CiB moves to Milton Keynes (where IoIC remains to this day).
CiB produces its first ezine.
In January 2010, CiB changes its name again – to Institute of Internal Communication, in the process dropping external comms categories from its award schemes.
Google claims a database of 3.6 billion web pages. This will grow to 25 million by 2008.
An updated Working Time Directive gives EU workers the right to rest breaks and four weeks’ annual paid holiday, restricts excessive night work, and means no one has to work more than 48 hours per week.
The global financial crises wipes trillions of pounds off the value of shares all over the world and many countries go into recession. Thousands of jobs are lost in Britain.
Almost 3,000 people are killed in terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon and a passenger flight in Pennsylvania.
Foot-and-mouth disease has a devastating effect on farming: millions of animals are culled and the cost to the sector is thought to be more than £800 million.
The Civil Partnership Act becomes law, giving same-sex couples the same legal rights as married couples.
More than 140 countries sign the Kyoto Protocol, pledging to cut CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions by 5.2 per cent by 2012.