Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
Glastonbury is a small town in Somerset best known for the famous music festival that takes place nearby, as well as numerous Arthurian and Christian legends centred on the town and its distinctive hill, the Tor.
We hear in Bond films and other stories about secret service organisation MI6, tasked with controlling British espionage abroad, and domestic espionage specialist MI5. But there were once other MI (Military Intelligence) secret service operators ...
Sir Francis Drake (1540 –1596) was an English sailor, slave-trader, pirate and explorer. He is probably most famous for being the vice-admiral of the British fleet at the time of the invading Spanish Armada - which was defeated. Drake was also the first Englishman to sail all the way around the world, and consequently made a Knight by Queen Elizabeth I.
In 1980, a performing grizzly bear called Hercules escaped from an advertising set and went on the gentlest rampage possible in the Outer Hebrides, achieving international fame.
London's Drury Lane theatre sits on the oldest site in the world in continuous theatrical use. The current theatre dates from 1812, has a capacity of over 2200, and is arguably the most famous theatre in the world.
Pluckley, in Kent, is said to be England’s most haunted village according to the Guinness Book of World Records. It is reputed to have twelve ghosts.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.