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March – Ford launches a new generation of its big-selling Escort and Orion ranges. 4 March – The national tabloid newspaper Today launches from Wapping.It pioneers the use of computer photo typesetting and full-colour offset printing at a time when British national newspapers are still using Linotype machines and letterpress.
25 February – UK miners' strike (1984–85): Nearly 4,000 striking coalminers return to work, meaning that only just over half of the miners are now on strike. 26 February – Following his trial and conviction at St Albans Crown Court, Malcolm Fairley, the sex attacker known as The Fox, is handed six life sentences. [11]
The ban was blocked by US District Judge Donald W. Molloy on December 1, 2023, as he stated the ban "infringes on the Constitutional right of users and businesses". Due to the block, the ban did not come into effect as planned. [79] On January 2, 2024, Montana filed a notice to appeal the ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth ...
Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novel A Caribbean Mystery.; J. W. B. Douglas's cohort study The Home and the School: a study of ability and attainment in the primary school.; Ian Fleming's James Bond novel You Only Live Twice and his children's novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang (the latter posthumously).
The UK Prime Minister's website has used the phrase "countries within a country" to describe the United Kingdom. [ 8 ] Although the United Kingdom is a unitary sovereign country , it contains three distinct legal jurisdictions in Scotland , England and Wales , and Northern Ireland , each retaining its own legal system even after joining the UK ...
Raymond Allen Liotta (Italian:; December 18, 1954 – May 26, 2022) was an American actor and film producer.He first gained attention for his role in the film Something Wild (1986), which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination.
17 March – The fall in unemployment continues, with just over 2,500,000 people now registered as unemployed in the UK. However, there is a blow for the city of Dundee , when Ford Motor Company scraps plans to build a new electronics plant in the city – a move which ends hopes of 1,000 new jobs being created for this city which has high ...
29 December – The Conservative majority now stands at a mere five seats following the defection of MP Emma Nicholson to the Liberal Democrats. [30] 30 December – Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands matches the lowest temperature UK Weather Record at −27.2 °C (−17.0 °F).