October 2006 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.

Green tax on holidays and food splits United Kingdom Labour Party. Consumers could be hit by steep price rises for a range of goods from food to hotel breaks under plans to tackle climate change being considered.(The Times)

Surgeons in the United Kingdom are given permission by an National Health Service ethics committee to prepare to perform the world's first full face transplant, at London's Royal Free Hospital. (BBC)

The ex-magistrate, a nude cleaner and her £250,000 bill: Fetish for callgirl domestic help almost bankrupted employer and still left house 'absolutely filthy'. (The Times)

'Dead' oil man calls wife saying he's coming home as his grieving family prepare his funeral, believing he had died of malaria while being held hostage in the Nigerian jungle. (The Times)
Paul McCartney's friends dismiss abuse claims by estranged wife Heather Mills as 'wicked lies'. (The Times)

Newly convicted prisoners in the United Kingdom are to be held in police cells rather than prisons, as the nation's prison service faces chronic overcrowding in its jails. (BBC)

The United Kingdom Home Office reveals that two terror suspects who are subject to control orders have absconded and are on the run. One suspect had escaped some months previously and the second had gone missing in the last two weeks, but authorities had kept these security breaches out of the public domain until this date. (BBC)
It is revealed that UK Home Secretary David Blunkett ordered prison staff to machine gun prisoners during a riot in 1988, regardless of loss of life.(BBC)

An inquiry is launched into an alleged attack on convicted murderer Ian Huntley by a fellow inmate at Wakefield Prison, Yorkshire. (BBC)
A re-enactment of the Battle of Hastings takes place in Sussex to mark the 940th anniversary of the event in which William of Normandy's forces defeated the Saxon army of King Harold II, and began the Norman conquest of England. (BBC)

The British and Irish governments set a provisional date of 26 March 2007 for restoring devolution to Northern Ireland. (BBC)
A coroner has recorded a verdict of unlawful killing on ITN reporter Terry Lloyd, who was shot dead by United States forces in southern Iraq in March 2003. (BBC)

Sir Richard Dannatt, Chief of the General Staff and head of the British Army, gives an interview stating that British forces should "get out some time soon" from Iraq as their presence "exacerbates the security problems". (BBC) (Wikinews)

Detectives with London's Metropolitan Police issue a direct appeal to the Minstead Rapist, thought to be one of the UK's worst serial rapists, to give himself up. (BBC)

Official figures from the Office for National Statistics show that migration to the UK is at an all-time high, with one in 19 workers in 2005 being from outside Britain. (BBC)
The European Central Bank raises its interest rate from 3% to 3.25% representing the fifth rise in eleven months. The Bank of England decides to leave interest rates in the United Kingdom unchanged. (Marketwatch)

October 4, 2006 (Wednesday)

A man is charged with possession of a knife and assaulting a police officer, after scaling the railings at Prime Minister Tony Blair's official residence in Downing Street, London, and struggling with police. (Reuters)

A superbug, Clostridium difficile, is said to have killed at least 49 people at hospitals in Leicester, England, according to a National Health Service investigation. Another 29 similar cases are being investigated by coroners. (BBC)
New laws against age discrimination in the workplace - officially titled the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 - come into force in the United Kingdom. (BBC)

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Events
[edit] Ongoing Operation Telic (British military operations in Iraq) International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan 2012 Summer Olympic development Party conference season [edit] Recent 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot

Deaths
31: William Franklyn 31: Peter Fryer 29: Nigel Kneale 28: Brian Brolly 22: Michael Mayne 21: Peter Barkworth 21: Arthur Peacocke 21: Paul Walters 20: Eric Newby 19: Ralph Harris 18: Anna Russell 16: Niall Andrews 16: Ross Davidson 16: Martin Flannery 15: Derek Bond 14: James Barr 11: Sir Victor Goodhew 11: Sir Robert Megarry 10: Francis Berry 9: Reg Freeson 9: Paul Hunter 5: Jennifer Moss 5: Don Thompson 4: Tom Bell

Sport
[edit] Featured seasons 2006-07 in English football 2006-07 in Scottish football [edit] Current sport events Super League XI 2006-07 Guinness Premiership 2006 British Touring Car Championship season Football League of Ireland 2006 season