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This is Micklegate Bar, one of several medieval gateways to the city of York. I've been to York twice in the last few years and it's awash with history. Just adjacent to York Minister is a statue of Constantine the Great on the spot where he was proclaimed Roman Emperor in 306. Just across...

Here's the first statue of Elizabeth II to be unveiled since here death. It was unveiled by the King at York Minster...

Birthday photo shows King Charles as park ranger BBC News Monday 14th November 2022 A photo released for the King's birthday shows him in Windsor Great Park An official photograph has been released to mark the King's 74th birthday - showing him in his new role as ranger of Windsor Great Park...

Camilla: New monogram for Queen Consort unveiled The new cypher of Camilla, the Queen Consort, has been unveiled by Buckingham Palace. Designed by Prof Ewan Clayton, it combines Camilla's initial "C" and "R" for Regina - the Latin word for queen. It will be used by Camilla on personal...

My country has more accents than any other on the world. We can travel in a car for 30 minutes down the road and be in a place with different accents. Despite speaking the same language someone from one part of the country can struggle to understand someone from another.

The UK is to have a Bank Holiday Monday two days after the King's coronation on Saturday 6th May

Because Boris pulled out of the contest leaving only Sunak and Mordaunt. And once it got to the time it was to enter Round Two, Mordaunt didn't have enough nominations to go through to Round Two, leaving only Sunak standing. Our last three PMs have been elected less democratically each time...

Heard from who? The UK is the fourth most nufter-friendliest country in the world. Canada ranks way down in seventh. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay-friendly

Boris was NOT lying, as Sunak's team said, when he said he had enough nominations to enter the Tory leadership race. The 1922 Committee has confirmed that Johnson had enough nominations from Tory MPs to enter the race and would likely have won it had he not withdrawn.

It's crazy (for me) to know that the young girl in The Exorcist - Linda Blair - is just five months younger than my mother.

It was very different when people first watched it back in '73. Many found it horrific. I don't think anybody had ever seen a 13 year old girl possessed by a demon masturbating with a crucifix and then her head swivelling round 180 degrees. On top of that was the foul language (including the...

Roman DNA bone analysis reveals Cheddington 'family tragedy' 9th October 2022 The grave was an unexpected discovery because no evidence of a farm settlement was found at the site By Katy Prickett BBC News, East DNA analysis of three late Roman-era skeletons found in the same grave has...

To mark the BBC turning 100 years old the King has appeared on the BBC's The Repair Shop. The BBC is the world's oldest and largest broadcaster. In the episode, the King invited the team to look at his broken clock...

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A woman who killed her friend and dumped her decapitated body in Devon has today been sentenced to life in prison live on camera. She is the first murderer in England and Wales to have their sentencing broadcast. Jemma Mitchell, 38, killed Mee Kuen Chong, 67, at the older woman's home in...

The Northern Boys - "Nobody Likes Me" (2022) These retired teachers like singing lewd songs (one of them just dances, like Bez in Happy Mondays). The lyrics are in the video...

Meanwhile, my country has one of the lowest murder rates in the world. Not sure how it ranked in 1811, though. I actually managed to read the whole Wikipedia page on these murders just walking home from work tonight. The week before last I read the whole Wikipedia page on Lady Hamilton from...

In the House of Lords, Baroness Fox of Buckley, formerly of the Brexit Party and now an independent, destroys the anti-Brexit establishment over the Northern Ireland Protocol...

On 4th January 2022, China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States—all five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council—issued a rare joint statement affirming that "a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022 And...