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    Woman jailed for minimum of 36 years after murdering her parents and living with their bodies for four years

    Oh, thank you. Her accent sounds weird even to me, because I'm in Manchester. We have lots of accents here. They sound a lot different just 10 miles away. But that's the thing: You can walk down the street and say a friendly hello to a complete stranger without realising they are a multiple...
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Nero - "Promises" (2011) This song by the London dance band debuted at No1 in the UK. The song received a Gold certification in the US in 2012.
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    Woman jailed for minimum of 36 years after murdering her parents and living with their bodies for four years

    A woman who murdered her parents and then lived alongside their bodies for four years told police who arrested her: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.” Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with a “cocktail of prescription drugs” and fatally stabbed her...
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    Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond dies aged 69

    Former leader of the Scottish National Party and Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond has died aged 69. Salmond - who was behind the 2014 Scottish independence referendum which he and the SNP lost as the Scots voted against independence - died in North Macedonia yesterday just after making a...
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    Britain gives up Chagos Islands

    In the dying embers of the British Empire Britain has ceded the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Unlike previous times where we've let a land become independent on this occasion we've just given it to another country. So we've given it up but it's not independence. It's now ruled by the Mauritians...
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Talk Talk - "It's My Life" (1984) The London band had a hit with this in the year Brunei gained its independence from Britain; Britain's Zola Budd and America's Mary Decker controversially collide at the Olympics in Los Angeles; Prince Harry is born; and a serial sex offender known as The Fox...
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    Queen visits King Charles III Sacristy under construction

    Queen Camilla has visited the King Charles III Sacristy as it undergoes construction. The new building is being erected at Westminster Abbey, which has seen Coronations all the way from King William I on 25th December 1066 to King Charles III on 6th May 2023. The King Charles III Sacristy is...
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    Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh mark anniversary of Maltese independence

    The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh have visited the tiny Mediterranean nation of Malta to mark 60 years of independence. Malta gained its independence from Britain in 1964 and the King's brother and sister-in-law met Maltese President Myriam Debono and her husband in the capital Valletta. Malta...
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    Tory leadership hopefuls make final pitches

    The final four MPs left standing in the race to become the new leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party have made their final pitches at the Tory Party Conference in Birmingham. Tugendhat, Badenoch, Jenrick and Cleverly are all vying to be leader of the world's oldest and most successful...
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    Britain tells EU: "No return to free movement"

    Almost five years since Britain seceded from the EU, today the two powers met for talks with the British telling the EU they have no plans to rejoin. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer reiterated that Britain will not rejoin the EU and will not bring back EU freedom of movement as he held...
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    King and Queen mark 25 years of Scottish Parliament

    His Majesty King Charles III addresses the Scottish Parliament to mark 25 years since it opened on 1st July 1999...
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    King and Queen mark 25 years of Scottish Parliament

    King Charles III and Queen Camilla have marked 25 years since Scotland gained devolution and acquired her own parliament. Donning a kilt, King Charles III and his wife met with "community heroes" before signing a visitors' book at Queensbury House, which is part of the Scottish Parliament in...
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    Prince William and David Beckham celebrate hitting £15 air ambulance goal

    The Prince of English football and the Prince of Wales met at RAF Northolt as they celebrated smashing the £15 million target to replace London's ageing air ambulances with more modern helicopters. Prince William - a qualified helicopter pilot who has flown British Army Apaches - took to the...
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    Princess Beatrice pregnant with second child

    The King's niece Princess Beatrice is pregnant with her second child with her husband Edoardo Mozzi. Princess Beatrice is ninth in line to the Throne after Prince William, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, Prince Louis, Prince Harry, Archie, Lilibet and her father Prince Andrew. Their...
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Apollo 440 - "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Dub" (1997) In the days when popular music was good, the Liverpool electro-rock band achieved a global hit with this...
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Basement Jaxx - "Rendez-vous" (1999) The London electronic duo reached No4 in the UK and No1 in the US and Canada with this...
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    I guess you just don't f@ck with the Canucks...

    Because most Canadians are British. There's a few French and a few Red Indians but other than that most Canadians are Brits who were born there because their British parents or grandparents colonised the land and the British colonisers gave birth to the Canadians of today. Imagine 30 billion...
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    British PM calls for "the return of the sausages"

    Tory big gun and GB News presenter Jacob Rees-Mogg goes in for the kill by mentioning the PM's sausage mistake and Lady Victoria Starmer's freebie dress. Those champagne socialists are really powering the Tories. No wonder the Tories have won most elections since 1832. Former MP Rees-Mogg lost...
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    British PM calls for "the return of the sausages"

    "No Brainer With Angela Rayner" British Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner on the 2024 Labour Party Conference in Liverpool...
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    British PM calls for "the return of the sausages"

    Who will be first out the door? Chancellor Reeves? Deputy PM Rayner (swinging on some bloke's cock like Tarzan in New York)? PM Starmer? And remember: Labour have only been in power since 5th July and they are rarely in power, so congratulations to them for showing why they almost always lose...