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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.

Scotland 1-3 England England, ranked 4th in the world, put Scotland to the sword at Hampden Park in Glasgow tonight in a "friendly" match to mark the 150th anniversary of the first match between the two great footballing rivals - the two oldest international football teams in the world. The...

The imperial nostalgia of the EU flag-wavers When did Last Night of the Proms become a celebration of fealty to the Brussels bureaucracy? TOM SLATER EDITOR 11th September 2023 Spiked One of the many amusing things about the Remoaners, those well-to-do liberals who have never reconciled...

GB News America: Farage, who knew many victims of 9/11, attacks Biden for skipping ceremony

Isles of Scilly Iron Age warrior was probably a woman BBC News 27th July 2023 The remains were discovered alongside a 2000-year-old sword and mirror By Brodie Owen BBC News 27th July 2023 A decades-long mystery over whether an Iron Age warrior who lived on the Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, was...

Great Fire of London: Man who first raised alarm identified By Tim Stokes BBC News 1st September 2023 The person who is thought to have first raised the alarm about a blaze at a bakery that became the Great Fire of London has been identified. The fire, which began in Thomas Farriner's...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said he "will not accept" Chinese interference in the UK's democracy, after it emerged a parliamentary researcher was arrested amid accusations he spied for China. During the debate on the matter in the Commons, Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle ordered MPs...

Former Prime Minister Liz Truss reveals 'ominous sign' she received day before Queen Elizabeth II's death. The Queen died two days after she appointed Truss as PM. Truss would go on to be Britain's shortest-serving PM. Truss reveals that, despite the Queen's poor health, she was insistent that...

King Charles III: One Year on the Throne On 8th September 2022 the course of history took a turn. As the sun set on Queen Elizabeth II’s historic reign, the world looked on as a nation and a family embarked on a new era, the centre of which is one man. He was Prince Charles for all of his 73...

In this heartfelt video, King Charles III pays tribute to the enduring legacy of Her late Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, on the first anniversary of her passing. A rarely-seen photograph captured by Cecil Beaton in 1968, a poignant image chosen by King Charles III, has been released to...

The King and Queen greeted well-wishers today outside a private church service to mark the first anniversary of the late Queen Elizabeth II's death. Charles III and Camilla made the short journey by car from the nearby Balmoral Estate to the Scottish church, at Crathie Kirk, Aberdeenshire...

Between 1952 and 2022 Accession Day was 6th February. Now Accession Day is 8th September. Gun salutes today marked the first anniversary of King Charles III's accession to the Throne.

Today marks one year since Queen Elizabeth II's final public appearance. On Tuesday 6th September 2022 Her Majesty met with Truss at Balmoral to appoint her the Prime Minister, to take over from Johnson. Just two days later the Queen would die at Balmoral - and Truss would eventually become...

Cat Stevens - "How Good It Feels" (2023) The British melodic folk pop singer is back with a new album...