December 2006 in Britain and Ireland

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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.

December 31, 2006 (Sunday)
December 27, 2006 (Wednesday)
December 25, 2006 (Monday)
December 23, 2006 (Saturday)
December 22, 2006 (Friday)
  • Holiday travellers face chaos as thick fog leads to severe disruption at airports. (BBC) (Wikinews)
December 21, 2006 (Thursday)
December 20, 2006 (Wednesday)
December 19, 2006 (Tuesday)
December 18, 2006 (Monday)
December 14, 2006 (Thursday)
December 12, 2006 (Tuesday)
  • Detectives in Suffolk are now linking the deaths of five young women whose bodies have been found in recent days in the Ipswich area. (BBC News)
December 11, 2006 (Monday)
  • Detectives in Suffolk investigating the murders of two sex workers from Ipswich, reveal the body of a third prostitute has been found and a fourth has now been reported missing. (BBC News)
December 9, 2006 (Saturday)
  • Suffolk police launch a double murder hunt after the body of the second of two missing prostitutes is found in a brook near the town of Ipswich. (BBC News)
December 7, 2006 (Thursday)
December 3, 2006 (Sunday)
  • A major fire and explosions at a firework factory near Ringmer, East Sussex, kills two members of the East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service and leaves nine others injured. Emergency services set up a 200 metre exclusion zone around the scene, but are unable to tackle the fire due to continuing explosions and risk from nearby acetylene cylinders. (BBC News)


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