20 March 2018

Tuesday

2018-03-20

Spring equinox 16:15 GMT.

Events

 * Twenty three expelled Russian diplomats and their families leave London for Moscow as Britain and Russia traded recriminations over a nerve agent attack that has plunged relations into their worst crisis since the Cold War.
 * Katie Boyle dies aged 91.
 * Ringo Starr receives a knighthood for services to the music industry. Starr's knighthood comes 21 years after Sir Paul McCartney was knighted, and 53 years after The Beatles received their MBEs.