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Ian Dury and The Blockheads - "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" (1979)

These mountain bikers were enjoying a ride out in the cold and wet Scottish Highlands at the start of autumn when they bumped into King Charles III! The group suspected there might be ‘minor royals’ out and about on the Balmoral estate after a fleet of black Land Rovers passed by. But none of...

Electronic ft Neil Tennant of The Pet Shop Boys - "Getting Away With It" (1989)

Maybe he'll find a Travelodge to stay in. I'm sure he can afford the daily price. The audacity of someone leaving their royal duties, running away to California, causing all sorts of shenanigans even when his grandfather Prince Philip was on his deathbed, estranging himself from his brother and...

Prince Harry - fresh from opening his Invictus Games - has arrived back in Britain for the annual WellChild Awards, of which the Prince is patron. Prince Harry was hoping to stay in a room at Windsor Castle whilst back in the country, but his father the King has denied him the luxury. GB News...

The King visits an "experimental forest" that may prevent wildfires... The King and Queen bid farewell to France with a glass of wine... And then they make the short journey home onboard an aircraft that is part of the British Royal Family fleet...

The King, a renowned gardener, visits a flower market in Paris named after his mother... King Charles III and Queen Camilla ride an electric tram in Bordeaux... King of Cool: The Commander-in-Chief of the British Armed Forces dons shades and sips Pimm's onboard Royal Navy frigate HMS...

Deep fried Mars bars is a delicacy in Scotland.

Queen Camilla is the wife of our Head of State. She's surely the equivalent of a First Lady in a republic. She may be titled "Queen" but she's not a Queen Regnant like Elizabeth II or Victoria.

Queen Camilla and her French counterpart First Lady Brigitte Macron strike up a friendship as they meet to launch a literary prize... And the two even play each other at table tennis... In slightly more serious matters, the King pledges to strengthen the relationship between his country...

Britain's King Charles III and his French counterpart President Macron yesterday laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris as the British national anthem was played The King and Queen yesterday received a warm welcome by President Macron and his wife at...

The King and Queen arrived in Paris yesterday to start a three-day State Visit. It should have been their first State Visit of the reign, but was cancelled in March due to widespread riots in France, with their first State Visit instead being to Ireland.

The Rolling Stones - "You Got Me Rocking" (2023) Formed in London in 1962, The Rolling Stones are one of the world's most enduring and successful music artists, having sold more than 200 million records worldwide. Now they are back and stronger than ever with another banging album.

No, that was probably just the fashion in the 1960s. Different hairstyles and clothing back then. As a child of the colourful 1980s, though, I've often wondered what it must have been like living when everything was black and white. Probably got a bit boring after a while.

Cat Stevens - "Matthew & Son" (1967) 1967. The Summer of Love. The British Invasion. Britain becoming the first English speaking country to win Eurovision. England are football World Champions. Britain becomes the third country after the USSR and USA to launch a satellite. Celtic become the...

The Kinks - "All Day and All of the Night" (1964) Birmingham rockers Black Sabbath are renowned for inventing heavy metal, but it was London rockers The Kinks who are renowned for inventing punk. This hit reached UK No2 in 1964...

King Charles III, resplendent as usual in his kilt of new King Charles III tartan, has visited the Cairngorms National Park. As the Head of State visited Tomintoul, the highest village in the Highlands (though not the highest village in Scotland), he complimented a woman for her magnificent...

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My Scottish grandfather loved drinking Bell's whisky with the Scottish soft drink Irn Bru ("Iron Brew") mixed with it. You can hardly get more Scottish than that. Even though I'm English and my dad is English, my mum is Scottish. Because of that I would be eligible to play for either England or...

England just has a history of being a lot bigger than Scotland. It's similar to USA over Canada. Nowadays, though, the England Vs Scotland skirmishes are just minor affairs on a sporting field due to the two nations now being part of the same country.