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.

Moves toward Voluntary Self Regulation in the UK hypnotherapy field have led to the formation of a unitary National Register.

The politics of Trinidad and Tobago function within the framework of a unitary state regulated by a parliamentary democracy modelled on that of the UK, from which the country gained its independence in 1962.

The UK is therefore a unitary state with a devolved system of government.

The phrase " unitary authority " is not used in Scottish legislation ( whether from the Scottish Parliament or the UK Parliament ), although the term is encountered ( used either descriptively or erroneously ) in publications and in ( usually erroneous ) use by United Kingdom government departments.

Eugene Wigner showed that a symmetry operation S of a Hamiltonian is represented, in quantum mechanics either by a unitary operator, S = U, or an antiunitary one, S = UK where U is unitary, and K denotes complex conjugation.

Sandhurst has representation through several tiers of government-town council, unitary authority, parliamentary ( UK and European ).

During the 1990s UK local government reform, the Banham Commission suggested uniting Richmondshire, Hambleton, Ryedale, and Scarborough districts in a new unitary authority called North Riding of Yorkshire.

It merged with the other Medway towns ( in the City of Rochester-upon-Medway district ) in 1998 under the 1990s UK local government reform, to become part of the Medway unitary authority.

The area falls within the modern administrative county ( and unitary authority ) of Denbighshire and much of it lies within the Vale of Clwyd UK Parliamentary constituency

Wikipedians that live in or are associated with Highland, the unitary authority in Scotland ; and other participants in the Scottish Wikipedians ' notice board and UK Wikipedians ' notice board.

In the UK the term local elections refers to county, unitary authority, borough, district, city, town and parish elections.

BOEN is a vehicle for governments and heads of state to invest in UK companies ( subject to approval from the Secretary of State ), providing they undertake " not to influence the affairs of the company ".

However, in the last couple of years the British graffiti scene has been struck by self-titled ' art terrorist ' Banksy, who has revolutionized the style of UK graffiti ( bringing to the forefront stencils to aid the speed of painting ) as well as the content ; making his work largely satirical of the sociological state of cities, or the political climate of war, often using monkeys and rats as motifs.

In parliamentary systems the head of state may be merely the nominal chief executive officer of the state, possessing executive power ( hence the description of the monarch's governments in the UK Commonwealth realms as His / Her Majesty's Government ; a term indicating that all power belongs to the sovereign and the government acts on Her Majesty's behalf, not parliament's ).

Patient information leaflets included in packs of UK methadone tablets state that the tablets are for oral use only and that use by any other route can cause serious harm.

Cambridge, UK: CUP Archive, 1973, pp 10 </ ref > Discussions on the current state of communism and abstract ideas such as freedom and identity were also becoming more common ; soon, non-party publications began appearing, such as the trade union daily < i > Prace </ i > ( Labour ).

United States president George W. Bush fulfilled his lifetime ambition of visiting a ' genuine British pub ' during his November 2003 state visit to the UK when he had lunch and a pint of non-alcoholic lager with British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the Dun Cow pub in Sedgefield, County Durham.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, or UK, is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe.

Until 1982, the main civil telecommunications system in the UK was a state monopoly known ( since reorganisation in 1969 ) as Post Office Telecommunications.

UK ( or U. K .) is a common abbreviation for the United Kingdom ( of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ), an island country and soveign state in northwestern Europe.

A UK newspaper, The Independent reported that on 6 April 2010 a 59-year-old man from rural Victoria state was mauled by a wombat ( thought to have been angered by mange ) causing a number of cuts and bite marks requiring hospital treatment.

State Visit became available for download in both it's raw state and a second version, painstakingly restored frame by frame by a user of the UKNova web site which has, due to pressure from FACT, been forced to close, in August 2012 resulting in a major loss of UK vintage television archives.

In 1934, the Air Ministry set up a committee chaired by Sir Henry Tizard to advance the state of the art of air defence in the UK.

He also worked for Doordarshan-the state owned Indian TV and was deputed to BBC in UK for a year long training after which he spent some time in France and also what was then West Germany.

Individuals that have worked in the UK and have paid certain levels of national insurance deductions can expect an income from the state pension scheme after their normal retirement.

The anonymous sleeve notes on the 1960 RCA ( UK ) album Handful of Keys state that Waller copyrighted over 400 new songs, many of which co-written with his closest collaborator Andy Razaf.

The system of vocational education in the UK initially developed independently of the state, with bodies such as the RSA and City & Guilds setting examinations for technical subjects.

It is an offence to advertise in the UK, gambling that physically takes place in a non-European Economic Area ( EEA ), or in the case of gambling by remote means, gambling which is not regulated by the gambling laws of an EEA state.

* In the apocalyptic horror film 28 Days Later ( 2002 ), directed by Danny Boyle, the newspaper was one of the last printed papers in the UK, informing Londoners about a deadly epidemic sweeping the country as well as that the city was to be evacuated and the Prime Minister had declared a state of emergency.

* The introduction of an “ employment premium ” ( 2002 ), similar to tax credits in the UK and US, providing a state subsidy to low-wage earners.

So the Crown may not veto ( nor the UK Parliament overturn ) any act of a state governor or state legislature.