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    Just Stop Oil Protesters desecrate Darwin's grave

    A photograph of Darwin and his son William, 1842 Left-Wing Just Stop Oil protesters today desecrated Charles Darwin's grave in Westminster Abbey. Darwin (1809-1882) is renowned for discovering evolution and for his 1859 book "On the Origin of Species." But early this morning two Just Stop Oil...
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    1983: When seatbelts became compulsory in Britain

    "I prefer to be free when driving... A nostalgic look at fashions, hairstyles and vehicles in Britain in 1983 in this news report of seatbelts becoming compulsory for drivers and front seat passengers. Nowadays we all take it for granted to buckle our seatbelts. But that wasn't the case in 1983...
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    Lacuna Coil - "Gravity" (2025) The new single from the goth rockers who hail from Milan, Italy... The Italian band's 10th studio album "Sleepless Empire" is released 14th February...
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    Skunk Anansie - "An Artist Is An Artist" (2025) Formed in 1994, the London Britrockers featuring Ace, Skin, Cass and Mark are back with a new single released today
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    Manic Street Preachers - "People Ruin Paintings" (2025) The Welsh band known for trying to rival Oasis and Blur in the Nineties Brit Pop era are back... The new album "Critical Thinking" is out 31st January. It is the band's 15th studio album...
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    Jethro Tull - "Curious Ruminant" (2025) Formed in 1967 in the popular Lancashire seaside resort of Blackpool, the folk rockers are back with a new single and album of the same name, which is due out in March. The band takes its name from the Englishman who invented the horse-drawn seed drill...
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    Ringo Starr ft Molly Tuttle - "Look Up" (2025) The former Beatles drummer, 84, is set to release his 21st solo album since the world's most successful musical artists broke up in 1970. In his new album - also called "Look Up" - the Liverpool legend dabbles in country and western..
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    Also, the drummer of The Darkness - Rufus Taylor - is the son of Roger Taylor, who is the drummer of Queen.
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    The Darkness - "I Hate Myself" (2024) The brand new single from the glam rockers from Lowestoft, Suffolk. Lowestoft is the most easterly settlement in the UK and is also famous for being the home of The Darkness. Famous for hits such as "Get Your Hands off My Woman" and "I Believe in a Thing...
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    Cradle of Filth - "Malignant Perfection" (2024) The new single from the veteran Suffolk extreme metal band - formed in 1991. Dani Filth and Co release their 14th studio album "The Screaming of the Valkyries" in April
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    France's Jean-Marie Le Pen dies aged 96

    The founder of the French "Far Right" National Front Party has died
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    World at War: 2025

    There are wars going on all the time.
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    Whole life sentence for man who murdered neighbour

    A triple killer who beat his neighbour to death after serving a jail term for a previous murder has been sentenced to die in prison. Brian Whitelock, 57, attacked Wendy Buckney with a kitchen knife, a broken table leg and wooden shelving during a sustained assault in her own home. The...
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    Child killer has throat slashed as he begins life sentence

    Child killer Urfan Sharif has had his throat slashed by a fellow inmate right at the start of his life sentence. At London's Old Bailey on 17th December, Sharif, 43, was sentenced to a minimum of 40 years without the possibility of parole for murdering his 10 year old daughter Sara. The child...
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    Luke Littler becomes youngest world darts champion

    Englishman Luke "The Nuke" Littler, 17, has just tonight become the youngest World Champion of darts in history after beating Dutchman Michael van Gerwen 7-3 in the Final of the World Darts Championship at London's historic Alexandra Palace - where the world's first television was broadcast...
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    The Cure - "All I Ever Am" (2024) The new single from the veteran Crawley, West Sussex, rockers. New album "Songs of a Lost World" is out now.
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    Ringo Starr ft Alison Krauss - "Thankful" (2024) The brand new single from the former Beatle. Ringo's new album "Look Up" is released on 10th January...
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    28 Years Later

    The trailer for the upcoming British zombie horror "28 Years Later", the third film in the series after "28 Days Later" (2002) and "28 Months Later" (2007). The audio is from Rudyard Kipling’s poem “Boots”, from 1915. 60,000 British infantrymen marched endlessly through South Africa, capturing...
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    WTF is wrong in the USA these days??

    They weren't civilised by the British as long as other former Empire countries.
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    Space Thread

    These things have also been seen over US Air Force bases in Britain. Maybe it's the Russians or Chinese.