The bodies of two disabled people are found in Roadford Lake, near Okehampton, Devon, England, a day after their boat capsized on the lake. Four others are in hospital, with one in critical condition. 2022-06-9
Archeologists at Stonehenge pinpoint the origin of the structure's large Sarsen stones to a site 25 km north near Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. 2020-07-29
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
The owner of "Cheeki Rafiki", a yacht that capsized in the Atlantic in 2014 with the loss of four lives, is given a suspended sentence in England for the accident. He was earlier convicted of operating the vessel unsafely but acquitted of manslaughter. 2018-05-11
Australian entertainer Rolf Harris is convicted in London, England, of 12 counts of indecent assault against young girls between 1968 and 1986. The 84-year-old is to be sentenced on Friday 4 July. 2014-06-30
Delegates, among them billionaire businessmen, royalty and elected politicians, arrive in England for the 61st summit of the annual Bilderberg Group at The Grove, Watford. 2013-06-6
Voters in England and the Isle of Anglesey in Wales go to the polls for local elections. 2013-05-2
Britain's top GCHQ code-breakers say they are stumped by a secret code found on the leg of a dead pigeon that was found in a chimney in Surrey, England, with a message from World War II attached. 2012-11-23
Five people are arrested near the Sellafield nuclear power plant in Cumbria, England, under the Terrorism Act. 2011-05-3
12 people are wounded in a seven-vehicle pile-up on the M6 motorway near Rugby in Warwickshire, England. 2010-04-1