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Yes and no. The UK is a mix of imperial and metric. Stone is still used for mass/weight (mostly weighing people), miles for driving, but metric for most other things. Which leads to fuel being sold in liters, but efficiency being measured using mpg.

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Stone is now a 'folk' measure. People still think in them and use them, but all 'official' uses (health records, for example) are kilograms.

There are still a handful of official uses of imperial. Miles for driving, as you say, pints for draught beer etc. in pubs, miles and chains for railway distances, maybe a few others. More cases where the labels but not the size have changed, like 568g jars of jam.

The only even quasi-official use of the stone is in horse racing (to measure the weight carried by the horse in a handicap race), which is also IIRC the last surviving use of the furlong.

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