Sources: BBC
The 76th British Academy Film Awards are held in London, with the German film "All Quiet on the Western Front" winning the most awards with seven, including Best Film. 2023-02-19
A massive power failure affects most of the northwestern and southeastern United Kingdom and London, leaving thousands of homes, various train lines, and parts of Newcastle International Airport without power. 2019-08-9
The Central Criminal Court in London jails Kane Gamble, 18, for two years for unlawfully accessing CIA, FBI and United States Department of Justice databases and phone and email accounts of senior US intelligence officials. 2018-04-20
Qantas Airways Flight QF9 becomes the first ever regularly scheduled non-stop flight between Australia and Europe after making the 17-hour journey from Perth to London. 2018-03-25
A fire on April 1 that disrupted power and internet access throughout London is now suspected to have been part of a robbery at the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company. 2015-04-9
Prince Philip is admitted to a London hospital for an exploratory operation. 2013-06-5
Secretary of State for Transport Justine Greening gives the go-ahead for HS2, a £33bn high-speed rail line that will eventually link several major cities in the United Kingdom to London and enabling quicker journey times. 2012-01-10
26 people are arrested while protesting their government's pension cuts in London as clashes and the controversial police tactic of kettling get underway. 2011-06-30
Irish republican dissidents have issued a bomb threat for London, the first coded warning outside Northern Ireland in 10 years, officials have said. 2011-05-16
Libyan rebels arrest Omar Ahmed Sodani, the man believed responsible for the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan embassy in London in 1984. 2011-03-25