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    What are you listening to right now?

    Vic Reeves and The Wonder Stuff - "Dizzy" (1991) The British comedy band knocked the mighty Irish rockers U2 off the top of the UK charts in the year the USSR broke up, Harald V becomes the King of Norway, a reunified Germany regains full independence from USA, USSR, Britain and France...
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    King to return to regular overseas trips

    The Samoans made the King a High Chief during his recent State Visit to their country King Charles III is to return to regular overseas trips in 2025 after his hiatus due to his cancer diagnosis. The 75-year-old and his wife Queen Camilla have just completed a tour of Australia and Samoa.
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    Body In The Woods Killer sentenced to minimum of 37 years

    Jack Crawley, 20, has been sentenced to a minimum of 37 years before the possibility of parole for murdering Paul Taylor, 56. Mr Taylor met Crawley online and drove down from Scotland to meet Crawley for a homosexual relationship. Instead, Crawley bludgeoned Taylor to death with a claw hammer...
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    Starmer suspends Labour MP for battering constituent

    Not content with freezing pensioners to death, the Labour Party is now physically attacking its own citizens. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has suspended Mike Amesbury, the Labour MP for Runcorn and Helsby, after CCTV footage shows him battering a man in the street. That's what you get...
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    King and Queen arrive in Samoa for State Visit

    King Charles III has made a speech at the opening of the 2024 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Samoa. The King made the speech not long after the Samoans made him one of their High Chiefs. The Commonwealth was, famously, a great love of his mother Queen Elizabeth II. The...
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    Theresa May attempts Scottish accent in maiden Lords speech

    Former British Prime Minister Theresa May, 68, attempted a Scottish accent during her maiden speech in the House of Lords. May - now known as Baroness May of Maidenhead - jokingly mimicked a colleague during her maiden speech since being elevated to the British Parliament's upper chamber...
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    Wallace and Gromit: "Vengeance Most Fowl"

    Evil Bond-villainesque penguin Feathers McGraw is back in the first Wallace and Gromit movie since 2005. The family-friendly British comedy clay animation often shown at Christmas and New Year featuring a Yorkshire inventor and his pet dog getting up to bizarre adventures returns to screens for...
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Real McCoy - "Another Night" (1993) The German dance band had a No3 UK and US hit in the year Czechoslovakia split into Czech Republic and Slovakia, six people are killed as a bomb detonates in the World Trade Center and Monica Seles is stabbed during a tennis match in Hamburg
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    Aqua - "Doctor Jones" (1997) The band with a female Norwegian lead singer, a Danish vocalist and two Danish DJs scored a hit with this cheesy but catchy song in the year RAF Wing Commander Andy Green broke the world land speed record at 763 mph, a record which has yet to be broken...
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    Yazz and the Plastic Population - "The Only Way Is Up" (1988) The London artist had a hit with this in the year of the world's first well-known internet virus, the United States and Europe are linked by the internet for the first time and 100,000 people in Estonian SSR sing on three consecutive...
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    Spiller ft. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - "Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)" (2000) The Italian DJ and the British singer teamed up to produce this classic in the year the Second Chechen War rages, the PlayStation 2 is released, huge fuel protests take place across the UK and the last Pyrenean ibex is...
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Billie Ray Martin - "Your Loving Arms" (1994) The German dance songstress and songwriter had a Number 6 UK hit in the year Mandela becomes the first black President of South Africa, the Bosnian War rages, Netscape Navigator becomes the young World Wide Web's dominant browser, Norway votes...
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    Trump files complaint over Britain's Labour Party

    British Prime Minister Keir Starmer: US Election Interference
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    King and Queen arrive in Samoa for State Visit

    Fresh from their tour of Australia, the King and Queen have arrived in neighbouring Samoa onboard an RAAF plane for their State Visit. Upon arriving in the small Pacific republic which gained its independence from New Zealand in 1962, the British Head of State and his Consort were welcomed by...
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    Trump files complaint over Britain's Labour Party

    Donald Trump's campaign team has called for an investigation into what it claimed was "blatant foreign interference" in the election by Britain's ruling Labour Party. The complaint to the US Federal Electoral Commission claimed there had been "interference" in the "form of apparent illegal...
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    King jokes about "sands of time" as he begins Australia tour

    King Charles III joked about the "sands of time" and expressed his joy at being back in Australia as he addressed politicians. The monarch presented an hourglass - a "speech timer", he called it - to the parliament of New South Wales to mark the 200th anniversary of its upper house. The...
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    One Direction singer Liam Payne dies aged 31

    Troubling pictures from Liam Payne's trashed hotel room show white powder after balcony fall
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    One Direction singer Liam Payne dies aged 31

    He was a troubled young man despite - or maybe because of - being a member of the world's greatest boy band. Argentine police found his hotel room in disarray. It seems as though it was suicide.
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    One Direction singer Liam Payne dies aged 31

    One Direction singer Liam Payne has died in Argentina aged just 31. Britain's One Direction is one of the most successful boy bands of all time. It's been reported that Payne fell off a balcony in Argentina but it's not yet known if it was an accident or suicide.
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    Space Thread

    And here's Professor Brian Cox performing on keyboards with D:Ream in 1993