April 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.

April 24, 2007 (Tuesday)

British anti-terrorism police arrest five people in London and one in Luton for alleged breaches of the Terrorism Act. (CNN)

April 17, 2007 (Tuesday)

The Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, is required by the Bank of England Act 1998 to write an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, explaining how the inflation reaches 3.1 %, one point beyond the target 2 %, for the first time in 10 years since the bank's Monetary Policy Committee took charge of the interest rate for the pound sterling. (BBC News)

April 15, 2007 (Sunday)

Two United Kingdom military helicopters collide near the town of Taji near Baghdad killing two soldiers. (AP/CNN)

April 14, 2007 (Saturday)

April 12, 2007 (Thursday)

April 7, 2007 (Saturday)

April 5, 2007 (Thursday)

The 15 Royal Navy personnel held by Iran return home to be de-briefed and reunited with their families at Royal Marines Base Chivenor, in Devon. (BBC) (Wikinews)
Four British soldiers are killed in a bomb blast near the Iraqi city of Basra. (BBC)

April 4, 2007 (Wednesday)

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