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Former British Prime Minister Theresa May, 68, attempted a Scottish accent during her maiden speech in the House of Lords. May - now known as Baroness May of Maidenhead - jokingly mimicked a colleague during her maiden speech since being elevated to the British Parliament's upper chamber...

Evil Bond-villainesque penguin Feathers McGraw is back in the first Wallace and Gromit movie since 2005. The family-friendly British comedy clay animation often shown at Christmas and New Year featuring a Yorkshire inventor and his pet dog getting up to bizarre adventures returns to screens for...

Real McCoy - "Another Night" (1993) The German dance band had a No3 UK and US hit in the year Czechoslovakia split into Czech Republic and Slovakia, six people are killed as a bomb detonates in the World Trade Center and Monica Seles is stabbed during a tennis match in Hamburg

Aqua - "Doctor Jones" (1997) The band with a female Norwegian lead singer, a Danish vocalist and two Danish DJs scored a hit with this cheesy but catchy song in the year RAF Wing Commander Andy Green broke the world land speed record at 763 mph, a record which has yet to be broken...

Yazz and the Plastic Population - "The Only Way Is Up" (1988) The London artist had a hit with this in the year of the world's first well-known internet virus, the United States and Europe are linked by the internet for the first time and 100,000 people in Estonian SSR sing on three consecutive...

Spiller ft. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - "Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)" (2000) The Italian DJ and the British singer teamed up to produce this classic in the year the Second Chechen War rages, the PlayStation 2 is released, huge fuel protests take place across the UK and the last Pyrenean ibex is...

Billie Ray Martin - "Your Loving Arms" (1994) The German dance songstress and songwriter had a Number 6 UK hit in the year Mandela becomes the first black President of South Africa, the Bosnian War rages, Netscape Navigator becomes the young World Wide Web's dominant browser, Norway votes...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer: US Election Interference

Fresh from their tour of Australia, the King and Queen have arrived in neighbouring Samoa onboard an RAAF plane for their State Visit. Upon arriving in the small Pacific republic which gained its independence from New Zealand in 1962, the British Head of State and his Consort were welcomed by...

Donald Trump's campaign team has called for an investigation into what it claimed was "blatant foreign interference" in the election by Britain's ruling Labour Party. The complaint to the US Federal Electoral Commission claimed there had been "interference" in the "form of apparent illegal...

King Charles III joked about the "sands of time" and expressed his joy at being back in Australia as he addressed politicians. The monarch presented an hourglass - a "speech timer", he called it - to the parliament of New South Wales to mark the 200th anniversary of its upper house. The...

Troubling pictures from Liam Payne's trashed hotel room show white powder after balcony fall

He was a troubled young man despite - or maybe because of - being a member of the world's greatest boy band. Argentine police found his hotel room in disarray. It seems as though it was suicide.

One Direction singer Liam Payne has died in Argentina aged just 31. Britain's One Direction is one of the most successful boy bands of all time. It's been reported that Payne fell off a balcony in Argentina but it's not yet known if it was an accident or suicide.

And here's Professor Brian Cox performing on keyboards with D:Ream in 1993

Professor Brian Cox is back. The former keyboard player of Nineties pop group D:Ream is now one of the great scientists of our age and the Manchester University physicist is back with his latest TV series: "Solar System". Here's a snippet of the first episode which was shown on BBC One on...

Anglophile German who won Champions League in his debut season as Chelsea manager takes on England job Tuchel has previously admitted his love for English culture and English football and now he is to be paid £5 million a year to be the new England boss. England are paying him the richest...

Thomas Tuchel has agreed to become the new England manager. The 51-year-old German has previously managed Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain and London club Chelsea - with whom he won the Champions League - and Sky News understands Tuchel has already signed the contract and that the English FA...

A new sonar image may be the proof that Britain's - and the world's - most famous cryptid Nessie actually exists. Loch Ness is the second largest lake - by volume - on the mainland UK, the second deepest lake in Scotland and it holds more water than all the lakes in England and Wales combined...

King Charles III and Queen Camilla are to visit Australia on Friday. The Australian King and Queen are to tour the vast country and a new poll shows that a quarter of Aussies have a more favourable view of their King than they did during his Coronation on 6th May 2023.