Sources: BBC
Two British aid workers are killed during a humanitarian evacuation from Soledar in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. 2023-01-24
Jack Letts, a British-Canadian Islamic State fighter held in Syria, faces deportion from Syria to Canada instead of the United Kingdom. 2018-10-6
Italy's highest court acquits American Amanda Knox and Italian Raffaele Sollecito of the murder of Briton Meredith Kercher. 2015-03-27
Former British radio DJ Ray Teret is jailed for 25 years for a series of sexual assaults on 11 girls in the 1960s and 1970s conducted in association with Jimmy Savile. 2014-12-11
Islamic State release a video purporting to be from British journalist John Cantlie as propaganda. 2014-09-18
British and American actress Joan Fontaine, best known for her two roles under Alfred Hitchcock ("Rebecca", "Suspicion"), and the sister of Olivia de Havilland, dies at the age of 96. 2013-12-15
British comedian Jim Davidson is arrested for alleged historic sexual assaults. 2013-01-2
Retired British businessman Christopher Tappin is denied bail in the US state of Texas as he faces arms dealing charges. 2012-03-6
TVNZ "Breakfast" broadcaster Paul Henry questions Prime Minister John Key about whether New Zealand's ethnic minority Governor-General Anand Satyanand, representative of Queen Elizabeth II, is a proper New Zealander. Henry has previously described singer Susan Boyle as "retarded" and homosexuality as "unnatural", though the state-owned broadcaster defends him, furthering the controversy. 2010-10-4
Several British Muslim writers speak out about "Prime Suspect" writer Lynda La Plante's complaint against the BBC regarding how much more difficult it is to have her scripts commissioned than it would be for a "little Muslim boy". 2010-01-3