July 2007 in Britain and Ireland

• Operation Banner, the campaign of British Armed Forces in Northern Ireland since 1969, comes to an end at the end of the month. (BBC News)

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• England and Wales are experiencing their wettest early summer since records began in 1766, with heavy rain causing the worst floods in 60 years. The period between May and July has seen 38.7cm (15.2 inches) of rain, double the average, and beating the previous record of 34.9 cm (13.7 inches) set in 1789. (Reuters via The China Post)

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• Oxegen 07 begins at Punchestown Racecourse near Naas in County Kildare, Ireland and lasts until Sunday July 8.

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• Two die and two more seriously injured when a small plane crashes after missing the runway at Aerfort na Minna, in County Galway, Ireland. (RTÉ)
• 91 boats capsize during a junior regatta in Dún Laoghaire, on the Irish Sea, with 120 children swept out to sea. All have been rescued, according to the Irish Coast Guard, although 15 have been brought to hospital. (RTÉ)
• Eleven people are injured when a staircase collapses at the Natural History Museum in Dublin. (RTÉ)

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• Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern describes the seizure of over €107m worth of [...] off the County Cork coast as a matter of serious concern. Following the retrieval of 60 bales of the illegal [...] yesterday, a 61st bale is discovered wedged in some rocks off the south coast. (RTÉ)

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• Gardaí and coast patrol on a routine rescue mission seize over €300 million worth of [...], the biggest drugs haul in the history of the Irish State, in the sea off the coast of County Cork. (RTÉ)

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• Concert for Diana takes place at Wembley Stadium, London from 4 p.m. until 10 p.m. 1
• Authorities evacuate part of Heathrow Airport while they investigate a suspect package. (Reuters)
• A freak Irish explosion is heard in Rush, North County Dublin. Nothing is found despite a helicopter search. (RTÉ)

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