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Events

January

February
  • 4 February – Police investigating the disappearance of Nicola Bulley, who went missing on 27 January while walking her dog, believe she may have fallen into the River Wyre at St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire.[17]
  • 7 February – David Carrick, one of the UK's most prolific sex offenders, is sentenced at Southwark Crown Court to 36 life sentences with a minimum term of 30 years imprisonment.[18]
  • 10 February –
    • A large World War II bomb discovered in Great Yarmouth explodes as work is being carried out to defuse it, causing a blast that is heard for 15 miles.[19]
    • During a demonstration in Knowsley, Merseyside, protesters clash with police outside a hotel that provides refuge for asylum seekers.[20]
  • 17 February –
  • 19 February – Police searching for Nicola Bulley, missing since 27 January, say they have found a body in the River Wyre.[23]
  • 20 February –
    • Mayor of London Sadiq Khan announces the launch of a £130m scheme to give every primary school pupil in London free school meals during the 2023–24 academic year.[24]
    • Junior doctors in England vote to strike in their ongoing dispute for a 26% pay rise, and will stage a 72-hour walkout. The British Medical Association maintaines junior doctors' pay has been cut by 26% since 2008 after inflation is considered.[25]
    • Lancashire Police confirm the body found in the River Wyre the previous day is that of Nicola Bulley.[26]
  • 21 February – A planned 48-hour strike by nurses is called off to allow the Royal College of Nursing and Department of Health and Social Care to enter into renewed negotiations. The BMA maintains that junior doctor's pay has been cut by 26% since 2008 after inflation is considered.[27]
    • The UK Government recommends a 3.5% pay rise for public sector workers in England, below the rate of inflation.[28]
  • 22 February – Following a trial at Winchester Crown Court, Shaye Grove, 27, a woman obsessed with serial killers, is sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 23 years for the murder of her boyfriend, who she stabbed to death in July 2022.[29]
  • 23 February – Figures produced by the Office for National Statistics show school absences in England remain above their pre-COVID levels, with 25.1% of pupils regularly absent during the autumn term of 2022 compared to 13.1% in autumn 2019.[30]
  • 24 February – The British Medical Association announces that junior doctors in England will begin a three-day strike on 13 March.[31]

March
  • 3 March –
    • The GMB and Unison unions have called off ambulance strikes in England scheduled for 6 and 8 March after the UK government agrees to reopen talks on pay for the 2022–23 and 2023–24 financial years.[32]
    • Following a trial at Luton Crown Court, four people are jailed for their part in a robbery that went wrong during which their victim, Saul Murray, was stabbed after being given the drug GHB in an attempt to knock him out. Ikem Affia is sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, with a minimum of 25 years, while the three other gang members are given lesser sentences for manslaughter.[33] The gang were caught after one of them was captured on CCTV wearing a rare Moncler coat worth £1,000, of which only 69 had been sold in the UK.[34]
  • 5 March – The Unite union calls off ambulance strikes scheduled for 6 and 8 March.[35]
  • 8 March – The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) approves the use of the weight loss drug semaglutide (marketed as Wegovy) by the NHS in England.[36]
  • 13 March – The Unite union calls off a planned strike by bus drivers at National Express West Midlands scheduled for 16 March after receiving a revised pay offer, which is to be put to members.[37]
  • 16 March –
    • NHS staff in England, including nurses and ambulance staff, are offered a 5% pay rise from April along with a one-off payment of £1,655 to cover backdated pay. The offer does not include doctors, who are on a different contract.[38]
    • Bus drivers at National Express West Midlands call a fresh strike for Monday 20 March after Unite claims National Express would not allow them to vote on the latest pay offer.[39]
  • 20 March – An indefinite strike by bus drivers at National Express West Midlands begins, affecting 93% of bus services in Birmingham. National Express operates a limited service to serve major hospitals in the area, and warns people not to travel by bus unless absolutely necessary.[40]
  • 23 March –
  • 24 March – Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, is fined £2,000 for speeding along a motorway at 78mph in July 2022. He also receives three points on his driving licence.[44]
  • 25 March –
    • London City Hall bans its staff from using TikTok on all its official devices.[45]
    • Bus drivers belonging to the Unite union vote to accept a 16.2% pay rise from National Express West Midlands, ending the week-long strike staged by bus drivers in the West Midlands.[46]
  • 26 March – A major incident is declared at Poole Harbour following a leak of 200 barrels of reservoir fluid, including oil, into the water.[47]
  • 27 March – The National Education Union urges teachers to vote against the latest government pay offer for England, raising the prospect of fresh strikes.[48]
  • 30 March – It is announced that COVID-19 testing in England is to be further scaled back from April. Staff and patients in hospitals will no longer be routinely swab tested for the virus, with staff only tested if they are in contact with immunocompromised patients.[49]

April
  • 2 April – The Birmingham Walkathon returns to the city for the first time since 2013. The event, originally organised by Birmingham radio station BRMB, is organised for its 2023 staging by former BRMB director David Bagley and charity Help Harry Help Others.[50]
  • 3 April –
    • NHS England launches its spring booster campaign, which will see around five million people, including those aged over 75 or classed as clinically vulnerable, receive a COVID-19 booster vaccine.[51]
    • The National Education Union announces two further strike dates in England on 27 April and 2 May, stating that the offer from the pay UK government is unacceptable, not fully funded, and does not address a shortage of teachers.[52]
    • Environment Minister Therese Coffey confirms government plans to ban wet wipes containing plastic in England as a means of helping to tackle water pollution.[53]
    • The new England women's national football team kit is unveiled, and it is confirmed they will wear blue shorts at the 2023 World Cup. The change has been made amid period concerns]].[54]
  • 4 April – Members of the Association of School and College Leaders overwhelmingly reject the UK government's 4.3% pay offer for teachers in England.[55]
  • 5 April –
  • 6 April –
  • 8 April – The NASUWT is to ballot its members on strike action after 87% of those who voted rejected the government's pay offer for teachers in England, which the union says fails to address concerns over pay and conditions.[59]
  • 11 April – Junior doctors in England begin a four day strike.[60]
  • 14 April –
    • Two police officers are dismissed from the Metropolitan Police over offensive WhatsApp messages, some of them including offensive comments about model Katie Price's son, Harvey.[61]
    • The Royal College of Nursing rejects a pay offer for nurses in England and announces a 48-hour strike from 8pm on 30 April to 8pm on 2 May.[62]
    • UNISON confirms its members working for the NHS have voted unanimously to accept a 5% pay offer from the UK government.[63]
    • Following a trial at Derby Crown Court, Stephen Boden and partner Shannon Marsden are convicted of the murder of their ten-month-old son Finley Boden on Christmas Day 2020, 39 days after he had been returned to them by social services.[64]
  • 15 April –
  • 16 April – Around 600 Amazon workers based in Coventry and belonging to the GMB trade union begin a three day strike over pay.[67]
  • 17 April – Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces a review of the "core maths content" taught in England's schools, with the establishment of a panel to conduct the review.[68]
  • 24 April – The publishers of Big Issue North announce it is to cease publication in May, citing rising costs and reduced footfall in town centres.[69]
  • 25 April – South West Water implements a hosepipe ban for large parts of Devon in an attempt to replenish water levels at the Roadford Reservoir ahead of the summer.[70]
  • 26 April –
  • 28 April –
    • Members of the Unite union, mostly ambulance workers and junior healthcare staff, reject the UK government's 5% pay offer for NHS workers in England. The offer is rejected by around half of the 55% who voted.[73]
    • The 5% NHS England pay offer is backed by the GMB union.[74]
    • Four teaching unions in England – the National Education Union, NASUWT, National Association of Head Teachers and the Association of School and College Leaders – announce plans to co-ordinate strike action. At the time of the announcement only the National Education Union has the mandate to strike, but the other unions confirm they will ballot their members on whether to take strike action.[75]
    • HMV announces plans to reopen its flagship store at 363 Oxford Street four years after it closed when the company went into administration.[76]
  • 29 April – A record crowd of 58,498 attend the final match of the 2023 Women's Six Nations Championship between England and France at Twickenham Stadium, at which England wins 38–33 to achieve the Grand Slam.[77]
  • 30 April – At 8pm, nurses in England begin a 28-hour walkout which will end at midnight on 1 May, the strike having been cut short from 48 hours after the High Court ruled strike action beyond then would be unlawful because it falls outside the six month period since the ballot in which nurses voted to strike was closed.[78]

May
  • 2 May – The 5% pay increase for one million NHS staff in England is signed off at a meeting between the UK government and representatives from 14 trade unions; all NHS employees but doctors and dentists are represented at the meeting.[79]
  • 5 May – Following her trial and conviction at Norwich Crown Court, Helen Hewlett is sentenced to seven and a half years in prison after attempting to hire a hitman to kill a work colleague with whom she had a brief affair.[80]
  • 8 May – Data published by NHS Business Services Authority indicated the number of community pharmacies in England is at its lowest since 2015, with 1,025 pharmacies in operation, and 160 having closed in the past two years.[81]
  • 9 May – Several areas of England are hit by flash floods as much of the country is affected by heavy rain storms.[82]
  • 10 May –
    • A major incident is declared in Somerset following heavy rain and flash flooding in southern England.[83]
    • The Metropolitan Police apologises for failing to disclose documents relating to the Murder of Daniel Morgan that were found in a locked cabinet at its headquarters.[84]
  • 12 May – David Boyd, 55, is found guilty at Newcastle Law Courts of the 1992 murder of Nikki Allan in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear. The jury of 10 women and two men spent two and a half hours of deliberating to convict Boyd of the murder.[85] Boyd is due to be sentenced on 23 May 2023.[85]
  • 14 May – Chelsea defeat Manchester United 1–0 to win the 2023 Women's FA Cup final.[86]
  • 16 May – Greggs reaches a deal with Westminster City Council to allow it to sell food and hot drinks at its Leicester Square outlet until 2.00am on some nights. The council had objected to a previous plan for 24-hour opening amid concerns it would attract antisocial behaviour, with the agreement reached as a court case was about to commence.[87]
  • 17 May – The £2 cap on bus fares in England is extended until the end of October; a £2.50 cap will then be in place until December 2024.[88]
  • 18 May – Two teenage cousins are sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Khayri Mclean, who was stabbed in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire in 2022 as he walked home from school.[89]

Deaths

See also

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