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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
23 September – Ceefax is started by the BBC – one of the first public service information systems. [6] 30 September – With the year's second general election 10 days away, opinion polls show Labour in the lead with Harold Wilson well placed to gain the overall majority that no party achieved in the election held seven months earlier. [38]
The UK Government announces that Monday 19 September, the date of the state funeral of Elizabeth II, will be a national bank holiday. [476] During its time in Edinburgh, the Queen's Coffin is taken from Holyrood palace to St Giles' Cathedral; 11 September – The Queen's coffin is delivered by hearse from Balmoral to Edinburgh.
16 September – Danny John-Jules, English dancer and actor; 17 September – Damon Hill, English racing driver; 19 September – Shaun Greenhalgh, English art forger; 24 September – Tony Juniper, English environmentalist and politician; 29 September – Andy Slaughter, British Labour politician and MP for Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush ...
20 September – Leonard Parkin, television newsreader (born 1929) 23 September – Myer Galpern, politician (born 1903) 24 September – Tamara Talbot Rice, art historian (born 1904, Russian Empire) 25 September – Sir John Moores, businessman, founder and chairman of Littlewoods 1923-1977 and 1980-1982 (born 1896) 30 September
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19 September – The first episode of the popular sitcom Fawlty Towers is broadcast on BBC Two. [38] 24 September – Dougal Haston and Doug Scott become the first British people to climb Mount Everest. [39] 27 September – The National Railway Museum is opened in York, becoming the first national museum outside London.
Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch purchases the best-selling UK Sunday newspaper The News of the World. [2] 4 January – Guitarist Jimi Hendrix caused complaints of arrogance from television producers after playing an impromptu version of "Sunshine Of Your Love" past his allotted timeslot on the BBC1 programme Happening for Lulu.