Sources: BBC
Serial killer Lucy Letby is convicted of an attempted murder in a retrial at Manchester Crown Court in Manchester, England. 2024-07-2
Two Just Stop Oil activists film themselves cutting through a metal fence and spraying orange paint on two private jets at Stansted Airport in Essex, England, United Kingdom. Police arrest the activists for criminal damage. 2024-06-20
The Met Office confirms that England is experiencing its worst drought since 1976, particularly in South East England. 2022-07-26
Health Secretary Sajid Javid announces that frontline NHS workers in England will be required to be vaccinated beginning in April 2022 in order to keep their jobs or risk being fired. 2021-11-9
The driver of the lorry in which 39 Vietnamese migrants were found dead in Grays, Essex, England, pleads guilty to conspiring to assist unlawful immigration. 2019-11-25
A fire destroys the historic Royal Clarence Hotel in Exeter, Devon, which is described as the oldest hotel in England. 2016-10-28
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
A new Neptune-sized exoplanet is discovered by an amateur astronomer in Peterborough, England. 2012-01-18
Hundreds of thousands of people march in London, England against government budget cuts with the protests later turning violent. 2011-03-26
Official documents say the United Kingdom's government considered denying the Korea DPR national football team visas to attend the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England for fear of "diplomatic shockwaves" brought on by Communism. 2010-06-13