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6 September – News at One replaces First Report and the teatime news bulletin programme is extended by five minutes and renamed News at 5.45. 17 September – The original incarnation of Newsnight is broadcast for the final time. It is replaced three days later with a shorter bulletin called Late Night News on 2. 1977
The resulting public outcry led to several high-profile resignations. Advertiser boycotts led to the News of the World being shuttered, publishing its final edition on 10 July 2011, after 168 years of publication. News Corporation was also to cancel its proposed takeover of the British satellite broadcaster BSkyB.
Edward VI prohibited 'spoken news or rumour' in his proclamations of 1547 to 1549. Royal permission had to be obtained before any news could be published, and all printed news was regarded as the royal prerogative. The only form of printed news that was permitted to be circulated was the 'relation'.
11 September – The housing charity Shelter releases a report claiming that there are up to 3,000,000 people in need of rehousing due to poor living conditions. [37] 16 September – Iconic 1960s fashion store Biba reopens on Kensington High Street. [12] 21 September – Police evicts squatters of the London Street Commune from 144 Piccadilly ...
9 September – Queen Elizabeth II surpasses her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria as the United Kingdom's longest-reigning monarch, [203] as she declares the Borders Railway officially open. [204] 11 September – MPs reject plans for a right to die in England and Wales in their first vote on the issue in almost twenty years. [205]
Accusations of a left-wing bias were often made against the corporation by members of Margaret Thatcher's 1980s Conservative government. Norman Tebbit called the BBC the "Stateless Person's Broadcasting Corporation" because of what he regarded as its unpatriotic coverage of the Falklands War, and Conservative MP Peter Bruinvels called it the "Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation". [1]
9 September – Bill Doran, English motorcycle road racer (born 1916) 11 September – E. E. Evans-Pritchard, British anthropologist (born 1902) 20 September – William Plomer, South African-born novelist, poet and literary editor (born 1903) 21 September – C. H. Dodd, Welsh scholar and theologian (born 1884)
16 September – UK release of the film Darling starring Julie Christie. 21 September – BP's oil platform Sea Gem strikes natural gas in the North Sea oil field. 24 September – The British governor of Aden cancels the Aden constitution and takes direct control of the protectorate, due to the bad security situation.