7+ hour, 43+ min ago   (535+ words) A World War Two veteran who became a well-known local newspaper journalist has celebrated her 104th birthday. Meg Sewell was born in Rotherham in 1922 and has lived in the town her whole life. She served with the women's branch of the…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (539+ words) On foggy nights during World War Two, runways were lit with fire to help guide bombers home. For thousands of RAF pilots, the system " known as FIDO " meant survival. Colin Bell, 104, said it saved his life on three separate occasions…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (438+ words) A staff nurse has finally clocked off - 62 years after joining the NHS. Grandmother-of-four Cath Lyon, christened "Mamma Cath" by colleagues at Hull Royal Infirmary, started out on 1 August 1962, aged 16. She retired on Monday just weeks shy of her 80th birthday, with…...

4+ day, 56+ min ago   (395+ words) People were evacuated from homes in Cornwall after unexploded World War Two bomb was found. Devon and Cornwall Police said officers received reports of the device being discovered in a stream near Penberthy Road in Portreath at about 11:50 GMT. The…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (277+ words) In 2007, four British servicemen perched on the wings of an Apache helicopter in Afghanistan, in an audacious mission to rescue a fallen comrade. Lance Corporal Mathew Ford was part of a unit which had attacked Jugroom Fort - a major Taliban…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (129+ words) Justice department releases three million pages Second Epstein victim claims she was sent to UK for sex with Andrew - lawyer Gaza's Rafah border crossing to open Iran announces military drills near US warships amid tensions Available for 28 days The United…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (494+ words) A Hurricane fighter made for the 1969 film Battle of Britain will go on show at a museum later. The replica aircraft, which sat atop a cinema in Lincoln for two months to promote the movie, has now been given a…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (445+ words) One of the last surviving veterans who served in the Far East during World War Two has died at the age of 101. Ron Gumbley, from Birmingham, was 18 when he joined the war, serving with the RAF. Confirming that he died…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (447+ words) A police force has released footage of the moment a German World War Two bomb was destroyed. Officers were called to the river at Ely, Cambridgeshire, at about 12:40 GMT on New Year's Eve by a magnet fisher, who had been…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (983+ words) Residents have been allowed to return home following the removal of two World War Two bombs discovered in Devon. The German bombs were discovered on Wednesday afternoon - one was dredged up in Exmouth Marina and the other was found on…...