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Whois.nic.uk is picky about the carriage return/line feed when submitting a query, maybe try messing around with those. Can't really advise anymore as you're basically providing zero information - error messages etc ???
Also, you're gonna catch jack all with whois.nic.uk, you're limited to 1000 queries a day against the dacs 432000!!