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
Heathrow Airport in London, England, closes for most of the day due to a "significant power outage" resulting from a fire at an electrical substation in nearby Hayes. At least 1,351 flights are affected by the shutdown, with many diverted to alternative airports or returning to their origin airport. 2025-03-21
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
An outbreak of the H5 bird flu is reported at a small poultry unit near Alcester, Warwickshire, England. The infected birds will be culled. 2021-11-8
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
Eight inmates are acquitted of prison mutiny while one is convicted over a riot at HMP Birmingham in England described by the Prison Officers' Association as the worst violence they had seen for over 25 years. 2018-05-3
A fire severely damages the 16th century Wythenshawe Hall, near Manchester, England. 2016-03-15
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 Rolling Stones are to headline Glastonbury Festival 2013 in Pilton, Somerset, England. 2013-03-27
British government plans for the introduction of directly elected police commissioners in England and Wales are defeated with the help of Liberal Democrat peers in the House of Lords. 2011-05-11