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2 January – Former Deputy Prime Minister Sir Nick Clegg announces he is standing down as Meta's president of global affairs after almost seven years. [1]Twenty Labour Party councillors on Broxtowe Borough Council in Nottinghamshire have resigned from Labour in protest at the direction of the party under Sir Keir Starmer and will sit as independents.
UK gas network operator National Gas announces that the UK has enough gas to meet winter demand after Centrica (owners of British Gas) warned about "concerningly low" storage levels. [31] Pop star Chappell Roan wins BBC Radio 1's Sound of 2025. [32]
National Day: 23 February: 1984 United Kingdom: Brunei gained full independence effective 1 January 1984 under the Treaty of Friendship and Co-operation of 7 January 1979 between United Kingdom and Brunei. [18] However, the celebrations of the first National Day were delayed until 23 February and that day continues to be celebrated since. [19 ...
Yorkshire Day is a yearly celebration on 1 August to promote the historic county of Yorkshire, in England. [1] It was celebrated by the Yorkshire Ridings Society in 1975, initially in Beverley , as "a protest movement against the local government re-organisation of 1974 ".
New Year's Day did not become a bank holiday in England, Wales and Northern Ireland until 1 January 1974. Boxing Day did not become a bank holiday in Scotland until 1974. [9] Starting in 1965, experimentally, the August Bank Holiday weekend was observed at the end of August "to give a lead in extending British holidays over a longer summer ...
10 January – Ten Reform UK councillors in Derbyshire resign from the party in protest at Nigel Farage's leadership, claiming the Reform is being run in an "increasingly autocratic manner" and "has lost its sense of direction" since Farage took over as leader. In response, Farage says the members were put forward by a "rogue branch" of the ...
On 2 January 2025, 20 Borough of Broxtowe councillors in Nottinghamshire resigned from the Labour party to form the Broxtowe Independents in protest against Keir Starmer. They criticised Labour national policy on the winter fuel payment , the WASPI women , bus fare increases, the two-child benefit cap , the war in Gaza , [ 8 ] and plans to ...