Why you should make an hour in the garden really count this weekend...
Join thousands of people taking part in this year’s RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch and help experts create a picture of how our feathered friends are doing. Jamie Bowman reports...
Join thousands of people taking part in this year’s RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch and help experts create a picture of how our feathered friends are doing. Jamie Bowman reports...
The charity Samaritans have taken over what is known as ‘the most difficult day of the year’, fighting back with a good cuppa.
DO you think that there is something beyond our realms of the living?
A DERELICT former passenger ferry which has stood beached for more than 30 years is set to be brought back from the dead as a zombie survival experience.
POP superstars Take That will celebrate their 30th anniversary with a massive UK arena and stadium tour including five dates at Manchester Arena.
IN what could be the plot for Hollywood's latest 'buddy cop film', this week will see North Wales Police’s most senior officer go on one last patrol with his rookie son who joins the Force more than 30 years on from his father first walking the beat.
SOME 450,000 bombs fell on Britain during the Second World War. London, Bristol, Cardiff, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Southampton and Swansea were all bombed, as were Birmingham, Belfast, Coventry, Glasgow, Manchester and Sheffield. Then there were the infamous blitzes of Liverpool and Hull. About 40,000 civilians were killed by Luftwaffe bombing during the war and it’s hard to think of an area of the country that wasn’t affected in some way. Half of the bombs fell on London, where more than a million houses were destroyed or damaged. One of these houses was 8 Martindale Road in Canning Town and it was this address which was the focus of the first episode of a fascinating new series Blitz: The Bombs That Changed Britain.
With their choreographed dance moves, Abba covers and 20 million record sales worldwide, Steps were just as much part of the nineties music scene as Oasis, Blur and Britpop. Now 20 years on from their debut release and with a combined age of over 200, the pop sensations are back with a new album, nationwide tour and a desire to relive those heady days when Faye Tozer, Lee Latchford-Evans, Ian ‘H’ Watkins, Claire Richards and North Walian Lisa Scott-Lee ruled the charts with the likes of Tragedy, Stomp and One For Sorrow.
Nothing quite marks the start of the festive season like hearing Noddy Holder screaming “it’s Christmas!” as you traipse around the supermarket. But for Slade guitarist Dave Hill, Merry Xmas Everybody is the song that ensures the band he formed alongisde fellow Midlanders Holder, Jim Lea and Don Powell over 50 years ago remains in the public eye as he sets out to tour the UK again this winter.
AGROUP of flamingos roller skate across a cocktail bar while a macaw performs The Nutcracker and a spectacled bear pilots an airship. Yes, it’s fair to say a trip to Chester Zoo’s Christmas event, The Lanterns, is something out of the ordinary.
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