The head of the British armed forces has visited China for the first time in a decade. Admiral Sir Tony Radakin discussed “issues of common concern” with China’s military leaders in Beijing, its defence ministry said in a short statement. “We agreed that in an unstable world we must play our part as responsible nations...
Mark Savage Music Correspondent Getty Images Jarvis Cocker said the new music had been recorded over three weeks in the first half of 2024 Indie icons Pulp have announced a new album, More, and shared their first single in almost 24 years, called Spike Island. Speaking on BBC 6 Music, frontman Jarvis Cocker said the...
Single review Trash Matter of Time Rhythm And Blues Records 7 inch vinyl / DL Out 12 April 2025 Trash were a Stones/Dr Feelgood style rock band ‘Bashing Out The Chords’ in the middle of the Punk wars who released the classic 45 ‘Priorities’. A retrospective album came out in 2023 and… 47 years after...
Ken Banks and David Delday BBC Scotland Flett family Tommy Budge, Thelma Budge, Violet Flett and Leslie Flett on their wedding day Two couples who got married together in 1955 have put the foundation of their 70 years of marriage down to spending plenty of time apart. Tommy Budge and Thelma Bruce had a joint...
Instant Holograms On Metal Film, the first new album from Stereolab in 15 years will be released May 23 2025, via Duophonic UHF Disks / Warp Records. Pre-order the album HERE. Listen to Aerial Troubles, the first single shared from the album HERE. Featuring thirteen songs written by Laetitia Sadier and Tim Gane; performed by...
The Dutch parliament has voted to ban people buying and setting off fireworks, but not until after next New Year’s Eve. A majority of MPs backed a consumer ban but supported a separate motion postponing it because of potentially enormous compensation claims from fireworks suppliers. Fireworks have been a New Year tradition for decades in...
It was only a few weeks ago that the company Colossal Biosciences revealed that it had inserted some Woolly Mammoth genes into mice to create mice with Woolly coats. ???? First ‘woolly mouse’ paves way for return of the mammoth Rodents genetically engineered to have shaggy fur and the...
BBC Mark Lucas’ furniture business has not been able to retrieve his van for more than two years The owners of a small family-run business say they have been left £40,000 out of pocket after their van became trapped in a mechanical stacked car park in central London more than two years ago. Mark Lucas,...
Liam Barnes BBC News, Nottingham YouTube Jonathan Peter Brooks was arrested on the day of the stabbing and appeared in court days later – but has only just been convicted More than four years after he stabbed his colleague, plastic surgeon Jonathan Peter Brooks has been found guilty of attempted murder. On Monday, the 61-year-old...
Dean Lewington, MK Dons’ record appearance holder, is to stop playing for the club at the end of the season. The left-back has made 915 appearances for the club over 22 years, breaking John Trollope’s 40-year record for the most league appearances for a single club in the EFL in 2023. The 40-year-old, son of...
North Korea has staged the Pyongyang International Marathon for the first time in six years, welcoming some 200 foreign runners to pound the streets of the reclusive country’s capital. The marathon, which was launched in 1981, took place annually in April to celebrate the birth of its founding leader Kim Il Sung. Before Sunday’s marathon,...
A historic water mill in Devon is reopening for the first time in two years after a major refurbishment. The National Trust-owned Manor Mill in Branscombe dates back to the 17th Century but saw its heyday in Victorian times when it was one of four working mills in the east Devon village. It was shut...
A museum in south Devon has created an album to act as a time capsule giving future readers a snapshot of life in 2023. Totnes Museum started working on the Posterity Project in 2023 to create the album that will be stored in the town’s archives for 30 years before it is unearthed. The museum...
Liverpool Daily Post/PA A funeral for the unidentified newborn was arranged after a collection by a local Asda supermarket “When I heard about it and I saw her name, I thought ‘that’s not that woman – that’s not the same woman that we’ve lived by all these years’.” That was how a resident of a...
Sixty years ago, Tunnock’s teacakes were banned from RAF flights after they exploded in a cockpit. They left a sticky mess over the airmen, their instruments and the cockpit’s canopy. The chocolate-covered marshmallow treats had apparently been all the rage prior to this – being eaten by crewmen as they flew nuclear bombers on long...