February 2007 in Britain and Ireland
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- 2006-07 in English football
- 2006-07 in Scottish football
- 2006-07 Guinness Premiership
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| Related portals |
- United Kingdom Portal
- Ireland Portal
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| Wednesday 28 February 2007 |
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- 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.[1]
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| Saturday 24 February 2007 |
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- The official inquiry into the Grayrigg rail crash starts with early investigations focusing on a set of points. [5]
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| Wednesday 21 February 2007 |
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- 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. [7] (Wikinews)
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- 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.[9]
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| Thursday 15 February 2007 |
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- 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'.[10]
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| Wednesday 14 February 2007 |
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- Five British soldiers are cleared of abusing Iraqi civilians in Basra. [11]
- A fifteen-year-old boy is shot and killed in his home in Clapham, South London. [12]
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| Wednesday 7 February 2007 |
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- Police release two of the nine men arrested during last week's terrorism raids in Birmingham without charge.[15]
- 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.[16][17][18]
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- The Sun newspaper has obtained a video tape of a US pilot shooting a UK convoy in a friendly fire incident during the Iraq War, killing one British soldier and injuring four. The pilot, and others, are said to have made a series of crucial mistakes.[19]
- Three people in the United Kingdom have been jailed after plotting over internet chatrooms to abduct and rape two teenage girls. [20]
- Global spread of bird flu: UK authorities incinerate more than 50,000 turkeys as they are working to contain the bird flu. [21]
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British and Irish events by month
(For earlier events in Britain and Ireland, see November 2004 and preceding months)
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