Sources: BBC
The English Court of Appeal rules that the government may continue housing asylum seekers in a hotel in Epping, Essex, overturning a previous order to relocate them. 2025-08-29
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 historic Sycamore Gap Tree in Northumberland, England, United Kingdom, also known as the "Robin Hood"-tree, is illegally cut down. A 16-year-old boy is arrested. 2023-09-28
Three people are killed in two stabbings and three others are injured in a vehicle-ramming attack in Nottingham, England. Police arrest a 31-year-old West African man in connection with the attacks. 2023-06-13
England begins to implement mandatory mask wearing in shops, banks, post offices and hairdressers, as well as on public transport as part of targeted measures to reduce the spread of the Omicron variant. 2021-11-30
The COVID-19 critical care NHS Nightingale Hospital Birmingham is opened inside the National Exhibition Centre in Solihull, England. It can treat up to 4,000 COVID-19 patients. 2020-04-16
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
Inmates at E Wing of HMYOI Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England, riot, injuring four prison officers. A woman claiming to be an inmate's partner says the riot was in response to the inmates being housed "en masse" in solitary confinement without association with other prisoners for at least a week. 2018-04-15
Voters in England and the Isle of Anglesey in Wales go to the polls for local elections. 2013-05-2
2011 English protests: Thousands of protesters demonstrate against cuts and increases in tuition fees in England; police escort student leader Aaron Porter away in Manchester amid calls from protesters for his resignation. 2011-01-29