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It was Queen Anne who first saw the potential for a racecourse at Ascot, which in those days was called East Cote. Whilst out riding in 1711, she came upon an area of open heath, not far from Windsor Castle, that looked an ideal place for “horses to gallop at full stretch.”
The first race meeting [...]
This Queen album, with the title track “A Kind of Magic” came out in 1986 – the... Read More »
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You can now catch up with Geoffrey the Giraffe on his special nostalgia webpage which... Read More »
This song will probably place you in a certain period of your life, at the dawn of a new Millennium, when... Read More »
Radio One’s Edith Bowman loves this old film: “it’s a really old film… it’s an incredible... Read More »
This advert came out in the UK in 1993. It was an instant hit and many people still sing the lines and... Read More »
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