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It’s Easter term, and we all know what that means… Exams!!! Some people love revising and spend more time in the library than their own room. For others and myself, even finding the motivation to do a past paper is a challenge, particularly as most students haven’t taken a meaningful exam in at least two years. However you feel about exams and revising, I think there’s one opinion shared by the majority of Cambridge students – you have to get a 2.1 or a 1st.  We can pass the blame o...

1970: Mary Hopkin, ‘Knock, Knock, Who’s There?’ Welsh folk singer Hopkin gave the UK another second place at Eurovision, after a string of hit singles including Goodbye (written and produced by Paul McCartney). After she married top producer Tony Visconti in 1971, she withdrew from the limelight, but still sang on several albums he produced, including David Bowie’s Low. After a late-Seventies comeback, she joined a group called Oasis (not the Gallaghers’ band), and sang on Vangelis�...

SHOCKWAVES were sent through Sully in July 1971 after the body of a woman was found on the beach. The woman was found battered to death in a makeshift grave on Sully Beach following a search after she failed to come home from sunbathing. Local residents were left stunned by the news. A police appeal for information was launched in that week’s Penarth Times. Meanwhile, Penarth council supported plans for an office block next to the council offices at Stanwell Road. The offices could accomm...

"First of all, when youre doing Australias Got Talent they send you a list of the things you have to do. One of the things is a week of rehearsal … to do what? To go theres the buzzer, theres the golden buzzer. You use the golden buzzer once, you use the other one several times. Try not to swear and enjoy yourself. Right, thats all youve got to do?" he questioned as Molloy fell into fits of laughter. He then claimed he offered to link the show up with a massive star to appear on the judgin...

Patton Oswalt: Marvel villain M.O.D.O.K. is unintentionally funny UPI News Service, 05/21/2021  The latest Marvel series is a showcase for M.O.D.O.K., one of comic books more obscure villains. Patton Oswalt, who co-created the animated Marvels M.O.D.O.K. for Hulu with Jordan Blum, voices the title character. ADVERTISEMENT "Hes so over-the-top rageful that a lot of [the comics] are very unintentionally funny," Oswalt said in a recent Television Critics Association Zoom intervew. ...

© SYSTEM Everyone’s a critic. Quite right too. If we’ve spent our hard-earned on a show, book, album, or even a streaming service or the TV licence, we are within our rights to have an opinion about the quality of what is delivered. Walking among us, however, there are some who have been paid for that. I include myself in that. What are the qualifications? Maybe an in-depth knowledge of the subject. Mine have usually been music, comedy and theatre. Aside from the knowledge, though, there�...

Britain has a chequered record in Europe’s trashiest competition. Here are the highs and lows in full – and what came next

James Bond Actors You May Not Have Known Passed Away James Bond Actors You May Not Have Known Passed Away MGM/United Artists By Tim Lammers/May 19, 2021 7:17 pm EDT Without question, Eon Productions James Bond film series has been one of the most successful franchises in cinematic history, with 25 films produced to date, including the upcoming, long-delayed "No Time to Die." The series kicked off, of course, with "Dr. No" in 1962, with Sean Connery playing the dashing British s...

The eight-part docu-series 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything, premieres May 21 on Apple TV+. The series explores the connections between popular music and historic events of 50 years ago that still resonate today.

The ‘Sex and the City’ reboot ‘And Just Like That’ casts Sara Ramirez as a queer, non-binary character to replace Samantha.