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Luciano's next to Bolton Wanderers' University of Bolton Stadium is a great place to go if you want a scone of stone.

Zadok the Priest will also be performed at Charles III's coronation. It was composed by the British composer Handel for the 1727 coronation of King George II and has been performed at every coronation since then. The lyrics of the piece are biblical, being a distillation of 1 Kings 1:34-45...

The Stone of Scone (pronounced "scoon"), aka the Stone of Destiny, is placed under St Edward's Chair during coronations.

The 700-year-old oak chair, upon which King Henry VIII, Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II were all crowned, is being restored for the crowning of King Charles III on Saturday 6th May. As is traditional, the Stone of Scone will be brought down from Scotland to be placed in the gap under the...

The chrism oil which will be used to anoint His Majesty The King on 6th May 2023 has been consecrated in Jerusalem. The ceremony took place in The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The oil has been consecrated by the Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III, and...

Also known as rapeseed oil, because it's cultivated from rapeseed. Rapeseed takes its name from the Latin "rapum", meaning "turnip", because rapeseed is related to turnips, swedes, cabbages, Brussels sprouts and mustard.

Maybe you should contact the King and tell him. He might be all for changing his mind and using your missus's concoction.

A small earthquake has been recorded in South Wales - about eight miles north of the Rhondda Valley - just before midnight. The 11.59pm tremor was 3.8 magnitude and occurred at a depth of two kilometres at 23:59:39, according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC). It was...

The EU isn't happy with Brexit. It'd drag Britain back in tomorrow if it had the power to do so.

It's better keeping up with ancient tradition and having the Coronation oil made with olives from the Mount of Olives and blessed by priests in Jerusalem rather than crudely concocted by some woman in Canada somewhere using ingredients bought from her local supermarket. It somehow wouldn't quite...

The King meeting EU leader Ursula von der Leyen this week after the Windsor Framework Brexit deal was agreed by Britain and the EU GB News: 'Let's hope this deal doesn't go seriously awry, because the King will have been placed in a very awkward position.' Historian Rafe Heydel-Mankoo says the...

Sacred coronation oil will be animal-cruelty free BBC News Friday 3rd March 2023 The sacred oil was consecrated in Jerusalem By Sean Coughlan Royal correspondent The oil used to anoint the King in the coronation is one of the most sacred and mysterious parts of the ceremony - and a new...

Nigel Farage on GB News: The King has removed Harry from his final remaining royal role and has potentially exiled Harry & Meghan from returning to Britain. Historian & Royal Broadcaster Rafe Heydel-Mankoo explains the significance of the King's decision to evict Prince Harry & Meghan from...

Well I voted accordingly in 2016 to stop my country kneeling and sucking... and I won.

The Rasmus - "Still Standing" (2003)

I vaguely remember aged seven in December 1988 or January 1989 travelling with my family in the car and seeing debris in a field at the side of the motorway. It was the remains of Pan Am 103 at Lockerbie.

I've not seen them yet. I live in Greater Manchester with 3 million other people but in a semi-rural "village" with less light pollution and the stars are spectacular in my (three) gardens on cloudless nights but I still haven't seen the Northern Lights. Maybe I'm just not looking up at the...

Yep. The laughing emoji of somebody who knows they've just been owned.

There's nothing more gutless than wanting your country run by unelected anti-democratic foreigners in Brussels (and Strasbourg at certain times of the year for no other reason other than to appease the French). It's Remainerism which is gutless. But please do keep embarrassing yourself as you...