Sources: BBC
The House of Commons of the United Kingdom votes 348–228 to end the Winter Fuel Payment for 10 million pensioners in England and Wales after Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned that the scheme was no longer affordable to be applied universally. 2024-09-10
Flash flooding kills 21 people in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. 2023-12-30
The Cabinet Office announces that eight British towns will become cities as part of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee. The new cities are Milton Keynes, Colchester, and Doncaster in England, Dunfermline in Scotland, Wrexham in Wales, and Bangor in Northern Ireland, as well as Stanley, Falkland Islands, and Douglas, Isle of Man, which become the first towns in the British Overseas Territories and the Crown Dependencies, respectively, to receive city status. 2022-05-20
Flash flooding and landslides caused by torrential rains kill at least 19 people and leave hundreds more homeless in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. This brings the total death toll from flooding in the country to more than 50 people since the start of the wet season. 2022-01-31
At least 41 people are killed by flash flooding and tornados in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and New Jersey as the remnants of Ida pass over the Northeastern United States. 2021-09-2
Flash flooding kills at least 60 people and leaves several others missing in Kamdesh, Afghanistan, amid torrential rains. 2021-07-29
Wales begins to ease their first step of lockdown restrictions, with "stay-at-home" replaced by "stay local". According to new rules, four people from two households can meet outside and outdoor sports can be resumed. 2021-03-13
Flash floods brought by torrential rains in northeastern Afghanistan kill at least 100 people in Charikar, Parwan Province, Afghanistan, with at least 300 houses in the area destroyed. The Ministry of Disaster Management has also reported some casualties and destruction of infrastructure in the provinces of Kapisa, Maidan Wardak, Nangarhar, Paktia, and Panjshir. 2020-08-26
48 people are rescued from a boat which was taking on water after it collided with a rock off the coast of Pembrokeshire, Wales. 2013-05-25
A British government diplomat calls the United States Department of State to draw "attention to our concerns over Bradley Manning", the Welsh-born U.S. serviceman imprisoned by the U.S. military in solitary confinement and forced to sleep naked, conditions condemned by Amnesty International, the American Civil Liberties Union and British MPs among others. 2011-04-7