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2010 in England

Events from 2010 in England

Incumbent

Events

January

  • 9 January – Jazz musician Jamie Cullum marries model Sophie Dahl.
  • 16 January – 108-year-old Suffolk woman Florence Green is identified as one of the world's last surviving World War I veterans – and the only female – after a historian discovered that she had served in the Women's Royal Air Force as a waitress near the end of the war.
  • 24 January – Three people are charged with public order offences following an English Defence League demonstration in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.

February

March

  • 2 March – Jon Venables, one of the two boys (then aged 11) found guilty of murdering Merseyside toddler James Bulger in 1993, is recalled to prison after breaching terms of his life licence. Venables, now 42, spent eight years in custody before being paroled along with Robert Thompson in 2001.
  • 8 March – Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, rejects ongoing public calls for the reasons that Jon Venables has been recalled to custody to be made public.
  • 12 March – Birmingham couple Angela Gordon and Junaid Abuhamza received prison sentences after being convicted of the manslaughter of Ms Gordon's seven-year-old daughter Khyra Ishaq, who died as a result of starvation two years ago. Ms Gordon is sentenced to 15 years in prison, while Mr Abuhamza is sentenced to indefinite imprisonment with a recommended minimum term of seven and a half years.
  • 20 March –
  • The first British Airways strike, set to last for three days, begins. More than 80 planes are grounded at Heathrow Airport alone and numerous flights are reported to have been cancelled, though British Airways officials are confident that 65% of flights will be undisturbed.
  • 67 people are arrested and several people are injured in Bolton town centre during a clash between members of the English Defence League and Unite Against Fascism.
  • 30 March – Levi Bellfield, a 41-year-old man two years into a life sentence for murdering two women and attempting to murder a third, is charged with the murder of Surrey teenager Milly Dowler, who disappeared in Walton-on-Thames eight years ago and whose body was found in Hampshire woodland six months later.

April

May

June

July

August

September

  • 14 September – Singer George Michael, 47, is fined £1,250 and jailed for two months after being found guilty of crashing his car after taking cannabis.
  • 23 September – Official opening of Thanet Wind Farm, by Liberal Democrat MP Chris Huhne and Oystein Loseth – head of Swedish firm Vatenfall, who built the turbines at a cost of £750million over two years.
  • 27 September – Labour Party activists at the conference in Manchester condemn the coalition government's proposed public spending cuts as "obscene".

October

  • 5 October – The 138-year-old pier at Hastings, East Sussex, is severely damaged by fire.
  • 11 October – The inquest begins into the deaths of the 52 people who were killed in the terrorist attacks on London by Al-Qaeda members on 7 July 2005.
  • 15 October – American company New England Sports Ventures completes a £300million takeover of Liverpool FC.
  • 30 October –
  • An explosive device is intercepted at East Midlands Airport, preventing a potential terrorist bombing of a passenger aeroplane. On the same day, a similar package is found on a cargo plane in Dubai. Al-Qaeda is suspected to have been responsible for both incidents.

November

December

  • 1 December – Heavy snow and freezing temperatures now affect most of the country, with road, rail and air services disrupted and thousands of schools shut. Gatwick Airport is closed.
  • 2 December – England's bid to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup fails having attracted only two votes; FIFA awards the tournament to Russia instead.
  • 3 December – The Royal Navy aircraft carrier returns to Portsmouth for the last time before being decommissioned. The amphibious warfare ship is announced as her successor as the Royal Navy's flagship.
  • 5 December – Universities minister David Willetts announces that English university students from low income families could have their tuition fees paid for up to two years.
  • 9 December –
  • A second wave of protests in London by university students protesting against increased tuition fees and reduced public spending on higher education takes place in Whitehall, London. A Cenotaph war memorial and statue of Winston Churchill are vandalised, and a car transporting the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall (Charles and Camilla) is attacked.
  • The coalition government wins a vote in the House of Commons to raise the cap on university tuition fees to £9,000 with a majority of 21.
  • 13 December –
  • Mark Weston, the first person to face a second murder trial in the United Kingdom following the abolition of the double jeopardy rule in England and Wales, is convicted of killing a woman in Oxfordshire in 1995. He is sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommended minimum term of 13 years.
  • Communities Secretary Eric Pickles announces a 9.9% reduction in core funding for English local councils in the 2011/12 tax year, with a 7.3% reduction to follow for the 2012/13 tax year.
  • 24 December – A woman in her 40s dies after being attacked by a dog in south London.
  • 26 December – Avon and Somerset Police say they are "satisfied" that a body found on Christmas Day near the village of Failand, Somerset is that of missing Bristol woman Joanna Yeates, who disappeared on 17 December.
  • 28 December – Police launch a murder investigation after a post mortem into the death of Joanna Yeates concludes that she had been strangled.

Deaths

  • 15 October – Malcolm Allison, football player and manager (b. 1927)

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