Local Girl - Youngest person to finish the Baffin Island Traverse
Alicia Hempleman-Adams, 15, from Box near Bath, pulls a sledge through the snow with Mount Thor in the background, Nunavut, Canada, as she was completing a second entry into the Guinness Book of Records after becoming the youngest person to finish the Baffin Island Traverse through Auyuittuq National Park Reserve

London will host Olympic Games 2012
London has won "the biggest prize in sport'' after the 2012 Olympic Games were awarded to the capital on the 6th July 2005. It will be the first time the Olympics has been held in Britain since 1948. News of London's victory delighted flag-waving supporters who had gathered in Trafalgar Square and Stratford in the East End of London, where the new Olympic park will be built.

London Bombings
Twenty-four hours after the festivity and celebration of London winning the Olympic vote to host the 2012 games, the city is brought to a stand still following four synchronised bombs, three in the underground and one on No30 Tavistock Square bus. The image shows the wreckage of a London bus after an explosion on the bus, London, July 7th, 2005. Four blasts ripped through London at rush hour early on Thursday, killing many people, wounding 150 seriously and disrupting a meeting of Group of Eight leaders in Scotland in attacks Prime Minister Tony Blair called 'barbaric'

A Nation Remembers 60 years On
The nation marked the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Sunday 10th July 2005, a Lancaster bomber from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight dropped one million poppies over the tens of thousands who had gathered down The Mall.

The Queen paid tribute to those who "sacrificed all" during the Second World War during a day of commemoration on the 60th anniversary of the end of the wars in Europe and the Far East.

The ceremony was described by some taking part as the "last parade", marking the final great gathering of veterans, the youngest of whom are now in their late seventies.

Space Shuttle Launches Again
Space shuttle Discovery takes off from pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida 26th July 2005. NASA successfully launched space Discovery on July 26 after a 2½ year struggle to rebuild the shuttle program following the fatal Columbia accident. The shuttle, carrying seven crew members, soared into slightly hazy skies, leaving behind a trail of smoke and flames, while the roar of its solid booster rockets rattled windows and shook the ground across Cape Canaveral in Florida.

10th Planet in Solar System
A California astronomer has discovered what he believes is the 10th planet in our solar system, a group of NASA-funded researchers said on July 29, 2005. The new planet, known as 2003UB313, has been identified as the most distant object ever detected orbiting the sun, California Institute of Technology astronomer Michael Brown said. This artist's concept shows planet 2003UB313 at the lonely outer fringes of our solar system. Our sun can be seen in the distance.