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Sport is an important part of British culture, and numerous sports originated in the country including cricket, football, tennis and rugby. [6] The UK has been described as a "cultural superpower", [7] [8] and London has been described as a world cultural capital. [9] [10] A global opinion poll for the BBC saw the UK ranked the third most positively viewed nation in the world (behind Germany ...
Fatality rate. 11.62%. Government website. 'Coronavirus (COVID-19): latest information and advice' at www.gov.uk [nb 3] The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic spread to the United Kingdom in late January 2020. As of 30 April 2024, 24,918,627 cases of COVID-19 have been reported, and 232,112 people have died of COVID-19. [4]
The office was created on 2 September 2020 through the merger of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Department for International Development (DFID). [2] The FCO was itself created in 1968 by the merger of the Foreign Office (FO) and the Commonwealth Office. The department in its various forms is responsible for representing and promoting British interests worldwide.
Wikimedia UK started out as Wiki Educational Resources Limited (WER), but due to financial difficulties and other problems the organisation dissolved, and was replaced by Wiki UK Limited. After its first attempt to gain charitable status in 2009 failed, the group subsequently made changes to its charter in order to satisfy the charity criteria, and was recognised as a registered charity in ...
The European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total English-speaking population of the European Union and the United Kingdom combined (2012) is 256,876,220 [64] (out of a total population of 500,000,000, [65] i.e. 51%) including 65,478,252 native speakers and 191,397,968 non-native speakers, and would be ranked 2nd if it were included. English native speakers ...
From 1801, following the Acts of Union, until 1922 the whole island of Ireland was a country within the UK. Ireland was split into two separate jurisdictions in 1921, becoming Southern Ireland and Northern Ireland. Pursuant to the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the institutions of the revolutionary Irish Republic were assimilated into Southern Ireland, which then became the Irish Free State and left the ...
A century after the 1871 act, the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 (c. 80), which currently regulates bank holidays in the UK, was passed. [12] The majority of the current bank holidays were specified in the 1971 Act: however New Year's Day and May Day were not introduced throughout the whole of the UK until 1974 and 1978 respectively. [13] The date of the August bank holiday was ...
