* United Kingdom: The UK introduced universal BCG immunization in 1953, and until 2005, the UK policy was to immunize all school children at the age of 13, and all neonates born into high-risk groups.

Contestants are required to evict one of their own on a regular basis ; in the earlier series of Big Brother, contestants were evicted every two weeks, however, as introduced in the UK version, evictions occurred once a week, all of the current series of Big Brother follow this format.

* The fifth UK edition introduced the " Evil " touch, whereby the authority character " Big Brother " became almost a villain.

* The sixth UK series introduced secret missions where housemates would be able to win luxuries if they completed a secret task set by " Big Brother ".

* Benefit Crystallisation Event-a term introduced by the UK Finance Act 2004

The UK punk scene of the late 1970s introduced bands that glorified their working-class heritage: Sham 69 had a hit song " The Cockney Kids are Innocent ".

In the UK, the ISDN concept was first introduced to customers by BT with their

Ephemeris time based on the standard adopted in 1952 was introduced into the Astronomical Ephemeris ( UK ) and the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, replacing UT in the main ephemerides in the issues for 1960 and after.

A new format for a full-size, city centre store was introduced with the opening of the Coventry ( UK ) store in December 2007 as a response to UK government restrictions blocking retail establishment outside city centres ,.

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 ".

In 2010 the University of Winchester introduced its Modern Liberal Arts undergraduate program, the first of its kind in the UK.

Although strongly opposed by both the business community and the Conservative Party when introduced in 1999, the minimum wage introduced in the UK is no longer controversial and the Conservatives reversed their opposition in 2000.

Similarly, it has been used by Walkers Crisps for a special-edition flavour and has introduced, with local Dorset bakery Fudges, Marmite Biscuits in the UK.

Rowland Hill and the postal reforms he introduced to the UK postal system are commemorated on several postage issues of the United Kingdom.

From 1965 the UK embarked upon a programme of metrication and gradually introduced metric units, including the tonne ( metric ton ), a non-SI metric unit defined as 1000 kg.

With a continuation of the popularity of Ultimate a possibility of it being introduced into further high schools making a more competitive league in the UK for junior Ultimate players.

In June 1980, it was introduced in the U. S. Also launched in the UK in 1980, it came with stereo playback and two mini headphone jacks, permitting two people to listen at the same time ( though it came with only one pair of MDR-3L2 headphones ).

In many countries, including the UK, a cane is not generally introduced to a child until they are between 7 and 10 years old.

Although it is often thought of as a British native wild flower, or to have been brought to the British Isles by the Romans, it was probably introduced around the early sixteenth century and is currently not a protected species in the UK.

The UK finally abandoned it in 1992 when smaller, more convenient, " silver " coins were introduced.

* Stakeholder pension scheme-a type of pension introduced by the UK Labour government in 2001.

Semmelweis, despite ridicule and opposition, introduced compulsory handwashing for everyone entering the maternal wards and was rewarded with a plunge in maternal and fetal deaths, however the Royal Society in the UK still dismissed his advice.

Pepper's, was fellow UK musicians The Moody Blues ' first foray into the concept album.

In 1985, the British neo-progressive rock band Marillion achieved their only UK Number One album-and the best-selling album of their career-with Misplaced Childhood, a concept album featuring lyrics by frontman Fish which were partly autobiographical.

Electra Heart is the concept album by UK singer Marina And The Diamonds.

The concept of the artificial climbing wall began in the UK.

In 1965, Davies developed the concept of packet-switched networks and proposed development of a UK wide network.

The concept of the garden city arose and several model towns were built, such as Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire, UK, the world's first garden cities.

This point is not relevant to the UK concept of takeovers, which always involve the acquisition of a public company.

* During the 1980s, the UK band The Stranglers recorded an album called Dreamtime, with a title track inspired by the Aboriginal concept.

Japan's question time was closely modeled after that of the UK, and many Diet members travelled to the House of Commons to study the British application of the concept.

However, a " proof of concept " model of a differential analyser which made extensive use of Meccano parts was built at Manchester University, UK, in 1934, by Douglas Hartree and Arthur Porter: use of Meccano meant that the machine was cheap to build, and it proved " accurate enough for the solution of many scientific problems ".

Thus, the UK began to adopt the concept of free trade .< ref >" Corn Law.

The concept is roughly equivalent to that of the public limited company in the UK and some other countries.

IBM UK funded development of the concept through collaboration with Softwright, a UK bespoke software company.

However, although assisting someone to commit suicide in the UK was illegal, the law did not apply to a person lecturing on the concept of euthanasia, and Nitschke was allowed to enter.

UK Comic 2000 AD ran a series of short stories called Future Shocks based on this concept, some of which were written by Alan Moore.

The initial concept developed in the mid-1950s was for a very fast ( 55 knot / 100 km / h ), deep-diving torpedo driven by an internal combustion engine, carrying high pressure oxygen as oxidant, guided by a wire system developed from the Mackle wire-guidance study dated 1952 using data transmitted from the firing submarine sonars and using an autonomous active / passive sonar developed from the abandoned 1950s UK PENTANE torpedo project.

Both the concept of double decked elevators and sky lobbies were new to the UK at the time.

The A-train concept can be customised to form a commuter train like the automated 3000 series train for the Nanakuma Line, a limited express train like the E257 series or a high-speed train such as the Class 395 in production for UK use.

This was largely a concept piece, following characters portrayed by Lennox, specifically one of a frustrated housewife-turned-vamp ( as exemplified in " Beethoven ( I Love to Listen To )", a UK top 30 hit ).

The VT fuze concept in the context of artillery shells originated in the UK with British researchers ( particularly Sir Samuel Curran and W. A. S. Butement, whose schematic design for a radar proximity fuze was used with only minor variations ) and was developed under the direction of physicist Merle A. Tuve at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab ( APL ).

Definitional problems in applying the concept to public policy are addressed, noting research in UK local government that concludes on the obstacles for organizational learning in the public sector: ( 1 ) overemphasis of the individual, ( 2 ) resistance to change and politics, ( 3 ) social learning is self-limiting, i. e. individualism, and ( 4 ) political " blame culture.

A related concept in the UK is the automatic spent conviction for certain less severe criminal offences, introduced in the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 ; the conviction is not actually made void, but is considered to be spent after a rehabilitation period, and need not be divulged in most circumstances.