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Events of the year 2025 in England .

Incumbent

Further information: Politics of England

Events

January

• 1 January –
  • Two teenagers are killed and seven other people injured in a collision involving two cars in East Yorkshire. ^[1]
  • The cap on bus fares in England rises from £2 to £3 per journey. ^[2]
  • West Midlands Police announce they have located Sheila Fox, missing from Coventry since 1972, and say she is safe and living in another part of the country. ^[3]
• 2 January –
  • Twenty Labour Party councillors on Broxtowe Borough Council in Nottinghamshire have resigned from Labour in protest at the direction of the party under Sir Keir Starmer and will sit as independents. ^[4]
  • Graham Sheldon resigns as leader of Oldham Council's Conservatives, and from the Conservative Party itself, after police were called to a heated council meeting on 18 December. ^[5]
  • Rapper Stormzy is given a nine month driving ban by Wimbledon Magistrates' Court after he was caught using a mobile phone while driving in March 2024. ^[6]
  • A baby boy is killed when a car hits a tree after leaving the A1 dual carriageway near Grantham, Lincolnshire. ^[7]
  • A man dies in a 230ft fall from Sharp Edge on Blencathra, in the Lake District. ^[8]
• 3 January – Data from NHS England shows the number of people being treated in hospital for flu in the week ending 29 December was 5,000, a fourfold increase from November, and was continuing to rise "at a very concerning rate". ^[9]
• 4 January –
  • The NHS in Cornwall declares critical incident. ^[10]
  • A fire destroys a historic building housing the Dorset Burger Company in Weymouth, Dorset. ^[11]
• 6 January –
  • Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer outlines plans to reduce hospital waiting lists in England, including setting up more community hubs and greater utilisation of the private sector. ^[12]
  • Former prison officer Linda De Sousa is sentenced to fifteen months in prison for having sex with an inmate at Wandsworth Prison. ^[13]
• 7 January –
  • Police launch a murder investigation after a 14-year-old boy, subsequently named as Kelyan Bokassa, is stabbed to death on a double-decker bus in Woolwich, south east London. ^{[14] [15]}
  • The Crafter's Companion store, a business owned by Dragons' Den panellist Sara Davies, in Barlborough, near Chesterfield, is closed by administrators, leaving 10 people redundant. A second store in Evesham, Worcestershire base, remains open, along with the company's head office in County Durham. Davies was a previous shareholder in the business, but reacquired it from the administrators. ^[16]
• 10 January – Ten Reform UK councillors in Derbyshire resign from the party in protest at Nigel Farage's leadership, claiming the Reform is being run in an "increasingly autocratic manner" and "has lost its sense of direction" since Farage took over as leader. In response, Farage says the members were put forward by a "rogue branch" of the party and that "none of them passed vetting". ^[17]
• 11 January – An off-duty police officer, subsequently named as PC Rosie Prior, is killed when she is struck by a lorry on the A19 at Bagby in North Yorkshire after stopping to help at the scene of an earlier crash. Ryan Welford, a driver who was involved in the first crash, is also killed in the incident, while a passenger is taken to hospital for treatment. ^[18]
• 12 January – A man is arrested for attempted murder after a female member of staff, reported to be a nurse, was stabbed in the A&E department of the Royal Oldham Hospital and suffered lifechanging injuries. ^[19]
• 13 January –
  • A man is charged with the attempted murder of a nurse who was stabbed at the Royal Oldham Hospital on 11 January. ^[20]
  • Ryan Wellings, who became the first defendant to stand trial for the unlawful killing of his partner after she committed suicide following prolonged domestic abuse, is cleared of her manslaughter, but found guilty of assault and prolonged domestic violence. ^[21] He is subsequently sentenced to six and a half years in custody. ^[22]
  • Two women are arrested after climate change protestors spray paint the grave of Charles Darwin in Westminster Abbey. ^[23]
  • At Birmingham Crown Court, five men who used dating app Grindr to target and rob a series of men are given prison sentences of between 12 and 17 years. ^[24]
• 14 January –
  • The NHS is to extend bowel cancer screening in the form of home test kits to everyone over the age of 50 in England, bringing England in line with Scotland and Wales. ^[25]
  • MPs vote to back a one-month cap on advanced rents in England as part of the Renters' Rights Bill. ^[26]
• 16 January –
  • Convicted murderer Jake Fahri, sentenced to life imprisonment for the 2008 murder of schoolboy Jimmy Mizen and released on parole in 2023, is recalled to prison after "shamelessly boasting" about his crime, the Probation Service says. ^[27]
  • Hassan Sentamu is found guilty of the September 2023 murder of Elianne Andam in Croydon. ^[28]
  • Police in Greater Manchester seize a Tesla Cybertruck, a vehicle which is illegal to drive in the UK because of safety concerns. ^[29]
• 17 January – White supremacist Callum Parslow, who stabbed an asylum seeker at a hotel near Worcester in what a judge described as "undoubtedly a terrorist attack", is sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 22 and eight months after being convicted of attempted murder. ^[30]
• 18 January – A further three people are charged with the murder of Michelle Sadio, who was shot dead outside a church in Harlesden, north west London, on the night of 14 December. ^[31]

Predicted and scheduled events

• 19 April – 5 May – 2025 World Snooker Championship ^[32]
• 1 May
  • 2025 Cornwall Council election ^[33]
  • 2025 Suffolk County Council election ^[34]
• 22 June – 350th anniversary of Royal Observatory Greenwich. ^[35]
• 22 August – 27 September – 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup ^{[36] [37]}

Holidays

Further information: Public holidays in England

Source: ^{[38] [39]}

• 1 January – New Year's Day
• 18 April – Good Friday
• 21 April – Easter Monday
• 5 May – Early May bank holiday
• 26 May – Spring May Bank Holiday
• 25 August – Summer Bank Holiday
• 25 December – Christmas Day
• 26 December – Boxing Day

Deaths

January

• 2 January – Russ North, 59, English heavy metal singer (Cloven Hoof). ^[40]
• 9 January – Laurie Holloway, 86, English pianist, musical director and composer. ^[41]
• 13 January –
  • Tony Book, 90, English football player (Bath City, Manchester City) and manager (Manchester City). ^[42]
  • Elgar Howarth, 89, English conductor, composer and trumpeter. ^[43]
• 14 January – John Blakemore, 88, English photographer. ^[44]
• 15 January – Diane Langton, 77, English actress ( Hollyoaks , Only Fools and Horses , EastEnders ). ^[45]
• 16 January – Dame Joan Plowright, 95, English actress ( Enchanted April , A Taste of Honey , 101 Dalmatians ), Tony winner (1961). ^[46]

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