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BBC News. BBC News is an operational business division [2] of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each ...
BBC News provides television journalism to BBC network bulletins (on BBC One and BBC Two) and programmes as well as the BBC News Channel available around the world and in the United Kingdom. BBC News runs BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC World Service as part of its rolling news coverage, journalists and presenters also contribute to podcasts produced by BBC News for BBC Radio 4 , as well as solely ...
18 November – England women's national football team plays its first official association football match, against Scotland in Greenock, 100 years after the equivalent men's match. 30 November – Cod War: British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home says that Royal Navy ships will be stationed to protect British trawlers off Iceland.
1986 British Grand Prix. 1986 English cricket season. Football: England | Scotland. 1986 in British television. 1986 in British music. 1986 in British radio. UK in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986. Events from the year 1986 in the United Kingdom. It is particularly noted for the "Big Bang" deregulation of the financial markets.
4 November 1997; 26 years ago. ( 1997-11-04) Current status. Online. BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production. It is one of the most popular news websites, [3] with 1.2 billion website visits in April 2021, [4] as well as being used by 60% of the UK's internet users for news.
12 July – Robert Maxwell buys the Daily Mirror for £113.4 million. 18 July – The general-interest magazine Tit-Bits closes after 104 years. A magnitude 5.4 earthquake with an epicentre in the Llŷn Peninsula of North Wales is felt throughout the United Kingdom.
24 November – Freddie Mercury dies aged 45 at his home in London, just 24 hours after going public with the news that he was suffering from AIDS. [40] 25 November – The Court of Appeal quashes the convictions of Winston Silcott, Engin Raghip and Mark Braithwaite, for the murder of PC Keith Blakelock in the Broadwater Farm riot at Tottenham , North London , six years ago.
The first partnerships in Scotland are registered on 20 December and in England on 21 December. 22 December – Tony Blair makes a surprise visit to British forces in Iraq. Undated. Summer – Guinness closes its Park Royal brewery in London. International Biosciences, a UK-based DNA testing company is founded.