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12 October – A large-scale diamond robbery takes place in London. 21 October – Mau Mau leader Dedan Kimathi is arrested in Nyeri, Kenya. 30 October – Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club opens in the Soho district of London. 2 November – The first section of the M1 motorway is opened [8] between Watford and Rugby.
24 March – In the Grand National, Devon Loch, owned by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and ridden by Dick Francis, is in a clear lead when the horse inexplicably collapses fifty yards (45 m) from the finish, giving victory to E.S.B. at 100/7, ridden by Dave Dick and trained by Fred Rimell. Stan Mellor is the second placed jockey.
BBC Look North is the BBC 's regional television news service for West, South and North Yorkshire and northern parts of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. The service is produced and broadcast from the BBC Broadcasting Centre at St. Peter's Square in Leeds with district newsrooms based in Bradford, Sheffield and York .
31 January – National Health Service prescription charges end. 1 February – The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh arrive in Ethiopia on a state visit. 4 February – Confederation of British Industry founded. [3] 6 February – Stanley Matthews plays his final First Division game, at the record age of 50 years and 5 days.
Popular culture. 1955 British Grand Prix. 1955 English cricket season. Football: England | Scotland. 1955 in British radio. 1955 in British television. 1955 in British music. Events from the year 1955 in the United Kingdom. The year is marked by changes of leadership for both principal political parties.
BBC (2004–2016) Fletcher began broadcasting back in 1993 with local radio stations in his home town Nottingham when he was 20. He joined BBC Radio Five Live in 2004. [1] Whilst he was part of Five Live's main commentary team he commentated on two World Cups and a European Championship. [2] He also regularly appeared on the show 606, often ...
October. 1 October – QVC launches the first television shopping channel in the UK. 3 October – The Northern Irish journalist Rory Peck, 36, is shot and killed outside the Ostankino TV Centre in Moscow by Boris Yeltsin 's loyalists while covering the Russian constitutional crisis.
A minimum wage is introduced throughout the UK – set at £3.60 an hour for workers over 21, and £3 for workers under 21. Anthony Sawoniuk, 78, becomes the first person convicted of Second World War crimes in a British court when he is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 18 Jews in his native Belarus. He has lived in Britain ...