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    The Narrator - "Drawn, Conned and Deceived" (2025) Hailing from Essen in Germany, the metalcore band released their new album "Lore" in September
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    Split Chain - "I'm Not Dying to be Here" (2025) The new single from the Bristol grunge/nu-metal band who sound a little bit like Nirvana. They release their debut album later this year.
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    Grima - "Flight of the Silver Storm" (2025) The new single from the black metallers who hail from the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk in the vast and dark Siberian wilderness New album from the Russian black metallers - "Nightside" - is out 28th February...
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    The Five Hundred - "New World" (2025) The new single from the up and coming Nottingham heavy metallers...
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    Britain and Ukraine sign 100 year pact

    Britain and Ukraine today signed a pact to support each other for the next 100 years. As the two allies signed a pledge of friendship until 2125 in Ukrainian capital Kiev in which they promised to be strong allies even long after the current war in Ukraine British Prime Minister Sir Keir...
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    New species of deadly spider discovered in Australia

    Scientists in Australia - where else? - have discovered a spider that they've unironically nicknamed "Big Boy." This arachnid is a larger, more venomous version of the Sydney funnel web, known to be one of the world's deadliest spiders
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    Priest - "The Pit" (2017) Hailing from the Swedish city of Linköping, here are the electrorockers. Like their British neighbours, the Swedes are somehow good at popular music. Maybe their ability to speak (and sing) in English plays a part in it...
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    Just Stop Oil Protesters desecrate Darwin's grave

    Offences in Cemeteries Act (England and Wales, 1977) 18.—(1) No person shall— (a)wilfully create any disturbance in a cemetery; (b)commit any nuisance in a cemetery; (c)wilfully interfere with any burial taking place in a cemetery; (d)wilfully interfere with any grave or vault, any tombstone...
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    Just Stop Oil Protesters desecrate Darwin's grave

    A photograph of Darwin and his son William, 1842 Left-Wing Just Stop Oil protesters today desecrated Charles Darwin's grave in Westminster Abbey. Darwin (1809-1882) is renowned for discovering evolution and for his 1859 book "On the Origin of Species." But early this morning two Just Stop Oil...
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    1983: When seatbelts became compulsory in Britain

    "I prefer to be free when driving... A nostalgic look at fashions, hairstyles and vehicles in Britain in 1983 in this news report of seatbelts becoming compulsory for drivers and front seat passengers. Nowadays we all take it for granted to buckle our seatbelts. But that wasn't the case in 1983...
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    Lacuna Coil - "Gravity" (2025) The new single from the goth rockers who hail from Milan, Italy... The Italian band's 10th studio album "Sleepless Empire" is released 14th February...
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    Skunk Anansie - "An Artist Is An Artist" (2025) Formed in 1994, the London Britrockers featuring Ace, Skin, Cass and Mark are back with a new single released today
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    Manic Street Preachers - "People Ruin Paintings" (2025) The Welsh band known for trying to rival Oasis and Blur in the Nineties Brit Pop era are back... The new album "Critical Thinking" is out 31st January. It is the band's 15th studio album...
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    Jethro Tull - "Curious Ruminant" (2025) Formed in 1967 in the popular Lancashire seaside resort of Blackpool, the folk rockers are back with a new single and album of the same name, which is due out in March. The band takes its name from the Englishman who invented the horse-drawn seed drill...
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    Ringo Starr ft Molly Tuttle - "Look Up" (2025) The former Beatles drummer, 84, is set to release his 21st solo album since the world's most successful musical artists broke up in 1970. In his new album - also called "Look Up" - the Liverpool legend dabbles in country and western..
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    Also, the drummer of The Darkness - Rufus Taylor - is the son of Roger Taylor, who is the drummer of Queen.
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    The Darkness - "I Hate Myself" (2024) The brand new single from the glam rockers from Lowestoft, Suffolk. Lowestoft is the most easterly settlement in the UK and is also famous for being the home of The Darkness. Famous for hits such as "Get Your Hands off My Woman" and "I Believe in a Thing...
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    Cradle of Filth - "Malignant Perfection" (2024) The new single from the veteran Suffolk extreme metal band - formed in 1991. Dani Filth and Co release their 14th studio album "The Screaming of the Valkyries" in April
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    France's Jean-Marie Le Pen dies aged 96

    The founder of the French "Far Right" National Front Party has died
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    World at War: 2025

    There are wars going on all the time.