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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

Viking Link, the world's longest submarine power cable, a joint venture between the United Kingdom's National Grid and Denmark's Energinet, is completed. The HVDC interconnector will supply around 1.4 million homes in the UK with electricity.
2023-09-5

The British clinical trials ethics body approves the world's first COVID-19 human challenge study, which will begin in the next few weeks. Volunteers aged 18 to 30 will be exposed to the virus in the trial.
2021-02-17

The United Kingdom reports 33,470 new cases, a new single-day record since the pandemic began, taking the nationwide total to 1.29 million cases.
2020-11-12

The Supreme Court of Thailand upholds death sentences against two migrant workers convicted of murdering two UK tourists and raping one. Rights groups say that the men are scapegoats and tortured into false confessions by police under pressure to solve the crimes, which attracted international attention.
2019-08-29

The Coca-Cola Company agrees to buy British multinational coffeehouse Costa Coffee for £3.9 billion.
2018-08-31

Stansted Airport in the United Kingdom reopens after a shuttle bus fire.
2018-03-31

Michael Edwards becomes the first British writer elected at the Académie française.
2013-02-21

Police in the UK arrest three men in connection with the alleged mislabelling of food.
2013-02-14

Officials in Kenya say that two Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards arrested with explosives planned to attack Israeli, American, British and Saudi Arabian targets inside Kenya.
2012-07-2