2025 in England

Events of the year 2025 in England.

Incumbent

Events

=January=

1 January –
Two teenagers are killed and seven other people injured in a collision involving two cars in East Yorkshire.{{Cite web |first=Stuart |last=Harratt |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c17d10eqv0go |title=Two teenagers killed in East Yorkshire two-car crash |date=1 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=1 January 2025}}
The cap on bus fares in England rises from £2 to £3 per journey.{{Cite web |first=Lora |last=Jones |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpw2en50rjvo |title=Bus fare cap: Passengers in England face £1 rise |date=1 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=1 January 2025}}
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.{{Cite web |first=Charlotte |last=Benton |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyxm7wrk8mo |title=Coventry woman who went missing in 1972 found alive and well |date=1 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=1 January 2025}}
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.{{Cite web |first=Hugh |last=Casswell |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewxrzq0489o |title=Twenty Broxtowe councillors quit Labour over Starmer's leadership |date=2 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=2 January 2025}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0ewj7d285no |title=Oldham Conservative leader resigns after 'explosive' meeting |date=2 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=2 January 2025}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vr077965wo |title=Stormzy: Rapper banned from driving after mobile phone use |date=2 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=2 January 2025}}
A baby boy is killed when a car hits a tree after leaving the A1 dual carriageway near Grantham, Lincolnshire.{{Cite web |first=Richard |last=Madden |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vr49kk5d9o |title=Baby dies after Grantham A1 crash in icy conditions |date=3 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=3 January 2025}}
A man dies in a 230 ft fall from Sharp Edge on Blencathra, in the Lake District.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1el5yn261go |title=Man dies in fall from ridge in Blencathra |date=4 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=4 January 2025}}
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".{{Cite web |first1=Smitha |last1=Mundasad |first2=Philippa |last2=Roxby |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c047ky5qv4ro |title=Flu rises sharply in England's hospitals |date=3 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=3 January 2025}}
4 January –
The NHS in Cornwall declares critical incident.{{Cite web |date=4 January 2025 |title=NHS in Cornwall declares critical incident due to 'sustained pressure' on hospital |url=https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2025-01-04/nhs-in-cornwall-declares-critical-incident-due-to-sustained-pressure |website=ITV News}}
A fire destroys a historic building housing the Dorset Burger Company in Weymouth, Dorset.{{Cite web |date=4 January 2025 |title=Fire at historic building in Weymouth tackled by 60 firefighters – as flats evacuated |url=https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2025-01-04/historic-building-goes-up-in-flames-as-roads-closed-and-no-fly-zone-introduced |website=ITV News}}
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.{{Cite web |first1=Hugh |last1=Pym |first2=Nick |last2=Triggle |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgxqnr8yw4o |title=Government unveils plan to reduce NHS waiting-list backlog |date=6 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=6 January 2025}}
Former prison officer Linda De Sousa is sentenced to fifteen months in prison for having sex with an inmate at Wandsworth Prison.{{Cite web |first=Nick |last=Johnson |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy849w4ygwo |title=Wandsworth: Ex-prison officer jailed over sex with inmate |date=6 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=6 January 2025}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yw171xdw4o |title=Boy, 14, stabbed to death on 472 bus in Woolwich, London |date=7 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=7 January 2025}}{{Cite web |first=Jess |last=Warren |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8x8vvlm3ro |title=Woolwich stabbing: Arrests made after boy, 14, stabbed on bus |date=15 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=15 January 2025}}
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.{{Cite web |first1=Samantha |last1=Noble |first2=George |last2=Torr |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39117zzrrwo |title=Chesterfield shop shuts as Dragons' Den star takes over company |date=18 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=18 January 2025}}
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".{{Cite web |first1=Harry |last1=Farley |first2=Tom |last2=Oakley |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0lz8xn8zd8o |title=Reform UK councillors resign in protest over Nigel Farage |date=10 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=11 January 2025}}
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.{{Cite web |first1=Jacqueline |last1=Howard |first2=Grace |last2=Wood |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7vd6n66m4jo |title=PC Rosie Prior and man die after lorry hits them at North Yorkshire A19 crash site |date=12 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=12 January 2025}}
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.{{Cite web |first=Rumeana |last=Jahangir |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyz2119v6ro |title=Oldham hospital stabbing: Female staff member attacked in hospital A&E |date=12 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=12 January 2025}}
13 January –
A man is charged with the attempted murder of a nurse who was stabbed at the Royal Oldham Hospital on 11 January.{{Cite web |first1=Ewan |last1=Gawne |first2=Ian |last2=Shoesmith |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yvrl0x8j9o |title=Royal Oldham Hospital: Attempted murder charge after nurse stabbed |date=13 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=13 January 2025}}
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.{{Cite web |first1=Emma |last1=Stanley |first2=Kara |last2=O'Neill |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2n2dn0rkxo |title=Bispham: Abusive man cleared of partner's manslaughter |date=13 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=13 January 2025}} He is subsequently sentenced to six and a half years in custody.{{Cite web |first1=Jonny |last1=Humphries |first2=Emma |last2=Witherington |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czj3drenvl2o |title=Kiena Dawes: Man who abused mum before she took own life jailed |date=16 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=17 January 2025}}
Two women are arrested after climate change protestors spray paint the grave of Charles Darwin in Westminster Abbey.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g9mldjpdyo |title=Westminster Abbey: JSO activists spray-paint Charles Darwin grave |date=13 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=13 January 2025}}
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.{{Cite web |first=Caroline |last=Gall |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpq9vey1ndxo |title=Armed gang who used Grindr to rob Birmingham and Derby victims jailed |date=13 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=13 January 2025}}
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.{{Cite web |first=Annabel |last=Rackham |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c04nllr0znpo |title=NHS home bowel-cancer tests to be extended to over-50s in England |date=14 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=14 January 2025}}
MPs vote to back a one-month cap on advanced rents in England as part of the Renters' Rights Bill.{{Cite web |first=Jennifer |last=McKiernan |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgyr4g9k9vo |title=MPs back one-month cap on advance rent payments |date=14 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=14 January 2025}}
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.{{Cite web |first=Harry |last=Low |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9vmmrx9k90o |title=Prison recall for Jake Fahri after 'shameless' Jimmy Mizen murder boast |date=17 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=17 January 2025}}
Hassan Sentamu is found guilty of the September 2023 murder of Elianne Andam in Croydon.{{Cite web |first1=Harry |last1=Low |first2=Adina |last2=Campbell |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqldr37n2xxo |title=Elianne Andam: Teenager found guilty of murdering 15-year-old girl |date=16 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=16 January 2025}}
Police in Greater Manchester seize a Tesla Cybertruck, a vehicle which is illegal to drive in the UK because of safety concerns.{{Cite web |first=Rumeana |last=Jahangir |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz0lldd30xlo |title=Tesla Cybertruck: Bury driver stopped in vehicle banned in UK |date=17 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=18 January 2025}}
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.{{Cite web |first=Gavin |last=Kermack |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7vddrjjgr0o |title=Worcester white supremacist jailed for asylum seeker attack |date=17 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=17 January 2025}}
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.{{Cite web |first=Liz |last=Jackson |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y70kld2r9o |title=Michelle Sadio: Three charged after fatal shooting outside church |date=18 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=18 January 2025}}
21 January –
Three men who stabbed motorist Sadiq Al-lami to death in a road rage attack in Didsbury, Greater Manchester in January 2024, are sentenced to life imprisonment.{{Cite web |first1=Anna |last1=Jameson |first2=Ewan |last2=Gawne |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy48vzv20lwo |title=Manchester: Three men behind 'senseless' road-rage murder jailed |date=21 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=22 January 2025}}
A murder investigation is launched following the fatal stabbing of a 12-year-old boy, subsequently named as Leo Ross, in the Hall Green area of Birmingham.{{Cite web |first1=Andrew |last1=Dawkins |first2=Shyamantha |last2=Asokan |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crm7ken211eo |title=Leo Ross: Boy, 12, killed in Birmingham stabbing was 'adored' |date=22 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=22 January 2025}}
22 January – Kyle Clifford pleads guilty to the murders of Carol, Hannah and Louise Hunt in Bushey, Hertfordshire, on 9 July 2024.{{Cite web |first1=Nick |last1=Johnson |first2=Danny |last2=Fullbrook |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8pd7dn8v6o |title=Bushey crossbow attack: Man admits killing mum and two daughters |date=22 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=22 January 2025}}
24 January – Deveca Rose, whose four children died in a house fire after she left them alone in December 2021, is sentenced to ten years in prison for manslaughter.{{Cite web |first1=Jeremy |last1=Britton |first2=Olivia |last2=Demetriades |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ye7p34235o |title=Sutton: Deveca Rose jailed after her four sons died in house fire |date=24 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=24 January 2025}}
25 January –
West Midlands Police confirm that a 14-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of Leo Ross in Birmingham.{{Cite web |first1=Shyamantha |last1=Asokan |first2=Richard |last2=Price |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9d5qqvejzpo |title=Leo Ross stabbing: Boy, 14, charged with Hall Green murder |date=25 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=25 January 2025}}
West Yorkshire Police confirm that three teenagers were killed in a crash near Wakefield the previous evening when a car left the road and hit a tree.{{Cite web |first=Grace |last=Wood |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0p8g2x4rzo |title=Three teenagers die after car hits tree in West Yorkshire |date=25 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=25 January 2025}}
A police officer is injured after he is struck by a vehicle in Greater Manchester; a suspect is subsequently arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.{{Cite web |first=Angela |last=Ferguson |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3n5e4pl3qo |title=Cheadle: Man, 19, arrested after vehicle hits police officer |date=26 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=26 January 2025}}
26 January – Police are investigating the vandalism of two memorials to police officers who died in the line of duty in West Yorkshire, which happened on subsequent days.{{Cite web |first=Alex |last=Moss |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8j8pdv3rx0o |title=Memorials to murdered West Yorkshire police officers vandalised |date=26 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=26 January 2025}}
28 January – An inquest into the 2018 Leicester helicopter crash in which five people were killed rules the crash was an accident.{{Cite web |first=Isaac |last=Ashe |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2jx7gqgx5o |title=Leicester City helicopter crash ruled an accident at jury inquest |date=28 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=29 January 2025}}
30 January – During a hearing at the Old Bailey, Steve Sansom and Gemma Watts plead guilty to the murder of Sarah Mayhew, whose dismembered remains were discovered in locations around London in 2023; both are sentenced to life imprisonment, with Sansom, who was on licence for committing a previous murder, given a whole life sentence.{{Cite web |first1=Jeremy |last1=Britton |first2=Olivia |last2=Demetriades |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1ez4pz8n62o |title=Sarah Mayhew murder: 'Bloodthirsty' couple jailed |date=30 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=30 January 2025}}
31 January – UK drill rapper Digga D is sentenced to three years and eleven months in prison for supplying 99 lbs of cannabis.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78w3vl6j6xo |title=UK Drill rapper Digga D jailed for supplying cannabis |date=31 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=31 January 2025}}

=February=

1 February – Four people are killed when the vehicle they are travelling in crashes into a building in Colchester, Essex.{{Cite web |first1=Kris |last1=Holland |first2=Harriet |last2=Heywood |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3le1z892vo |title=Four dead after vehicle hits building in Colchester |date=1 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=1 February 2025}}
3 February – New Ofsted report cards are launched for assessing schools, with government intervention for struggling schools to take place much sooner than under the previous system.{{Cite web |first1=Judith |last1=Burns |first2=Nathan |last2=Standley |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20gkmy6k74o |title=Phillipson says new Ofsted report cards will help 'stuck' schools |date=3 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=3 February 2025}}
4 February – Robert Jenner is sentenced to 30 years in prison for attempting to kill a police officer by stabbing him in the head with a pair of scissors at a flat in Maidstone, Kent, in 2023.{{Cite web |first1=Bob |last1=Dale |first2=Sara |last2=Smith |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78xj2xx317o |title=Robert Jenner: Maidstone man jailed for trying to kill PC with scissors |date=4 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=4 February 2025}}
6 February – Two couples tell the BBC that they went through with aborting healthy babies after doctors at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust told them the unborn children had serious genetic problems.{{Cite web |first=Michael |last=Buchanan |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgljz4vve2o |title=We aborted healthy babies after NHS mistakes, couples tell BBC |date=6 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=6 February 2025}}
9 February – A BBC News investigation discovers that Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire failed more than once to disclose the burning of wood from primary forests.{{Cite web |first=Joe |last=Crowley |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxnpzzjed1o |title=Drax power station didn't properly disclose burning forest wood |date=9 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=9 February 2025}}
10 February –
Simon Vickers is sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 15 years for the July 2024 murder of his 14-year-old daughter Scarlett Vickers, after a jury rejects his claim that he stabbed her with a kitchen knife during a play fight and that her death was "a freak accident".{{Cite web |first=Duncan |last=Leatherdale |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c04nkdng2xro |title=Darlington play-fight claim dad jailed for murdering daughter |date=10 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=10 February 2025}}
The UK government agrees a new funding deal with Drax Power Station that will reduce the amount of subsidies it receives by half.{{Cite web |first=Jonah |last=Fisher |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyplj7dkw2o |title=Controversial Drax power station gets more government subsidies |date=10 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=10 February 2025}}
11 February – James Garnor resigns as a member of Whittlebury Parish Council after a video was shared that appeared to show an explosive device being triggered by a cat.{{Cite web |first=Martin |last=Heath |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c897n9gxwxno |title=Whittlebury councillor accused of blowing up cat resigns |date=11 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=11 February 2025}}
12 February –
The UK government unveils a £300m project to build more affordable housing in England. Part of the plans will also curb the amount of housing benefit rogue landlords receive if their properties are substandard.{{Cite web |first=Sam |last=Francis |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj3ed08evk1o |title=Government plans to stop 'housing benefit going to rogue landlords' |date=12 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=12 February 2025}}
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is fined £1.6m for failings connected to the deaths of three babies under its care.{{Cite web |first=Asha |last=Patel |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr46vdn133xo |title=Nottingham NHS trust fined £1.6m over failings in baby deaths |date=12 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=12 February 2025}}
13 February –
The Parole Board confirms that Michael Steele, one of two men convicted over the 1995 Rettendon murders and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1998, will be released from prison on licence.{{Cite web |first=Peter |last=Walker |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98yz453nrpo |title=Essex Boys murderer Michael Steele to be released from prison |date=13 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=13 February 2025}}
David Newton is convicted of the 2013 murder of retired postmistress Una Crown, who was stabbed to death at her home in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. Originally a suspect at the time of the murder, he was re-arrested in April 2024 following advances in DNA technology.{{Cite web |first1=Brian |last1=Farmer |first2=Helen |last2=Burchell |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx251yv5d5ko |title=Man found guilty of murdering widow, 86, in Wisbech in 2013 |date=13 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=13 February 2025}}
The UK government publishes a list of 100 proposed locations for potential new towns in England, with Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook saying work on them will begin before the next general election.{{Cite web |first1=Chas |last1=Geiger |first2=Alex |last2=Forsyth |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly7kn4z399o |title=Work on new towns to begin by 2029, housing minister says |date=13 February 2025 |publisher=BBC |website=BBC News |access-date=13 February 2025}}
14 February –
David Newton is sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 21 years for the 2013 murder of Una Crown.{{Cite web |first1=Brian |last1=Farmer |first2=Helen |last2=Burchell |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g91v0l78lo |title=Killer who knifed Wisbech widow Una Crown to death jailed |date=14 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=15 February 2025}}
Around 100 people are rescued after fire breaks out at the five-storey Chiltern Firehouse hotel in Marylebone, Central London.{{Cite web |first=Liz |last=Jackson |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2pddz529eo |title=Chiltern Firehouse: Dozens evacuated as fire breaks out at hotel |date=14 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=14 February 2025}}
Kent Police launch a murder investigation after a woman, who is subsequently named as 43-year-old Lisa Smith from Slough, is shot dead outside the Three Horseshoes pub on Main Road, Knockholt.{{Cite web |first1=Stuart |last1=Maisner |first2=Joshua |last2=Askew |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c75z2374qzno |title=Knockholt: Woman killed in Valentine's Day pub shooting |date=15 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=15 February 2025}}{{Cite web |first1=Bob |last1=Dale |first2=Joshua |last2=Askew |first3=Jo |last3=Burn |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c77r76zn0lro |title=Knockholt shooting: Woman shot dead on Valentine's Day named |date=17 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=17 February 2025}}
Lottery winners Patrick and Frances Connolly, from Hartlepool, have acquired a 25% stake in Championship side Durham Women FC with the aim of reaching the Women's Super League.{{Cite web |first=Evie |last=Lake |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c79dpyvr8r0o |title=Lottery winners invest in Durham Women FC in ownership change |date=14 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=15 February 2025}}
15 February –
BBC News reports that the convictions of Jack Whomes and Michael Steele for the Rettendon murders are being reviewed by the Criminal Cases Review Commission following an application.{{Cite web |first1=Lewis |last1=Adams |first2=Tom |last2=Larsen-Wright |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20g32p36n1o |title=Essex Boys murder convictions being reviewed again |date=15 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=15 February 2025}}
Netflix are forced to move their BAFTA Awards afterparty, scheduled to be held at the Chiltern Firehouse the following day, to a different venue after a fire at the hotel.{{Cite web |first=Noor |last=Nanji |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yd1377n3eo |title=Bafta Film Awards: Netflix moves afterparty after Chiltern Firehouse fire |date=15 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=15 February 2025}}
16 February – A man is charged with the murder of Julie Buckley, a woman from Christchurch near March in Cambridge, who disappeared in January. Charges have been brought even though a body has not been found.{{Cite web |first=Neve |last=Gordon-Farleigh |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62723r2z00o |title=Man charged with murder of Julie Buckley from Christchurch |date=16 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=17 February 2025}}
17 February –
Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the UK government met a key election target to provide an extra two million GP appointments, with the target being met between July and November 2024.{{Cite web |first1=Hugh |last1=Pym |first2=David |last2=Mercer |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4z4vw3p1do |title=Keir Starmer: Pledge of two million extra NHS appointments met |date=16 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=17 February 2025}}
Logan Burnett is sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 23 years and 173 days for the murder of his partner, Courtney Mitchell, who was stabbed to death in front of her friends in Ipswich on 6 August 2024.{{Cite web |first=George |last=King |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93q3xvq4pqo |title='Monster' jailed for murdering mother-of-three in Ipswich |date=17 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=17 February 2025}}
18 February – Jack Bennett is sentenced to 28 weeks in prison by Exeter Magistrates after pleading guilty to sending malicious communications to MP Jess Phillips, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and a Metropolitan police officer between February 2024 and January 2025. He is also given a restraining order preventing him from contacting his victims for five years.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3rndxj705jo |title=Man jailed for abusive emails to Jess Phillips and Sadiq Khan |date=18 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=18 February 2025}}
19 February – County Durham Police begin a search for keen long-distance runner Jenny Hall, 23, who was last seen the previous afternoon. Her car is discovered parked on the B6278 on remote moorland.{{Cite web |first=Jason Arunn |last=Murugesu |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2lj9791740o |title=Search for missing Jenny Hall from Tow Law enters fourth day |date=22 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=22 February 2025}}
20 February – Kent Police announce that they believe a man who they suspect of shooting his wife dead on Valentine's Day is dead. Edward Stockings is said to have entered the River Thames after shooting dead Lisa Smith outside a pub.{{Cite web |first=Patrick |last=Barlow |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c24137eq9gpo |title=Knockholt pub shooting suspect believed dead in River Thames |date=20 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=20 February 2025}}
21 February – Former Bedfordshire police officer Natasha Conneely, who removed a burglar's electronic tag so they could have a sexual relationship, is sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to corruption or other improper exercise of police powers and privileges.{{Cite web |first=Danny |last=Fullbrook |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgdl25zdx7o |title=Bedfordshire police officer removed tag for sexual relationship |date=22 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=22 February 2025}}
22 February –
2025 Six Nations Championship: England regain the Calcutta Cup for the first time since 2020 after defeating Scotland 16–15 at Twickenham when Scotland missed a last-minute conversion.{{Cite web |first=Mike |last=Henson |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/cx2r8g13wz9o |title=Six Nations: England 16-15 Scotland – Finn Russell misses late conversion as England regain Calcutta Cup |date=22 February 2025 |website=BBC Sport |publisher=BBC |access-date=22 February 2025}}
A three-year-old girl is killed in a crash between a van and a tram in Greater Manchester.{{Cite web |first=Laura |last=O'Neill |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0jg8q433ego |title=Manchester police hunt van driver as girl, 3, dies in tram crash |date=22 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=22 February 2025}} A man is subsequently charged in connection with the death.{{Cite web |first=Ewan |last=Gawne |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4n8gd940xo |title=Manchester tram and van crash: Man, 35, charged over girl's death |date=26 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=26 February 2025}}
The M4 is closed between the Severn Crossing and Junction 21 after the body of a 40-year-old male is discovered on the carriageway.{{Cite web |first1=Emma |last1=Rossiter |first2=Zoe |last2=Gough |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgdzrlll3xo |title=M4 and M48 reopens after body found on carriageway |date=22 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=23 February 2025}} Avon and Somerset Police subsequently confirm the deceased man had been arrested the previous day after accusations against him were livestreamed online by a vigilante group.{{Cite web |first=Bea |last=Swallow |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gelvm7vero |title=Bristol M4 death investigated after 'predator' sting |date=24 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=24 February 2025}}
23 February –
Police searching for Jenny Hall, missing since 18 February, find a body in forest in a remote part of Teesdale.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4vnp9r9ngo |title=Jenny Hall: Body found in forest search for missing runner |date=23 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=23 February 2025}}
A number of residents in the Wythenshawe area of Greater Manchester are evacuated following a fire involving a lorry on an industrial estate.{{Cite web |first=Stewart |last=Whittingham |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj92n9lwkwgo |title=Wythenshawe: Homes evacuated after huge lorry fire breaks out |date=23 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=23 February 2025}}
A 17-year-old boy is taken to hospital after being stabbed in the chest at a Primark store in Nottingham.{{Cite web |first=Dan |last=Martin |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gdpl0dww0o |title=Teenage boy stabbed in chest in Nottingham Primark store |date=23 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=23 February 2025}} A 16-year-old boy is subsequently arrested, charged and remanded in custody over the incident.{{Cite web |first=Greig |last=Watson |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2gndxdk7do |title=Boy, 16, in court after stabbing at Nottingham city centre Primark store |date=24 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=24 February 2025}}
24 February –
The UK government publishes a list of 750 schools to establish breakfast clubs for pupils from April, with the pilot scheme paving the way for an England-wide initiative.{{Cite web |first1=Sam |last1=Francis |first2=Vanessa |last2=Clarke |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg1p0zv541o |title=First 750 schools named for free breakfast clubs in England |date=24 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=24 February 2025}}
At Luton Crown Court, 19-year-old Nicholas Prosper pleads guilty to the murders of his mother and two siblings, who were shot dead in September 2024; it is also reported that Prosper planned to carry out a mass shooting at his school.{{Cite web |first1=Nicola |last1=Haseler |first2=Harriet |last2=Heywood |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce342g0xz15o |title=Luton shooting: Man who murdered family planned school attack |date=24 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=24 February 2025}}
A pedestrian is killed and two others injured in a crash involving a bus and a car in Harrow.{{Cite web |date=25 February 2025 |title=Harrow crash leaves ones woman dead and others hurt |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89y7vqdx9zo |access-date=25 February 2025 |website=BBC News |language=en-GB}}
An 84-year-old man is taken to hospital with critical injuries following an attack by a suspected American XL bully in Warrington, Cheshire; the dog, along with another suspected XL bully, are shot by armed police.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjry83gjlqno |title=Warrington: Man, 84, critically hurt after suspected XL bully attack |date=25 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=25 February 2025}}
25 February –
Amanda Pritchard announces she will stepping down as chief executive of NHS England.{{Cite web |first1=Hugh |last1=Pym |first2=Michelle |last2=Roberts |date=25 February 2025 |title=NHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard stepping down |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewk5xlxwkro |access-date=25 February 2025 |website=BBC News |language=en-GB |publisher=BBC}}
Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Dame Lynne Owens announces her retirement.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwydeelw5yvo |title=Met Deputy Commissioner Dame Lynne Owens announces retirement |date=25 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=25 February 2025}}
Actor Alexander Westwood, who appeared in the Netflix series Sex Education, is sentenced to fifteen and a half years in prison after he was convicted of 26 crimes against children and two pupils who went to him for acting tuition.{{Cite web |first1=Eleanor |last1=Lawson |first2=Shyamantha |last2=Asokan |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2rmn0ww33o |title=Actor Alexander Westwood who raped teen in acting classes jailed |date=25 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=25 February 2025}}
27 February – Police confirm that a 19-year-old woman, subsequently named as Morgan Dorset, has died following an attack by a suspected American XL bully at a property in Bristol the previous evening. Two people have been arrested in connection with the incident, while the dog has been destroyed.{{Cite web |first1=Chloe |last1=Harcombe |first2=Leigh |last2=Boobyer |first3=Lee |last3=Madan |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86pp14j0dxo |title=Woman, 19, dies in suspected XL bully dog attack |date=27 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=27 February 2025}}{{Cite web |first1=Clara |last1=Bullock |first2=Beth |last2=Cruse |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1d441203ndo |title=Bristol dog attack: 19-year-old victim named by police |date=28 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=28 February 2025}}
28 February –
A new agreement with the UK government will provide an additional £889m to general practice, enabling surgeries to provide more appointments and for patients to request an appointment with their usual doctor, as well as an end to the "8am scramble" for appointments.{{Cite web |first=Dominic |last=Hughes |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd7ee895nr0o |title=GPs in England strike deal to help end '8am scramble' for appointments |date=28 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=28 February 2025}}
Molly Bury, a former police officer with Lancashire Police who shared information about the disappearance of Nicola Bulley with her family and gained unauthorised access to police computer systems over a number of years, is given a suspended sentence.{{Cite web |first=Emma |last=Stanley |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vwwq260gdo |title=PC looked up Nicola Bulley details on days off and shared with mum |date=28 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=28 February 2025}}
Charity worker Omar Wilson is sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 18 years for the murder of acclaimed chef Mussie Imnetu in August 2024.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4geegxk81xo |title=Mussie Imnetu murder: Chef's killer Omar Wilson jailed for life |date=28 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=28 February 2025}}
The London Fire Brigade announces that Sherlock, a cocker spaniel who has served as its longest fire investigation dog, is to retire after 12 years.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqlyyw0qr94o |title=Sherlock, London's longest-serving fire dog, to retire |date=28 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=28 February 2025}}
Philip Foster, an actor who appeared in Channel 4 soap Brookside, is sentenced to eight and a half years in prison at Sheffield Crown Court over a £13.6m fraud involving fake model agencies.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86pj0dg7ejo |title=Brookside star Philip Foster jailed for modelling fraud |date=1 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=1 March 2025}}
A 17-year-old boy is taken to hospital with serious injuries after being stabbed in Nottingham City Centre.{{Cite web |first=Asha |last=Patel |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdel2rr2xd9o |title=Multiple arrests after boy stabbed near Nottingham Castle |date=1 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=1 March 2025}}

=March=

1 March – Three teenage girls are charged with the manslaughter of a 75-year-old man, named as Fredi Rivero, who was attacked in Seven Sisters Road, Islington, London, on 27 February and died in hospital the following day.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1d4r6qkd24o |title=Islington: Three teenage girls charged over death of man, 75 |date=1 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=1 March 2025}}
2 March – A four year old girl dies following a suspected arson attack at a house in Manchester.{{Cite web |first1=Rumeana |last1=Jahangir |first2=Ian |last2=Shoesmith |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y02ekxg95o |title=Girl, 4, dies after suspected arson attack at house |date=2 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=15 March 2025}}
4 March – Police begin a murder investigation after a 16-year-old boy, subsequently named as Lathanlel Burrell, is killed in a shooting incident near Stockwell tube station in south London.{{Cite web |first=Harry |last=Low |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgd6lyqlvno |title=Stockwell shooting: Teenage boy killed near Tube station |date=4 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=4 March 2025}}{{Cite web |first=Olivia |last=Demetriades |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx28gxjz27go |title=Stockwell: Boy shot dead by 'delivery driver' named by police |date=5 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=5 March 2025}}
5 March – A child is killed and a second injured after a car is driven onto a sports pitch in Kendal, Cumbria; a man is arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving.{{Cite web |first1=Evie |last1=Lake |first2=Duncan |last2=Hodgson |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8d4ep9pld9o |title=Child dies after being hit by car on sports pitch in Kendal |date=5 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=5 March 2025}} She is subsequently named as 10-year-old Poppy Atkinson.{{Cite web |first1=Catherine |last1=Lee |first2=Evie |last2=Lake |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vw3dlgg6vo |title=Family tributes to Kendal football girl killed by car on pitch |date=6 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=6 March 2025}}
6 March – At Cambridge Crown Court, Kyle Clifford is convicted of the rape of his ex-girlfriend, Louise Hunt, during an attack which killed her along with her mother and sister in July 2024.{{Cite web |first1=Peter |last1=Walker |first2=Brian |last2=Farmer |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr52r7ndjl6o |title=Kyle Clifford trial: Crossbow murderer found guilty of raping ex |date=6 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=6 March 2025}}
7 March –
Giant trolley scales – designed to weigh trolleys at the checkout to identify errors when scanning goods – are introduced on a trial basis at a Tesco store in Gateshead.{{Cite web |first=Jennifer |last=Meierhans |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rzvrjkklko |title=Tesco trials giant trolley scales in Gateshead |date=7 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=8 March 2025}}
Belgrave Road, a coastal road in Ventnor, Isle of Wight, is closed after part of the cliff collapses, with police describing it as a "significant rockfall".{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy875411417o |title=Ventnor: 'Significant rockfall' closes roads on Isle of Wight |date=8 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=8 March 2025}}
8 March –
Police searching for a suspect in the Valentine's Day shooting of Lisa Smith confirm a body was found in the River Thames near Rainham, Kent, the previous day. Police suspect Edward Stockings entered the water near Dartford on the day of the shooting.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cedl5enw27yo |title=Body found in search for Valentine's Day shooting suspect |date=8 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=8 March 2025}}
The University of York acquires notebooks belonging to Eric Morecambe; the books contain jokes and sketches developed by the comedian.{{Cite web |first=Emily |last=Johnson |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1jpnn635x6o |title=Eric Morecambe's joke books acquired by University of York |date=8 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=8 March 2025}}
A man is charged with the murder of Lathaniel Burrell, who was shot near Stockwell tube station.{{Cite web |first=Jess |last=Warren |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crmj4kxemxro |title=Teen shooting: Man charged with murder after boy killed in Stockwell |date=8 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=9 March 2025}}
11 March – NHS England confirms that as many as 5,000 people missed routine screenings for cancer and other illnesses because of a technical error dating back to 2008.{{Cite web |first=Michelle |last=Roberts |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70wr9k2z8ro |title=NHS screening error affects more than 5,000 |date=11 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=11 March 2025}}
12 March – A 13-year-old girl appears in court holding a teddy bear as she is accused of the murder of a woman whose body was found following a house fire in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire two days earlier.{{Cite web |first=Martin |last=Heath |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c30mjg62enyo |title=Girl, 13, appears in court charged with Wellingborough murder |date=12 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=12 March 2025}}
13 March – At a hearing at the Old Bailey, Hassan Sentamu is sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 23 years for the murder of Elianne Andam in Croydon, South London, in September 2023.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg8ly1wr8ro |title=Elianne Andam murder: Hassan Sentamu jailed for life |date=13 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=13 March 2025}}
14 March –
Mark Ross, who killed Amazon delivery driver Claudiu Carol-Kondor while the latter was trying to prevent his van from being stolen in August 2024, is sentenced to life imprisonment by Leeds Crown Court with a minimum term of 30 years.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g03987z2do |title=Life in jail for Leeds thief who murdered Amazon driver |date=14 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=14 March 2025}}
Daniel Bannister is sentenced to 16 weeks in prison for stalking Cheryl Tweedy after breaking a restraining order over previous incidents in which he harassed the singer.{{Cite web |first1=Brian |last1=Farmer |first2=Lewis |last2=Adams |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2el9w3nw7o |title=Man jailed for stalking Girls Aloud's Cheryl Tweedy in Buckinghamshire |date=14 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=14 March 2025}}
Denise Fergus, the mother of murdered toddler James Bulger, launches a helpline for families affected by crime ahead of what would have been his 35th birthday.{{Cite web |first=Jayne |last=McCubbin |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8d45jz15mqo |title=James Bulger: Helpline for victims launched in memory of toddler |date=14 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=14 March 2025}}
The High Court rules that former Home Secretary Suella Braverman acted unlawfully by housing three asylum seekers at MDP Wethersfield in Essex between July 2023 and February 2024, where they lived in "prison like" conditions.{{Cite web |first=Aimee |last=Dexter |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1lp7nzllm2o |title=Wethersfield asylum seekers housed 'unlawfully' at air base |date=14 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=14 March 2025}}
An 18-year-old man is killed and three teenage boys injured in a car crash near Shifnal, Shropshire.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6257ke4lxzo |title=Teenager killed and three seriously hurt in crash near Shifnal |date=15 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=15 March 2025}}
15 March – A spokesperson for the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust confirms a "small number" of patients have received incorrect text messages as a result of an error in its patient messaging system.{{Cite web |first=Elliot |last=Ball |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2n8egn222o |title=Cornwall man sent cancer diagnosis text by mistake |date=15 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=15 March 2025}}
16 March –
A 17-year-old boy becomes the second teenager to die following a crash near Shifnal, Shropshire, two days earlier.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8vd61mp8zo |title=Second teenager dies following crash near Shifnal |date=16 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=16 March 2025}}
Toxicator, Alton Towers's newest ride, opens to the public, but is forced to close on its first day after a pipe starts leaking brown liquid. It reopened later in the day.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0d1w33rlko |title=Alton Towers shuts Toxicator on opening day after pipe bursts |date=16 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=16 March 2025}}
An appeal for a commemorative playground at Churchtown Primary School, attended by two of the victims of the 2024 Southport attack, reaches its £250,000 target.{{Cite web |first=Stewart |last=Whittingham |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwydwedglx9o |title=Playground appeal for Southport attack victims hits £250k |date=16 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=16 March 2025}}
A statue of peace campaigner Brian Haw is unveiled opposite the Imperial War Museum in Lambeth, London.{{Cite web |first1=Luxmy |last1=Gopal |first2=Jess |last2=Warren |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgdr7ln0pdo |title=Brian Haw: Statue of peace campaigner unveiled in Lambeth |date=17 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=17 March 2025}}
17 March – Following a trial at Chester Crown Court, Richard Burrows, who stole a terminally ill man's identity and spent almost three decades on the run, is convicted of 54 child sex abuse charges.{{Cite web |first1=Tanya |last1=Gupta |first2=Phil |last2=McCann |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0eg7v138qgo |title='Coward' Birmingham paedophile who fled country convicted |date=17 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=17 March 2025}}
19 March – Police launch a manhunt after a prisoner, named as Jamie Cooper, escapes from a prison van travelling along the M55 motorway near Catforth, Lancashire, after faking a medical emergency while being escorted to court.{{Cite web |first=Jonny |last=Humphries |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgn41p91k9o |title=Lancashire prisoner on the run after van motorway escape |date=19 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=22 March 2025}}
20 March –
Figures show that 30,000 housing projects were approved in England in 2024, a fall from 2023, and the lowest annual number since records began in 1979.{{Cite web |first=Daniel |last=Wainwright |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgp51d7zy2o |title=Planning permission for homes in England falls to record low |date=20 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=20 March 2025}}
Police begin a murder investigation following the fatal shooting of a man in Tottenham, north London.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqlyxdv6r00o |title=Murder investigation begins after man shot dead in Tottenham |date=21 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=21 March 2025}}
The 2025 City of London Corporation election is held in the City of London.{{cite web|url=https://news.cityoflondon.gov.uk/city-of-london-elects-members-to-shape-square-miles-future/ |title=City of London elects Members to shape Square Mile's future |publisher=City of London |date=21 March 2025 |access-date=31 March 2025}}
21 March –
The UK government announces the creation of a new national forest in the west of England, with the planting of 20 million new trees and the creation of 2,500 hectares of woodland.{{Cite web |first1=Malcolm |last1=Prior |first2=Jenny |last2=Kumah |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93nxj5n5g9o |title=New national forest to see 20m trees planted across West by 2050 |date=21 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=21 March 2025}}
Following a trial at Manchester Crown Court, Marcin Majerkiewicz is found guilty of the murder of his housemate, Stuart Everett, whose body was then dismembered and dumped in various locations. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for 28 March.{{Cite web |first1=Lynette |last1=Horsburgh |first2=Rachael |last2=Lazaro |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgzdv8vm30o |title=Man guilty of murdering and dismembering housemate in Salford |date=21 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=21 March 2025}}
Far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon loses a High Court challenge to the conditions of his imprisonment at HMP Woodhill, where he has been segregated from the main prison population.{{Cite web |first=Dominic |last=Casciani |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y9e7nxdnlo |title=Tommy Robinson loses court bid to challenge prison segregation |date=21 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=21 March 2025}}
Police launch an investigation after a newly built Greggs store in Exhall, Coventry, is targeted in an arson attack days before it was scheduled to open.{{Cite web |first=Caroline |last=Gall |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwygrrnn79jo |title='Inferno' at new Greggs branch in Exhall treated as arson |date=22 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=22 March 2025}}
22 March –
A Bronze Age stone circle is discovered by archaeologists during excavation at Farley Wood near Matlock, Derbyshire.{{Cite web |first=Jude |last=Winter |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y06r662jzo |title=Archaeologists uncover Bronze Age stone circle in Farley Wood |date=22 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=22 March 2025}}
Escaped prisoner Jamie Cooper is recaptured by police in Blackburn, Lancashire, where he was a passenger in a car.{{Cite web |first=Rumeana |last=Jahangir |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg5dw4de5zo |title=Escaped prisoner who fled from prison van on M55 in Preston found |date=22 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=22 March 2025}}
25 March –
Police begin an investigation after they are called to the discovery of the body of a newborn baby left in a bag outside a church in Notting Hill.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8d4z5lgdp3o |title=Newborn baby discovered dead in bag at Notting Hill church |date=25 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=25 March 2025}}
Ex-footballer Joey Barton receives a 12-week suspended prison sentence after he is found guilty of assaulting his wife at their home in June 2021.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj92k80m7llo |title=Joey Barton guilty of assault for kicking wife in head |date=25 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=25 March 2025}}
28 March –
Brothers Robert and Mark Evans, who groomed and raped girls as young as 13, are sentenced to 17 and 14 years in prison respectively following a trial at Sheffield Crown Court.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0j0qyq1n0o |title=Rotherham brothers who raped girls as young as 13 jailed |date=28 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=29 March 2025}}
Firefighters are called to a fire at the Grade II listed former Glendon and Rushton railway station in Northamptonshire; three people die as a result of the blaze.{{Cite web |first1=George |last1=King |first2=Nicola |last2=Haseler |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjd3d4p1853o |title=Three people have died after a fire in a Northamptonshire village |date=29 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=29 March 2025}}
29 March – Three Bolsover District Councillors resign from the Labour Party in protest at Keir Starmer's leadership, and will sit as independents.{{Cite web |first=Georgia |last=Roberts |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn898371qzpo |title=Bolsover Labour councillors resign over Starmer's leadership |date=28 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=29 March 2025}}
30 March – The UK government announces that women in England will be able to get the morning after pill free at pharmacies from later in the year.{{Cite web |first=Helen |last=Catt |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8eprd9n5plo |title=Morning-after pill to be made free at pharmacies in England |date=30 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=30 March 2025}}
31 March –
The UK government agrees a new funding package with pharmacy negotiators in England, the announcement coming on the eve of plans by some pharmacies to cut their opening hours in protest at their limited financial resources.{{Cite web |first1=Hugh |last1=Pym |first2=Ian |last2=Aikman |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgendwy25zwo |title=Protests postponed after pharmacy funding boost |date=31 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=31 March 2025}}
Richard Cook, chairman of West Midlands Police Federation, is found in breach of professional standards over his actions, which included a suggestion that claims of racism in the force were "nonsense".{{Cite web |first1=Caroline |last1=Gall |first2=Nicola |last2=Goodwin |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3v9xv6e49no |title=Chair of West Midlands Police Federation breached standards |date=31 March 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=31 March 2025}}
Police begin a search for an 11-year-old girl who went missing while paddling in the River Thames near London City Airport.{{Cite web |first=Freddy |last=Tennyson |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c15v3kp3pp1o |title=Missing 11-year-old girl was seen paddling in River Thames |date=1 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=1 April 2025}}
Three people are killed following a collision between a car and a bus in west London.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7vn6m7yr80o |title=Three dead after bus and car catch fire in west London crash |date=1 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=1 April 2025}}

=April=

1 April –
At a hearing at Liverpool Crown Court, Kyle Shaw is sentenced to 20 months imprisonment suspended for 20 months after pleading guilty to stalking Strictly Come Dancing judge Shirley Ballas, who he believed was his aunt.{{Cite web |first1=Lynette |last1=Horsburgh |first2=Marc |last2=Waddington |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4wzddn2w7o |title=Man who stalked Shirley Ballas for six years sentenced |date=1 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=1 April 2025}}
Charlotte Edwards, the former captain of the England women's cricket team, is appointed their new coach.{{Cite web |first=Stephan |last=Shemilt |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cwy0lv33nv1o |title=Charlotte Edwards appointed as England women's head coach |date=1 April 2025 |website=BBC Sport |publisher=BBC |access-date=1 April 2025}}
2 April – A 13-year-old girl, subsequently named as Layla Allen, is killed in a housefire in Prescot, Liverpool; a man, woman and five other children escape the property unharmed.{{Cite web |first=Jonny |last=Humphries |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjwvl7l1lleo |title=Girl, 13, with 'passion for TikTok' killed in fire |date=4 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=4 April 2025}}
3 April – West Yorkshire Police begin a murder investigation after a 16-year-old boy, subsequently named as Ahmad Mamdouh Al Ibrahim, is stabbed to death in an incident in Huddersfield. A man is subsequently arrested, and appears in court charged with murder.{{Cite web |first1=Hayley |last1=Coyle |first2=Alex |last2=Moss |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckge1x1x2n4o |title=Boy, 16, dies after being stabbed in neck in Huddersfield |date=4 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=4 April 2025}}{{Cite web |first=Grace |last=Wood |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y4gr8p70eo |title=Huddersfield murder charge after boy, 16, stabbed to death |date=5 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=5 April 2025}}
4 April –
Following a hearing at Liverpool Crown Court, Joanne Sharkey, a mother who killed her newborn baby in March 1998 and dumped the body in woodland, is given a two-year suspended sentence for the child's manslaughter, and after the presiding judge said the case "called for compassion". Sharkey was identified as the baby's mother following the arrest of her son on separate charges in July 2023, and when a DNA match was found.{{Cite web |first=Jonny |last=Humphries |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr5d6d9m4zvo |title=Joanne Sharkey: Suspended sentence for mum who killed baby |date=4 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=4 April 2025}}
Anti-abortion campaigner Livia Tossici-Bolt is given a two-year conditional discharge and ordered to pay £20,000 for two charges of breaching the Public Spaces Protection Order on two occasions in March 2023, when she protested outside an abortion clinic in Bournemouth.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gr30z4lnlo |title=Woman guilty of breaching abortion clinic protection zone |date=4 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=4 April 2025}}
Stephen Hartley, a Reform UK candidate for the local elections to Oxfordshire County Council, is suspended from the party after it was revealed he had posted comments in support of child abuser Jimmy Savile on social media.{{Cite web |first=Bethan |last=Nimmo |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2xey4m2ygo |title=Reform UK: Stephen Hartley suspended after pro-Jimmy Savile tweets |date=4 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=4 April 2025}}
Plans for the UK's first deep coalmine in three decades at Whitehaven, Cumbria, have been dropped by the company that planned to open the facility.{{Cite web |first=Jason Arunn |last=Murugesu |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0ynqqzezvo |title=Whitehaven deep coal mine plans officially dropped |date=4 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=4 April 2025}}
A 15-year-old boy dies after getting into trouble while swimming in a lake at Beckenham Place Park in south east London.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0ynxp1lexo |title=Boy dies after going into the lake in Lewisham to swim |date=5 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=5 April 2025}}{{Cite web |first=Harry |last=Low |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98gy68y3e9o |title=Izaiah Smith: Boy found dead in Beckenham Place Park lake named |date=6 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=6 April 2025}}
5 April –
A man in his 40s and a 10-year-old girl, subsequently identified as a father and daughter, are killed in a fire at a caravan park in Ingoldmells, Lincolnshire.{{Cite web |first=Emma |last=Petrie |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c175d49q7k8o |title=Girl,10, and man killed in Ingoldmells caravan fire |date=5 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=5 April 2025}}{{Cite web |first=Emma |last=Petrie |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqx4932x9vwo |title=Father and daughter who died in Ingoldmells caravan fire named |date=6 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=6 April 2025}} An investigation later concludes the fire to be accidental.{{Cite web |first=Kevin |last=Shoesmith |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8dg4nn6ly4o |title=Ingoldmells caravan fire that killed girl and dad 'accidental' |date=8 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=8 April 2025}}
Durham Police launch a murder investigation after a man, subsequently named as Barry Dawson, aged 60, dies following a shooting incident at a property in Stanley.{{Cite web |first=Simon |last=Armstrong |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy7en200gyo |title=Man killed in shooting at Stanley house |date=6 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=6 April 2025}}{{Cite web |first1=Evie |last1=Lake |first2=Federica |last2=Bedendo |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8epd00r3kjo |title=Man killed in Stanley shooting named as two arrested |date=7 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=7 April 2025}}
The Metropolitan Police begin a murder investigation following the death of 17-year-old Keiron Charles, one of two boys stabbed in an incident at Shepherd's Bush, west London. A 16-year-old boy is subsequently arrested in connection with the stabbings.{{Cite web |first=Harry |last=Low |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cevde8xm0yzo |title=Keiron Charles: Murder arrest over Shepherd's Bush stabbing |date=6 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=6 April 2025}}
6 April – Cyclist Esme Moore has completed a 15,534 mile sponsored cycle ride from the Somerset village of Shipham to Singapore, raising £10,000 for charity.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2x81gnr3no |title=Woman pedals from Somerset village to Singapore |date=6 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=6 April 2025}}
7 April – Lichfield District Council says it will help clear the backlog of rubbish which has built up in Birmingham since refuse collectors went on strike there, beginning from 9 April.{{Cite web |first=Caroline |last=Gall |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgr8r77w0yo |title=Lichfield council to help clear Birmingham bin strike waste |date=7 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=7 April 2025}}
8 April –
A 15-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl are convicted of the murder of 80-year-old Bhim Kohli, who was attacked while walking his dog in a park in Leicestershire on 1 September 2024.{{Cite web |first=Dan |last=Martin |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqly4z1dezvo |title=Family call teenage killers of Bhim Kohli, 80, 'utterly disgusting' |date=8 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=8 April 2025}}
Following a two-week trial, former prison governor Kerri Pegg is convicted of two counts of misconduct in public office over an affair with a prisoner.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyvqe14gm4yo |title=Kerri Pegg: Kirkham prison governor guilty of relationship with inmate |date=8 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=8 April 2025}}
Two men are killed after a light aircraft crashes at Darley Moor racetrack in Derbyshire.{{Cite web |first1=Olimpia |last1=Zagnat |first2=Steve |last2=Beech |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0xdjd27xjo |title=Two men killed in light aircraft crash at Darley Moor race track |date=8 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=8 April 2025}}
9 April –
Following a four week trial at the Old Bailey, Shakeil Thibou is found guilty of the murder of Cher Maximen at the 2024 Notting Hill Carnival.{{Cite web |first=Jeremy |last=Britton |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp9yvlvx4jpo |title=Cher Maximen murder: Man guilty of London stabbing at Notting Hill Carnival |date=9 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=9 April 2025}}
Four men are charged with the murder of Jacqueline Rutter, who was shot in the chest at her home in Moreton, Wirral, in October 2022.{{Cite web |first=Lynette |last=Horsburgh |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjwvv60dp9lo |title=Four men charged with woman's 2022 shooting murder in Wirral |date=9 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=9 April 2025}}
10 April – Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has elicited a critical response from union leader Sharon Graham after urging striking refuse workers in Birmingham to accept a "significantly improved" offer.{{Cite web |first=Andy |last=Giddings |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjl8v2zzpjo |title=Union anger after Rayner urges bin workers to agree deal |date=10 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=10 April 2025}}
11 April – Kara Alexander, aged 47, who killed her two young sons in December 2022 by drowning them in the bath at their home in Dagenham while she was in a cannabis-induced psychotic state, is sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 21 years after being found guilty of their murder.{{Cite web |first=Harry |last=Low |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd9l0jzew21o |title=Kara Alexander jailed for life for drowning sons in London |date=11 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=11 April 2025}}
12 April –
Nottinghamshire Police declare a major incident in Worksop following an explosion that destroyed a terraced house.{{Cite web |first=Olimipa |last=Zagnat |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3q700xnw5o |title=Worksop explosion: Major incident after house destroyed and people evacuated |date=12 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=12 April 2025}}
A 25-year-old woman is killed and a further two people injured after being struck by a car outside Crawley Leisure Park in West Sussex.{{Cite web |first=Zac |last=Sherratt |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c985w9w9n63o |title=One dead and two badly hurt as car hits pedestrians in Crawley |date=13 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=13 April 2025}}
13 April –
Emergency services confirm that a man was killed in the previous day's explosion at a property in Worksop. Several properties have been damaged in what authorities are treating as a suspected gas explosion.{{Cite web |first1=Dan |last1=Martin |first2=Olimpia |last2=Zagnat |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9djg62ye25o |title=Worksop explosion: Man killed in blast that destroyed houses |date=13 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=13 April 2025}}
Military planners are called in to help deal with mounting rubbish in Birmingham, where refuse collectors have been on strike for a month.{{Cite web |first=Clare |last=Lissaman |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgkg34j0d76o |title=Birmingham bin strike latest: Army experts called in to help |date=13 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=13 April 2025}}
14 April – Refuse workers "overwhelmingly" reject the latest pay offer from Birmingham City Council.{{Cite web |first1=Aida |last1=Fofana |first2=Rob |last2=Mayor |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd9ljx8qdqdo |title=Birmingham bin strike to continue as deal rejected |date=14 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=14 April 2025}}
15 April –
Birmingham City Council says it is on track to clear the backlog of uncollected rubbish by the upcoming weekend despite the ongoing strike by refuse workers.{{Cite web |first1=Phil |last1=Mackie |first2=Shyamantha |last2=Asokan |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgqvnp88n51o |title=Birmingham City Council 'on track' to clear waste backlog |date=15 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=15 April 2025}}
During a hearing at Luton Crown Court, Jazwell Brown pleads guilty to the murder of his partner, Joanne Pearson, and their neighbour, Teohna Grant, at a block of flats in Milton Keynes on Christmas Day 2024.{{Cite web |first=Brian |last=Farmer |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd7vywjdp18o |title=Bletchley man admits murdering two women on Christmas Day |date=15 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=15 April 2025}}
A 62-year-old woman, named as Suzanne Cherry, dies in hospital after she was struck by a van involved in a police pursuit at a golf course in the Staffordshire village of Little Aston. Three men are subsequently charged with her manslaughter.{{Cite web |first=Alice |last=Cullinane |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx270yz150zo |title=Manslaughter charges after fatal crash on Aston Wood golf course |date=21 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=21 April 2025}}
18 April – Tom Simons, a former chief superintendent with Essex Police, is dismissed from the service after engaging in sexual behaviour without consent.{{Cite web |first=Alex |last=Pope |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly1lwdg6edo |title=Essex senior police officer sacked for sexual misconduct |date=18 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=18 April 2025}}
19 April – 5 May – 2025 World Snooker Championship{{cite web|url=https://www.wst.tv/tickets/world-championship-2025-tickets/|title=Cazoo World Championship 2025 Tickets|access-date=7 May 2024}}
25 April –
Hoteliers in Liverpool vote to introduce a "tourist tax" for people staying overnight in the city.{{Cite web |first1=Jacob |last1=Waters |first2=Lynette |last2=Horsburgh |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgq4v1rln0o |title=Liverpool 'tourist tax' of £2 to be charged for overnight stays |date=25 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=25 April 2025}}
Paul Butler is sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 27 years for the murder of his estranged wife, Claire Chick, who was stabbed to death in Plymouth in January 2025.{{Cite web |first1=Chloe |last1=Parkman |first2=Ben |last2=Woolvin |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c75dkl6q9xyo |title=Man who killed Plymouth University lecturer jailed for life |date=25 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=25 April 2025}}
26 April – A man is arrested and anti-terrorism police are investigating after two women were injured in an incident involving a crossbow and a firearm in the Headingley area of Leeds.{{Cite web |first1=Pritti |last1=Mistry |first2=Emily |last2=Johnson |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyn2n44v9xo |title=Two women seriously hurt in attack involving crossbow in Leeds |date=26 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=26 April 2025}}
27 April –
England win the 2025 Women's Six Nations Championship after defeating France 43–42, securing their seventh consecutive win and fourth successive Grand Slam.{{Cite web|url=https://www.skysports.com/rugby-union/news/12321/13212869/womens-six-nations-2025-fixtures-revealed-as-englands-red-roses-seek-to-defend-grand-slam-title |title=Women's Six Nations 2025: Results from England's Grand Slam success and Red Roses' seventh consecutive title |website=Sky Sports |date=27 April 2025 |access-date=7 May 2025}}
Liverpool defeat Tottenham 5–1 to become English Premier League champions.{{Cite web |first=Rumeana |last=Jahangir |first2=Stewart |last2=Whittingham |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1jx2yjx8g8o |title=Fans euphoric as Liverpool become Premier League champions |date=27 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=27 April 2025}}
Archaeologists digging at a car park in Cambridge ahead of land redevelopment unearth an unopened Victorian soft drink bottle.{{Cite web |first=Tom |last=Jackson |first2=Harriet |last2=Heywood |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86jy6dge67o |title=Archaeologists find 1890s soft drink bottle during Cambridge dig |date=27 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=27 April 2025}}
28 April – Edward Spencer, aged 19, who killed three teenagers in April 2024 after crashing while "showing off" as he drove them home from school, is sentenced to two years in prison.{{Cite web |first=Shehnaz |last=Khan |first2=Joan |last2=Cummins |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clywee36nx5o |title=Man sentenced for Shipston-on-Stour crash killing three teens |date=28 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=28 April 2025}}
29 April –
A block of flats in Maida Vale, London, is evacuated after fire breaks out at a neighbouring electricity substation.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2wvz4pjryo |title=London electricity substation on fire and tower block evacuated |date=29 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=29 April 2025}}
Police announce the death of Owen Lawrence, the suspect in a crossbow attack in Leeds a few days earlier, who died in hospital of self-inflicted injuries.{{Cite web |first=Alex |last=Moss |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3evygw383eo |title=Otley run crossbow attack suspect dies, police confirm |date=29 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=29 April 2025}}
Three people are taken to hospital following a suspected gas explosion that destroyed a house in Yate, near Bristol.{{Cite web |first=Bea |last=Swallow |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp316rrrgk1o |title=Three taken to hospital after house explosion in Yate |date=29 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=29 April 2025}}
No criminal charges will be brought against Sheffield Steelers ice hockey player Matt Petgrave over his October 2023 collision with Adam Johnson, which resulted in Johnson's death.{{Cite web |first=Alex |last=Smith |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly2wkl17d7o |title=No criminal charges over death of ice hockey player Adam Johnson |date=29 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=29 April 2025}}
30 April – Police confirm a body discovered in the River Thames is that of an 11-year-old girl who went missing in March.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpvrw8ev9p9o |title=Kaliyah Coa: Body found in River Thames confirmed as 11-year-old's |date=30 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=30 April 2025}}

= May =

1 May
2025 Cornwall Council election{{Cite web |title=Elections and referendums – Cornwall Council |url=https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/the-council-and-democracy/elections/elections-and-referendums/ |access-date=1 December 2023 |website=www.cornwall.gov.uk}}
2025 Suffolk County Council election{{Cite web|title=Elections {{!}} Suffolk County Council|url=https://www.suffolk.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/consultations-petitions-and-elections/elections/|access-date=24 May 2021|website=www.suffolk.gov.uk}}
2 May – Reform UK wins 677 of around 1,600 seats contested in the English local elections, making gains mostly at the expense of the Conservatives. Reform also wins the Runcorn and Helsby by-election and the Lincolnshire mayoral election.{{Cite web |first=Paul |last=Seddon |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd6j8e38p79o |title=Reform UK makes big gains in English local elections |date=2 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=2 May 2025}}
3 May –
Fourteen children are arrested following the death of a 14-year-old boy as a result of a fire at an industrial unit in Gateshead the previous evening.{{Cite web |first=Pamela |last=Tickell |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ygn4q9x3vo |title=Fourteen children arrested over Gateshead boy's fire death |date=3 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=3 May 2025}} A further two arrests are later made. The boy is subsequently named as Layton Carr.{{Cite web |first=Jonny |last=Manning |first2=Sharon |last2=Barbour |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8k3jll0gzo |title=Layton Carr: Family's tribute to 'loving boy' killed in Bill Quay fire |date=5 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=5 May 2025}}
Danny Cahalane, who was attacked with acid at his home in Plymouth on 21 February, dies in hospital.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg2kw1n9kzo |title=Plymouth acid attack victim dies in hospital |date=4 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=5 May 2025}}
4 May – A wildfire breaks out on Dartmoor, requiring firefighters to attend.{{Cite web |first=Zhara |last=Simpson |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c75d237y4vko |title=Firefighters tackling ongoing fire on Dartmoor |date=5 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=5 May 2025}}
8 May – A woman accused of having an illegal abortion during the COVID-19 pandemic is found not guilty following a trial at Isleworth Crown Court.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93y5gq09x7o |title=Woman accused of illegal abortion cleared by jury |date=8 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=9 May 2025}}
9 May –
Daniel Michael Graham and Adam Caruthers, who cut down the Sycamore Gap tree in September 2023, are found guilty of two counts of criminal damage following a trial. They will be sentenced on 15 July.{{Cite web |first=Duncan |last=Leatherdale |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly38wr66dro |title=Sycamore Gap pair guilty of chopping down tree in Northumberland |date=9 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=9 May 2025}}
Police are investigating an alleged attack on a prison officer by Southport killer Axel Rudakubana, which is reported to have happened the previous day.{{Cite web |first=Hollie |last=Cole |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8dln3z4eeo |title=Police investigate alleged attack on prison officer by Southport killer Axel Rudakubana |date=9 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=9 May 2025}}
12 May – Abdirahman Ibrahim is sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 22 years for the murder of Liam Jones, an e-cyclist who Ibrahim killed with his vehicle after Jones did a wheelie on a road in Birmingham in August 2023.{{Cite web |first=Shehnaz |last=Khan |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjd37km83p9o |title=Birmingham driver jailed for murdering biker who did wheelie |date=12 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=12 May 2025}}
14 May –
Reece Galbraith is sentenced to 14 years in prison after his cannabis factory exploded, destroying a block of flats and killing a seven year old boy.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e6wggw233o |title=Benwell explosion: Reece Galbraith jailed over blast deaths |date=14 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=14 May 2025}}
A man suspected of a double stabbing in Huyton, Liverpool, is being treated in hospital after he was shot by armed police.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yq7nknq54o |title=Huyton: Double stabbing suspect shot by armed police |date=14 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=14 May 2025}}
15 May –
Lucy Connolly, the wife of a Northamptonshire councillor, who was sent to prison for inciting racial violence over an online post during the 2024 England riots, begins an appeal hearing against her sentence.{{Cite web |first=Martin |last=Heath |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg4n4613npo |title=Councillor's wife appeals against jail term for Southport tweet |date=15 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=15 May 2025}}
Two firefighters and a member of the public are killed at a fire on an industrial estate in Bicester, Oxfordshire. The firefighters are subsequently confirmed to be from Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service and the London Fire Brigade.{{Cite web |first=Indy |last=Almroth-Wright |first2=Ethan |last2=Gudge |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3wd80173nzo |title=Firefighters and member of public die in fire at Bicester Motion |date=16 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=16 May 2025}}
16 May –
Shakeil Thibou is sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 29 years for the murder of Cher Maximen at the 2024 Notting Hill Carnival.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cre98lpd7n3o |title=Notting Hill Carnival: Man jailed for murder of Cher Maximen |date=16 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=16 May 2025}}
At a hearing at Preston Crown Court, former prison governor Kerri Pegg, who was convicted of misconduct in a public office over a relationship with a notorious criminal, is sentenced to nine years in prison.{{Cite web |first=Sarah |last=Spina-Matthews |first2=Tom |last2=Mullen |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c991y2871r1o |title=Prison governor jailed for relationship with inmate |date=16 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=16 May 2025}}
Rapper Chris Brown is remanded in custody over an alleged attack at a London nightclub in 2023.{{Cite web |first=Catherine |last=Murphy |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj428kdn749o |title=Chris Brown remanded in custody over alleged London nightclub attack |date=16 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=16 May 2025}}
17 May – Crystal Palace defeat Manchester City 1–0 to win the 2025 FA Cup final.{{Cite web |first=Jess |last=Warren |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy90d732pnwo |title=Crystal Palace fans in ecstasy after FA Cup win over Manchester City |date=18 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=18 May 2025}}
18 May – Chelsea defeat Manchester United 3–0 to win the 2025 Women's FA Cup final.{{Cite web |first=Emma |last=Sanders |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cwy7n1534jko |title=Can anyone stop 'unrivalled' FA Cup champions Chelsea after treble win? |date=18 May 2025 |website=BBC Sport |publisher=BBC |access-date=18 May 2025}}
20 May –
Lucy Connolly loses her appeal against her sentence.{{Cite web |first=Martin |last=Heath |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3v5926yeqro |title=Conservative councillor's wife loses appeal over race hate tweet |date=20 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=20 May 2025}}
Two teenagers—a boy of 17 and a girl of 16—plead guilty to torturing two kittens to death at Ruislip Golf Course on 3 May.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd900lx9ej9o |title=Teenagers admit torturing and killing kittens in Ruislip |date=20 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=20 May 2025}}
An inquest into the death of Kyra Hill, an eleven-year-old girl who drowned at Liquid Leisure, a water park in Berkshire in August 2022, finds she was unlawfully killed following gross breaches in health and safety.{{Cite web |first=Nathan |last=Briant |first2=Daisy |last2=Stephens |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyvmme1q035o |title=Kyra Hill unlawfully killed at Berkshire water park – coroner |date=20 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=20 May 2025}}
A bid to reopen the Crane club, a nightclub that was the scene of the Boxing Day 2022 murder of footballer Cody Fisher, is rejected by Birmingham City Council.{{Cite web |first=Alexander |last=Brock |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c75337r5newo |title=Bid to reopen Birmingham club after Cody Fisher's murder rejected |date=20 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=20 May 2025}}
21 May –
US singer Chris Brown is released on £5m bail, enabling him to begin an international tour on 8 June.{{Cite web |first=Ian |last=Youngs |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy66xq1jjgo |title=Chris Brown: US singer freed on bail by London court |date=21 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=21 May 2025}}
The legal right to wild camping on Dartmoor is upheld by the Supreme Court following a case brought by two landowners, who had argued people should not be able to camp without permission from landowners.{{Cite web |first=Miles |last=Davis |first2=Jonathan |last2=Morris |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwywwq5zkqwo |title=Wild camping on Dartmoor backed by Supreme Court |date=21 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=21 May 2025}}
An inquest into the death of Sean Fitzgerald, who was shot by police during a drugs raid in Coventry on 4 January 2019, concludes he was killed lawfully.{{Cite web |first=Kevin |last=Reide |first2=Charlotte |last2=Benton |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y878ny324o |title=Man shot by police in Coventry killed lawfully, jury concludes |date=21 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=21 May 2025}}
Three teenagers are found guilty of the murder of 17-year-old Reuben Higgins, who was stabbed during an altercation at a vape shop in Marston Green, West Midlands, in October 2024.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wgge8yrz7o |title=Teens found guilty of murder in Solihull vape shop stabbing |date=21 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=21 May 2025}}
22 May –
A number of pregnant women are evacuated to safety after fire breaks out in the roof of St Michael's Hospital, Bristol.{{Cite web |first=Dawn |last=Limbu |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clygn1p8nwzo |title=St Michael's Hospital fire Bristol: Pregnant women moved to safety |date=22 May 2025 |publisher=BBC |website=BBC News |access-date=22 May 2025}}
Doctors and teachers in England receive a 4% pay rise after the UK government accepts the recommendation of pay review bodies.{{Cite web |first=Paul |last=Seddon |first2=Nick |last2=Triggle |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyv1vxkdjyo |title=Teachers and doctors in England given 4% pay rise |date=22 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=22 May 2025}}
Two people are injured following a crash between a train and a tractor at a level crossing near Leominster, Herefordshire; a man is arrested following the incident.{{Cite web |first=Kate |last=Justice |first2=Tanya |last2=Gupta |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly3885e58no |title=Leominster rail crash: Man arrested after train hits tractor and trailer |date=22 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=22 May 2025}}
Wrexham, Shropshire and Midlands Railway submits an application to the Office of Rail and Road to operate an open access train service linking Wrexham with London Euston.{{Cite web |first=Vanessa |last=Pearce |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgvwn9ey69o |title=Direct rail service between Shropshire and London supported by PM |date=22 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=23 May 2025}}
23 May –
The British Medical Association threatens strike action over the UK government's 4% pay increase for doctors in England, describing the offer as "derisory".{{Cite web |first=Becky |last=Morton |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8jg1zyejeno |title=Doctors threaten strike action after 4% pay offer |date=23 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=23 May 2025}}
Two teenagers plead guilty to the murder of 14-year-old Kelyan Bokassa, who was stabbed multiple times with a machete as he stepped from a bus in Woolwich, south east London on 7 January.{{Cite web |first=Frankie |last=McCamley |first2=Aurelia |last2=Foster |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy75nzk4y1vo |title=Teens plead guilty to murder of boy, 14, on bus in Woolwich |date=23 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=23 May 2025}}
24 May –
A man is arrested following the deaths of a woman and three children in a housefire in Brent, north west London.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4g3jgv7mro |title=Woman and three children die in Brent house fire |date=24 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=24 May 2025}}
Birmingham bin strike: Birmingham City Council is granted a court order to stop waste vehicles being blocked from leaving depots.{{Cite web |first=Josh |last=Sandiford |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4e00wwdndo |title=Birmingham bin strike: Council court order after lorries blocked |date=24 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=24 May 2025}}
A man is killed in a crash while taking part in the Vintage Motorsport Festival at Donington Park in Leicestershire.{{Cite web |first=Asha |last=Patel |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq6954rq7jmo |title=Driver Julian Grimwade dies in race crash at Donington Park track |date=25 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=25 May 2025}}
26 May – A 53-year-old man is arrested for injuring 79 people after driving a Ford Galaxy into a victory parade on Water Street celebrating Liverpool F.C.'s Premier League win.{{cite news |title=Attempted murder arrest after football parade crash |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62n0nkj4m2o |access-date=28 May 2025 |work=BBC News}}
27 May –
Rawal Rehman, who crashed his car into a tram then killed a three-year-old girl in Manchester City Centre after taking 20 lines of cocaine in February, is sentenced to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to death by dangerous driving.{{Cite web |first=Ewan |last=Gawne |first2=Laura |last2=O'Neill |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3qdj0qdp7o |title=Drug-fuelled driver who caused three-year-old's death jailed |date=27 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=27 May 2025}}
Indigo Rumbelow, Margaret Reid, Leanorah Ward and Daniel Knorr, four Just Stop Oil members who planned to glue themselves to the taxiway of Manchester Airport in August 2024, are sentenced to between 18 and 30 months in prison, and each fined £2,000.{{Cite web |first=Laura |last=O'Neill |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewd4g0nvx5o |title=Protesters who planned Manchester Airport disruption jailed |date=27 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=27 May 2025}}
England goalkeeper Mary Earps announces her retirement from international football five weeks before the start of Euro 2025.{{Cite news |first=Alex |last=Brotherton |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cdj9ryd8mgro |title=Mary Earps: England goalkeeper retires before Euro 2025 |date=27 May 2025 |work=BBC Sport |publisher=BBC |access-date=27 May 2025}}
28 May – Ricky Sawyer, a self-styled "beauty consultant" who specialises in liquid Brazilian butt lifts, is banned from carrying out cosmetic procedures across England and Wales after it was found he had carried out risky procedures.{{Cite web |first=Shona |last=Elliott |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czx0kxx22yyo |title=Brazilian butt-lift injector banned from carrying out cosmetic procedures |date=28 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=28 May 2025}}
30 May –
A 60-year-old woman and a 15-year-old girl are killed in a housefire at Bletchley near Milton Keynes.{{Cite web |first=Lewis |last=Adams |first2=Sam |last2=Read |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2qypv6607o |title=Woman and 15-year-old girl die in Bletchley house fire |date=30 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=30 May 2025}}
Two adults and a teenager are killed in a crash on the M5 motorway in Gloucestershire. A second child is being treated in hospital.{{Cite web |first=Bea |last=Swallow |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czxy3n361pgo |title=M5 closed northbound after teen and two adults killed in crash |date=31 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=31 May 2025}}
31 May – Four people are injured after a vehicle is driven into pedestrians in Leicester City Centre.{{Cite web |first=Jude |last=Winter |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgqppwwje8o |title=Man arrested after car hits number of pedestrians in Leicester |date=31 May 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=31 May 2025}}

=June=

3 June –
An inquest into the February 2017 death of Jodey Whiting, who was housebound, concludes she took her life after the Department for Work and Pensions wrongly stopped her disability benefits. The inquest is the second into the death after her mother campaigned for the role she said the Department for Work of Pensions played in her death to be taken into account.{{Cite web |first=Julie |last=Cush |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c201818yr4po |title=Benefits death inquest: Jodey Whiting's mum to 'fight for others' |date=3 June 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=3 June 2025}}
England midfielder Fran Kirby announces her retirement from international football ahead of Euro 2025.{{Cite web |first=Sami |last=Mokbel |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c93y71e4832o |title=Fran Kirby: Lionesses star retires from England duty before Euro 2025 |date=3 June 2025 |website=BBC Sport |publisher=BBC |accessdate=4 June 2025}}
4 June –
An investigation into the Leominster train crash initially concludes that a passenger train was travelling at 80mph (129 km/h) when it struck a trailer on the track.{{Cite web |first=Tanya |last=Gupta |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93l6p1zqzvo |title=Leominster crash train hit trailer at 80mph, investigators say |date=4 June 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=4 June 2025}}
England defender Millie Bright says she is unavailable for selection for England's Euro 2025 team because she is unable "to give 100% mentally or physically".{{Cite web |first=Sean |last=Kearns |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cr7z1g08d73o |title=Millie Bright: England defender withdraws from selection before Euro 2025 |date=4 June 2025 |website=BBC Sport |publisher=BBC |accessdate=5 June 2025}} She undergoes a knee operation the following day.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c1e62q3gl53o |title=England defender Millie Bright has knee surgery after ruling herself out of Euros |date=5 June 2025 |website=BBC Sport |publisher=BBC |accessdate=5 June 2025}}
The UK government announces that any child in England whose parents receive Universal Credit will be eligible for free school meals from September.{{Cite web |first=Hazel |last=Shearing |first2=Nathan |last2=Standley |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdr5mr5l2d1o |title=Free school meal rule change to make 500,000 more pupils eligible |date=4 June 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=5 June 2025}}
A 16-year-old boy, subsequently named as Abdullah Yaser Abdullah Al Yazidi, is killed in a suspected hit-and-run incident in Sheffield. On 8 June it is reported that two men have been charged with murder, as well as three counts of attempted murder.{{Cite web |first=Rachel |last=Russell |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyvmln74l2yo |title='Hit-and-run' murder charges in Sheffield after boy, 16, dies |date=8 June 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=8 June 2025}}
5 June – A 15-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl are sentenced for the manslaughter of 80-year-old Bhim Kohli, who died a day after he was racially abused and assaulted in a park in Braunstone, Leicestershire, in September 2024. The boy receives seven years in custody, while the girl is made subject of a three year rehabilitation order and given a six month curfew.{{Cite web |first=Matt |last=Taylor |first2=Laura |last2=Hammond |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czxy2npz7d5o |title=Bhim Kohli: Boy and girl sentenced for killing dog walker, 80 |date=5 June 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=5 June 2025}}
6 June – Simon Clark, a 46-year-old teacher who posed as a teenager online to ask girls for indecent images of themselves, is sentenced to eight years in prison by Chester Crown Court.{{Cite web |first=Matthew |last=Richards |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wg2l5g5kwo |title=Teacher Simon Clark who posed as teen to groom girls is jailed |date=6 June 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=6 June 2025}}
9 June –
North East London NHS Foundation Trust and a staff member are found guilty of health and safety failings over the death of a young woman in a mental health unit in 2015.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdd2l0rmrrdo|title=Alice Figueiredo death: NHS trust and manager guilty of failings|date=9 June 2025|website=BBC News|accessdate=9 June 2025}}
Engineering work begins on overhead power cables in the Severn Tunnel linking England and Wales by rail, reducing train services until 20 June.{{Cite web |first=Leigh |last=Boobyer |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yk6z54e2zo |title=Severn Tunnel closed for works as train services reduced |date=8 June 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=8 June 2025}}
13 June – Seven members of a grooming gang are convicted of abusing and raping two teenage girls in Rochdale.{{Cite web |first=Lauren |last=Hirst |first2=Rachael |last2=Lazaro |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdd2rld9mj2o |title=Rochdale gang guilty of raping and abusing girls for five years |date=13 June 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=13 June 2025}}
16 June – Nursery worker Roksana Lecka is convicted of abusing 21 babies, including kicking one boy in the face and stepping on his shoulder.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clylww5ykkvo |title=Nursery worker Roksana Lecka convicted of abusing 21 babies |date=16 June 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=16 June 2025}}
17 June –
Police begin a murder investigation following the death of a 46-year-old woman, named as Annabel Rook, at a property in Newington, north London.{{Cite web |first=James W |last=Kelly |first2=Aurelia |last2=Foster |first3=Luxmy |last3=Gopal |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdezyxx5w6lo |title=Woman stabbed to death before gas explosion named by police |date=17 June 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=17 June 2025}}
Jazwell Brown is sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 39 years after being convicted of the murder of his partner, Joanne Pearson, and a neighbour, Teohna Grant, at a block of flats in Bletchley on Christmas Day 2024. Brown, who also attacked his son, was high on crack cocaine at the time.{{Cite web |first=Brian |last=Farmer |first2=Alice |last2=Cunningham |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8reenjx4mpo |title=Bletchley Christmas Day murderer jailed for at least 39 years |date=17 June 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=17 June 2025}}
BBC News reports that organisers of the Notting Hill Carnival have expressed fears for its future without "urgent funding" from the UK government.{{Cite web |first=Karl |last=Mercer |first2=James W |last2=Kelly |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq8zxk083qko |title=Future of Notting Hill Carnival 'in jeopardy' |date=18 June 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=18 June 2025}}
25 June – Drina Gray, who made death threats to neighbours who lived in a flat above her own, is sentenced to three years and four months in prison following a trial at Kingston upon Thames Crown Court.{{Cite web |first=Jemma |last=Crew |first2=Tarah |last2=Welsh |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly24kx0pp6o |title=Wandsworth neighbour jailed for doorbell camera abuse and threats |date=25 June 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=25 June 2025}}
26 June –
A double-decker bus carrying students from Barton Peveril Sixth Form College plunges into a river in Eastleigh, Hampshire, injuring all 19 passengers, including five who are hospitalized.{{Cite web |title=Double-decker bus carrying students plunges into river in England in ‘terrifying’ crash |url=https://apnews.com/article/doubledecker-bus-river-england-students-injured-eastleigh-9780be57bca126148abde8f31587b71d |last=Melley |first=Brian |date=2025-06-26 |access-date=2025-06-26 |website=Associated Press}}
Several rail lines are closed causing widespread disruption and delays to train services after a London Northwestern train derails near Milton Keynes. No passengers were on board at the time, and no injuries are reported.{{Cite web |first=Louise |last=Parry |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn869nx605vo |title='Major disruption' after train derails near Milton Keynes |date=26 June 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=26 June 2025}}
Edward Vines, who breached an order not to contact journalist Emily Maitlis while serving a sentence at HMP Lowdham Grange, is sentenced to a further five years in custody.{{Cite web |first=Liam |last=Barnes |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyrnd1per9o |title=Emily Maitlis stalker Edward Vines jailed for further breaches |date=26 June 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=26 June 2025}}

= Predicted and scheduled events =

22 June – 350th anniversary of Royal Observatory Greenwich.{{Cite web |title=History of the Royal Observatory {{!}} Royal Museums Greenwich |url=https://www.rmg.co.uk/royal-observatory/history |access-date=29 October 2024 |website=www.rmg.co.uk |language=en}}
22 August – 27 September – 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup{{Cite web|url=https://www.southwalesguardian.co.uk/sport/national/20133816.england-host-womens-rugby-world-cup-2025/|title=England to host women's Rugby World Cup in 2025|date=12 May 2022|website=South Wales Guardian|access-date=12 May 2022|archive-date=14 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230914111509/https://www.southwalesguardian.co.uk/sport/national/20133816.england-host-womens-rugby-world-cup-2025/|url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=Women's Rugby World Cup England 2025 confirms opening and closing venues |url=https://www.sunderland.gov.uk/article/29810/Women-s-Rugby-World-Cup-England-2025-confirms-opening-and-closing-venues |website=Sunderland City Council |access-date=31 December 2023 |archive-date=25 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525143630/https://www.sunderland.gov.uk/article/29810/Women-s-Rugby-World-Cup-England-2025-confirms-opening-and-closing-venues |url-status=live }}

Holidays

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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).{{Cite web|url=https://loudandproud.it/cloven-hoof-e-morto-russ-north/ |title=CLOVEN HOOF – È morto Russ North |date=2 January 2025 |access-date=2 January 2025 |publisher=Loud and Proud Italy |language=IT}}
9 January – Laurie Holloway, 86, English pianist, musical director and composer.{{Cite web|url=https://jerseyeveningpost.com/morenews/entertainment/2025/01/10/former-strictly-and-parkinson-musical-director-laurence-holloway-dies-aged-86/ |title=Former Strictly and Parkinson musical director Laurence Holloway dies aged 86 |date=10 January 2025 |access-date=11 January 2025 |publisher=Jersey Evening Post}}
13 January –
Tony Book, 90, English football player (Bath City, Manchester City) and manager (Manchester City).{{Cite web|url=https://www.mancity.com/news/club/tony-book-obituary-63872451 |title=Tony Book: 1934–2025 |first=Rob |last=Pollard |website=Manchester City FC |access-date=15 January 2025}}
Elgar Howarth, 89, English conductor, composer and trumpeter.{{Cite web|url=https://www.4barsrest.com/news/61679/death-of-elgar-howarth |title=Death of Elgar Howarth |date=13 January 2025 |website=4barsrest |access-date=15 January 2025}}
14 January – John Blakemore, 88, English photographer.{{Cite web|url=https://britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blogs/john-blakemore-1936-2025 |title=In passing: John Blakemore (1936–2025) |date=15 January 2025 |website=British Photographic History |access-date=15 January 2025}}
15 January – Diane Langton, 77, English actress (Hollyoaks, Only Fools and Horses, EastEnders).{{Cite web|url=https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/only-fools-and-horses-star-soap-legend-diane-langton-dies-77/ |title=Only Fools and Horses star and soap legend Diane Langton dies aged 77 |website=LBC |date=15 January 2025 |access-date=15 January 2025}}
16 January – Dame Joan Plowright, 95, English actress (Enchanted April, A Taste of Honey, 101 Dalmatians), Tony winner (1961).{{cite news|last1=Youngs|first1=Ian|title=Acting legend Dame Joan Plowright dies at 95|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyppre55gyo |work=BBC News|publisher=BBC|date=17 January 2025}}
18 January – Claire van Kampen, 71, English composer (Royal Shakespeare Company), playwright and theatre director, cancer.{{cite news|last1=Coveney |first1=Michael|author1-link=Michael Coveney|title=Claire van Kampen obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/jan/21/claire-van-kampen-obituary|work=The Guardian|date=21 January 2025}}
20 January – John Sykes, 65, English guitarist (Tygers of Pan Tang, Whitesnake) and songwriter ("Is This Love"), cancer.{{Cite web|url=https://blabbermouth.net/news/legendary-guitarist-john-sykes-dead-at-65 |title=Legendary THIN LIZZY And WHITESNAKE Guitarist JOHN SYKES Dead At 65 |date=20 January 2025 |website=BLABBERMOUTH.NET |access-date=22 January 2025}} (death announced on this date)
21 January – Dennis Crompton, 90, English architect.{{Cite web|url=https://www.archdaily.com/1026052/architect-and-archigram-founding-member-dennis-crompton-passes-away-at-90 |title=Architect and Archigram Founding Member Dennis Crompton Passes Away at 90 |date=22 January 2025 |website=ArchDaily |access-date=22 January 2025}}
24 January – David Gaskell, 84, English footballer (Manchester United, Wrexham, Wigan Athletic).{{Cite web|url=https://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/24883085.tribute-paid-former-wrexham-goalkeeper-dave-gaskell/ |title=Heartfelt tribute paid to former Wrexham goalkeeper and Busby Babe, Dave Gaskell |date=24 January 2025 |website=The Leader |access-date=26 January 2025}}

=February=

1 February – Peter Bassano, 79–80, English trombonist ("Hey Jude") and conductor.{{cite web|date=5 February 2025|title=Death of Peter Bassano |url=https://www.4barsrest.com/news/61783/death-of-peter-bassano|website=4barsrest|language=en}}
3 February – Mark Dyczkowski, 73, English Indologist.{{Cite web|url=https://www.therightnews.in/2025/02/03/renowned-kashmir-shaivism-scholar-dr-mark-dyczkowski-passes-away/ |title=Renowned Kashmir Shaivism Scholar Dr. Mark Dyczkowski Passes Away. |publisher=The Right News |access-date=8 February 2025}} (death announced on this date)
4 February – Brian Scrivens, 87, English dual-code rugby player (Newport RFC, Wigan).{{Cite web|url=https://wiganwarriors.com/blog/2025/02/04/in-memoriam-brian-scrivens/ |title=In Memoriam: Brian Scrivens |first=Tom |last=Anderson |date=4 February 2025 |website=Wigan Warriors |access-date=8 February 2025}} (death announced on this date)
6 February – Gordon Marshall, 85, English-Scottish footballer (Heart of Midlothian, Newcastle United, Arbroath).{{Cite web|url=https://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/hearts/latest-hearts-news/hearts-saddened-by-death-of-legendary-league-title-winner-who-also-played-for-hibs-celtic-and-newcastle-4979352 |title=Hearts saddened by death of legendary league title-winner who also played for Hibs and Newcastle |date=6 February 2025 |website=The Scotsman |access-date=8 February 2025}} (death announced on this date)
7 February – Mick Walker, 84, English football player and manager (Notts County).{{cite web|url=https://www.nottscountyfc.co.uk/news/2025/february/08/rip--mick-walker/ |title=RIP: Mick Walker |publisher=Notts County FC |access-date=9 February 2025}}
10 February – John Tudor, 78, English footballer (Newcastle United, Sheffield United, Coventry City), complications from dementia.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sufc.co.uk/news/2025/february/10/rip-john-tudor/ |title=RIP John Tudor |date=10 February 2025 |website=Sheffield United FC |access-date=10 February 2025}} (death announced on this date)
11 February – Graham Richards, 85, English chemist.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/about-brasenose/news/2909-professor-graham-richards/ |title=Professor Graham Richards |publisher=Brasenose College, Oxford |website=www.bnc.ox.ac.uk |access-date=13 February 2025}}
13 February – Ronnie Boyce, 82, English footballer (West Ham United).{{Cite web|url=https://www.whufc.com/news/statement-family-ronnie-boyce |title=A statement from the family of Ronnie Boyce |publisher=West Ham United F.C. |access-date=13 February 2025}}
16 February – Barry Panter, politician (Mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme), car crash.{{Cite web |first=Andy |last=Giddings |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cednq3j8850o |title=Newcastle-under-Lyme mayor dies in car crash |date=16 February 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=16 February 2025}} (death reported on this date)
18 February –
Rick Buckler, 69, English drummer (the Jam).{{Cite web|url=https://news.sky.com/story/the-jam-drummer-rick-buckler-dies-aged-69-13312161 |title=The Jam drummer Rick Buckler dies aged 69 |website=Sky News |date=18 February 2025 |access-date=20 February 2025}}
Peter Line, 94, English lawn bowler.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bowlsengland.com/remembering-peter-line-world-and-commonwealth-games-medallist/ |title=Remembering Peter Line – World and Commonwealth Games Medallist |first=Nicole |last=Dyer |date=18 February 2025 |website=Bowls England |access-date=22 February 2025}}
27 February – Christopher Hughes, 77, English professional quizzer (Eggheads).{{Cite web|url=https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/entertainment/eggheads-chris-hughes-dies-aged-77/ |title=Eggheads quiz expert Chris Hughes dies aged 77 as show pays tribute |website=LBC |date=27 February 2025 |access-date=27 February 2025}} (death announced on this date)
28 February – Tuppy Owens, 80, English human rights and sexual health activist, therapist, consultant, campaigner, writer and adult model.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/18/tuppy-owens-obituary |title=Tuppy Owens obituary |first=Oliver |last=Bennett |date=18 March 2025 |accessdate=21 June 2025 |publisher=The Guardian}}

=March=

1 March – Joey Molland, 77, English songwriter, guitarist (Badfinger){{Cite web|url=https://bestclassicbands.com/joey-molland-badfinger-obituary-3-2-25/ |title=Joey Molland, Last Member of Classic Badfinger Lineup, Dead at 77 |date=2 March 2025 |website=Best Classic Bands |access-date=4 March 2025}}
3 March – Dennis Bond, 77, English footballer (Watford, Charlton Athletic, Tottenham Hotspur).{{Cite web|url=https://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/2025/march/obituary-dennis-bond/ |title=Obituary: Dennis Bond |website=Tottenham Hotspur |access-date=4 March 2025}} (death announced on this date)
4 March –
Bill Dare, 64, English television producer and writer (Dead Ringers, The Now Show, Spitting Image).{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/bill-dare-death-dead-ringers-spitting-image-b2708521.html |title=Bill Dare death: Spitting Image star dies after overseas accident |date=4 March 2025 |website=The Independent |access-date=4 March 2025}} (death announced on this date)
Peter Eyre, 85, English cricketer (Derbyshire).{{Cite web|url=https://cricket.derbyshireccc.com/2025/03/peter-eyre-obituary/ |title=Peter Eyre – Obituary |first=Henry |last=Marsden |date=4 March 2025 |access-date=4 March 2025 |publisher=Derbyshire County Cricket Club}} (death announced on this date)
6 March – Brian James, 70, English punk rock guitarist (The Damned, The Lords of the New Church) and songwriter ("New Rose").{{Cite web|url=https://blabbermouth.net/news/founding-the-damned-guitarist-brian-james-dead-at-70 |title=Founding The Damned Guitarist Brian James Dead At 70 |date=6 March 2025 |website=Blabbermouth.net |access-date=8 March 2025}}
8 March – Ray Snowball, 92, English footballer (Darlington).{{Cite web|url=https://darlingtonfc.co.uk/news/ray-snowball |title=Ray Snowball |date=8 March 2025 |website=darlingtonfc.co.uk |access-date=10 March 2025}} (death announced on this date)
9 March – Simon Fisher-Becker, 63, English actor (Puppy Love, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Doctor Who).{{cite news|last1=Parkel|first1=Inga|title=Simon Fisher-Becker death: Harry Potter and Doctor Who actor dies aged 63 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/simon-fisher-becker-harry-potter-death-cause-age-b2712258.html|work=The Independent|date=10 March 2025}}
11 March – Brian Waites, 85, English golfer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pga.info/news/brian-waites-1940-2025/ |title=Brian Waites (1940–2025) |website=www.pga.info |access-date=11 March 2025}} (death announced on this date)
12 March – Steve Fleet, 87, English football player (Wrexham, Stockport County) and manager (ÍBV).{{Cite web|url=https://www.stockportcounty.com/rest-in-peace-steve-fleet/ |title=Rest In Peace, Steve Fleet |first=Liam |last=Richardson |date=12 March 2025 |website=Stockport County |access-date=13 March 2025}} (death announced on this date)
16 March –
Jonathan Durham, 59, English footballer (Torquay United, Rotherham United).{{cite web|url=https://www.themillers.co.uk/news/2025/march/15/obituary-/ |title=Jon Durham 1965–2025 |website=themillers.co.uk |access-date=17 March 2025}} (death announced on this date)
Doug Laughton, 80, English rugby league player (Widnes, Lancashire, Great Britain national team) and coach.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rugby-league.com/article/63563/rfl-pays-tribute-to-doug-laughton |title=RFL pays tribute to Doug Laughton |website=www.rugby-league.com |access-date=17 March 2025}} (death announced on this date)* 17 March – Colin McFadyean, 82, English rugby union player (Moseley, national team, British Lions).{{Cite web|url=https://www.englandrugby.com/follow/news-media/colin-mcfadyean-1943-2025 |title=Colin McFadyean: 1943–2025 |publisher=Rugby Football Union |website=www.englandrugby.com |access-date=17 March 2025}} (death announced on this date)
27 March – Peter Lever, 84, English cricketer (Lancashire, Tasmania, national team).{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/c8d4v5vzzjyo |title=Peter Lever: Former Lancashire and England bowler dies aged 84 |date=27 March 2025 |website=BBC Sport |publisher=BBC |access-date=27 March 2025}} (death announced on this date)
31 March – Betty Webb, 101, English code breaker.{{Cite web |first=Aida |last=Fofana |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78jd30ywv8o |title=Bletchley Park code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101 |date=1 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=1 April 2025}}

=April=

2 April – Johnny King, 92, English footballer (Crewe Alexandra, Stoke City, Cardiff City).{{Cite web|url=https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/stoke-city-crewe-johnny-king-10077322 |title=Stoke City legend Johnny King dies at 92 |first=Peter |last=Smith |date=3 April 2025 |website=Stoke on Trent Live |access-date=4 April 2025}}
3 April – Andy Wharton, 63, English footballer (Burnley, Torquay United, Chester City).{{Cite web|url=https://www.uptheclarets.com/ex-claret-andy-wharton-passes-away |title=Ex-Claret Andy Wharton passes away |first=Tony |last=Scholes |date=3 April 2025 |access-date=4 April 2025 |website=Up The Clarets}} (death announced on this date)
5 April –
Dave Allen, 69, English bassist (Gang of Four, Shriekback, King Swamp).{{Cite web|url=https://www.stereogum.com/2303262/former-gang-of-four-bassist-dave-allen-dead-at-69/ |title=Former Gang Of Four Bassist Dave Allen Dead At 69 |date=6 April 2025 |access-date=6 April 2025 |publisher=stereogum.com}}
Corrin Brooks-Meade, 37, English-born Montserratian footballer (Alki Larnaca, Nea Salamis, Montserrat national team).{{Cite web|url=https://discovermni.com/2025/04/06/mfa-and-football-community-pay-tribute-to-corrin-brooks-meade-1988-2025/ |title=MFA and Football Community Pay Tribute to Corrin Brooks-Meade (1988–2025) |date=6 April 2025 |publisher=discovermni.com |access-date=6 April 2025}}
Roy Daines, 102, RAF veteran (No. 192 Squadron RAF, World War II).{{Cite web |first=Henry |last=Godfrey-Evans |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceqrnnp3d77o |title=Essex RAF veteran who saw flattened Hiroshima dies aged 102 |date=5 April 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=5 April 2025}} (death announced on this date)
7 April – Derek Whitehead, 81, English rugby league footballer (Warrington, Lancashire, national team).{{Cite web|url=https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/sport/wolves/wolvesnews/25071422.derek-whitehead-legendary-wire-goalkicking-full-back-died/ |title=Warrington Wolves legend and Wembley 1974 hero Derek Whitehead has died |date=7 April 2025 |website=Warrington Guardian |access-date=7 April 2025}} (death announced on this date)
11 April – Mike Berry, 82, English singer ("The Sunshine of Your Smile") and actor (Are You Being Served?, Worzel Gummidge).{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/mike-berry-death-are-you-being-served-b2731574.html |title=Singer and last surviving Are You Being Served? star Mike Berry dies, aged 82 |date=11 April 2025 |website=The Independent |access-date=11 April 2025}}
15 April – Carlton Fairweather, 63, English football player (Wimbledon, Bromley) and manager (Sunderland Women), pancreatic cancer.{{cite web|url=https://www.safc.com/news/2025/april/15/carlton-fairweather--/ |title=Carlton Fairweather: 1961–2025 |publisher=safc.com |access-date=15 April 2025}}
16 April – Bill Aitken, 90, Scottish-born Indian travel writer, complications from a fall.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspost.live/en/mussoorie-bids-farewell-bill-aitken/ |title=Mussoorie bids farewell to Author Bill Aitken |date=17 April 2025 |access-date=20 April 2025 |website=News Post Live}}
17 April – Joe Thompson, 36, English footballer (Rochdale, Tranmere Rovers, Southport), lymphoma.{{Cite web|url=https://rochdaleafc.co.uk/ripjoethompson/ |title=R.I.P. Joe Thompson |website=Rochdale AFC |access-date=18 April 2025}}
19 April – Barry Hoban, 85, English Olympic racing cyclist (1960).{{Cite web|url=https://pezcyclingnews.com/features/barry-hoban-rest-in-peace/ |title=Barry Hoban RIP |first=Edmond |last=Hood |date=19 April 2025 |publisher=Pez Cycling News |access-date=20 April 2025}}
25 April – Philip Lowrie, 88, English actor (Coronation Street, Victoria Wood, Home Fires).{{cite web|url=https://www.itv.com/news/2025-04-26/philip-lowrie-one-of-corries-original-stars-dies-aged-88-publicist-says |title=Philip Lowrie, one of Coronation Street's original stars, dies aged 88, publicist says |publisher=ITV |work=ITV News |date=26 April 2025 |access-date=26 April 2025}}
27 April – Wizz Jones, 86, English acoustic guitarist and singer-songwriter.{{Cite web|url=https://www.clashmusic.com/news/british-folk-hero-wizz-jones-has-died/ |title=British Folk Hero Wizz Jones Has Died |publisher=Clash Magazine Music |first=Robin |last=Murray |date=28 April 2025 |access-date=29 April 2025}}
29 April – Jane Gardam, 96, English author (The Queen of the Tambourine, Old Filth, God on the Rocks).{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/obituaries/author-jane-gardam-dies-aged-96 |title=Author Jane Gardam dies aged 96 |website=The Bookseller |access-date=29 April 2025}} (death announced on this date)
30 April – Peter Burridge, 91, English footballer (Millwall, Crystal Palace, Charlton Athletic).{{cite web|url=https://www.millwallfc.co.uk/news/2025/april/30/peter-burridge/ |title=Millwall Football Club is saddened to hear of the passing of former player, Peter Burridge, at the age of 91 |publisher=Millwall Football Club |date=30 April 2025 |access-date=30 April 2025}}

=May=

1 May – David Woodfield, 81, English football player (Wolverhampton Wanderers, Watford) and manager (Sabah).{{Cite web|url=https://www.wolves.co.uk/news/club/20250501-david-woodfield-1943-2025/ |title=David Woodfield: 1943–2025 |website=Wolverhampton Wanderers FC |access-date=1 May 2025}} (death announced on this date)
3 May – Ken Hancock, 87, English football player (Port Vale, Ipswich Town) and manager (Leek Town).{{Cite web|url=https://www.eadt.co.uk/sport/25135999.ipswich-town-goalkeeper-ken-hancock-dies-aged-87/ |title=Keeper who helped Town win the Second Division title passes away |date=3 May 2025 |website=East Anglian Daily Times |access-date=3 May 2025}} (death announced on this date)
4 May – Tom Youngs, 45, English footballer (Cambridge United, Northampton Town, Bury), complications from multiple sclerosis.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cambridgeunited.com/news/tom-youngs-1979-2025 |title=Tom Youngs 1979–2025 |publisher=Cambridge United F.C. |website=www.cambridgeunited.com |access-date=5 May 2025}}
10 May –
Matthew Best, 68, English conductor and singer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/news/article/matthew-best-british-conductor-and-bass-dies-aged-68 |title=Matthew Best – British conductor and bass – dies aged 68 |website=Gramophone |access-date=16 May 2025}}
Gerry Francis, 91, English footballer (Tonbridge Angels, Leeds United, York City).{{Cite web|url=https://www.arbormemorial.ca/en/glenoaks/obituaries/gerald-francis/141711.html |title=Gerald Francis |website=www.arbormemorial.ca |access-date=16 May 2025}}

11 May –
Colin Booth, 90, English footballer (Doncaster Rovers, Nottingham Forest, Wolverhampton Wanderers).{{Cite web|url=https://www.wolves.co.uk/news/club/20250512-colin-booth-1934-2025/|title=Colin Booth: 1934–2025 |website=Wolverhampton Wanderers FC |access-date=16 May 2025}}
Aidan Chambers, 90, English author (Postcards from No Man's Land).{{Cite web|url=https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2025/05/12/aidan-chambers-overleden-auteur-kinderboeken-bart-moeyaert/ |title=Britse jeugdschrijver Aidan Chambers (90) overleden, Bart Moeyaert: "Hij was allesbepalend" |date=12 May 2025 |website=VRTNWS |access-date=16 May 2025 |language=DE}}* 13 May –
Derek Hallas, 90–91, English dual-code rugby player (Keighley, Parramatta Eels, Great Britain national team).{{Cite web|url=https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/derek-hallas-leeds-rhinos-mourn-iconic-star-of-first-championship-win-who-later-joined-parramatta-eels-5126817 |title=Sad news as Leeds Rhinos mourn Championship winner Derek Hallas |date=13 May 2025 |website=Yorkshire Evening Post |access-date=16 May 2025}}
Charles Phythian-Adams, 87, English historian.{{Cite web|url=https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/charles-phythian-adams |title=Charles Phythian-Adams |website=University of Leicester |access-date=16 May 2025}}
14 May – Chic Bates, 75, English football player (Shrewsbury Town, Swindon Town) and manager (Stoke City).{{Cite web|url=https://www.shropshirestar.com/sport/2025/05/14/shrewsbury-town-legend-chic-bates-dies-aged-75/ |title=Shrewsbury Town legend Chic Bates dies, aged 75 |first=Derek |last=Bish |date=14 May 2025 |website=Shropshire Star |access-date=16 May 2025}} (death announced on this date)
15 May – Robert Brooke, 85, English cricket writer.{{cite web|url=https://www.acscricket.com |title=Robert Brooke 1940–2025 |publisher=acscricket.com |access-date=16 May 2025}}
17 May – Jackie Edwards, 85, English rugby league player (Warrington, Lancashire).{{Cite web|url=https://warringtonwolves.com/news/2025/may/Obituary-Jackie-Edwards/|title=Jackie Edwards |date=19 May 2025 |website=Warrington Wolves |access-date=20 May 2025}}
20 May – Alec Farrall, 89, English footballer (Everton, Gillingham, Watford).{{cite web|url=https://www.evertonfc.com/news/2025/may/20/rip--alec-/ |title=RIP, Alec Farrall |publisher=Everton FC |access-date=23 May 2025}}
21 May – Billy Williams, 95, English cinematographer (Women in Love, On Golden Pond, Gandhi), Oscar winner (1983).{{Cite web|url=https://gazettely.com/2025/05/entertainment/billy-williams-oscar-winner-for-gandhi-dies-at-96/ |title=Cinematographer Billy Williams, Oscar Winner for Gandhi, Dies at 96 |publisher=Gazettely |date=22 May 2025 |access-date=23 May 2025}}
22 May – Georgia O'Connor, 25, English boxer, cancer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/boxing/articles/c3wd447wg6no |title=Boxing: Durham fighter Georgia O'Connor dies at the age of 25 |date=22 May 2025 |website=BBC Sport |publisher=BBC |access-date=23 May 2025}} (death announced on this date)
24 May – Gary Pierce, 74, English footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers, Barnsley, Blackpool).{{Cite web|url=https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/football/wolverhampton-wanderers-fc/2025/05/24/tributes-pour-in-for-wolves-league-cup-final-hero-gary-pierce/ |title=Tributes pour in for Wolves' League Cup final hero Gary Pierce |first=Paul |last=Berry |date=24 May 2025 |website=Express and Star |access-date=25 May 2025}}

=June=

2 June – Colin Jerwood, 63, English punk singer (Conflict).{{Cite web|url=https://lataco.com/colin-jerwood-ungovernable-anarcho-punk-icon-and-conflict-frontman-dies-at-63 |title=Colin Jerwood, Ungovernable Anarcho-Punk Icon and Conflict Frontman, Dies at 63 |website=L.A. TACO |date=2 June 2025 |accessdate=3 June 2025}}
4 June – Harry Kelleher, 96, English cricketer (Surrey, Northamptonshire).{{Cite web|url=https://nccc.co.uk/news/remembering-harry-kelleher/ |title=Remembering Harry Kelleher |first=Tobey |last=Williams |date=4 June 2025 |accessdate=7 June 2025 |publisher=Northamptonshire County Cricket CLub}} (death announced on this date)
8 June – Uriah Rennie, 65, English football referee.{{Cite web|url=https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/13380934/uriah-rennie-premier-leagues-first-black-referee-dies-aged-65-as-tributes-paid-to-trailblazing-official |title=Uriah Rennie, Premier League's first Black referee, dies aged 65 as tributes paid to 'trailblazing' official |website=Sky Sports |accessdate=9 June 2025}}
9 June – Frederick Forsyth, 86, English novelist (The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Fourth Protocol).{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/frederick-forsyth-death-day-of-jackal-983275d4e161aa29e42dc09255c9c721 |title='Day of the Jackal' author Frederick Forsyth dies at 86 |date=9 June 2025 |website=AP News |accessdate=9 June 2025}}
11 June – Douglas McCarthy, 58, English musician (Nitzer Ebb).{{Cite web|url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/nitzer-ebbs-douglas-mccarthy-has-died-at-58/ |title=Nitzer Ebb's Douglas McCarthy has died at 58 |first=Bill |last=Pearis |accessdate=15 June 2025}}
13 June – Honest John Plain, 73, English guitarist and singer (The Boys).{{Cite web|url=https://www.abcnyheter.no/nyheter/honest-john-plain-fra-the-boys-er-dod/1086668 |title=Honest John Plain fra The Boys er død |date=14 June 2025 |website=www.abcnyheter.no |accessdate=15 June 2025 |language=NO}}
16 June –
Dick Edwards, 82, English footballer (Aston Villa, Mansfield Town, Torquay United).{{Cite web|url=https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2025/june/16/tribute-to-dick-edwards/ |title=Tribute to Dick Edwards |date=16 June 2025 |website=Aston Villa Football Club |accessdate=17 June 2025}} (death announced on this date)
Kim Woodburn, 83, English television personality (How Clean Is Your House?, Celebrity Big Brother).{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd783228vvro |title=Kim Woodburn: Celebrity Big Brother and How Clean Is Your House star dies aged 83 |date=17 June 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=17 June 2025}}
20 June – Patrick Walden, 46, English guitarist (Babyshambles).{{Cite web|url=https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/music/news/patrick-walden-dead-babyshambles-age-cause-b2774323.html |title=Babyshambles pay tribute after guitarist Patrick Walden dies aged 46 |date=21 June 2025 |website=The Independent |publisher=BBC |accessdate=21 June 2025}}
21 June – David Lawrence, 61, English cricketer (Gloucestershire, national team), complications from motor neurone disease.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jun/22/david-syd-lawrence-former-england-cricketer-dies-aged-61 |title=‘A true trailblazer’: David ‘Syd’ Lawrence, former England cricketer, dies aged 61 |first=Simon |last=Burnton |date=22 June 2025 |accessdate=22 June 2025 |publisher=The Guardian}}
23 June – Mick Ralphs, 81, English Hall of Fame guitarist (Mott the Hoople, Bad Company) and songwriter ("Feel Like Makin' Love"), complications from a stroke.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mick-ralphs-guitarist-bad-company-mott-the-hoople-dead-1235370273/ |title=Mick Ralphs, Guitarist in Bad Company and Mott the Hoople, Dead at 81 |first=David |last=Browne |date=23 June 2025 |publisher=Rolling Stone |accessdate=24 June 2025}} (death announced on this date)

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