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New Balls Please!
An estimated 27,000 kilos of Strawberries and 7,000 litres of cream are eaten each year during the two weeks of the Wimbledon tournament.
Are you Going to Glastonbury Fayre?
This year the pyramid stage acts indicate the diversity of performers at the event nearly 50 years after it started and will include Stomzy, The Killers, The Cure, Janet Jackson, Miley Cyrus, Liam Gallagher and Lauren Hill.
Long Legs, Ducks and a Third Man.
The first Cricket World Cup tournament was contested in 1975 between the 8 test playing nations of the day.
Discover Ancient Egypt
5000 years ago the region now known as Egypt was instead referred to by its ancient people as km.t, often styled today as Kemet meaning ‘the black land’.
D-Day plus 27,375
Seventy Five years ago on 6th June 1944, the largest amphibious operation ever undertaken in modern warfare occurred when the Allied powers landed 156,000 men in the Normandy region of north-west France.
Chelsea Flower Show 2019
Annual visitor numbers for the Chelsea Flower Show now exceed 150,000 people.
