charged with drink driving. 17 April – Theresa May apologises to Caribbean leaders at Downing Street over the Windrush generation controversy. 19 April – Theresa May announces a ban on plastic straws and cotton buds in England. 21 April – The Queen's Birthday Party, a music concert celebrating the ninety-second birthday of Queen Elizabeth II, is held at London's Royal Albert Hall. 22 April – The London Marathon takes place, amid the hottest temperatures ever seen at the event, reaching 24.1 °C (75.3 °F) in St James's Park. Catherine Middleton (the Duchess of Cambridge) gives birth to a baby boy at St Mary's Hospital, London who becomes fifth in line to the throne and Elizabeth II's sixth great-grandchild. He is subsequently named Louis Arthur Charles. 24 April – The first statue of a woman in Parliament Square is unveiled, that of suffragist Millicent Fawcett. 28 April Alfie Evans, a toddler at the centre of a legal case into whether he should be granted medical treatment to prolong his life, dies in Liverpool aged 23 months. Sainsbury's and Asda are reported to be at an advanced stage of talks to merge the two supermarkets. An outbreak of oak processionary, a species of toxic caterpillar, is reported across Greater London and surrounding areas. 29 April – Amber Rudd resigns as Home Secretary following the Windrush scandal. She is replaced the following day by Sajid Javid, the first British Pakistani to hold the post. May 2 May – Cambridge Analytica files for bankruptcy, following the data privacy scandal. 3 May Elections to many local councils and mayoralties are held in England, including all 32 London boroughs. There are losses for the Conservatives (−33) and gains for Labour (+77), the Lib Dems (+75) and Green Party (+8). Meanwhile, UKIP are nearly wiped out, losing 123 councillors and retaining just three. Other parties see a net loss of four councillors. A by-election is held at the West Tyrone constituency following the resignation of MP Barry McElduff in January. Ten people are injured by an explosion at a Jewish festival in London. 5 May – The Temperate House at Kew Gardens in London reopens, following a five-year, £41,000,000 revamp. 7 May The UK experiences its hottest early May bank holiday (since its introduction in 1978) with a temperature of 28.7 °C (83.66 °F) recorded at RAF Northholt in West London. Mark Williams defeats John Higgins by