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    Sport in the United Kingdom plays an important role in British culture and the United Kingdom has played a significant role in the organisation and spread...
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  • Football is the most popular sport in the United Kingdom. Football is organised on a separate basis in each of the four constituent countries, England...
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    Sports in the United States are an important part of the nation's culture. Historically, the national sport has been baseball. However, in more recent...
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    Motorsport is a popular sport in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom is a key player in the world of motorsport, hosting rounds of Formula One and MotoGP...
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  • Paralympic sport in the United Kingdom. It is an executive non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. It was...
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    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off...
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    Cheerleading is a sport that is practised all throughout the world, with increasing popularity within the United Kingdom. Cheerleading has over 89,000...
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  • Baseball is a growing minor sport in the United Kingdom, with an estimated 22,500 people playing in 2020. The sport is governed by the British Baseball Federation...
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    The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the United Kingdom: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland – sovereign...
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    In the United Kingdom, gun ownership is considered a privilige, not a right, and access by the general public to firearms is subject to strict control...
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    The United Kingdom national football team are a football team that represents the United Kingdom. Despite football being the most popular sport in the...
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    Since 1922, the United Kingdom has been made up of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales (which collectively make up Great Britain) and Northern Ireland...
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    Greyhound racing is a sport in the United Kingdom. The industry uses a parimutuel betting tote system with on-course and off-course betting available....
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    The 2024 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 4 July 2024, to elect 650 members of Parliament to the House of Commons, the lower house...
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    Union 1801, which united the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland (previously in personal union) to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain...
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    Government of the United Kingdom, with overall responsibility for strategy and policy across the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The incumbent is...
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  • The Minister for Sport and Civil Society was a junior minister in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport of the United Kingdom government...
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    Universities and Colleges Sport, commonly abbreviated as BUCS, is the governing body for higher education sport in the United Kingdom. BUCS is responsible...
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  • In the United Kingdom, public holidays are days on which most businesses and non-essential services are closed. Many retail businesses (especially the...
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    today lie in the codification of many traditional games, especially in the United Kingdom. However, a paradoxical feature of European sport is the extent...
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    The United Kingdom is an ethnically diverse society. The largest ethnic group in the United Kingdom is White British, followed by Asian British. Ethnicity...
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  • There are many venues in the United Kingdom where a variety of national and international sport, musical and entertainment acts perform. Glastonbury Festival...
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  • Events from the year 2024 in the United Kingdom. This year is noted for a landslide general election victory for the Labour Party under Keir Starmer. Monarch...
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  • TNT Sports (formerly BT Sport) is a group of pay television sports channels in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Now owned by Warner Bros. Discovery and...
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  • in the United Kingdom began when it was introduced to Oxford in the late 18th century. The first known race at a university took place at Oxford in 1815...
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    Cannabis in the United Kingdom is illegal for recreational use and is classified as a Class B drug. In 2004, the United Kingdom made cannabis a Class C...
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    In the United Kingdom's 2024 general election, 650 members of Parliament were elected to the country's House of Commons – one for each parliamentary constituency...
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  • in Manchester Sport in Nottingham Sport in Sheffield Sport in Sussex Sport in the United Kingdom "History of baseball exposed". BBC News. 11 September...
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    target sport of European origin, from which the modern sport of nine-pin bowling is descended. In regions of the United Kingdom and Ireland the game remains...
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  • Gambling in the United Kingdom is regulated by the Gambling Commission on behalf of the government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)...
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