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    German football legend Beckenbauer, loser in 1966, dies aged 78

    German football legend Franz Beckenbauer has died aged 78. Beckenbauer was part of the West Germany team which lost against England in the 1966 World Cup Final but also part of the West Germany team which won the 1974 World Cup. He was part of the West Germany team that won Euro '72. He was...
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Black Sabbath - "Black Sabbath" (1970) Just imagine it. It's Britain in 1970. A country in the final stages of recovery from (a victorious but massively costly, in young men and money and infrastructure) war. Life is grim with poverty and high unemployment and the masses get escapism by...
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Ozzy Osbourne - "Evil Shuffle" (2023) He's just turned 75 (born December 1948), but the former frontman of Birmingham's Black Sabbath - the artists who invented heavy metal in the late 1960s - still keeps churning out that heavy metal. And this new song sounds like it's Black Sabbath but...
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Madness - "Theatre Of The Absurd introduces Acts 1, 2 & 3" (2023) They're back. The loony London ska band are back with new singles and a new album "Driving In My Car" (1982)
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    American-British actor David Soul dies aged 80

    American-British actor David Soul has died in London at the age of 80. Soul was most famous for playing Hutch in Starsky and Hutch. Born in Chicago in 1943 he became British in 2004.
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    Record darts audience sees 16 year old prodigy lose to World No1 in Final

    I'm the opposite. I was born in July 1981 yet people say I look quite a bit younger than 42. I can post a photo to let the ladies here swoon but I'll probably not due to Health and Safety.
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    What are you listening to right now?

    The Last Dinner Party - "Caesar on a TV Screen" (2024) The up-and-coming eccentric London rockers, tipped for hitting the big time, have just released their first single after winning BBC Radio One's Sound of 2024
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    Record darts audience sees 16 year old prodigy lose to World No1 in Final

    Littler, the 16 year old, is the one on the right. And there have been many people here in the UK saying he looks older than 16. He was born on 21st January 2007, so he's almost 17. He was born in Warrington, Cheshire. He began playing darts at the age of 18 months after his father bought him a...
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    Record darts audience sees 16 year old prodigy lose to World No1 in Final

    Last night 16 year old Luke Littler lost 4-7 against Luke Humphries in an all-English World Darts Championship Final. The 16 year old has caught the nation's attention after reaching the Final despite starting the tournament ranked No164 in the world. A world record 5 million people for a...
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    Five dead after planes collide at Tokyo Airport

    It seems, though, as though the coastguard plane was at fault. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-67879308
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    Five dead after planes collide at Tokyo Airport

    Five people have died after a passenger plane collided with a plane providing aid to the victims of Japan's earthquake at Tokyo Airport. All 379 passengers on the airliner survived and the five fatalities were from the coastguard plane. The passenger plane, MA722, burst into flames as it...
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    Happy 2024!

    Britain welcomes 2024 with style Britain has seen in the New Year with the now traditional fireworks and drones display at the London Eye. Europe's largest New Year fireworks display saw 12,000 fireworks and 600 drones and was one of the first times in history that drones interacted with...
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    Queen Camilla invites blind girl to tea

    Queen Camilla has invited a blind girl to have tea with her in the resplendent surroundings of Windsor Castle...
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    Happy 2024!

    Happy New Year to Canadian Content members. Here in the UK we are behind most of Europe and most of the continent has already seen in 2024 but there's less than an hour to go. London is going to put on Europe's biggest New Year fireworks display, with 12,000 fireworks.
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    Denmark's Queen Margrethe II abdicates

    Denmark's Queen has unexpectedly announced her abdication in her traditional New Year's Eve speech. Margrethe II will formally step down from the throne on 14th January. That will be exactly 52 years to the day of her ascension to the throne in 1972. The 83-year-old monarch will be succeeded...
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    Meteor flashes across UK night sky

    People across the UK have reported seeing a meteor flying through the night sky. Residents living in London, Birmingham, Reading, Norfolk and Shrewsbury reported seeing what many believed to be a shooting star, at around 2am on Saturday (30 December). Many people took to X, formerly Twitter...
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    Big Ben: New Year's Eve marks 100 years of live bongs on radio

    Big Ben: New Year's Eve marks 100 years of live bongs on radio Sunday 31st December 2023 BBC News By Noor Nanji, Culture reporter They are the UK's most famous chimes, and one of the most recognisable sounds around the world. Exactly a century ago, Big Ben's bongs were broadcast live to the...
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    Tornado damages 100 homes in Greater Manchester

    It's impossible to do a billion pounds' worth of improvements or damages in Stalybridge.