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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.
25 February – UK miners' strike (1984–85): Nearly 4,000 striking coalminers return to work, meaning that only just over half of the miners are now on strike. 26 February – Following his trial and conviction at St Albans Crown Court, Malcolm Fairley, the sex attacker known as The Fox, is handed six life sentences.
28 August – Caryl Churchill 's play Top Girls premieres at the Royal Court Theatre, London. 29 August – 65-year-old American Ashby Harper becomes the oldest person to swim the English Channel. 30 August – St David's Hall opens in Cardiff as the National Concert Hall and Conference Centre of Wales.
14 July – The Queen opens the SIS Building, the new headquarters of MI6 on the banks of the River Thames in London. 21 July – Tony Blair wins the Labour Party leadership election defeating John Prescott and Margaret Beckett. [17] 26 July – The Embassy of Israel, London is damaged in a bombing.
13 April – A 22-year-old woman is raped at her bedsit in Cambridge. Cambridgeshire Police believe that she was the sixth victim of a rapist who had been operating across the city since October last year. In June, the police arrest 47-year-old Peter Cook for the rapes; he is sentenced to life imprisonment in October.
BT Sport Box Office on channel 490 was temporarily removed from residential set-top boxes to facilitate the 2019–20 Premier League being broadcast to licensed premises only. On the EPG, BT Sport Box Office was renamed Amazon Premier League Pass during this time. These channels were provided by Amazon. 6 channels were broadcast via the red ...
In May 2018, Eleven Sports secured a three-year deal to broadcast La Liga football matches in the UK and Ireland. Two months later, they secured UK three-year deals to screen Serie A matches, the Eredivisie and the Chinese Super League and Sweden's Allsvenskan. Eleven Sports launched in the UK & Ireland with rights to the 2018 U.S. PGA.
January. 17 January – The number of people affected by norovirus stomach bug in the UK reaches an estimated 3 million. 18 January – Last working of Tower Colliery, the last deep mine in the South Wales Valleys. The official closure is on 25 January.