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The largest site of dinosaur footprints of the "Cetiosaurus" and "Megalosaurus" dating back to the Middle Jurassic Bathonian stage 166 million years ago is discovered at a quarry in Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
2025-01-2

The last coal-fired power station in the United Kingdom shuts down in Ratcliffe-on-Soar, Nottinghamshire, England, ending the 142-year history of coal-fired electricity in the UK.
2024-09-30

Six people, including two children, are killed in a multiple-vehicle collision in West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
2024-07-21

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

A man attacks people with a sword after crashing a car into a house in Hainault, London, England, United Kingdom, killing a 14-year-old boy and injuring four other people, including two police officers.
2024-04-30

The British government confirms that a case of the highly pathogenic H5N8 avian influenza has been found at a turkey farm in North Yorkshire, England. All 10,500 birds at the farm will be culled in order to limit the spread of the disease, according to Chief Veterinary Officer Christine Middlemiss.
2020-11-29

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

Sean Fitzgerald, 31, is shot dead by police officers during a raid on a house in Coventry, England, United Kingdom. Two 26-year-old men were arrested during the same raid, in connection with cannabis production.
2019-01-4

Scientists at Northumbria University in northeast England develop a computerized statistical model of the Sun's solar cycle (a measurement of the number of sunspots and solar flares, in this case between 1976 and 2008, and their intensity and activity). While preliminary, and not yet peer-reviewed, the data predicts irregularities in the cycle: the Northern Hemisphere could experience a slight lowering in temperatures in the 2030s.
2015-07-14

Children's TV presenter Holly Walsh breaks bones and dislocates a shoulder whilst leaping from a pier during a festival in Worthing, West Sussex, England, UK; the festival is briefly halted.
2010-08-15