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Newport band's 2022 Qatar World Cup song tops iTunes chart

MOVE over World In Motion, step aside Carneval de Paris, there s a new World Cup song in town - and this one s from Newport.

What two of the Beatles did when they passed through Chepstow

New York Times bestselling author Richard Buskin recently shared on his Facebook page Buskin with The Beatles this story of two of The Beatles on…

Eyewitness to the true heroism of Zulu: Major John Chard's memoir

Even after 141 years and two World Wars, it remains one of the most celebrated actions in British military history. Thanks in no small part to the 1964 classic film, Zulu starring Stanley Baker and a young, plummy-toned Michael Caine the Battle of Rorke’s Drift has become a byword for standing firm in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. Military cadets still study the day, in January 1879, when a small South African mission station turned supply depot, manned by 135 British soldiers a quarter of them sick and bedridden came under attack from 4,000 Zulu warriors. Just hours before, King Cetshwayo’s regiments, or impis, had wiped out an entire British column of 1,500 men at nearby Isandlwana. Now, with dusk approaching, the Zulus were heading for Rorke’s Drift. 

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