Sources: BBC
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
A three-year-long independent inquiry into child sexual exploitation finds that over 1,000 children in Telford, Shropshire, England, were sexually exploited beginning in the 1980s. Teachers and youth workers were discouraged from reporting child sexual abuse and police were nervous that investigating the abusers would inflame racial tensions. 2022-07-12
England reports a record 162,572 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. 2022-01-1
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 British government announces that France will be removed from England's "amber plus" category, meaning that fully-vaccinated travellers will no longer need to quarantine. Additionally, seven other countries will be added to the "green list" category. These changes will be in effect beginning August 8 at 4:00 a.m. 2021-08-4
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
More than 215 people have been arrested in London, England since the riots began. 2011-08-8
MPs called for a "wide-ranging and independent inquiry" after G4S agents restrain and suffocate Jimmy Mubenga during his deportation from England. 2010-10-15
Archaeologists claim they have located Britain's oldest house near Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. 2010-08-10