The film, retitled The Ghost Writer for territories outside the UK, was shot in early 2009 in Berlin and on the island of Sylt in the North Sea, which stood in for London and Martha's Vineyard respectively, owing to Polanski's inability to travel legally to those places.

* 1995 Guest Writer, Yorkshire and Humberside Arts and Leeds University, UK

Hsu authored or edited over 20 books, many in multiple languages, and was elected an International Writer of the Year by the International Book Club ( Cambridge, UK ) in 2003.

Writer and music festival PR Alex Lee Thomson also presented a series of web based interviews for the brand during their sponsorship periods of Camden Crawl and The Great Escape festivals in the UK, while editing their music-based website.

The Business Department at the College has also won the CIMA Management Competition ( 3 times ), The Young Business Writer of the Year, The Share Forecast Challenge, Make Your Mark ( 2 times ), Student Investor ( 2 times ) and Young Enterprise, making it the most successful school in the UK in the field of business / enterprise competitions.

Polanski and Harris enjoyed working together so much that they re-teamed to adapt Harris's 2007 political thriller The Ghost, released in 2010 as The Ghost in the UK and Ireland, and as The Ghost Writer worldwide.

It was released as a B-side to " Paperback Writer " in the United States ( Capitol 5651 ) on 30 May 1966 and in the UK on 10 June 1966 ( Parlophone R5452 ), the single was later released part of a Record Store Day reissue in 2010.

The " Paperback Writer " single reached number one in the UK ( for two weeks starting on 23 June 1966 ).

* Stephen Baxter, Science & Science Fiction Writer, UK

The contractual problems that prevented the release of Donovan's music in the UK led him to write such songs as the resigned " Writer in the Sun ", where he contemplates the possibility of his own forced retirement from the music industry at the age of 20.

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.

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.

* UK National Guild of Jesters site

* National Guild of Jesters ( UK ) Hall of Fame.

* The Guild of Straw Craftsmen UK association for all aspects of straw craft

Since the late 19th century, fairgrounds in the UK have been run by a guild known as the Showmen's Guild of Great Britain.

In the UK, four trade associations that help to regulate the industry are the National Association of Chimney Sweeps, the Guild of Master Chimney Sweeps The Institute Of Chimney Sweeps and the Association of Professional Independent Chimney Sweeps

They are represented at the national level by professional organisations such as the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in the UK, the Pharmacy Guild of Australia ( PGA ), the American Pharmacists Association ( APhA ), and the Pakistan Pharmacists Society ( PPS ).

In the UK the renaissance of Marionettes during the late 19th and early 20th century was driven by W. H. Whanslaw and Waldo Lanchester, two of the co-founders of the British Puppet and Model Theatre Guild.

* Guild of Enamellers, UK

The show won Best Entertainment at the Broadcasting Press Guild Award and the Team Award from the Royal Television Society, UK in 1999.

* The Music Producers Guild ( UK )

Since his death, the Writers ' Guild of Great Britain and the Society of Authors have jointly administered the annual Tinniswood Award in his memory, to honour the best original radio drama script broadcast in the UK during the previous year, with a prize of £ 1500 awarded to the winner.

Each of them is holding a golden shovel to recognise the part played by the UK Chapter of the 5S in the formation of the Guild.

UK Guild members who achieve TV or film writing contracts in the US can join the Writers Guild of America without paying the usual $ 2, 500 initial fee.

In February 2011, Butterfly House was named UK Album of The Year 2010 at the Music Producers Guild Awards.

In 2004, Andrew Guyton, a guitar luthier from East Anglia in the UK, manufactured 50 copies of the Red Special: 40 in red to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the guitar, and 10 in green, as he had previously seen a Guild copy available in green and liked it.

The Scottish and Welsh higher education authorities took this opportunity to set up their own national arrangements, while in England QAA worked with the bodies representing higher education institutions ( Universities UK and Guild HE ) to devise a modified approach known as Institutional Audit.

Citizens UK has been promoting community organising in the UK since 1989 and has established the profession of Community Organiser through the Guild of Community Organisers teaching the disciplines of strategy and politics.

* 2011 -- Music Producers Guild for UK Album of Year by The Coral

Both house and garden are open to the public, and the garden in 2005 won the British Guild of Travel Writers ' ' Best UK Tourism Project ' award.

* The Casting Directors ' Guild ( UK & Ireland )