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Professor Brian Cox is back. The former keyboard player of Nineties pop group D:Ream is now one of the great scientists of our age and the Manchester University physicist is back with his latest TV series: "Solar System". Here's a snippet of the first episode which was shown on BBC One on...

Anglophile German who won Champions League in his debut season as Chelsea manager takes on England job Tuchel has previously admitted his love for English culture and English football and now he is to be paid £5 million a year to be the new England boss. England are paying him the richest...

Thomas Tuchel has agreed to become the new England manager. The 51-year-old German has previously managed Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain and London club Chelsea - with whom he won the Champions League - and Sky News understands Tuchel has already signed the contract and that the English FA...

A new sonar image may be the proof that Britain's - and the world's - most famous cryptid Nessie actually exists. Loch Ness is the second largest lake - by volume - on the mainland UK, the second deepest lake in Scotland and it holds more water than all the lakes in England and Wales combined...

King Charles III and Queen Camilla are to visit Australia on Friday. The Australian King and Queen are to tour the vast country and a new poll shows that a quarter of Aussies have a more favourable view of their King than they did during his Coronation on 6th May 2023.

Oh, thank you. Her accent sounds weird even to me, because I'm in Manchester. We have lots of accents here. They sound a lot different just 10 miles away. But that's the thing: You can walk down the street and say a friendly hello to a complete stranger without realising they are a multiple...

Nero - "Promises" (2011) This song by the London dance band debuted at No1 in the UK. The song received a Gold certification in the US in 2012.

A woman who murdered her parents and then lived alongside their bodies for four years told police who arrested her: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.” Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with a “cocktail of prescription drugs” and fatally stabbed her...

Former leader of the Scottish National Party and Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond has died aged 69. Salmond - who was behind the 2014 Scottish independence referendum which he and the SNP lost as the Scots voted against independence - died in North Macedonia yesterday just after making a...

In the dying embers of the British Empire Britain has ceded the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Unlike previous times where we've let a land become independent on this occasion we've just given it to another country. So we've given it up but it's not independence. It's now ruled by the Mauritians...

Talk Talk - "It's My Life" (1984) The London band had a hit with this in the year Brunei gained its independence from Britain; Britain's Zola Budd and America's Mary Decker controversially collide at the Olympics in Los Angeles; Prince Harry is born; and a serial sex offender known as The Fox...

Queen Camilla has visited the King Charles III Sacristy as it undergoes construction. The new building is being erected at Westminster Abbey, which has seen Coronations all the way from King William I on 25th December 1066 to King Charles III on 6th May 2023. The King Charles III Sacristy is...

The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh have visited the tiny Mediterranean nation of Malta to mark 60 years of independence. Malta gained its independence from Britain in 1964 and the King's brother and sister-in-law met Maltese President Myriam Debono and her husband in the capital Valletta. Malta...

The final four MPs left standing in the race to become the new leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party have made their final pitches at the Tory Party Conference in Birmingham. Tugendhat, Badenoch, Jenrick and Cleverly are all vying to be leader of the world's oldest and most successful...

Almost five years since Britain seceded from the EU, today the two powers met for talks with the British telling the EU they have no plans to rejoin. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer reiterated that Britain will not rejoin the EU and will not bring back EU freedom of movement as he held...

His Majesty King Charles III addresses the Scottish Parliament to mark 25 years since it opened on 1st July 1999...

King Charles III and Queen Camilla have marked 25 years since Scotland gained devolution and acquired her own parliament. Donning a kilt, King Charles III and his wife met with "community heroes" before signing a visitors' book at Queensbury House, which is part of the Scottish Parliament in...

The Prince of English football and the Prince of Wales met at RAF Northolt as they celebrated smashing the £15 million target to replace London's ageing air ambulances with more modern helicopters. Prince William - a qualified helicopter pilot who has flown British Army Apaches - took to the...

The King's niece Princess Beatrice is pregnant with her second child with her husband Edoardo Mozzi. Princess Beatrice is ninth in line to the Throne after Prince William, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, Prince Louis, Prince Harry, Archie, Lilibet and her father Prince Andrew. Their...

Apollo 440 - "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Dub" (1997) In the days when popular music was good, the Liverpool electro-rock band achieved a global hit with this...