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8 November – First BBC Local Radio station broadcast, BBC Radio Leicester. 18 November – Movement of animals was banned in England and Wales due to a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak. [32] 19 November – The pound was devalued from 1 GBP = 2.80 USD to 1 GBP = US$2.40 because of the UK's
8 November – Alasdair Mackenzie, Liberal MP (born 1903) 11 November – Charles FitzRoy, 10th Duke of Grafton, peer, politician and farmer (born 1892) 13 November – Bessie Braddock, Labour MP (born 1899) 29 November – Irfan Orga, Ottoman-born airman and author (born 1908) 14 December – William Slim, Field Marshal (born 1891) 26 December
26 November – The Race Relations Act is passed, making it illegal to refuse housing, employment or public services to people in the United Kingdom because of their ethnic background. [47] 29 November – Dawley New Town (Designation) Amendment (Telford) Order extends the boundaries of Dawley New Town in Shropshire and renames it Telford.
11 November – The New Covent Garden Market in Nine Elms is opened. [49] 13 November – McDonald's opens its first UK restaurant in Woolwich, South East London. [50] 21 November – 21 people are killed in the Birmingham pub bombings. [51] 24 November – The Birmingham Six are charged with the Birmingham pub bombings. [52]
9 November – Gareth Malone, choirmaster; 12 November – Katherine Grainger, rower; 13 November – Gary Burgess, broadcaster and journalist (died 2022) 18 November – Anthony McPartlin, television presenter and one half of Ant and Dec; 5 December – Ronnie O'Sullivan, snooker player; 6 December – Noel Clarke, actor and film maker
7 November – Chris Goudge, Olympic athlete (b. 1935) 9 November Elizabeth Carnegy, Baroness Carnegy of Lour, academic and life peer (b. 1925) Robin Day, furniture designer (b. 1915) 10 November – Jim Farry, football executive (b. 1954) 13 November – Norman Dennis, sociologist (b. 1929) 14 November – Vince Broderick, cricketer (b. 1920)
1 November – Richard Gordon, horror film producer (b. 1925) 3 November Timothy Raison, politician (b. 1929) John Young, politician (b. 1930) 5 November – Sir Gordon Higginson, academic and engineer (b. 1929) 6 November Gordon Beck, jazz pianist and composer (b. 1935) Philip Gould, Baron Gould of Brookwood, politician (b. 1950) 8 November
26 November – Peter Walker, the Secretary for Trade and Industry, warns that petrol rationing may have to be introduced in the near future as a result of the oil crisis in the Middle East which is restricting petrol supply. November – Unemployment in the United Kingdom reaches a low of 3.4%; it goes no lower for at least 40 years.