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11 February – Richard Desmond, the owner of the Daily Express and Daily Star tabloids, confirms that he has made a bid for the troubled broadsheet The Daily Telegraph. 15 February – The government are reported to have drawn up plans to break up the BBC in the wake of the Hutton inquiry.
Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses and eyeglasses have been manufactured by Ray-Ban since 1952. Made popular in the 1950s and 1960s by music and film icons such as Buddy Holly , Roy Orbison and James Dean , Wayfarers almost became discontinued in the 1970s, before a major resurgence was created in the 1980s through massive product placements .
3 April – Education Act institutes the Assisted Places Scheme (free or subsidised places for children attending fee-paying independent schools based on results in the schools' entrance examination and means tests), gives parents greater powers on governing bodies and over admissions, and removes local education authorities' obligation to ...
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.
24 February – Ray Honeyford, head teacher (died 2012) [20] 25 February Bernard Bresslaw, actor (died 1993) Nicholas Edwards, Baron Crickhowell, politician (died 2018) 28 February – Ronnie Moran, football captain (Liverpool F.C.) (died 2017) 4 March – John Dunn, radio presenter (died 2004) 5 March – Nicholas Smith, actor (died 2015)
Under new proposals, messaging apps will have to either add a backdoor to their programs, or risk a potential ban within the UK. [11] To justify the proposal to ban encryption, David Cameron claims that "In our country, do we want to allow a means of communication between people, which even in extremis, with a signed warrant from the home ...
Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch purchases the best-selling UK Sunday newspaper The News of the World. [2] 4 January – Guitarist Jimi Hendrix caused complaints of arrogance from television producers after playing an impromptu version of "Sunshine of your Love" past his allotted timeslot on the BBC One programme Happening for Lulu.
25 May – The Camelot Group consortium wins the contract to run the UK's first National Lottery. [ 14 ] 31 May – Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have dinner at the Granita restaurant in Islington and allegedly make a deal on who will become the leader of the Labour Party , and ultimately, the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom .