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    Surprise win for opposition parties in Greenlandic election

    Greenland has voted for a complete overhaul of its government in a shock result in which the centre-right Demokraatit party more than tripled its seats after a dramatic election campaign fought against the backdrop of Donald Trump’s threats to acquire the Arctic island. The Naleraq party...
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    Triple killer given three whole life tariffs

    Mr Hunt, the husband and father of the three victims and a former BBC horse racing commentator, made a speech at Cambridge Crown Court before Clifford was sentenced to three whole life tariffs... "Whatever sentence you're about to receive, whatever misery lies ahead for you in the next 60...
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    30 injured as ships explode after colliding off English coast

    Russians and Filipinos were onboard the Solong. Americans were onboard the Stena Immaculate. The fire on the Solong has now been extinguished. Russian captain of the Solong has been arrested Reports also reveal previous port safety inspection documents of the ship showed it to have ten...
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    Manchester United unveil plan for new 100,000 capacity stadium

    English football giants Manchester United have unveiled the plan for their new stadium. With a capacity of 100,000, it will be the largest stadium in the UK - bigger than the 90,000 capacity Wembley - and the second-largest in Europe after Barcelona's Nou Camp, which is soon to have a capacity...
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    30 injured as ships explode after colliding off English coast

    UK fears environmental damage after tanker collision in North Sea The East Yorkshire coast is home to protected areas, major colonies of seabirds like puffins and gannets, and porpoises as well as grey seals, which are currently rearing newborn pups. Conservation charities are waiting to treat...
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    30 injured as ships explode after colliding off English coast

    Well it was a Portuguese ship travelling south from Grangemouth in Scotland to Rotterdam in the Netherlands colliding with a ship used by the US Government to fuel USAF planes that was at anchor as it journeyed from Greece to England.
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    Triple killer given three whole life tariffs

    It would have been funny if the judge also handed him that punishment.
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    Triple killer given three whole life tariffs

    26 year old Kyle Clifford has been given not one but THREE whole life tariffs. A whole life tariff means spending the rest of your life in prison with no possibility of parole and Clifford has been handed three of them for raping and murdering his ex-girlfriend and murdering her sister and...
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Wet Wet Wet - "Julia Says" (1995) Hailing from Clydebank, near Glasgow, the soft rockers had a No3 UK hit with this. The band took its name from the fact that in the Eighties there were several double-barrelled band names - such as Duran Duran and Talk Talk. They wanted to go one extra and...
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Simple Minds - "Don't You (Forget About Me") (1985) Formed in 1977 and named after a David Bowie lyric from his 1972 song "The Jean Genie", the Glasgow band reached No1 in the USA, Canada and the Netherlands and the Top 10 in many other countries - including their native Britain - with this...
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    King launches Apple music show featuring his favourite songs

    To mark Commonwealth Day 2025, The King’s Music Room, recorded at Buckingham Palace, offers an exclusive insight into King Charles III's relationship with music from around the Commonwealth – including artists stretching from 1930s crooners to Afrobeats stars, as well as disco divas and reggae...
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    What are you listening to right now?

    I will do.
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    30 injured as ships explode after colliding off English coast

    Fears for aquatic life and birds as 18,000 tons of jet fuel destined for the US military spills off the English coast. Fears of deadly sodium cyanide in the air.
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    30 injured as ships explode after colliding off English coast

    30 people have been injured after two ships collided in the North Sea just off England's east coast. The ships burst into flames following the collision off the coast of East Yorkshire and there are now feara of an ecological disaster because one ship was carrying sodium cyanide and the other...
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    Pro-Palestine protester scales Big Ben

    Yeah. That's what I thought. After 11 hours that should be soon, unless he's taken sandwiches up with him. What's amazing was how he managed to even climb up it, and without safety gear. If he starts falling asleep, though, it could be fatal.
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    Pro-Palestine protester scales Big Ben

    A pro-Palestine protester scaled Big Ben this morning and unveiled a Palestinian flag. The man - whose feet are bloodied - has been up there for 11 hours and concerns have been raised as to how he was able to breach security. Officially named the Elizabeth Tower, Big Ben is part of the...
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Why don't you show me what you look like?
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Bad Manners - "Special Brew" (1980) Special Brew is a strong Danish beer - 7.5% - first brewed in 1950 to celebrate Churchill's visit to Copenhagen. Its cognac notes are a reference to Churchill's favourite drink. In this song, the London ska band, fronted by Buster Bloodvessel, pays homage to...
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    Video shows 97 year old paedophile being attacked in prison

    Video footage shows the moment a killer paedophile in prison was almost murdered by a fellow inmate with a metal flask. Sidney Cooke, 97, was the leader of a paedophile ring suspected of killing up to 20 boys in the 1970s and 1980s. Since 1999 he has been serving two life sentences for the...
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    Omnibus Russia Ukraine crisis

    "You're gambling with World War III!" Hitler reacts to the Oval Office Trump-Zelensky argument...