Countdown to election and news of Roman underground
With just over a week to go before the country goes to the polls for what has been billed as one of the most important General Elections in modern times (but aren’t they all?), serious column inches will be given over to the issues at hand, politicians will be tempted to issue dark and foreboding predictions, statistics will most certainly be involved, accusations will fly left, far left, right, far right and centre, things may even become personal.
Events will come to a head on Friday in York, where both Prime Minister Theresa May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will be grilled by an audience during a special live edition of the BBC’s
The two leaders won’t appear head-to-head, however. Leaders of other parties will get their chance to woo voters on a similar live broadcast by BBC on Sunday.
Friday June 2 marks the 64th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II – although she has reigned since February 1952, having acceded to the throne following the death of her father, King George VI, whose great grandmother was Queen Victoria.
George VI died in his sleep at Sandringham House, Norfolk, on February 6, 1952. Princess Elizabeth, who was just 25, was thousands of miles away in Kenya on a Commonwealth tour with the Duke of Edinburgh when she learned of his death. She left a princess but returned home a queen. She was the 39th sovereign to be crowned at Westminster Abbey, where monarchs have been crowned for the last 900 years. In November, the Queen and Prince Philip will have another anniversary to celebrate when they mark their platinum wedding after 70 years of marriage.
The cost of living is set to rise, albeit rather quietly, next week as insurance premium tax increases from 10 per cent to 12 per cent, so expect home, car, pet and any and every other kind of insurance to all be that little bit more expensive. the launch of the team selected to represent the UK at the Invictus Games, for injured servicemen and women, in Toronto later this year. Harry, who created the Games in 2014, will meet them at the Tower of London.
Tomorrow there will be a media day to unveil three near-complete Roman buildings discovered under a city centre park in Chichester, West Sussex. The buildings are thought to be around 1,600 years old and were discovered beneath a park, which helped to preserve them seeing as no building work has ever taken place upon it.
Archaeologists say the two houses have walls surrounding complete rooms, which are set around a courtyard or atrium.
There is also a deep masonry building with a rounded end.
This week marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most influential records in the history of pop: The Beatles’
Few albums have been discussed and analysed in the way has. After what proved to be the band’s final concert in San Francisco’s Candlestick Park on August 29, 1966, John, Paul, George and Ringo returned to the studio in November to start recording songs for what became
The record came out on June 1, ushering in the Summer of Love and cementing The Beatles’ status as pop music pioneers. So expect to hear some vintage songs from the Fab Four over the coming days.