Sources: BBC
Two passenger trains collide head-on at Talerddig, Powys, Wales, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others. 2024-10-21
The bodies of four missing teenagers are found in an overturned car near Tremadog, Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom. 2023-11-21
Interpol announces its first successful identification for Operation Identify Me. A murder victim found in a river in Antwerp, Belgium in 1992 is identified as a woman from Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. 2023-11-14
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
The United Kingdom posthumously pardons around 49,000 gay and bisexual men found guilty of decades-old sodomy laws in England and Wales. Those still living can apply for a statutory pardon. 2017-01-31
Tata Steel is to cut 1,050 jobs in the United Kingdom, with the majority going in South Wales. The Indian multinational steel-making company announced there will be 750 job losses at its Port Talbot Steelworks in Port Talbot, Wales while another 300 jobs will go at its plants in Corby and Hartlepool in England. 2016-01-18
The storm hits England and Wales, causing at least one death with flights and train services cancelled. 2013-10-28
A court in Mold, Wales, finds Mark Bridger guilty of abducting and murdering five-year-old April Jones in October 2012. 2013-05-30
A farming alert is issued in Wales as an outbreak of Schmallenberg virus affects livestock in at least 74 farms in England. 2012-02-27
United Kingdom - Sarah's Law, a scheme which allows parents to check if someone with access to their children is a sex offender, will be extended to cover the whole of England and Wales by Spring 2011 after proving successful in four pilot areas. 2010-08-1