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6 July – Eleven people are killed in the Taunton train fire. 7 July – Solomon Islands are annexed to the Crown and become independent from the United Kingdom. 15 July – The Picnic at Blackbushe Aerodrome, Camberley, Surrey, a concert featuring Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and Joan Armatrading, attracts some 200,000 people.
The BBC News channel is a British free-to-air [1] public broadcast television news channel owned and operated by the BBC. The channel is based at and broadcasts from Broadcasting House in the West End of London from which it is anchored during British daytime, with overnight broadcasts anchored from Washington, D.C. and Singapore. [2]
14 July – The Queen opens the SIS Building, the new headquarters of MI6 on the banks of the River Thames in London. 21 July – Tony Blair wins the Labour Party leadership election defeating John Prescott and Margaret Beckett. [17] 26 July – The Embassy of Israel, London is damaged in a bombing.
28 August – Prince William of Gloucester, a cousin of the Queen, is killed in an air crash near Wolverhampton. He is thirty years old, a bachelor and ninth in line to the British throne at this time. This means that Prince Richard, the Duke of Gloucester's only other son, automatically becomes heir to the dukedom.
4 November – BBC News launches a full-time online news service, having already created special websites for the 1995 budget as well as this year's general election and the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. 6 November – Labour hold the Paisley South by-election despite a swing of 11.3% to the SNP.
23 July – BBC Two television first airs the Pot Black snooker tournament. 24 July – British lecturer Gerald Brooke is freed from a Soviet prison in exchange for the spies Morris and Lona Cohen. [30] 25 July – The Family Law Reform Act 1969 receives royal assent and comes partly into effect in England and Wales.
Events from the year 1987 in the United Kingdom . The major political event of this year is the re-election of Margaret Thatcher in June's general election, making her the longest continuously-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since Lord Liverpool in the early 19th century. The year is also marked by six disasters: the 1987 United ...
9 June – 1983 UK general election: Margaret Thatcher, Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 1979, wins a landslide victory with a majority of 144 seats (through just 42% of the popular vote) over Michael Foot, who led a highly divided and weakened Labour Party which earned only 28% of the vote. [10]