The number of UK units of alcohol in a drink can be determined by multiplying < var > the volume of the drink ( in milliliters )</ var > by its < var > percentage ABV </ var >, and dividing by 1000.

An autumn 2004 caution from the Committee on Safety of Medicines, the UK agency dealing with drug safety, advised patients taking warfarin not to drink cranberry juice after adverse effects ( such as increased incidence of bruising ) were reported, possibly resulting from the presence of salicylic acid native to polyphenol-rich plants such as the cranberry.

* pils or lager and carbonated lemonade ( in Europe and the UK, lemonade is a carbonated drink, in America, lemonade is a noncarbonated drink ): Radler, Alsterwasser

* In UK General Practice, the standard glucose load is provided by 394ml of the sports drink Lucozade ( original flavour only ), which the patient is asked to supply.

Aimed at the female drinker at a time when wine was not commonly available in UK pubs, Babycham was sold in miniature Champagne-style bottles ; the drink was for many years a strong seller and made a fortune for the Showering family.

** In the UK, the most widely available shandy soft drink is Bass Brewery Shandy.

In the UK today, drink mixers sold as soda water ( by drinks companies such as Schweppes, Fever Tree and Fentimans ) contain bicarbonate of soda, which gives them a specific flavour and differentiates them from carbonated water.

An Oreo flavored " Krushem " drink was also on sale in UK KFC stores.

* Tapio is a natural spirit-based drink produced in the UK by Tapio Ventures Ltd.

* St George ( commercial ), commercial for the UK soft drink Blackcurrant Tango

Blackcurrant Tango is a carbonated soft drink launched in the UK by Britvic Soft Drinks Ltd in 1996.

Alongside Runnymede, Surrey, people in Harrogate drink alcohol to more hazardous levels than anywhere else in the UK but they're happy doing it.

Squashes make up a largish part of the beverage diets of children in the UK, besides fizzy drinks, sweetened juice-based drinks such as cranberry drink and pulp-free concentrated fruit juices ( usually served at breakfast ).

Arthur's favorite drink was a double Vodka and tonic, which was referred to as a ' double V. A. T, a wordplay on Value Added Tax ( The UK tax on sales ).

A food and drink survey carried out in 2000 found 99 % of customers recognised the brand, which accounts for 45 % of the custard consumed in the UK.

* Food and Drink Federation, an organisation that represents and advises UK food and drink manufacturers

In the UK, Lucozade Energy was originally introduced in 1929 as a hospital drink for " aiding the recovery ;" in the early 1980s, it was promoted as an energy drink for " replenishing lost energy.

UK supermarkets have launched their own brands of energy drinks at lower prices than the major soft drink manufacturers.

In the UK, pub crawls are generally unstructured and spontaneous nights-out, in which the participants arrange to meet in a particular location and decide over drinks on where to drink next.

In the UK, the suffix '- ade ' means a ' carbonated sweet soft drink '; hence limeade, orangeade, cherryade, etc.

In the Republic of Ireland, lemonade refers to the carbonated, lemon-flavored soft drink ( as in the UK ) but is further sub-divided into white ( clear ) lemonade and red lemonade.

* Pete Brown ( writer ), UK writer and expert on drink and drinking culture

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.