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A female World War Two veteran is to receive France's highest honour for her work at the UK's codebreaking HQ. Gladys Lewis, 100, from East Yorkshire, worked at Bletchley Park and has been awarded the Legion d'Honneur. Her job involved typing up transcripts of decoded Nazi intelligence and she kept her vital work secret from her family for 50 years. Mrs Lewis said she felt "proud" and said that during the war she hoped the messages were "doing some good". Since 2014, France has awarded the accolade to more than 6,000 British veterans in recognition of their contribution to the...

Secret Service Spaz-zes over radio comment By Laura Crimaldi Saturday, August 8, 2009 Secret Service agents yesterday interviewed a “Hill-Man Morning Show” co-host at the WAAF [website]-FM studios in Brighton after he made a threatening comment about President Obama while talking about the national health care proposal. Anthony Parziale, who is known to listeners as “Spaz” on the Greg Hill-hosted morning-drive program, plans to write a letter to Obama to apologize for his remarks and invite the commander-in-chief for a beer, said George Regan, a spokesman for Entercom Communications Corp., which owns WAAF. “He plays a tough-guy role on the...

Secret Service agents yesterday interviewed a “Hill-Man Morning Show” co-host at the WAAF-FM studios in Brighton after he made a threatening comment about President Obama while talking about the national health care proposal. Anthony Parziale, who is known to listeners as “Spaz” on the Greg Hill-hosted morning-drive program, plans to write a letter to Obama to apologize for his remarks and invite the commander-in-chief for a beer, said George Regan, a spokesman for Entercom Communications Corp., which owns WAAF.

ENTERCOM has purchased CBS RADIO's MEMPHIS, ROCHESTER, AUSTIN, and CINCINNATI clusters for $262 million. The buyer will take over all of the stations except for the ROCHESTER stations in a time brokerage agreement starting in OCTOBER (the company will have to divest two ROCHESTER stations to remain within FCC ownership limits). In AUSTIN, ENTERCOM gets AC KKMJ (MAJIC 95.5), Modern AC KAMX (MIX 94.7), Top 40/Rhythmic KXBT (THE BEAT 104.3), and Talk KJCE-A. In CINCINNATI, the stations being sold are Country WUBE (B-105), Hot AC WKRQ (Q-102), Oldies WGRR, and Alternative WAQZ (NEW ROCK 97.3). In MEMPHIS, ENTERCOM adds Hot...

WAAF 107.3FM is a popular rock station here in Boston. This past Friday in Lowell, Massachusetts, WAAF had their "Indoor Beach Party". The Indoor Beach Party is a multi-band concert which included the group Mudvayne. The lead singer of the band compared George Bush to Saddam Hussein and Bin Laden and said "F*** George W. Bush" during their set. So, Greg Hill, the morning show guy at WAAF, decided that he wasn't gonna play music by these Anti-American fools. Matt, the drummer of Mudvayne, did an on-air interview with the morning show guys to tell his side of the story....