Sources: BBC
His Majesty's Prison Service begins releasing thousands of prisoners in England and Wales early amid a record high prison population and a shortage of prison cells for new inmates. 2024-09-10
Welsh singer and convicted sex offender Ian Watkins is stabbed and seriously injured in the Wakefield Prison. 2023-08-6
Wales moves to level zero, indicating that most restrictions, including social distancing measures, are lifted. This allows nightclubs to reopen and indoor meetings to be permitted, although masks remain mandatory in most public indoor locations. 2021-08-7
Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones announces his plans to step down this autumn. 2018-04-21
A private Twin Squirrel helicopter crashes in the Rhinog mountains of North Wales, killing all five people aboard. 2017-03-30
New research by a team of British archaeologists, published in the current issue of the journal "Antiquity", revives an older theory of Herbert Henry Thomas that Stonehenge may have stood in Wales hundreds of years before it was dismantled and transported to Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire in South West England. 2015-12-8
The two-day NATO summit in Newport, Wales, begins. Leaders agree to apply further sanctions on Russia. NATO sources claim that there are "several thousand" Russian troops inside Ukraine. 2014-09-4
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
Severe gales batter large parts of England, Northern Ireland and Wales with some bridges being closed. 2010-11-11
An international report finds its most noticeable example of racial profiling is that black people are 26 times more likely than white people to be searched by police in England and Wales; U.S. civil rights activist Jesse Jackson describes it as "astonishing". 2010-10-17