2011 in England
Events from 2011 in England
Incumbents
Events
January
March
- 3 March – The Labour Party wins the Barnsley Central By-election, with the Liberal Democrats finishing in sixth place.
- 18 March – Former British Airways software engineer Rajib Karim, of Newcastle upon Tyne is jailed for 30 years after he was earlier convicted of plotting to blow up a plane.[8]
- 24 March – Police find the body of 22-year-old Sian O'Callaghan in Oxfordshire, five days after she went missing in Swindon, Wiltshire. A 47-year-old old man is arrested on suspicion of murder and police are also searching for the body of an unnamed missing woman who is feared to have been murdered.[9]
- 25 March – Delroy Grant, a 53-year-old London taxi driver who was found guilty on a total of 29 charges including indecent assault, burglary and rape committed against 10 elderly people between 1992 and 2009, is sentenced to life imprisonment at Woolwich Crown Court with a recommendation that he should serve at least 27 years in prison before parole can even be considered.[10]
- 26 March – Hundreds of thousands of people march in London, England against government budget cuts with the protests later turning violent. (The Telegraph) (The Guardian)
- 27 March – A 47-year-old taxi driver, Christopher Halliwell, is charged with the murder of Sian O'Callaghan.[11][12]
April
- 1 April – South Downs National Park Authority begins operation.[13]
- 5 April – Police investigating the murder of Sian O'Callaghan have identified human remains found at a second site as those of Swindon woman Becky Godden-Edwards,[14] who was last seen alive in 2002 at the age of 20.[15]
- 13 April – 53-year-old actor Brian Regan, most famous for his role as Terry Sullivan in the former Channel Four TV soap Brookside, is charged - along with another man - with the murder of a man who was fatally shot in Aigburth, Merseyside, on 24 February this year.[16]
- 16 April – Turner Contemporary art gallery, designed by David Chipperfield, opens in Margate, Kent.[17]
- 22 April – Nine people are arrested and eight police officers are injured during riots in Bristol amid a protest against the opening of a new Tesco superstore in the Stokes Croft area of the city.[18]
- 29 April – Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton marry in Westminster Abbey. A public holiday celebrates the day, which in conjunction with the May Bank Holiday, makes it a four-day weekend.
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Predicted and scheduled events
September
Deaths
See also
References
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- ^ "Sian O'Callaghan found dead amid fears over second body". BBC News (BBC). 24 March 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-12852499. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
- ^ "Night Stalker rapist Delroy Grant jailed for 27 years". BBC News. BBC. 25 March 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12857539. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
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- ^ "St Paul's Cathedral completes £40m restoration project". BBC News (BBC). 15 June 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13782822. Retrieved 19 June 2011.
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- ^ "Nick Clegg rules out running free schools for profit". BBC News (BBC). 5 September 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-14781392. Retrieved 5 September 2011.
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- ^ "Record UK temperature for October set at 29.9C". BBC News. BBC. 1 October 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15137832. Retrieved 1 October 2011.
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- ^ "Occupy London: Demo forces St Paul's Cathedral to close". BBC News (BBC). 21 October 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-15406865. Retrieved 27 October 2011.
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- ^ Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite dies aged 64 BBC News, 3 January 2011
- ^ Actress Susannah York dies at 72 BBC News, 16 January 2011