Mosque attacker Darren Osborne, who drove a van into a group of Muslims, is jailed for life, with a minimum term of 43 years. 3 February – British Youtuber KSI defeats fellow British Youtuber Joe Weller in 3 rounds in a YouTube Boxing match at the Copper Box Arena. The event is considered the biggest events in YouTube History as 20 million people are believed to have watched the fight on live streams. KSI then called out American Youtuber Logan Paul and his brother named Comedyshrtsgamer fought American Youtuber Jake Paul on 25 August 2018 at the Manchester Arena. 7 February Jon Venables, one of the killers of toddler James Bulger, is jailed for possessing child abuse images for a second time. Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, backs a ruling by the High Court that victims of the serial sex offender John Worboys can challenge in court the parole board's decision to release him from prison. 8 February – NHS hospitals in England record their worst ever A&E performance, with only 77.1% of patients treated within four hours in January, far short of the 95% target. 9 February – Trinity Mirror purchases Northern & Shell, chaired by Richard Desmond, for £126.7 million. 21 February – Jack Whitehall presented the 2018 Brit Awards, which took place in The O2, London, and was broadcast live on ITV. 28 February – An earthquake of magnitude 3.2 and depth of 4 km hits Mosser, Cumbria. It was felt in Grasmere, Kendal, Cockermouth and Keswick and was the second earthquake to hit the United Kingdom within two weeks. March 1 March – Former Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, is suspended from the Labour Party indefinitely, amid claims of anti-semitism. 4 March – Sergei Skripal, a former Russian agent convicted of spying for Britain, is found collapsed on a shopping centre bench in Salisbury, Wiltshire, alongside his 33-year-old daughter, Yulia Skripal. With police suspecting deliberate poisoning, similar to that of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006, a major incident is declared. It is later confirmed by police that a nerve agent was administered in an attempt to murder Skripal. 13 March The government's fiscal statement, which is now called the Spring Statement, is published. Russian exile Nikolai Glushkov is found dead at his London home. 14 March Stephen Hawking, world-renowned theoretical physicist, author, and cosmologist, dies at his home in Cambridge, aged 76. The government calls for an