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If the Australians don't want a royal on their banknotes then they shouldn't have voted to keep their monarchy back in 1999.

Creeslough: Victims of explosion named by police BBC News Ten red candles were lit at St Michael's church for the 10 victims of the explosion The names of those killed in the explosion in County Donegal on Friday have been released by the Gardaí. The blast happened in the village of...

The two Euro 2020 finalists England and Italy are to face each other in the Euro 2024 qualifiers. The two have been drawn today in Group C alongside Ukraine, North Macedonia and Malta. The tournament is being held in Germany. Group A: Spain, Scotland, Norway, Georgia, Cyprus Group B...

Liverpool will host the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, beating Glasgow in the bidding. Ukraine won this year's contest and the winning country usually hosts it the year after, but the war in Ukraine means the competition cannot be held there next year. So the UK, which finished second in this...

A young girl is among 10 people confirmed dead following an explosion at a petrol station in Milford, County Donegal, in what has been described as a "freak accident". The victims are four men, three women, a teenage boy, a teenage girl, and a primary school aged girl, according to Milford...

Slipknot - "Medicine For The Dead" (2022)

King Charles will not attend COP27, says Palace BBC News Saturday 1st October 2022 King Charles will not attend the climate change conference COP27, which is due to be held in Egypt later this year, Buckingham Palace has confirmed. The Palace was responding to a story in The Sunday Times...

Brooch containing Lord Nelson's hair sells for thousands BBC News Saturday 24th September 2022 Horatio Nelson was born in Norfolk and was the sixth child of the Reverend Edmund Nelson and his wife Catherine A brooch containing a lock of Lord Nelson's hair, given to an officer who fought...

Ceremony for Flag Fen Iron Age roundhouse BBC News Saturday 1st October 2022 The Iron Age roundhouse exterior will be painted with white clay and red and yellow patterns A "fantastic bunch of volunteers" have built a replica Iron Age roundhouse on a large Bronze Age causeway dating back 3,500...

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Royal Mint unveils King's coin effigy The Royal Mint - the UK's oldest company, which is based in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf - has unveiled the portrait of King Charles III that will soon start appearing on the country's coins. Elizabeth II faces to the right on coins but her son will...

He should have warned his classmates that they had better watch out because one day HE will be king. (King George VII, unless he uses one of his two middle names).

Now for artists a bit different from the Moody Blues... Slipknot H377 (2022) Hive Mind (2022) Heirloom (2022)

I drive a man-up truck around a huge warehouse for 40 hours per week while order picking and it's one of the songs that I like to sing (badly) to myself to stop the boredom setting in.

In the coming hours, the American space agency will crash a probe into an asteroid. Nasa's Dart mission wants to see how difficult it would be to stop a sizeable space rock from hitting Earth. The demonstration is taking place some 11 million km away (7 million miles) on a target called...

England and Germany drew 3-3 at Wembley tonight in Europe's Nations League. All the goals came in the second half with Germany taking a 2-0 lead. England fought back to take a 3-2 lead and then Germany equalised. The match was meaningless to England as they had been relegated to the lower...

As I say: That's what all the woke set say when faced with that inconvenient truth. But it IS the truth. Just because you don't like that fact doesn't mean you can just deny it and that history will change. Canada and the United States and many other countries owe their existence to the British...

A postbox built under the reign of Elizabeth II with her cypher. Those built under the reign of Charles III will have his cypher.