February 2007 in Britain and Ireland

This page deals with events in most English-speaking places of Europe. These are England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, the Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey and Gibraltar.

An investigation is launched into possible contamination of petrol supplies in South East England, following hundreds of reports of vehicle problems. (BBC)
Airbus announces it is cutting 1600 jobs in the UK, as part of 10,000 job cuts across Europe. (BBC) (Wikinews)

The official inquiry into the Grayrigg rail crash starts with early investigations focusing on a set of points. (BBC)

Grayrigg rail crash: A Virgin Pendolino train derails in Cumbria, killing one person and injuring dozens more. (BBC) (Wikinews)

Prime Minister Tony Blair announces that 1,500 British troops will leave Iraq within weeks with another 1,500 by the end of the year. (BBC) (Wikinews)

Funding for the world's largest wave farm is announced by the Scottish Executive as part of a 13 million pound package for marine power in Scotland. (BBC)

2007 United Kingdom letter bombs: Miles Cooper, a school caretaker from Cherry Hinton, near Cambridge is arrested in connection with the recent string of letter bombs. (The Times)

A judge rules that plans to build a new generation of nuclear power plants in the United Kingdom are unlawful because elements of the 2006 Energy Review were 'seriously flawed', 'inadequate', or 'misleading'. (BBC)

Five British soldiers are cleared of abusing Iraqi civilians in Basra. (BBC)
A fifteeen year old boy is shot and killed in his home in Clapham, South London. (BBC)

The Queen wins the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award for Best Film of 2006 with Helen Mirren winning the award as Best Actress. Forest Whitaker wins the Best Actor award for his role in the The Last King of Scotland which won the Best British Film Award. (Sydney Morning Herald) (BBC)

Police release two of the nine men arrested during last week's terrorism raids in Birmingham without charge. (BBC)
A letter bomb, the third in as many days, has injured a woman working at the main DVLA centre in south Wales. Today's attack follows two others, at other road transport agencies in the UK. (BBC) (BBC) (BBC)

The Sun newspaper has obtained a video tape of a U.S. pilot shooting a UK convoy in a friendly fire incident during the Iraq War, killing one British soldier and and injuring four. The pilot, and others, are said to have made a series of crucial mistakes. (The Sun)
Three people in the United Kingdom have been jailed after plotting over internet chatrooms to abduct and rape two teenage girls. (The Times)
Global spread of bird flu: UK authorities incinerate more than 50,000 turkeys as they are working to contain the bird flu. (BBC)

2,600 turkeys which died at a Bernard Matthews farm in Holton, Suffolk are confirmed to have had the H5N1 strain of avian flu. (BBC)
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair urges the Labour Party to 'weather the storm' during the current political crisis, stating that 'it should not change our [the party's] course or our confidence'. (BBC)

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2007 developments by topic

Events
[edit] Upcoming Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2007 [edit] Recent [edit] Ongoing 2007 UK petrol contamination 2007 Bernard Matthews H5N1 outbreak Cash for Peerages scandal Litvinenko murder investigation Operation Telic (British military operations in Iraq) International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan 2012 Summer Olympic development

Recent deaths
[edit] February 28: Baron Forte 28: Sir John Smith 26: Alex Henshaw 26: Baroness Jeger 24: Jock Dodds 23: John Ritchie 22: Edgar Evans 22: George Jellicoe 22: Ian Wallace 20: Derek Waring 19: Celia Franca 17: Jakov Lind 16: Norman Miscampbell 16: Sheridan Morley 14: Gareth Morris 14: Steven Pimlott 9: Benedict Kiely 9: Aida Mason 9: Ian Richardson 7: Brian Williams 6: Gareth Roberts 6: Johnny Williams 4: Paul Burwell

Sport
[edit] Featured seasons 2006-07 in English football 2006-07 in Scottish football [edit] Current sport events 2006-07 Guinness Premiership [edit] Upcoming sport events