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    Falklands penguins under pressure

    Why penguins in the Falkland Islands, a British territory in the South Atlantic, are under pressure from wet weather, disease and the Labour Government
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    30 injured as ships explode after colliding off English coast

    The Russian captain of the Solong container ship involved in the North Sea crash has been charged with gross negligence manslaughter. Vladimir Motin, 59, of Primorsky, St Petersburg, has been remanded in police custody and is due to appear at Hull Magistrates Court on Saturday, Humberside...
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    World's largest iceberg hits Britain

    If you count overseas territories such as South Georgia and the Falklands and Bermuda etc then Britain doesn't have a larger land area than Canada but it has a much larger area than Canada in terms of span about the globe. I can go from Manchester to an island in the south Atlantic and still...
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    Trump 2.0

    Trump tells Republic of Ireland Taoiseach Micheál Martin that Martin's country is taking advantage of the US during a press conference in the Oval Office. The US President also goes on to attack the EU. The Republic of Ireland, of course, is the EU's little bitch, unlike her neighbour Britain...
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    World's largest iceberg hits Britain

    The world's largest iceberg - bigger than London - has just collided with the British territory of South Georgia in the southern Atlantic. South Georgia is part of Britain and there are fears that the iceberg could put the island's huge colonies of penguins and seals at risk...
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Cradle of Filth - "White Hellebore" (2025) The brand new single from the veteran Suffolk extreme metallers, from their upcoming 14th studio album "The Screaming of the Valkyries"...
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Sleep Token - "Emergence" (2025) The new single from the London alt-metallers. The masked band's fourth studio album - "Even In Arcadia" - is released in May...
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    Surprise win for opposition parties in Greenlandic election

    Greenland has voted for a complete overhaul of its government in a shock result in which the centre-right Demokraatit party more than tripled its seats after a dramatic election campaign fought against the backdrop of Donald Trump’s threats to acquire the Arctic island. The Naleraq party...
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    Triple killer given three whole life tariffs

    Mr Hunt, the husband and father of the three victims and a former BBC horse racing commentator, made a speech at Cambridge Crown Court before Clifford was sentenced to three whole life tariffs... "Whatever sentence you're about to receive, whatever misery lies ahead for you in the next 60...
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    30 injured as ships explode after colliding off English coast

    Russians and Filipinos were onboard the Solong. Americans were onboard the Stena Immaculate. The fire on the Solong has now been extinguished. Russian captain of the Solong has been arrested Reports also reveal previous port safety inspection documents of the ship showed it to have ten...
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    Manchester United unveil plan for new 100,000 capacity stadium

    English football giants Manchester United have unveiled the plan for their new stadium. With a capacity of 100,000, it will be the largest stadium in the UK - bigger than the 90,000 capacity Wembley - and the second-largest in Europe after Barcelona's Nou Camp, which is soon to have a capacity...
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    30 injured as ships explode after colliding off English coast

    UK fears environmental damage after tanker collision in North Sea The East Yorkshire coast is home to protected areas, major colonies of seabirds like puffins and gannets, and porpoises as well as grey seals, which are currently rearing newborn pups. Conservation charities are waiting to treat...
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    30 injured as ships explode after colliding off English coast

    Well it was a Portuguese ship travelling south from Grangemouth in Scotland to Rotterdam in the Netherlands colliding with a ship used by the US Government to fuel USAF planes that was at anchor as it journeyed from Greece to England.
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    Triple killer given three whole life tariffs

    It would have been funny if the judge also handed him that punishment.
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    Triple killer given three whole life tariffs

    26 year old Kyle Clifford has been given not one but THREE whole life tariffs. A whole life tariff means spending the rest of your life in prison with no possibility of parole and Clifford has been handed three of them for raping and murdering his ex-girlfriend and murdering her sister and...
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Wet Wet Wet - "Julia Says" (1995) Hailing from Clydebank, near Glasgow, the soft rockers had a No3 UK hit with this. The band took its name from the fact that in the Eighties there were several double-barrelled band names - such as Duran Duran and Talk Talk. They wanted to go one extra and...
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Simple Minds - "Don't You (Forget About Me") (1985) Formed in 1977 and named after a David Bowie lyric from his 1972 song "The Jean Genie", the Glasgow band reached No1 in the USA, Canada and the Netherlands and the Top 10 in many other countries - including their native Britain - with this...
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    King launches Apple music show featuring his favourite songs

    To mark Commonwealth Day 2025, The King’s Music Room, recorded at Buckingham Palace, offers an exclusive insight into King Charles III's relationship with music from around the Commonwealth – including artists stretching from 1930s crooners to Afrobeats stars, as well as disco divas and reggae...
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    What are you listening to right now?

    I will do.
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    30 injured as ships explode after colliding off English coast

    Fears for aquatic life and birds as 18,000 tons of jet fuel destined for the US military spills off the English coast. Fears of deadly sodium cyanide in the air.