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HMS Diamond shooting down Houthi attack drones British and American warships shoot down Houthi drones attacking container ships and British and American warships in order to keep open a vital world trade artery. On 3rd January the Americans and British warned the Yemen-based Houthis that there...

British Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has revealed that Royal Navy Sheffield-class destroyer HMS Diamond shot down Houthi drones over the Red Sea. The Houthis attacked the Royal Navy destroyer with attack drones but HMS Diamond, one of the world's most powerful destroyers equipped with the...

I wish I was old enough to have watched, live, a match featuring both Beckenbauer and Pele. That must have been awe-inspiring. Despite Beckenbauer and Co losing against Bobby Moore's England side in the 1966 World Cup Final the two became good friends afterwards. They often played chess...

The Kinks - "You Really Got Me" (1964) Whereas Birmingham band Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, London band The Kinks invented punk rock. This, written by frontman Ray Davies, was an international superhit for the band, including in the Big Two: Britain and America. Just like Black Sabbath...

The Tremeloes - "Suddenly You Love Me" (1967) This song by Dagenham, Essex, band The Tremeloes reaches No4 in the UK and No13 in the US. One of the band members is the father of Nineties pop duo Alisha's Attic and another member is the father of 80s pop singer Chesney Hawkes.

German football legend Franz Beckenbauer has died aged 78. Beckenbauer was part of the West Germany team which lost against England in the 1966 World Cup Final but also part of the West Germany team which won the 1974 World Cup. He was part of the West Germany team that won Euro '72. He was...

Black Sabbath - "Black Sabbath" (1970) Just imagine it. It's Britain in 1970. A country in the final stages of recovery from (a victorious but massively costly, in young men and money and infrastructure) war. Life is grim with poverty and high unemployment and the masses get escapism by...

Ozzy Osbourne - "Evil Shuffle" (2023) He's just turned 75 (born December 1948), but the former frontman of Birmingham's Black Sabbath - the artists who invented heavy metal in the late 1960s - still keeps churning out that heavy metal. And this new song sounds like it's Black Sabbath but...

Madness - "Theatre Of The Absurd introduces Acts 1, 2 & 3" (2023) They're back. The loony London ska band are back with new singles and a new album "Driving In My Car" (1982)

American-British actor David Soul has died in London at the age of 80. Soul was most famous for playing Hutch in Starsky and Hutch. Born in Chicago in 1943 he became British in 2004.

I'm the opposite. I was born in July 1981 yet people say I look quite a bit younger than 42. I can post a photo to let the ladies here swoon but I'll probably not due to Health and Safety.

The Last Dinner Party - "Caesar on a TV Screen" (2024) The up-and-coming eccentric London rockers, tipped for hitting the big time, have just released their first single after winning BBC Radio One's Sound of 2024

Littler, the 16 year old, is the one on the right. And there have been many people here in the UK saying he looks older than 16. He was born on 21st January 2007, so he's almost 17. He was born in Warrington, Cheshire. He began playing darts at the age of 18 months after his father bought him a...

Last night 16 year old Luke Littler lost 4-7 against Luke Humphries in an all-English World Darts Championship Final. The 16 year old has caught the nation's attention after reaching the Final despite starting the tournament ranked No164 in the world. A world record 5 million people for a...

It seems, though, as though the coastguard plane was at fault. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-67879308

Five people have died after a passenger plane collided with a plane providing aid to the victims of Japan's earthquake at Tokyo Airport. All 379 passengers on the airliner survived and the five fatalities were from the coastguard plane. The passenger plane, MA722, burst into flames as it...

Britain welcomes 2024 with style Britain has seen in the New Year with the now traditional fireworks and drones display at the London Eye. Europe's largest New Year fireworks display saw 12,000 fireworks and 600 drones and was one of the first times in history that drones interacted with...

Queen Camilla has invited a blind girl to have tea with her in the resplendent surroundings of Windsor Castle...