Nottinghamshire Reform led County Council is spaffing £75,000 on new flags and flag poles... even as council tax is set to rise by almost 5% www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

The video is right: Southwell Minster is one of England's least well-known cathedrals, but it's one of the finest. We don't even get to see its glory: the medieval stone carving ("The Leaves of Southwell") in the Chapter House.

“Atlantic City” live at the Academy Museum Gala in Los Angeles. October 18, 2025. 🎥: Rob DeMartin

The amazing Of Monsters And Men. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXC6...

'Recent Past', Waterstones, Piccadilly (2004) by John Duffin johnduffin.co.uk

The skill of photographers in the days before the advent of SLRs with telephoto lenses never ceases to amaze me. Middlesex keeper Joe Murrell is cleaned up by Warwickshire's Harry Howell, Lord's, May 16th 1924

Badgers Blamed for Nuns’ Exhumation Thanks to a nomination from a reader, the Hastings Independent wins our coveted Headline of the Day Award.

Former England players Tiger Smith, Sydney Barnes, Frank Woolley and Wilfred Rhodes watching the first day of the Ashes at Edgbaston, June 8th 1961. Although Rhodes was blind he remained an astute follower of the game and was said to be able to hear what strokes were being played

October 1877 ► Wombwell's Menageries came to #Nottingham’s Goose Fair, with over 7,000 birds and animals, and 53 employees. #NottinghamHistory

Let's have a new statue in Bromley-by-Bow, of this man, Tommy Flowers, the father of Colossus. An extraordinary story, an extraordinary man, to whom we all owe so much.

Living in the Midlands, I don't often get the chance to photograph big ships, however, a recent trip to Liverpool put that right. #photography

Lots of flag-botherers over on Facebook now suddenly demanding the council step in to take these down www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

6 October 2003 ► #Nottingham University staff member and Emeritus Professor, Sir Peter Mansfield, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work in the application of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). #NottinghamHistory

Mural homage to Irish International Brigader Bob Doyle, Dublin. Since painted over, but now plaque nearby Doyle was captured during Aragón offensive+spent hellish 11 months in San Pedro de Cardeña concentration camp before being released. I recommend his autobiography Brigadista

Calling all artists and photographers! Winter Open - call out from Friends of the Workers Gallery! #callforartists #gallery

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life? #TwentyfiveFortyseven

This cannot go on. It's insanity. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

History repeats.

Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, Dr David Bull, Paul Nuttall, still haven’t said a word about their MEP colleague from UKIP to Reform UK, the Reform UK Leader in Wales Nathan Gill. 8 charges of Russian bribery, all admitted. Reform UK are on the hook for this.

CONOR GEEKIE ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?! 🤯

3 October 1766 ► Infantry and cavalry were brought in keep the peace following #Nottingham’s ‘Great Cheese Riot’ of the previous day, but later that evening there were serious clashes between the rioters and military. #NottinghamHistory ►

#OTD: 30 September 2016, ESA's #Rosetta mission ended with the spacecraft landing on #Comet67P️, 12 years after its journey started. This video compilation shows the last images taken during the descent to the comet's surface. @science.esa.int @cnes.fr @dlr-spaceagency.bsky.social

What's that? You want to listen to a Cambodian cover of Hard Day's Night? My pleasure ... youtu.be/4cjWvk9U2uo?...

Facebook seems incapable of policing these racism / hate sites. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

From Ken Burns' “The 2025 Battle of Portland” 🎶Sweet Betsy From Pike🎶 “Dearest Prunella: As I write to you, a silent war rages in Portland. ANTIFA is the sneakiest foe of any war. Being invisible, they are difficult to find. Please pray for me as I enjoy my delicious coffee. Your Loving Husband”

Lemmy, Leigh Bowery and ‘the two Georges’: 80s stars in the Limelight – in pictures The place to be through the 1980s, a nightclub where Johnny Rotten and Kim Wilde rubbed shoulders with the Beastie Boys and, er, Mel Smith. David Koppel’s new book captures it all www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

200 years ago today LOCOMOTION pulled a train between Darlington and Stockton and everything changed.

The Three Graces consist of the Royal Liver Building, The Cunard Building and the Port of Liverpool Building, the picture was taken from the Museum of Liverpool. #photography #Liverpool

It’s an old favourite today for the final day of the 2025 season… Today’s beautiful village cricket ground is the home of Bledlow CC in Buckinghamshire

All folks, you should see this!

Harold Larwood bowls to Ted A'Beckett, 3rd Ashes Test, MCG, December 31st 1928. Don Bradman, the non striker, had been recalled for this match after being dropped for the only time in his career in the previous Test. He scored 79 in this innings and 112 in the second

In a moment like this, when tensions are high, part of the job of the president is to remind us of the ties that bind us together.

A woman protesting outside the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, was brutally assaulted by goons who used mace and sting balls on her.

Photographers and cameras 📷 📸 📷 📸 📷 📸

Tank outside the Gloucester Arms, Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1957, photo by Jimmy Forsyth (1914-2009).

Hartwell terrace, Queens Road, Hyde Park, Leeds, 1970s, photo by Peter Mitchell.

📢 Amber: Documenting Place - extended until December at the Farrell Centre! A display of prints & films from the AmberSide Collection, looking at human-centred documenting of places and communities. Open Wed–Fri 1–4pm, plus Sat 25 Oct, 8 Nov, 22 Nov, 6 Dec ℹ️ Info: sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

Two pictures of The Diamond, a building that is part of the #Sheffield University campus, April 2019. #photography

So the DFS sale really has been going on as long as we thought

A truly magnificent album, that in its deeply rooted and outstanding compositions, really distills a sense of and spirit of place. Please do take a listen, you will not be disappointed.

The Royal Mint - a business which literally has a licence to print money - has reported a loss for 2024-25.

Projections of U.S. President Donald Trump, Britain's Prince Andrew and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were put on display against the walls of Windsor Castle while Trump was in Britain for a state visit.

Looking through a window at #Leicester Guildhall. #photography

Published today: my book "Forgotten Times" - 180 photographs taken by me in the 1950s and 60s on the streets of the UK, Ireland and the outer islands and depicting a world largely unknown to the present day.

Some @privateeyenews.bsky.social are only so-so. Others are for the ages…

The greatest story in medieval history: the life of William the Marshal. I get totally carried away and produce my longest ever podcast. Listen here: 🎧: podfollow.com/dan-snows-hi...

Thank you! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #charityvideo

A titanic tussle by the Thames lies in wait from tomorrow. #SURvNOT

Two very important graphs. Net migration reached record levels in 2023 - and has since halved. The vast majority of arrivals comprises students and workers. Arrivals in small boats and asylum seekers - less than 5%. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...