Sources: BBC
Three children are killed and ten other people are injured in a mass stabbing at a dance school in Southport, Merseyside, England. A teenager is subsequently arrested. 2024-07-29
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
A suspect arrested in 2019 for the deaths of 39 Vietnamese illegal immigrants in a lorry in southern England has been formally charged with 39 counts of manslaughter and conspiracy to assist illegal immigration. 2022-10-29
Seventeen people are injured in a derailment and crash between two trains near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. 2021-10-31
England and Scotland begin the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines for children between the ages of 12 and 15 as part of an expansion of their vaccination programme in order to protect more people from COVID-19 during the winter. 2021-09-20
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
Liu Xiaoming, Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom, announces he has sent a team to Essex to verify the identities of the 39 bodies found in a lorry this week, who are thought by UK authorities to be Chinese nationals. Post-mortems are due to begin today. The Northern Irish driver remains in police custody, suspected of murder. 2019-10-25
Storm Brian, the third windstorm of the season, causes severe flash flooding in Ireland and coastal flooding in parts of England and Wales, although disruption is not as severe as initially expected. 2017-10-21
The storm hits England and Wales, causing at least one death with flights and train services cancelled. 2013-10-28
Five people are arrested near the Sellafield nuclear power plant in Cumbria, England, under the Terrorism Act. 2011-05-3