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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/c94b/live/fb121400-51c1-11f1-a61d-97b09d8870ae.jpg”] Alresford Watercress Festival Glenn Walsh from Bishop’s Sutton has won the event 17 times A 17-time world watercress eating champion is preparing to defend his title at an annual event celebrating the leafy green vegetable. The Alresford Watercress Festival in Hampshire marks the start of watercress season in the UK and a…

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/06bb/live/77399570-51e1-11f1-8d79-4731acfb89e0.jpg”] EPA/Shutterstock A multi-storey residential building was hit by a Ukrainian drone in Moscow’s region, local officials said At least three people were killed and several injured overnight in a large-scale Ukrainian drone attack on the Moscow region, Russian officials have said. A woman died in Khimki, north of Moscow, and a person…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/4138/live/22be0db0-4ed4-11f1-91ee-f79d495dca9f.jpg”] Jonas Pollard The couple will be raising money for the Sue Ryder, a charity close to home A couple who quit their jobs to learn “how to communicate and work together better”, will soon begin cycling through 15 different countries for charity. Jonas Pollard and Margaux Dumas from Bath, Somerset, will embark…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/9001/live/46fdd470-4f89-11f1-9047-c9775177a8ab.jpg”] Courtesy of the Phillips family An exhibition is to be held in Birmingham marking the life of Peter Phillips He was a pop art pioneer, but he ended up being one of his home city of Birmingham’s “most overlooked creative figures”. But now Peter Philips, a “key figure” in the international pop…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/3263/live/395b6c20-4f65-11f1-ab42-3f8c574ad33f.jpg”] John Devine/BBC Alan Florence says he will never forget working with the cast of Hancock’s Half-Hour in 1961 A man says he will never forget being part of a recording session with comedian Tony Hancock in 1961. Alan Florence from Manea, Cambridgeshire, worked at a sound studio where Hancock re-recorded The Blood…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/4f0d/live/327d0880-4eb8-11f1-ab8c-f3e46050b8be.jpg”] Dan Dare Corporation Dan Dare made his debut as the lead character in The Eagle adventure comic in 1950 A comic book artist and illustrator said working on a re-boot of the Dan Dare comics was a “dream project” as it was his father’s favourite character. Marc Laming, who lives in Hatfield,…

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/4f2b/live/4b6177f0-5192-11f1-a018-af791c6f44ac.jpg”] Getty Dame Felicity Lott, one of Britain’s best-loved sopranos, has died at the age of 79. The singer died on 15 May after a recent interview she gave to the BBC in which she announced she had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. The acclaimed soprano built an international career spanning four decades,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/c5d8/live/b7ee22d0-5195-11f1-b682-cf91850925ea.jpg”] Watch: Lights, camera, Bangaranga: Key moments from Eurovision Another year, another flop. The UK has self-destructed at Eurovision all over again. Look Mum No Computer, aka musician Sam Battle, got one solitary point, ending up in last place. It’s the third time we’ve been at the bottom of the table since 2020.…