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Judas Priest - "Gates of Hell" (2024)

Graham Coxon - "Freakin Out" (2024) While other members of London Nineties Britpop giants Blur are out doing other things - lead singer Damon Albarn is still making music with Gorillaz and drummer Dave Rowntree is the Labour candidate for the Mid Sussex constituency in the upcoming UK General...

A study has found that the UK has more giant redwoods than their native USA. Introduced 200 years ago into Britain the world's largest tree is under threat in the USA but is thriving in Britain's cooler climate. There are 80,000 of the trees in California but half a million of them in Britain.

Huge Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales has led a flotilla of 15 NATO ships in a show of strength against Russia. NATO has recently grown in size and strength with Finland joining in 2022 and Sweden joining just days ago. The organisation has shown off its impressive firepower to...

Sweden became the 32nd member state of NATO on 7th March. Sweden is the fifth largest country in Europe after Russia, Ukraine, France and Spain - almost twice the size of the UK - yet it has a population of just 10 million and a small military. However it does bring valuable assets to the...

Lee Anderson, the MP for Ashfield, has defected to Richard Tice's right-wing Reform UK (formerly the Brexit Party) after he was suspended from the Tory Party for accusing London's Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan of handing over the capital to Islamists. In the 1980s Anderson was a member of the Labour...

King Charles III speaks of the shared values of the Commonwealth family of nations during his address on Commonwealth Day. The Commonwealth has an area of 11.6 million square miles and a population of 2.4 billion. The Commonwealth turns 75 on 28th April - the same age as its Head, King Charles...

Judas Priest - "Invincible Shield" (2024) The Birmingham heavy metallers are back with a new album

And what Welsh humour do you know?

The locals have a Plymouth Argyle. They're currently 16th in the Championship. So 8 places off the bottom of the second tier.

Bruce Dickinson - "Rain on the Graves" (2024) Bruce Dickinson, vocalist of British heavy metal behemoths Iron Maiden, released his 7th solo album - "The Mandrake Project" - on 1st March.

Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent - Queen Elizabeth II's first cousin - has marked the 200th anniversary of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). Prince Edward, 88, is the RNLI's president. Formed on 4th March 1824, the RNLI has a fleet of 444 lifeboats tasked with saving the lives of...

Hundreds of residents in the Devon city of Plymouth were evacuated as an unexploded German World War II bomb was transported to the sea to be disposed of. All hail the brave army lad who drove the truck with the bomb onboard. World War II may have ended 79 years ago yet it still poses a threat...

Wouldn't surprise me with Wales's devolved Labour government. ************ A woman hoisted into the air by shop shutters has joked that she will have to "handle the fame" after a CCTV clip went viral. Anne Hughes, 72, a cleaner at the Best One convenience store in Tonteg, Rhondda Cynon Taf...

CCTV footage shows the moment an elderly lady was left dangling upside down after her coat got caught in the security shutters outside a convenience store. But as the electric metal shutters were opened the back of her black jacket got snagged in it. She was marooned hanging for an agonising...

A Matter of Life and Death (1946) British airman Peter Carter jumps out of his damaged plane without a parachute and instead of dying as he should have done he miraculously lands on a beach. Because of this he must appeal his case for the right to live in front of a celestial jury in the Other...

English Teacher - "Albert Road" (2024) Hailing from Britain's third largest city Leeds, English Teacher released their first single just before lockdown. They then spent lockdown writing new music - and the result is their new album which they are due to release, an album which looks set to...