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2013 In England
Events from 2013 in England Incumbent Events January *3 January – The Met Office reports that 2012 was the wettest year on record for England. *4 January – Mark Cahill, a 51-year-old former pub landlord from West Yorkshire becomes the first person in the UK to receive a hand transplant. *10 January – April Casburn, a senior detective with the Metropolitan Police is found guilty of trying to sell information on the investigation into News of the World phone hacking scandal, phone hacking to the ''News of the World'', the newspaper at the centre of the scandal. *16 January – A Vauxhall helicopter crash, helicopter crash in central London kills two people and injures 13 others. *22 January – A death sentence handed to British citizen Lindsay Sandiford by an Indonesian court for drug smuggling is condemned by the UK government. *30 January – Tony McCluskie is found guilty of the March 2012 murder of his sister, the actress Gemma McCluskie and life sentence, jailed for lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England
England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It shares Anglo-Scottish border, a land border with Scotland to the north and England–Wales border, another land border with Wales to the west, and is otherwise surrounded by the North Sea to the east, the English Channel to the south, the Celtic Sea to the south-west, and the Irish Sea to the west. Continental Europe lies to the south-east, and Ireland to the west. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, the population was 56,490,048. London is both List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, the largest city and the Capital city, capital. The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Paleolithic. It takes its name from the Angles (tribe), Angles, a Germanic peoples, Germanic tribe who settled du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
