records trade mark in the UK and elsewhere.
When in 2000, the song " All Right Now " achieved the mark of two million radio plays in the UK, an award was given to Rodgers as one of the two writers.
( this is the only placename in the UK which includes an exclamation mark ).
was registered as a trade mark on 21 May 1929 ( UK number 502898 ).
1000 Millennium cast iron mileposts funded by the Royal Bank of Scotland to mark the creation of the National Cycle Network, and found along the cycles routes through the UK.
The multiplex cinema and John Lewis parts of the centre mark the UK début of architecture firm Foreign Office Architects.
The band toured the UK in November and December to mark the 15th anniversary of All Change.
A few weeks later Coe was to reclaim the UK record, setting an all-comers ' mark of 1: 43. 97 at Crystal Palace to rank him second in the world that year.
It was better equipped than the base 1L Austin Metro and 1L Ford Fiesta it was priced against, having height adjustable halogen headlights, intermittent rear wash-wipe and multi-speed / intermittent front wipers, heated rear window, removable split folding rear seats, as well as five doors when its main competitors in the UK only had three, ( the five-door Metro was launched in 1985, the five-door mark three Fiesta launched in 1989 ).
Since then there have been two annual event to mark Anti-Slavery Day and raise awareness of the issue of human trafficking in the UK, including in 2011 when activities took place across the country.
Since the Foundation's inception, the UK Government have signed up to the EU Directive on Human Trafficking and introduced a new strategy to combat trafficking, whilst Prime Minister David Cameron hosted the first-ever reception at 10 Downing Street to mark Anti-Slavery Day 2011.
* AH. 1, designation for " Army Helicopter, mark 1 " used by the UK Ministry of Defence ( United Kingdom )
This language was called Lingo and is significant because the manufacturers successfully obtained a trade mark in the UK.
In some nations, such as the UK, the hallmark is made up of several elements including: a mark denoting the type of metal, the maker / sponsor's mark and the year of the marking.
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