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King Charles III today addressed his country on the 80th anniversary of Great Britain winning World War II. During six years, during the reign of Charles III's grandfather George VI, Britain gave much in deaths and physical destruction of her cities to defeat Nazi Germany and her Japanese and...

Pink Floyd - "Another Brick in the Wall" (1979)

The Perseid meteor shower always reminds me of the time in August 1998 when I was one of the radar operators onboard Royal Navy frigate HMS Exeter and the captain kindly allowed me to go up onto the deck to watch them for a while. I was manning a radar screen but he told me there are meteors and...

Lamb of God - "Children of the Grave" (2025) Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, this is the band's cover of the 1971 Black Sabbath song. Black Sabbath vocalist Ozzy Osbourne passed away on 22nd July.

I like how Bermuda is basically part of my country but just happens to be a long way away.

King Charles III has re-presented the standard to RAF No42 (Torpedo Bomber) Squadron at RAF Lossiemouth in north east Scotland. Whilst doing so, the British Head of State and Colonel-in-Chief of the Armed Forces inspected one of the RAF's new P-8 Poseidons Britain will fire off modern and...

Iron Maiden - "Darkest Hour" (2021) The song by the London heavy metallers pays tribute to Sir Winston Churchill and the British military and the British people as a whole for standing up to and defeating the Nazis during six years of immense bloodshed. At one point during World War II, Britain...

My late grandparents used to love going on cruises. They went on loads from the 1970s onwards. They often told me and their other grandchildren about all the places they visited and the people they met and the adventures they went on. For example, in around 1991 they went on a cruise around the...

Jim Lovell, the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission to the Moon, has died aged 97. In 1970, Apollo 13 and its crew of 3 were meant to land on the Moon but a critical failure led to it returning to Earth with all onboard surviving.

The King's oldest nephew Peter Phillips, 47, has announced that he is to marry NHS nurse Harriet Sperling. Peter is the son of the King's sister Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, and is 19th in the Line of Succession. The King and Queen and the Prince and Princess of Wales have expressed...

Slipknot - "Prosthetics" (1999) The masked Iowan heavy metallers have just released the demo for their 1999 song "Prosthetics"

Jethro Tull - "Over Jerusalem" (2025) Hailing from Blackpool, Lancashire - Britain's most popular seaside resort - and formed in 1967, the folk rock band are back with a new single.

Spinal Tap ft Elton John - "Stonehenge" (2025) The hapless British heavy metal band are back with new music. In reality, they are American actors capable of speaking with British accents, including the guy who voices several characters on The Simpsons. The comedy movie Spinal Tap II is...

Iron Maiden - "Blood Brothers" (2000) The Londoners are, of course, one of the world's most successful heavy metal bands