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A car driving in the wrong direction collides with another car on the M6 motorway in Cumbria, England, killing five people, including two children and seriously injuring another.
2024-10-15

Sheffield City Council have declared a major incident as the natural gas network outage affecting thousands of properties in Sheffield, England enters its sixth day. Many residents still have no heating in their homes and temperatures are forecast to drop below 0°C in the coming days.
2022-12-7

An outbreak of the H5 bird flu is reported at a small poultry unit near Alcester, Warwickshire, England. The infected birds will be culled.
2021-11-8

A man is killed and 10 others are injured in stabbing attacks in Croydon, London, England.
2021-02-5

The statue of Edward Colston, a 17th-century slave trader, is pulled down by anti-racism demonstrators and thrown into Bristol Harbour, England.
2020-06-7

Global warming protesters glue themselves to a road near the Port of Dover in England, blocking it. Police arrest ten people, believed to be members of Extinction Rebellion. Further scheduled protests take place in a dedicated area set up by police.
2019-09-21

Four neo-Nazis are convicted of attempting to incite racial hatred at Aston University in England by carrying out a sticker recruitment campaign for National Action. A fifth is acquitted and sentencing alongside two other convicts is set for June 1. National Action has since been banned as a terror group.
2018-05-9

A large scale international cyber-attack using the WannaCry ransomware package disrupts computer and telephone systems in thousands of cases across 99 countries. Affected organisations include: England's NHS, with doctors reporting messages demanding money; MegaFon and Sberbank in Russia; Telefónica, Iberdrola, and Gas Natural in Spain; and FedEx.
2017-05-12

Two young brothers and a woman are killed motor car accident on the northbound carriageway of the M6 motorway in Staffordshire, England.
2012-12-25

English singer and musician Phil Collins announces his retirement due to health concerns.
2011-03-6