If you mean Bank of England £1 notes, it was much closer to 30 years ago. £1 coins were introduced in 1983, not initially to great acclaim, because people didn't much like the royal coat of arms design on the back rather than the size and weight of it, which is why they introduced the idea of changing the design every year between each of the constituent nations in turn. The Bank of England stopped issuing £1 notes in 1984 and withdrew them all from circulation in 1988 (though if you still have one you can still get it exchanged for current money at face value by returning it to the bank, as you can for any note it has issued since 1695).

Yes, you'd have to explain to your kid what a slide rule was!

Unfortunately for us British TV viewers, the regulators of the main broadcast commercial channels (ITV, Channel 4, Five) sneaked in an announcement this week that from Monday 28th February the maximum amount of commercials allowed will increase from 7 to 12 minutes per hour. :( Fortunately we still have the BBC.

Actually the ratings were very respectable for BBC2:-
1st night : 3.393 million, 11.7% share
2nd night: 3.048 million, 11.8% share
3rd night: 2.706 million, 11.3% share,
plus about an extra 200,000 each night watching on BBC HD. The BBC views it as success, so expect something similar in the future.

Of course, the way the English system operates, because he was jailed for 18 weeks he'll be paroled in 9 weeks.

No, those were on the Tokyo subway, not the high speed network.

A popular beat combo, M'Lud.

They treat American law as a joke, which they are quite entitled to do so since it has no applicability in the Kingdom of Sweden, and frankly it is a joke anyway. As far as I can see, they treat Swedish law perfectly seriously.

Err, no it's not. QC = Queen's Counsel.

How many EULAs have you actually read before you clicked "accept", then? :)

Except that HMQ or HMK hasn't told them to do that in the last 300 years.