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Multinational car manufacturing company Stellantis announces that it will close its van-production factory in Luton, England, putting 1,100 jobs at risk, citing the UK's economic conditions and the government's zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate as reasons for its closure.
2024-11-26

The Southwark Crown Court sentences five Just Stop Oil activists, including co-founder Roger Hallam, to prison terms ranging from four to five years for organizing protests that blocked the M25 motorway in London, England, United Kingdom, in 2022.
2024-07-18

The United Kingdom holds local elections, as well as a parliamentary by-election in the Blackpool South constituency. The Labour Party wins most councils.
2024-05-2

The United Kingdom and the United States join Israel in blaming Iran for the strike. British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab says that the UK and its allies are planning a coordinated response. However, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson says the allegation is "baseless."
2021-08-1

Indonesia reports its first two cases of the Lineage B.1.1.7 variant first detected in the United Kingdom.
2021-03-2

A massive power failure affects most of the northwestern and southeastern United Kingdom and London, leaving thousands of homes, various train lines, and parts of Newcastle International Airport without power.
2019-08-9

A magnitude 4.4 earthquake, the strongest in the United Kingdom for ten years, occurs at Swansea.
2018-02-17

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, during a visit to the Gambia, announces that the West African nation is to rejoin the Commonwealth of Nations following talks with Gambian President Adama Barrow. The Gambia withdrew from the Commonwealth in 2013 under Yahya Jammeh, who considered it a "neo-colonial institution".
2017-02-14

Tony Nicklinson, a 58-year-old British man with locked-in syndrome who lost his fight for doctors to legally end his life, dies after refusing food at his home in Melksham, Wiltshire.
2012-08-22

UK Prime Minister David Cameron and U.S. President Barack Obama discuss America's oil spill problem over a telephone call.
2010-06-12