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The Royal Navy has released a new Christmas advert based on true events. From 2023 to 2024, destroyer HMS Diamond came under repeated Houthi missile and drone attacks in the Red Sea, shooting them down with her Sea Viper missiles.

It just had to be. USA and Venezuela have been drawn together in the same group for the 2026 World Cup. They are going to be playing each other in the tournament

Aled Jones - "Walking In The Air" (1982) In the year in which the British unleashed the Gurkhas onto the Argentinians in the Falklands War, Aled Jones had a Christmas hit with this song that featured in the 1982 animated British Christmas movie "The Snowman". The animated movie is about a...

Queen Camilla has given a speech honouring the Rifles during the British Army regiment's biennial dinner at London's Guildhall. The Queen, who is Colonel-in-Chief of the Rifles, attended the event with Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh and other members of the Royal Family.

Brits welcome Norwegian ship into Portsmouth As the Royal Navy Carrier Strike Group arrived back in Portsmouth, the allied Norwegian Navy ship Roald Amundsen was also given a warm welcome into Portsmouth. The Norwegian ship sailed alongside the British Carrier Strike Group around the world...

Hundreds of Brits waved Union Jacks to welcome back to Portsmouth the Royal Navy Carrier Strike Group. Aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales - the Royal Navy flagship - arrived back home alongside Royal Navy destroyer HMS Dauntless, gracefully floating past Portsmouth's famous Spinnaker Tower...

British Justice Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy today announced to the Commons that he is to scrap jury trials for defendants facing sentences of three years or less. Offences that magistrates send to Crown Courts below this threshold will be heard by a single judge, rather than...

The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band- I'm The Urban Spaceman (1968) The London band, formed by a group of art students, had a No5 UK hit with this. The song was produced by Paul McCartney, under the pseudonym "Apollo C. Vermouth."

Razorlight - "In the Morning" (2006) The London rockers had a No3 UK hit with this

On Friday I got a new King Charles III coin for the first time. It was the new King Charles III £1 coin with the King on one side and two bees on the "tails" side. I used it to pay the £2 bus fare to work. Funnily enough, the bus I got on was a yellow Greater Manchester "Bee Network" bus, the...

Spandau Ballet - "Musclebound" (1981) In the year I was born, the London New Wave band had a hit with this. Spandau were New Romantics, a UK subculture of the late 70s and early 80s in which men wore elaborate and androgynous clothing and makeup. Bassist Martin Kemp later became an actor -...

A message to the nation from Reform UK leader Nigel Farage... The British economy is in desperate trouble. Despite what politicians pretend, you can see for yourself that nothing works anymore. When the next election comes, Reform UK will be ready. We will proudly be the party of alarm clock...

Britain has just released footage of her new DragonFire drone-killing laser shooting down drones travelling at 400 mph. The laser can hit targets the size of a £1 coin from a kilometre away at a cost of just £10 per shot. The ammunition is unlimited. The British have said that they will start...

New Order - "Bizarre Love Triangle" (1986) In an almost unique scenario, after Ian Curtis, the vocalist of rockers Joy Division hanged himself in his kitchen in 1980 just before they were about to undertake a tour of America, the Salford, Greater Manchester, band re-organised themselves as...

Wham! - "Last Christmas" (1984) Despite being the UK's 1984 Christmas No2 - having been beaten to the coveted UK Christmas No1 by Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" (in which George Michael himself sang) - amazingly the band fronted by George Michael, who went on to have a successful...

The Pretenders - "2000 Miles" (1983) In 1983, the British band fronted by an American woman had a big Christmas hit with this. In 2022, Chrissie Hynde, now 74, applied for, and became, British. The song is simply about a woman missing a man at Christmas. Chrissie has said of the band's...

You don't have to name them after naval heroes. You just give them an intimidating-sounding or cool name. We have HMS Achilles being built as part of the Astute-class submarines.. That's a cooler name than, say, Gerald R. Ford. And we will have the four Dreadnought-class submarines - HMS...

This comes after a Russian ship beamed lasers at an RAF plane. The British have called the situation "deeply dangerous." It seems as though the Russians are testing the British and the British have said: 'We see you. We know what you are doing. And we are ready." The Russians are prodding the...

The Royal Navy ship HMS Severn forced the Russian ships out of British waters to the coast of northern France where NATO allies took over Two Russian warships were intercepted in the English Channel by the Royal Navy, the British Ministry of Defence has revealed. HMS Severn – a Royal Navy...

Because that's not scary and hard. If an enemy comes up against a ship named Agamemnon they're most likely to think "Nah, we'd best not take it on."