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Jan 15, 2025 | 
dailymail.co.uk | David Leafe
The news that the famously camp Village People are to perform at Donald Trump’s inauguration ball on Monday is as unlikely as hearing that the President-elect of the Dad-Dancing Society has won Strictly. The band, which has a huge gay following, is hardly what you would expect from the anti-woke new incumbent of the White House. And yet, The Donald has let it be known that their 1978 hit YMCA is his favourite single.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
dailymail.co.uk | David Leafe
Jolted awake by the terrifying shrieking sound emitted by your mobile phone, you sit up and snatch it from your bedside table and see the words 'NUCLEAR MISSILE THREAT INBOUND'. After weeks of chilling brinkmanship between Nato and Russia, President Putin has done the unthinkable and unleashed a deadly volley of intercontinental ballistic warheads which will smash into Britain at 9,000mph.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
dailymail.co.uk | David Leafe
Looming over the Swiss mountain town of Zermatt with its forbidding peak twisting upwards like a collapsed witch's hat, the Matterhorn was said to be home to evil spirits. It was they whom locals blamed for the fates of the British climbers who were first to conquer the mountain.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
dailymail.co.uk | David Leafe
On the last weekend of September 1914, as British soldiers on the Western Front were digging the trenches in which so many thousands would meet their end, Prime Minister H. H. Asquith’s thoughts could not have been further from their impending fate.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
dailymail.co.uk | David Leafe
Often described as 'the most beautiful man in movie history', French screen icon Alain Delon was his own unabashed cheerleader, boasting to one interviewer that in his prime he was 'very, very, very handsome indeed'.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
dailymail.co.uk | David Leafe
With mesmerising blue-grey eyes, high cheekbones and sensuous lips, Vivian MacKerrell was easily one of the best-looking students to enroll at London's Royal Central School Of Speech and Drama in the autumn of 1964. But what caught classmate Bruce Robinson's eye during one fencing lesson was the smoke curling out from behind his face mask as he parried his opponent's thrusts while puffing casually on a Gauloises cigarette.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
dailymail.co.uk | David Leafe
Like the terrifying life-form in the horror movie Alien, the invasive presence did not reveal itself till it was too late for its victims. Snaking through the foundations of a family home in the Hampshire town of Eastleigh, the fast-growing bamboo plant crept invisibly up throughout the cavity walls, the occupants oblivious as they slept at night that their heads were only inches from its spear-like and ever-thickening tendrils.
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May 5, 2024 | 
dailymail.co.uk | David Leafe
As the monster who was responsible for creating the Gestapo and building the first Nazi concentration camps, Hermann Goering was one of Hitler's most ruthless henchmen. Yet nothing could have prepared a team of amateur archaeologists for what they were about to find in the basement of his former home in the Wolf's Lair — the Nazis' headquarters in what is now north-eastern Poland.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
dailymail.co.uk | David Leafe
All seemed well on the British Airways flight from London to Auckland as it cruised high above the seas off Jakarta on the moonless night of June 24, 1982. But then came the announcement, the nightmare of every airline passenger. 'This is your Captain speaking,' said pilot Eric Moody. 'We have a small problem and all four engines have stopped. We are all doing our damnedest to get them working again.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
lucianne.com | David Leafe
Original ArticlePosted By: ladydawgfan, 4/5/2024 11:11:29 PMAll seemed well on the British Airways flight from London to Auckland as it cruised high above the seas off Jakarta on the moonless night of June 24, 1982. But then came the announcement, the nightmare of every airline passenger. 'This is your Captain speaking,' said pilot Eric Moody. 'We have a small problem and all four engines have stopped. We are all doing our damnedest to get them working again.
