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You can, as I have. However whilst the iTunes stores works the app store won't and therefore you will need to download all your apps via your desktop and load sync them tom your iPad.

This also means though that you will only have access to whatever iPad apps are available on the uk app store which is nit as many as on the us one. No works for example!
 
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