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2000 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 2000 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

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Events

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January

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  • Japanese carmaker Nissan adds a third model to its factory near Sunderland: the new generation of the Almera hatchback and saloon which goes on sale in March.[1]
  • 1 January – Millennium celebrations take place throughout the UK. The Millennium Dome in London is officially opened by HM The Queen.
  • 4 January – Catherine Hartley and Fiona Thornewill become the first British women to reach the South Pole.[2]
  • 10 January – Tony Blair's wife, Cherie, is fined for not having a valid train ticket with her on a journey from Blackfriars to Luton. She claims to have had only Portuguese currency with her at the time and to have been unable to find a machine where she could use her credit card.[3]
  • 11 January – A Scottish trawler, the Solway Harvester, sinks in the Irish Sea, killing seven sailors.[4]
  • 12 January – Indictment and arrest of Augusto Pinochet: It is announced that former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, is to be deported after the Home Secretary, Jack Straw, accepts "unequivocal and unanimous" medical evidence that Pinochet is unfit to stand trial in Spain on charges of torture.[5]
  • 22 January – The Rugby league 2000 World Club Challenge is won by Melbourne Storm who defeat St. Helens 44 – 6 at the JJB Stadium in Wigan.
  • 28 January – The Liberal Democrat MP for Cheltenham, Nigel Jones, is attacked at his constituency surgery by a madman with a samurai sword. Andrew Pennington, a councillor, comes to Jones's defence but is stabbed nine times and dies later aged 39.[6]
  • 31 January – Dr. Harold Shipman is sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of murdering fifteen patients in Greater Manchester between 1995 and 1998. He is also sentenced to four years in prison, to run concurrently, for forging the will of one of his victims.[7] The subsequent enquiry considers him to have killed at least 215.[8]

February

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March

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April

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May

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June

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July

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August

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September

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  • September
  • 8 September – UK fuel protests: Protesters block the entrances to oil refineries in protest against high fuel prices. Panic buying by motorists, leads to nationwide petrol shortages, with between 75 and 90% of all UK petrol stations closing due to low supplies in the following week.
  • 10 September – Operation Barras: A British military operation to free five soldiers from the Royal Irish Regiment that were held captive for over two weeks during the Sierra Leone Civil War, all of whom were rescued.
  • 14 September – After beginning the year 20 points behind the Labour government in the opinion polls, the Conservative opposition's hopes of winning the next election (due to be held within eighteen months) are boosted when they come two points ahead of Labour on 38% in a MORI opinion poll.[36] This marked the first time the Conservatives had led the Labour Party in national opinion polling since January 1993.
  • 15 September–1 October – Great Britain competes at the Olympics in Sydney and wins 11 Gold, 10 Silver and 7 Bronze medals.
  • 18 September – Survivors of the Southall and Ladbroke Grove rail disasters criticise Railtrack for putting costs ahead of safety and causing a series of blunders which led to the tragedies.
  • 20 September – A missile is fired from a rocket launcher at the MI6 headquarters building in central London, striking the eighth floor. It is the first time this type of weapon has been used on the mainland, with the Real IRA suspected of being behind the attack.[37]
  • 21 September – William McCrea of the Democratic Unionist Party wins the South Antrim by-election from the Ulster Unionist Party.[9]
  • 23 September
  • 29 September – HM Prison Maze, a prison used to incarcerate members of illegal paramilitaries during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, closes as a result of the Good Friday Agreement.[40]

October

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November

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December

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Undated

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  • 2000 is the wettest year on record in the UK.[53]
  • Sales of the DVD format, first launched in the UK in June 1998, pass the 1 million mark, although the VHS format remains by far the most popular format of home video.[54]

Publications

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Births

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Ryan Sessegnon
Phil Foden
Connie Talbot
Erling Haaland
Callum Hudson-Odoi

Deaths

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January

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Bernard Braine

February

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Dominic Bruce
Stanley Matthews

March

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Cab Kaye
Ian Dury

April

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May

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Barbara Cartland
John Gielgud

June

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Vera Atkins
David Tomlinson

July

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John Albert Axel Gibson

August

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Geoffrey Page in his Spitfire
Alec Guinness

September

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John Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland

October

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Donald Dewar

November

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Simon Wigg

December

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Toby Low, 1st Baron Aldington
Kirsty MacColl

See also

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References

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