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12 December – The Beatles' final live UK tour concludes with two performances at the Capitol, Cardiff. [38] 15 December – Tanzania and Guinea sever diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom. 17 December – The UK government begins an oil embargo against Rhodesia; the United States joins the effort. 22 December
In October 2023, "Telegraph.co.uk" was the tenth most visited UK newspaper site, with 13.8 million monthly visits, compared to the most popular, the BBC, with 38.3 million. [ 132 ] History
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Yahoo Sports 7 hours ago Backyard Baseball makes a comeback, examining new top 50 prospects | Baseball Bar-B-Cast. Jake Mintz & Jordan Shusterman discuss the news regarding the highly anticipated return of the classic video game Backyard Baseball, which MLB players could be included in the …
Several Labour run councils threatened to increase rates in order to continue the free supply of milk to school children aged over seven years, in reaction to Thatcher's plans to end free milk supply to school children of that age group. Thatcher defended her plans, saying that the change would free more money to be spent on the construction of ...
1 January New Year's celebrations all over the UK fall silent for two minutes as a mark of respect for those who died in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.; The Freedom of Information Act 2000, the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 and the main provisions of the Child Trust Funds Act 2004 (introducing a Child Trust Fund with a government contribution for children that were born on or ...
24 March – The British government announces the prorogation of the Parliament of Northern Ireland and the introduction of Direct rule over Northern Ireland, after the Unionist government refuses to cede security powers. 26 March – The UK's last trolleybus system, in Bradford, is closed. [13]
The News Revolution in England: Cultural Dynamics of Daily Information (1996) Walker, Robin B. "The newspaper press in the reign of William III." Historical Journal 17#4 (1974): 691–709. in JSTOR; Williams, Keith. The English Newspaper: An Illustrated History to 1900 (1977) Williams, Kevin. Read All About it: a History of the British ...