9 August 2006 (Wednesday)
- John Reid states that critics of the UK government's anti-terror policies "just don't get it" and that Britain was facing "probably the most sustained period of severe threat since the end of the second world war" (Guardian)
- Two brothers are convicted of murdering Damilola Taylor in November 2000. (BBC News)
- Labour MP Jim Sheridan resigns his post as a parliamentary private secretary to the defence team in protest over the government policy in the Middle East.
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