1992 in England


Events from '''1992 in England'''

Events

January

  • 9 January - Alison Halford, an assistant chief constable with Merseyside Police Force and the country's most senior policewoman, is suspended from duty for a second time following a police authority meeting.
  • 22 January - Estate agent Stephanie Slater, 25, is held hostage at a Birmingham house by a man demanding a £175,000 ransom from her employers. He has threatened to kill Ms Slater unless he receives the money.
  • 30 January - Stephanie Slater is safely returned to her family after her captor releases her from his car near her home in Birmingham.

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

  • 9 October - Two suspected IRA bombs explode in London, but there are no injuries.
  • 12 October - Several people are injured when an IRA bomb explodes in the men's toilets at the Sussex Arms pub in Covent Garden, London. Among the injured is 30-year-old nurse, David Heffer, who later dies in hospital.
  • 14 October - The England football team begins its qualification campaign for the 1994 FIFA World Cup with a 1–1 draw against Norway at Wembley Stadium.
  • 25 October - Around 100,000 people protest in London against the government's pit closure plans.
  • 30 October - IRA terrorists force a taxi driver to drive to Downing Street at gunpoint and once there they detonate a bomb, but there are no injuries.

November

  • 11 November - The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
  • 17 November - Vinnie Jones, the Wimbledon midfielder, receives a record £20,000 fine and a six-month suspension for bringing the game into disrepute following his comments in the video "Soccer's Hard Men".
  • 16 November - Hoxne Hoard discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Suffolk.
  • 19 November - The High Court rules that doctors can disconnect feeding tubes from Tony Bland, a 21-year-old man who has been in a coma since the Hillsborough disaster on 15 April 1989. Mr Bland, of Liverpool, suffered massive brain damage in the disaster which claimed the lives of 95 people and doctors treating him say that there is no reasonable possibility that he could recover consciousness and in his current condition would be unlikely to survive more than five years.
  • 20 November - Fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage.

December

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