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.

The use of full stops / periods after most abbreviations can also be found in the UK, although publications generally tend to eschew the use of American punctuation.

For example the United States uses NTSC-M, the UK uses PAL-I, France uses SECAM-L, much of Western Europe and Australia uses PAL-B / G, most of Eastern Europe uses PAL-D / K or SECAM-D / K and so on.

The Movie has now become the most successful movie musical of all time and has been named the number one box office smash of 2008, and the biggest-selling DVD ever in the UK.

Although the disease is not a threat to humans the most vulnerable common domestic ruminants in the UK are cattle, goats and, especially, sheep.

Despite fox hunting being banned by the Hunting Act in 2004, Boxing Day remains the biggest hunt of the year for most hunts in the UK by use of scent drag trails instead of live quarry.

In the UK, cancer and cardiac problems seem to be the most frequent causes of premature death.

* Tasha, a female borzoi belonging to the noted vet Buster Lloyd-Jones ( founder of Denes natural pet foods ), was born in the UK during the Second World War and is the pedigree ancestor of most British borzoi bloodlines.

In the UK today, building societies actively compete with banks for most consumer banking services, especially mortgage lending and savings accounts.

Belfast is one of the most visited cities in the UK, and the second most visited on the island of Ireland.

Due to their status as an overseas territory of the UK, the Cayman Islands have no representation either on the United Nations, or in most other international organizations.

In the most famous case of policy failure, Black Wednesday, George Soros arbitraged the pound sterling's relationship to the ECU and ( after making $ 2 billion himself and forcing the UK to spend over $ 8bn defending the pound ) forced it to abandon its policy.

As an extension of his 6 Music show, Charles regularly takes the Funk and Soul Club to varied venues across the UK and to most major music festivals.

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.

Most episodes in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s rated with over 20 million viewers and during the 1990s and early 2000s 15 – 20 million per episode would be typical Like most terrestrial television in the UK, a dramatic decline in viewership has taken place and the show currently posts figures of between 8 and 14 million per episode.

The programme currently rates as one of the most watched programmes on UK television for every day it is aired.

In the UK, most chocolatiers purchase their chocolate from them, to melt, mold and package to their own design.

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 '.

Today the Christadelphian body remains divided into " fellowships " ( of which in the UK it is estimated that there are 23 ), the largest being the Central fellowship, named after the now-defunct Birmingham Central ecclesia, once its largest and most influential ecclesia.

Many ecclesias organise holidays for young people, the most popular form in the UK being camping holidays and Youth Weekends such as Swanwick and others locally organised by different ecclesias.

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.

Lynne's comeback with ELO began in 2000 with the release of a retrospective box set, Flashback, containing three CDs of remastered tracks and a handful of out-takes and unfinished works, most notably a new version of ELO's only UK number one hit " Xanadu ".

The most successful of the first wave was Maximum Speed, which successfully captured the frenetic world of a mod revival scene that was propelling bands like Secret Affair, Purple Hearts and The Chords into the UK charts.

In the UK, most Premier League or Football League football clubs have one or more fanzines which supplement, oppose and complement the club's official magazine or matchday programme.

In February 2011, the UK Parliament was reported to be considering scrapping the bank holiday associated with May Day, replacing it with a bank holiday in October, possibly co-inciding with Trafalgar Day ( celebrated on 21 October ), to create a " United Kingdom Day ".

As in the UK, the timing of Carnival has been separated from the Christian calendar and is celebrated on Labor Day Monday, in September.

* Public policy produces many unintended consequences, and one celebrated example in the UK National Health Service is the policy that patients arriving at accident and emergency centres must be treated within a define period after entry.

Since 2002, many UK law firms and law schools have celebrated an annual Pro Bono Week, which encourages lawyers to offer pro bono services and increases general awareness of pro bono service.

Typically celebrated the Friday after American Thanksgiving in North America and the following day internationally, in 2011 the dates were November 25 and 26 respectively, and will be on November 24th 2012 in the UK.

In 2011, the band celebrated the 20-year anniversary of Pocket Full of Kryptonite with a UK and US tour.

The 40th anniversary of the group in 2009 was celebrated by a 35-date UK concert tour which began at London's Shaw Theatre on 31 January and continued throughout the year.

The song celebrated the fascination with the many trapeze artistes then performing in the UK, including Leotard and his sensational appearances at the Alhambra Music Hall in London.

In London, United Kingdom, which has one of the largest New Zealand expatriate populations, the occasion is celebrated by the Waitangi Day Ball, held by the New Zealand Society UK.

His celebrated march " Death or Glory ", written in 1895 and dedicated to the Tenth Regiment Band in Albany, New York, is a well-known staple of brass band concerts and competitions all over the UK.

The St Austell Brewery, which celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2001, supplies cask ale to pubs in Cornwall and the rest of the UK.

Domino celebrated their first UK # 1 album in October 2005 with Franz Ferdinand's You Could Have It So Much Better, and their first UK # 1 single with Arctic Monkeys ' " I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor " later that same month.

In Finland, Children's Day is known as Day of children's rights and is celebrated on 20 November and it's the same in the UK.

In 2001, See Hear celebrated its 20th anniversary by launching three new projects: Switch, a drama series dealing with the lives and relationships of people within the wider deaf community ; The House on the Hill, for young Deaf children, which was written by viewer Amy Possart and presented by Lesley McGilp and Julian Peedle-Calloo ; and Hay's Way, involving deaf academic and historian John Hay visiting a city in the UK to delve into its past and discover what it is like today.

In the UK this was associated with the punk rock movement ; the band Crass is celebrated for its anarchist and pacifist ideas.

Although it is not celebrated as a specific public holiday in the UK ( as it is not a working day ), some civil servants are given a " privilege day " at this time of year, which is often merged with the Spring Bank Holiday ( last Monday in May ) to create a long weekend, which was partly created to celebrate the monarch's birthday.

Indeed, the TR4 became a celebrated rally car in Europe and the UK during early to mid-sixties, and various replicas are still campaigned by privateers in vintage rally events through Europe.

Also like many other towns, Athea has had its influx of immigrants from the UK, USA, Poland and China whose cultures are also celebrated.

" Goodier's final show was broadcast on November 17 that year which also celebrated the 50th anniversary of the UK singles chart.

The UK also celebrated the 50th anniversary of the UK singles chart.

Ganesh Chaturthi is celebrated in the UK by the migrant Hindu population as well as the large number of Indians residing there.

Since 1984, the company has been headquartered in Gaddesden Place, Hemel Hempstead, an 18th century Palladian style villa, designed by the celebrated architect James Wyatt, built in 1768 and reputed to be his first building in the UK.