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Several suspected cases of mpox clade 1b are reported in Somerset, England, United Kingdom.
2024-08-21

A World War II-era bomb weighing around 250kg explodes while being defused in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. No injuries are reported.
2023-02-10

Jet pilot Andy Hill, accused of eleven counts of manslaughter over a 2015 crash at Shoreham Airshow in England, makes an initial Magistrates' Court appearance. He indicates he will deny the charges and the case is transferred to Crown Court.
2018-04-19

The Rolling Stones are to headline Glastonbury Festival 2013 in Pilton, Somerset, England.
2013-03-27

French sources find traces of phenylbutazone, a suspected harmful drug, in several horse carcasses slaughtered in Somerset, England, and fear they could be part of lasagne or other food sold in France.
2013-02-14

A 27-vehicle traffic collision on the M5 Motorway, near Taunton in the English county of Somerset, results in at least 7 deaths, 35 injuries and the closure of the motorway.
2011-11-4

The skeleton of a girl thought to have been stabbed to death by Roman soldiers is discovered in Kent, England, UK.
2011-04-28

Researchers from London's Natural History Museum claim that ancient skulls found in Gough's Cave in the Cheddar Gorge in the southwestern English county of Somerset show signs of cannibalism.
2011-02-16

More than fifty inmates at the Moorlands Young Offenders Institution in South Yorkshire, England, riot for the second successive night.
2010-11-4

A police officer discharges a 50,000-volt Taser gun into the groin of a Guillain–Barré syndrome sufferer in Somerset, England, prompting a possible legal battle; he denies he was acting in an aggressive manner.
2010-07-20