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  1. Blackleaf

    What are you listening to right now?

    Seether - "Judas Mind" (2024) Shaun Morgan - Vocals, guitar Corey Lowery - Guitar Dale Stewart - Bass John Humphrey - Drums Hailing from South African capital Pretoria, this is the new single from rockers Seether... The South Africans release their ninth studio album "The Surface Seems So...
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    Former Beatles drummer Pete Best transforms one of their favourite clubs into a B&B

    The Clash - "Rock The Casbah" (1982) Were the London punk rockers referring to both The Beatles' old haunt and the global geopolitical situation at the time in the same song or were they just referring to the latter? It's been a matter of debate for 40 years.
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    Former Beatles drummer Pete Best transforms one of their favourite clubs into a B&B

    The former drummer of The Beatles Pete Best has transformed The Casbah Club - where the band used to play - into a Bed and Breakfast. Best's mother Mona opened the club in the cellar of the Bests' home and is where The Beatles played some of their first concerts. Best, now aged 82, was fired...
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    What are you listening to right now?

    A Flock of Seagulls - "Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)" (1983)
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    What are you listening to right now?

    A Flock of Seagulls - "Some Dreams" (2024) The Liverpool New Wave band had a string of hits in the 1980s. Now - much older - they are back with a new single and also a new album to be released in 2025.
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Pet Shop Boys - "Feel" (2024) The new single
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    Two children dead and six injured after being stabbed in Southport

    His Majesty meets with the emergency responders involved with the child murders at Southport Fire Station, meeting his Merseyside fire, police and ambulance crews as men bowed and women curtsied in respect. The Head of State also spoke to local politicians.
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    Two children dead and six injured after being stabbed in Southport

    The King visits Southport to meet the survivors of the attack King Charles III has visited the children who survived the stabbings and was greeted by hundreds of townsfolk
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Toy Dolls - "Nellie the Elephant" (1985) The Sunderland punk band had a Top 5 UK hit with this in the year Vodaphone becomes Britain's first mobile phone network, 58 football fans are killed in the Bradford City stadium fire and the country's iconic red telephone boxes start to be phased out...
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    Russia's Shiveluch volcano erupts after earthquake

    Russia Quake, Volcano Eruption Near Military Submarine Base | Petropavlovsk | Kamchatka No fatalities reported as the powerful natural phenomena occurred in a sparsely populated region of the world's biggest country
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    30 injured as ferris wheel catches fire in Germany

    https://news.sky.com/story/amp/ferris-wheel-catches-fire-at-music-festival-in-germany-around-30-people-injured-13198935
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    Cricket: Oval Invincibles win second successive Hundred

    The Hundred Final Oval Invincibles: 147-9 Southern Brave: 130-7 Invincibles win by 17 runs Lord's, London Oval Invincibles, representing Kent and Surrey, beat Southern Brave, representing Hampshire and Sussex, in the Final of The Hundred tonight to become the first team to win the...
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    Is Oliver Cromwell buried at Newburgh Priory?

    Is Cromwell's body buried at this country house? Stephen Wombwell has lived at Newburgh Priory all his life Julia Lewis BBC News Sunday 18th August 2024 Over the centuries, the story of the burial of English Civil War leader Oliver Cromwell's headless body at Newburgh Priory in North...
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    Russia's Shiveluch volcano erupts after earthquake

    The Shiveluch volcano, in Russia's Far East, is erupting after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake. No injuries were reported in the sparsely populated area. "Shiveluch" means "smoking mountain" in Itelman.
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    Terrorism suspected after Irish Army chaplain stabbed

    So Seems he was shouting out about Irish involvement in the Middle East so the Irish authorities were quick to identify him as a terrorist. Even a small country like Republic of Ireland with a tiny military - which relies largely on the RAF for her air defence - isn't immune from such whackos.
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    Terrorism suspected after Irish Army chaplain stabbed

    The Irish Gardai (police) are suspecting terrorism after Irish Army chaplain Paul Murphy was stabbed in the city of Galway in County Galway. Members of the Irish Defence Forces detained the teenaged suspect before he was arrested by the Gardai.