England records a record wind gust of 122 mph (196 kmh) on the Isle of Wight in the English Channel. 2022-02-18
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announces that the government will reduce the length of quarantines for people who arrive in England from other countries to five days beginning December 15, if they pay for a COVID-19 test. 2020-11-24
Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveils a new three-tier restrictions system aimed to simplify the range of different restrictions already in place across various parts of England. The Local COVID Alert Levels ("medium", "high", and "very high") will be implemented in different areas depending on local infection rates. 2020-10-12
Bob Weighton, aged 111, of Alton, Hampshire, England, is named the oldest living man in the world after the death of Chitetsu Watanabe of Japan at the age of 112. 2020-02-26
Six people are injured after a car ploughs into Eid al-Fitr worshippers in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Police do not believe terrorism is involved. 2017-06-25
Scientists at Northumbria University in northeast England develop a computerized statistical model of the Sun's solar cycle (a measurement of the number of sunspots and solar flares, in this case between 1976 and 2008, and their intensity and activity). While preliminary, and not yet peer-reviewed, the data predicts irregularities in the cycle: the Northern Hemisphere could experience a slight lowering in temperatures in the 2030s. 2015-07-14
Health experts warn that the National Health Service in England is "not ready for" major changes passed in 2012 that go into effect today. 2013-04-1
Film director and newspaper columnist Michael Winner dies aged 77 in Kensington, London, England. 2013-01-21
A 2,500-year-old preserved human brain dating from the Iron Age is found in Heslington in the English city of York. 2011-03-28
Hundreds of thousands of people march in London, England against government budget cuts with the protests later turning violent. 2011-03-26