Sources: BBC
Rioting occurs in Hartlepool, United Kingdom, reportedly in response to the Southport stabbing attack. At least eight people are arrested and a number of Cleveland Police officers are injured in the unrest. 2024-07-31
In association football, UEFA announces that the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland will host UEFA Euro 2028, while Italy and Turkey will host UEFA Euro 2032. 2023-10-10
Smoke from the Canadian wildfires is confirmed by satellite data to have reached the United Kingdom, according to the Met Office. 2023-06-29
Pro-Palestinian protesters storm the Queensway tunnel in the United Kingdom, disrupting traffic. 2021-05-14
Intu Properties, the owner and operator of the United Kingdom's largest shopping centres such as the MetroCentre and Lakeside Shopping Centre, collapses into administration, following months of lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 2020-06-26
UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid announces plans to ban the political wing of the Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah under counterterrorism legislation. 2019-02-25
Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo, who has been incarcerated in China for organizing the pro-democracy manifesto "Charter 08," is suffering from late-stage liver cancer which is worsening. The Chinese hospital treating him and foreign doctors, who examined Liu the weekend, disagree on future treatment. Germany, the United States, UK, and other countries have appealed that Liu be allowed to go to the hospital of his choice. 2017-07-12
A national alert is issued in the United Kingdom about a strain of gonorrhea that is highly drug resistant after 15 cases are reported in northern England. 2015-09-18
The United Kingdom Professional Footballers' Association votes Wayne Rooney as "player of the year". 2010-04-25