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Storm Babet impacts the United Kingdom, bringing gale force winds and heavy rains, killing two people in Angus, Scotland, and another person in Shropshire, England. The crew of a Danish fishing trawler is rescued by the RNLI in the North Sea.
2023-10-19

The UK's National Trust says that an outbreak of bird flu on the Farne Islands in the North Sea has killed over 3,000 wild birds. However, the actual death toll is estimated to be around ten times higher because birds may have fallen into the sea.
2022-07-25

Scottish Transport secretary Michael Matheson announces that all people who arrive from outside the UK and Ireland will be charged £1,750 for “managed quarantine” at one of six hotels at Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow airports.
2021-02-9

Two men are found guilty at London's Old Bailey of the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese people whom they were smuggling into the UK. The 39 people suffocated in a lorry during the journey across the North Sea, from Zeebrugge to Purfleet, in October 2019.
2020-12-21

Scotland's Court of Session fines Greenpeace £80,000 for breaching an injunction against the occupation of a Transocean oil rig in the North Sea.
2020-07-3

A United States Air Force 48th Fighter Wing F-15 Eagle based at RAF Lakenheath, England crashes into the North Sea, 74 mi off the East Yorkshire coast, killing the pilot.
2020-06-15

The High Court in Glasgow sentences Banff resident Connor Ward to life in prison with a minimum term of six years for plotting an anti-Islamic terror attack against mosques in Aberdeen.
2018-04-12

Royal Air Force Typhoons intercept two Russian Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bombers heading towards UK airspace over the North Sea.
2016-02-17

Vehicle carrier "Baltic Ace" sinks in the North Sea after collision with a container ship with at least four people dead and seven missing.
2012-12-5

A ruptured oil pipeline is discovered near Gannet Alpha platform, run by Shell 113 miles from Aberdeen, Scotland.
2011-08-13