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The Troggs - "Wild Thing" (1966) The English band have been described as the progenitors of garage rock and punk rock

The Observable Universe is 93 billion light years across, but the entire Universe could be millions or quadrillions of times bigger.

I think humans have trouble understanding how big the Universe is. We even have trouble getting our heads around how big even just our galaxy is - it'll take 100,000 years to travel across even at light speed - and it is just one of trillions of galaxies in the Observable Universe.

The scale of The Milky Way - why is the galaxy bigger than you think?

The high-spirited - seemingly literally high-spirited - King toasted "the Old Yachtys" during a visit to the Royal Yacht Britannia in Edinburgh. HMY Britannia was the royal yacht of the King's mother Queen Elizabeth II from 1954 to 1997.

Biden is to meet with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and King Charles III US President Joe Biden has landed in the UK ahead of a Nato summit in Lithuania later this week - which comes after several allies questioned his call to send cluster bombs to Ukraine. The UK and Canada are among those who...

Under-21 Euro 2023 final England 1-0 Spain Jones 45+4 Adjarabet Arena, Batumi, Georgia England's Under-21s side are the European Champions for the third time after winning Euro 2023 by beating Spain 1-0 in the final yesterday. England went through the entire tournament without conceding a...

I'm reading Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" - released in 1818 - right now. I'm even taking into work with me and reading it in the canteen at break times. As a Brit I thought I can't die without reading one of my country's greatest works of literature. And it's a bloody good read. It's almost...

The Zombies - "She's Not There" (1964) The St Albans, Hertfordshire, band reached No12 in the UK charts with this song in 1964.

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - "The Loos of England" (1967) The Salisbury band had a hit with this surprisingly catchy tune during the year of the Summer of Love...

King Charles III was today presented with the symbols of his authority in Scotland - the Crown, the Sceptre and the Sword of State, known as the Honours of Scotland - during a day of pomp, pageantry and prayer in Edinburgh. Scotland's leading figures gathered at St Giles' Cathedral for the...

Herman's Hermits - "I'm Into Something Good" (1964) The Manchester rockers scored a big hit with this song in 1964. The song also did well in America, at the height of the British Invasion...

The Animals - "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place" (1965) This song was a UK No2 hit by Newcastle band The Animals in 1965 and it became very popular with American troops serving in Vietnam...

Trumpington burial: Teenage Anglo-Saxon girl's face reveal BBC News 19th June 2023 Without DNA analysis, forensic artist Hew Morrison could not be sure of her precise eye and hair colour By Katy Prickett BBC News, Cambridgeshire The face of a girl who died more than 1,300 years ago has been...

Spandau Ballet - "I'll Fly For You" (1984)

Yazoo: "Situation" (1982)

The "ever tolerant" British Left shows its intolerance to the five rich people who were killed in the Titanic submarine disaster, three of whom were British...