February 2007 in Britain and Ireland

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  • An investigation is launched into possible contamination of petrol supplies in South East England, following hundreds of reports of vehicle problems. »(BBC)
  • Airbus announces it is cutting 1600 jobs in the UK, as part of 10,000 job cuts across Europe. »(BBC)
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  • Dame Helen Mirren receives the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen »(BBC)
  • The Rail Accident Investigation Branch's official interim report into the Grayrigg derailment states that a failed set of points were to blame. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6398057.stm#points (BBC)] »(full report)
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  • Prime Minister Tony Blair announces that 1,500 British troops will leave Iraq within weeks with another 1,500 by the end of the year. »(BBC)
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  • 2007 United Kingdom letter bombs: Miles Cooper, a school caretaker from Cherry Hinton, near Cambridge is arrested in connection with the recent string of letter bombs. »(The Times)
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  • Five British soldiers are cleared of abusing Iraqi civilians in Basra. »(BBC)
  • A fifteen year old boy is shot and killed in his home in Clapham, South London. »(BBC)
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  • The Queen wins the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award for Best Film of 2006 with Helen Mirren winning the award as Best Actress. Forest Whitaker wins the Best Actor award for his role in the The Last King of Scotland which won the Best British Film Award. »(Sydney Morning Herald) »(BBC)
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  • Police release two of the nine men arrested during last week's terrorism raids in Birmingham without charge. »(BBC)
  • A letter bomb, the third in as many days, has injured a woman working at the main DVLA centre in south Wales. Today's attack follows two others, at other road transport agencies in the UK. »(BBC) »(BBC) »(BBC)
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  • The Sun newspaper has obtained a video tape of a U.S. pilot shooting a UK convoy in a friendly fire incident during the Iraq War, killing one British soldier and injuring four. The pilot, and others, are said to have made a series of crucial mistakes. [http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007060133,00.html (The Sun)]
  • Three people in the United Kingdom have been jailed after plotting over internet chatrooms to abduct and rape two teenage girls. »(The Times)
  • Global spread of bird flu: UK authorities incinerate more than 50,000 turkeys as they are working to contain the bird flu. »(BBC)
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  • 2,600 turkeys which died at a Bernard Matthews farm in Holton, Suffolk are confirmed to have had the H5N1 strain of avian influenza. »(BBC)
  • Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair urges the Labour Party to 'weather the storm' during the current political crisis, stating that 'it should not change our »party's course or our confidence'. »(BBC)
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