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| 2024 | Published 'Putin and the Return of History', examining the West's post-Soviet plans and Putin's growing antagonism towards Washington and NATO. |
| 2024 | Vanguard-class trials for the upgraded Spearfish torpedo were conducted. |
| December 31 2024 | The Yate manufacturing plant, which had been in operation for 104 years, was permanently closed, resulting in 142 redundancies and ending tumble dryer production in the UK. |
| October 2024 | Beko Europe announced the closure of the Yate manufacturing site, the last remaining Hotpoint manufacturing site in the UK. |
| February 2024 | Britain's antitrust regulator provisionally cleared the Arcelik and Whirlpool business combination deal. |
| January 2024 | Locomotive 91000 was renumbered to celebrate the 1000th issue of Rail magazine. |
| 2023 | Renamed Gilbarco Veeder-Root Retail Solutions to Invenco by GVR, incorporating brands like Passport, Orpak, Insite 360, and DOMS. |
| October 2023 | EU antitrust regulators approved the Arcelik and Whirlpool business combination deal. |
| March 2023 | Locomotive 91131 was moved to the Museum of Scottish Railways at the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway after being nominated for preservation by the Railway Heritage Committee. |
| January 2023 | Arcelik and Whirlpool agreed to combine their European business, with Arcelik owning a 75% share. The new business entity will own the rights to the Hotpoint brand in Europe. |
| 2022 | Turkish white goods manufacturer Arcelik agreed to buy Whirlpool's Russian arm, including the use of the Hotpoint brand. The deal also encompassed Whirlpool's sales operations in Kazakhstan and selected Commonwealth of Independent States countries. |
| 2022 | Co-wrote 'The Russia Conundrum: How the West Fell for Putin's Power Gambit' with Mikhail Khodorkovsky. |
| September 2022 | Locomotive 91120 was loaned to Crewe Heritage Centre for long-term preservation by Europhoenix. |
| August 2022 | Locomotive 91103 was scrapped. |
| August 31 2022 | Vontier announced acquisition of Invenco, which would become part of Gilbarco Veeder-Root. |
| June 2022 | Glen Dimplex agreed to sell Morphy Richards to Guangdong Xinbao Electrical Appliance Holdings (Xinbao), a Chinese company that previously manufactured Morphy Richards products in China. |
| March 2022 | Locomotives 91103 and 91104 arrived at C F Booth, Rotherham for scrapping. |
| 2021 | Published 'The War of Nerves', an account of the Cold War psychology, which was shortlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Non-fiction. |
| June 2021 | The 225 Group was launched with the intention of preserving a Class 91 locomotive and an InterCity 225 set. |
| May 2021 | Multiple locomotives (91102, 91113, 91126, 91129) were scrapped at Sims, Newport. |
| May 11 2021 | First InterCity 225 train set re-entered service, earlier than the originally planned June 7th date, due to Azuma sets being taken out of service. |
| March 2021 | Locomotive 91132 was scrapped at Sims, Beeston after being involved in both the Hatfield and Great Heck accidents. |
| February 2021 | Final testing of 3 upgraded 'MOD 1' specification Spearfish torpedoes was conducted in preparation for entry into service with the Royal Navy. |
| January 15 2021 | Remaining serviceable InterCity 225 sets were put into temporary storage as part of the East Coast Upgrade. |
| 2020 | Telent initiated a major software revision for SystemX exchanges to improve restoration times for large exchanges with 60+ concentrators, with the expectation that this software update would last until the complete retirement of the SystemX network. |
| 2020 | BT commenced a comprehensive rationalisation of its SystemX estate, focusing on reducing power consumption, cost, and floor space while improving overall reliability. The ageing Mk1 switches were becoming increasingly difficult to maintain. |
| 2020 | Post-2020, exchange software began being modified to reduce restoration time for system recoveries. |
| 2020 | Exchange software began to be modified to reduce restoration time after system failures, improving the recovery process for System X switches. |
| September 2020 | Eversholt Rail Group and London North Eastern Railway extended their lease on Class 91 locomotives to ten by 2023, with options to keep them operational until 2024. |
| January 29 2020 | LNER announced they would retain a limited number of InterCity 225 fleet to support their December 2021 timetable. |
| 2019 | The Lincoln plant building was demolished. |
| 2019 | Awarded the Institute of Physics Isaac Newton Medal. |
| December 2019 | InterCity 125 fleet was withdrawn. |
| December 2019 | Whirlpool announces a safety recall for Hotpoint and Indesit washing machines manufactured between 2014 and 2018 due to faulty door interlocks that could potentially cause fires. |
| September 2019 | Europhoenix purchased locomotives 91117 and 91120. |
| September 25 2019 | Locomotive 91117 went off-lease and was stored at Barrow Hill for potential use as a spares donor. |
| July 2019 | Locomotive 91108 went off lease, becoming the first Class 91 locomotive to be withdrawn. |
| July 2019 | Whirlpool issues a comprehensive recall for up to 800,000 tumble dryers, offering to replace or repair the affected machines. |
| July 2019 | 91108 became the first Class 91 locomotive to be withdrawn from service. |
| May 2019 | Announced CITGO Petroleum Corporation's release of EMV acceptance software and Passport EDGE POS system for retailers. |
| 2018 | Acquired Midco Limited, an Indian fuel dispenser manufacturer based in Mumbai, with a production unit in Vatva, Gujarat. |
| 2018 | Appointed CB (Companion of the Order of the Bath). |
| October 2018 | Whirlpool notified customers about the Grenfell Tower fire investigation, initially claiming alternative fire causes, though the investigation ultimately confirmed the Hotpoint fridge-freezer's faulty wiring as the fire's source. |
| August 2018 | BAE Systems continued to occupy the Strand Road site, now as tenants of St Modwen, marking a return to a location they had previously closed in 1990. |
| July 2018 | The Strand Road site closed as a manufacturing and service center for traction control equipment and rotating machines. |
| July 31 2018 | Alstom activities on the Preston site concluded. |
| June 2017 | A Hotpoint FF175BP fridge freezer was identified as the potential origin of the Grenfell Tower fire, which resulted in 72 fatalities. |
| June 2017 | Alstom announced the closure of the Preston Strand Road site, with operations to be transferred or terminated by June 2018. |
| 2016 | Whirlpool begins sending engineers to perform safety modifications on recalled tumble dryers to address the fire risk. |
| 2016 | Continued as Chief Scientific Adviser when DECC merged with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to become the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). |
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This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles British Rail Class 91, Ruston & Hornsby, John Loughhead, Martin Sixsmith, Hotpoint, Michael Pepper, Spearfish torpedo, System X (telephony), Morphy Richards, Gilbarco Veeder-Root & GEC Traction, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.