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The $15BN Channel Tunnel opened, linking Britain to mainland Europe by rail for the first time since the last Ice Age, after six years of construction under the English Channel.

The Roslin Institute reveals that a Finn-Dorset lamb born the previous July was cloned from an adult mammary-gland cell by somatic cell nuclear transfer - the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell.

MV Solitaire, converted from a 1972 bulk carrier into a 300-metre pipelaying ship, entered service for Allseas in 1998 and became the world's largest and most powerful pipelay vessel.

The deep-level Jubilee line platforms at Westminster Underground opened, completing London's £3.5bn Jubilee Line Extension after engineers dug a 39-metre station box beside the Thames without disturbing Big Ben's foundations.

The European Marine Energy Centre completed its Billia Croo wave energy test site off Orkney, becoming the world’s first grid-connected facility for testing wave and tidal energy converters at sea.

Combustible cladding turned a fourth-floor kitchen fire into an inferno that engulfed a 24-storey London housing block, killing 72 residents.

Waugh Thistleton's 10-storey Dalston Works in east London is completed, becoming the largest cross-laminated timber structure built anywhere to date.

Circus West Village, the first completed phase of London's Battersea Power Station regeneration designed by SimpsonHaugh and built by Carillion, wrapped up as the scheme's opening residential and retail quarter.

Foster + Partners’ new Bloomberg European headquarters in the City of London opened with the highest BREEAM sustainability score ever awarded to a major office building.

The US opened its $1BN embassy in London's Nine Elms, a 12-storey glass-cube fortress replacing the historic Grosvenor Square site the US had occupied since 1785.

British Land completed a stripped-back rebuild of an aging 1980s Broadgate office block into 100 Liverpool Street, a low-carbon commercial tower beside Liverpool Street station.

Multiplex's 62-storey 22 Bishopsgate tower - planned and sequenced using an immersive 4D virtual-reality model - reaches practical completion, becoming the City of London's tallest building.

Edinburgh's £150M Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, designed by HLM Architects and built by Brookfield Multiplex, opened to patients after ventilation and drainage faults forced repeated delays.

Nature publishes Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold, alongside open-source code and a database of predicted proteomes. Protein structure prediction stops being a bottleneck for drug discovery.

Herzog & de Meuron's 205-metre One Park Drive tower, the centrepiece of Canary Wharf's new Wood Wharf district on reclaimed Thames-side land, opened to its first residents in London.

Brett Graham's Notting Hill restaurant came back in February 2022 after a closure long enough to cost it its Michelin stars - not by losing them on the plate, but because a shut restaurant cannot be assessed, and the trading restrictions of the pandemic made reopening impractical for its kind of room. It had held two stars from 2010 until 2021, and it regained them after the return.

Gatwick Airport finished an overnight resurfacing of its main runway's busiest sections in September 2022, using a leaner method that cut the job to half the usual time and cost, using 70% less asphalt.

After a five-year, £80M restoration, the bells of Big Ben return to regular service in London’s Elizabeth Tower for the first time since 2017.

Transport for London opened the Silvertown Tunnel, a new road crossing under the Thames built to relieve the perennially congested Blackwall Tunnel a few hundred metres away.

King Charles III officially opened the Thames Tideway Tunnel, a 25km deep sewer built to stop billions of litres of sewage overflowing into the Thames each year.

Lost in Starlight premieres on Netflix, a South Korean animated science-fiction romance following astronaut hopeful Nan-young and musician Jay as a chance meeting draws them together across very different dreams.

National Gas marked a £350M investment in hydrogen-ready compressor infrastructure shared across three sites, Peterborough among them, part of preparing Britain's gas transmission network for a lower-carbon future.

JLR will cut around 4,000 roles, about 10% of its global workforce, over two years, mostly salaried and management jobs in the UK, as it targets £1.7 billion of savings.

For three police recruits in Belfast, the pressure is immense. Facing criminal gangs and divided communities, they don't know who to trust. The odds are they won't all make it. The premiere, "Eyes": The section is challenged by escalating tensions at a community event, while the investigation into Dana Morgan's drug partnership with Tina McIntyre falters. Season 4 starts on BBC iPlayer.

For the first time the Ballon d'Or leaves Paris: the 2026 ceremony is on Monday 26 October 2026 in London, marking 70 years since the first award. On 20 September 2026 Harry Kane was a clear favourite on both exchanges at 55-56%, with Lamine Yamal at 22% and Kylian Mbappé at 8%.

The heavyweight fight British boxing spent a decade failing to make is being put together for Cardiff's Principality Stadium, with its roof closed and around 75,000 seats sold. The date is reported rather than contracted: 28 November is the front-runner, with 4 and 11 December also in play.

London's city museum reopens on 28 November 2026 under a new name and in a new home: the derelict General Market beside Smithfield's meat halls, a Victorian market building left empty for decades and now rebuilt around its own ironwork and glazed dome. The move ends the institution's run at London Wall, where it had been hemmed in by a roundabout and reached by a walkway, and puts it at street level in a market that has traded on the site since the twelfth century.

Amazon MGM's search for the seventh James Bond is one of the most heavily traded entertainment markets on either exchange. On 20 September 2026 Polymarket had Jack Lowden at 42% and Callum Turner at 20% - but also a 20% chance no Bond is named by 31 December 2026 at all; Kalshi's longer market had Lowden in the mid-40s and Turner in the high 30s.

Playground Games' reboot of Fable, directed by Ralph Fulton, arrives on 23 February 2027 for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.

AstraZeneca's phase 3 trial of Camizestrant in breast cancer, early breast cancer reaches primary completion, the point at which the last participant's primary outcome is measured. The trial enrolled 4,300 participants. This is a Phase III open-label study to assess if camizestrant improves outcomes compared to standard endocrine therapy in patients with ER+/HER2 - early breast cancer with intermediate or high risk for disease recurrence who completed definitive locoregional therapy (with or without chemotherapy) and standard adjuvant endocrine therapy (ET) for at least 2 years and up to 5 years. The planned duration of treatment in either arm of the study is 60 months.

The British Grand Prix returns to the old RAF airfield that held the first World Championship race in 1950.

The ladies' singles final is played on Centre Court on the second Saturday of the Championships, for the Venus Rosewater Dish. The All England Club has the 2027 fortnight running 28 June to 11 July.

The oldest title in tennis is decided on Centre Court on the second Sunday. The All England Club has published its 2027 dates: the Championships run 28 June to 11 July, and the gentlemen's singles final closes them.

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe runs 6-30 August 2027, its 80th edition and three weeks of performing arts across the city.

AstraZeneca's phase 3 trial of Tozorakimab in viral lung infection and acute respiratory failure reaches primary completion, the point at which the last participant's primary outcome is measured. The trial enrolled 3,527 participants. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of tozorakimab, as an add-on to SoC in patients with viral lung infection requiring supplemental oxygen, on the prevention of death or progression to IMV/ECMO.

AstraZeneca's phase 3 trial of BGF MDI 320/14.4/9.6 μG in copd reaches primary completion, the point at which the last participant's primary outcome is measured. The trial enrolled 5,000 participants. This study will evaluate the effect of triple ICS/LAMA/LABA therapy with BGF MDI 320/14.4/9.6 μg on cardiopulmonary outcomes relative to LAMA/LABA therapy with GFF MDI 14.4/9.6 μg in a population with COPD and elevated cardiopulmonary risk.

Flight tests of the UK’s crewed sixth-generation demonstrator are due to start from early 2028, after power-on in mid-2027. More than 11,500 parts – about 90% of the aircraft’s weight – have been designed and released, with final assembly under way in Lancashire.

GSK's phase 3 trial of MRNA Seasonal Flu Vaccine in influenza, human reaches primary completion, the point at which the last participant's primary outcome is measured. The trial enrolled 54,000 participants. This study will compare an investigational mRNA flu vaccine with a licensed flu vaccine in adults 65 years of age and older. Participants will receive one injection and will be followed during the flu season. The study will measure prevention of laboratory-confirmed flu illness, side effects, and immune responses.

AstraZeneca's phase 3 trial of Elecoglipron in type 2 diabetes mellitus reaches primary completion, the point at which the last participant's primary outcome is measured. The trial enrolled 2,000 participants. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of elecoglipron and dapagliflozin in combination, compared with elecoglipron alone and dapagliflozin alone, in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) inadequately managed with lifestyle management alone or treated with other background glucose-lowering medication.

AstraZeneca's phase 3 trial of Elecoglipron in weight management reaches primary completion, the point at which the last participant's primary outcome is measured. The trial enrolled 4,500 participants. This master study protocol, Study D7260C00015, covers 2 independent, pivotal studies, Study 1 and Study 2. Each study is a global, randomized, double-blind, parallel-group, multicenter, Phase III study to assess the efficacy and safety of elecoglipron compared with placebo adjunct to diet and exercise for weight management, in adults living with obesity or overweight with at least one weight-related comorbidity, and without T2DM (Study 1) or with T2DM (Study 2).

AstraZeneca's phase 3 trial of AZD6234 in obesity or overweight reaches primary completion, the point at which the last participant's primary outcome is measured. The trial enrolled 2,500 participants. The study will evaluate how well AZD6234 works and how safe it is in adults with excess weight or obesity. Efficacy of AZD6234 will be compared to placebo in percent body weight change from baseline at 68 weeks of treatment

Time Out brings its market home to the city where the magazine started in 1968: 26,400 square feet over three floors at 10 Piccadilly, on a long-term partnership with The Crown Estate, as the flagship of the whole portfolio.

EDF has pushed the first reactor at Britain's Hinkley Point C nuclear plant back to 2030 and raised its cost estimate to roughly £35bn in 2015 prices.

A £3BN, seven-year preliminary phase to repair the crumbling Palace of Westminster, before Parliament chooses between fully vacating the building or working around it.

One London, the tower formerly known as 1 Undershaft that will match the Shard as Western Europe's tallest building, finally won full planning consent after nearly a decade of delays.

Heathrow Airport has set out a £49BN expansion plan, including a long-sought third runway and a new terminal complex, and has approved work on a planning application after decades of UK government indecision.