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A new photo of the King and Queen, taken at the British ambassador Lord Llewellyn's residence in Rome to mark their 20th wedding anniversary, which is on Wednesday during their Italian State Visit.

King Charles III and Queen Camilla have started their State Visit to Italy. The British Head of State and Consort were given the red carpet treatment by the Italians as they disembarked Vespina - Britain's equivalent of America's Air Force One - at the airport in Rome ("Vespina" takes her name...

Electric Six - "Danger! High Voltage" (2002) Hailing from Detroit, Michigan, the band are known for having British musical influence within their songs and for performing in British accents. Many people probably think they're British. The Anglophile band has also performed with a plethora of...

Ultravox - "Vienna" (1981) The English/Scottish band reached No2 in the UK with this. The song originally had slightly different lyrics. Vocalist Midge Ure didn't like the song originally and in the recording studio he proclaimed "This means nothing to me!", at which point the German producer...

Ed Sheeran - "Azizam" (2025) Born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, but raised down in Suffolk, Ed Sheeran has already sold over 200 million records worldwide, making him one of the world's best selling artists in history, which is all the more incredible considering he's only 34. The video for...

Sleep Token - "Caramel" (2025) The new single from the London alt-metallers

Erasure - "Drama!" (1989) The London electropoppers reached No4 in the UK and No10 in the US with this at the end of probably the best decade for pop music, although being born in 1981 I barely remember it. The men shouting "GUILTY!" in the background are the Scottish rockers The Jesus and...

A new portrait of the King wearing a kilt was released in January to mark Burns Night His Majesty King Charles III is back to full engagements after a short stay in hospital following side effects from his cancer treatment

Evanescence - "Afterlife" (2025) The Little Rock, Arkansas, rockers - fronted by 43-year-old Amy Lee - are back with their new single. From the new Netflix series "Devil May Cry", based on the hit video game franchise.

The Rasmus - "Creatures of Chaos" (2025) Hailing from the Finnish capital of Helsinki, this is the new single from the rockers

New Order - "Regret" (1993) New Order have an unusual and tragic history as one band transforming into another band. In 1980, Joy Division vocalist Ian Curtis hanged himself in his kitchen. A combination of severe epilepsy (which he would sometimes suffer on stage due to the strobe lighting)...

R.E.M. - "Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars)" 1982 An early song from four young Athens, Georgia, rockers who were hoping to one day make it into the big time. And they did just that - selling over 90 million albums worldwide.

Heaven 17 - "Temptation" (1983) The Sheffield new wave band had a No2 UK hit with this one...

Yeah. I suppose it has. "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley is a good one. In fact, I enjoyed reading it so much a few years ago that when I came across the book again a few days ago I started reading it again. Seriously.

The King turned out in support of Queen Camilla as she launched a special new medal on Tuesday. Her Majesty hosted a reception for authors, members of the literary community and representatives from The Queen’s Reading Room at Clarence House - the King and Queen's London home - to celebrate...

Arctic Monkeys - "Teddy Picker" (2007) The Sheffield rockers scored a No1 UK his with this in which frontman Alex Turner quoted a lyric from a 1982 Duran Duran song. Can you recognise it?

Eurythmics - "Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)" (1984) The English/Scottish synth-pop duo comprising Annie Lennox and David Stewart scored a No4 UK hit in 1984 with this song based on British author George Orwell's 1949 novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four": The novel which coined the phrase "Big Brother...

Iron age hoard found in North Yorkshire 'could change Britain's history'

Betty Boo - "Doin' The Doo" (1990) Aged just 20, the London rapper reached No1 in the US, No2 in Canada and No7 in the UK with this. It wasn't until much later after the song was released that she was told that it's a slang expression for cunnilingus.

2026 World Cup Qualifier England stroll to victory over Latvia in first meeting of the two nations England 3-0 Latvia James 38 Kane 68 Eze 76 Eze and James scored their first goals for England and leading England scorer Kane scored again at Wembley as England brushed aside the minnows with...