Difference between revisions 8949547 and 8949572 on enwiki

< previous diff
next diff >
December 2004 in Britain and Ireland
<!-- NOTE: PLEASE LOG NEW EVENTS IN THE PRESENT TENSE. THANK YOU!

PLEASE PROVIDE LINKS TO NEWS STORIES AFTER EACH ENTRY, NEWS STORIES WITHOUT LINKS MAY BE REMOVED.

NEWS STORIES MUST BE IN ENGLISH.

PLEASE DO NOT LINK TO SUBSCRIPTION-ONLY SITES SUCH AS AOL, WSJ OR THE NYT (except in the unlikely event that a story is covered there substantially better than anywhere else) 
-->
(contracted; show full)

==[[29 December]] [[2004]]==
*The confirmed British death toll in [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake|Sunday's earthquake]] has risen to 26 (20 in [[Thailand]], 3 in [[Sri Lanka]] and 3 in the [[Maldives]])
; a. A granddaughter of [[actor]] and [[director]] [[Richard Attenborough]] is amongst the dead at [[Phuket]],; his [[daughter]] is also missing, as is her mother-in-law. Up to 100 Britons are still unaccounted for in Sri Lanka alone. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4132227.stm (BBC)].
*A [[murder]] hunt has started as the [[strangled]] body of a heavily [[pregnant]] 14 year old girl is found in a [[Telford]] churchyard. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/4130483.stm (BBC)]
*A rise in the number of escaped [[prisoner]]s has been the target of attacks from the [[Conservative]]s. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4130457.stm (BBC)].
*With one day's play remaining in the second Test Match, the , [[South African [[cricket]] team has been|South Africa]] are set a target of 378 to win   against [[England.  When played closedish cricket team|England]]. At close of play on Wednesday, they had reachedir score is 21-1. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/shared/fds/hi/statistics/cricket/scorecards/2004/12/7345/html/scorecard.stm (Full scorecard from BBC)]

==[[28 December]] [[2004]]==
*The list of British casualties in [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake|Sunday's earthquake]] currently stands at 13 (nine in [[Thailand]], four in [[Sri Lanka]] and 3 in the [[Maldives]]) as the first survivors begin to arrive home. There are no Irish casualties currently reported, although concerns are growing about two Irishwomen missing in [[Thailand]]. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4127447.stm (BBC)] [http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/1228/quake1.html (RTÉ)]
(contracted; show full)

== News collections and sources ==
* [[Wikipedia:News collections and sources]].
* [[Wikipedia:News sources]] - This has much of the same material organised in a hierarchical manner to help encourage [[NPOV]] in our news reporting.

[[Category:2004]]