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28 August – Prince William of Gloucester, a cousin of the Queen, is killed in an air crash near Wolverhampton. He is thirty years old, a bachelor and ninth in line to the British throne at this time. This means that Prince Richard, the Duke of Gloucester's only other son, automatically becomes heir to the dukedom.
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8 January – 44 people are killed in the Kegworth air disaster. 11 January. Accident investigators say that the Kegworth air disaster was caused when pilot Kevin Hunt, who survived the crash, accidentally shut down the wrong engine. Abbey National building society offers free shares to its 5,500,000 members.
Workers between the ages of 21–24 receive an hourly pay rise from £7.05 to £7.38, wages rise from £5.60 to £5.90 for 18–20-year-olds, from £4.05 to £4.20 for 16–17-year-olds and £3.50 to £3.70 for apprentices aged under 19 or in the first year of their apprenticeship.
It continued to air until 2010. 1967. No events. 1968. 7 March – Newsroom on BBC2 becomes the first UK news programme to be transmitted in colour. 25 March – BBC regional television from Leeds begins and the first edition of Look North is broadcast. Previously, the Yorkshire area had been part of a wider North region based in Manchester.
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Type A Operating Licence holders [1]; Airline Image IATA code ICAO code Call sign Remarks 2Excel Aviation: BRO: BROADSWORD: AirTanker: 9L: TOW: TOWLINE: Operates a fleet of 14 Airbus A330 MRTT for the Royal Air Force, known as Voyager, under a 27-year contract to the UK Government; its call sign is a nod to its primary role of aerial refuelling tankers.