Sources: BBC
An explosion at a house in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, kills at least two people and injures six others. An investigation to determine the cause of the explosion by the Health and Safety Executive is underway. 2024-10-16
Wild European bison are reintroduced to the United Kingdom for the first time in over a thousand years after three are released into a pine forest in Kent, England. 2022-07-18
41 people are injured when a coach overturns in Kent, England, United Kingdom. 2018-08-13
London police end their three-year long, round-the-clock guard outside the Ecuadorian Embassy waiting to arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Officers have been stationed at this embassy since June 2012. Police said the operation cost 11.1 million pounds (17.6 million dollars) through April 2015. Assange is wanted for jumping bail in England and sexual assault allegations in Sweden. Assange denies the Swedish charges and suspects the real reason is to bring him to the U.S. 2015-10-12
The skeleton of a girl thought to have been stabbed to death by Roman soldiers is discovered in Kent, England, UK. 2011-04-28
The United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office is investigating claims that a man from the English city of Manchester has been killed in the 2011 Libyan civil war. 2011-03-4
More than fifty inmates at the Moorlands Young Offenders Institution in South Yorkshire, England, riot for the second successive night. 2010-11-4
The Thanet Wind Farm, the world's largest offshore wind farm, opens off the southeast coast of Thanet district in Kent, England. 2010-09-24
Eurotunnel has "apologised profusely" after train passengers brought to Calais, France, through the Channel Tunnel are locked into their carriages upon arrival and immediately returned to Kent, England. 2010-08-4
Police in England respond to a security alert on a Dubai-bound flight from London Heathrow Airport. 2010-01-8