HMS Belfast was unveiled restored to her former glory by Russian benefactors as a tribute to the ship’s role on the Arctic convoys supplying the Soviet Union in the Second World War... more
The nerve centre of the Battle of Britain is to be redeveloped as housing and a new museum dedicated to the memory of The Few after councillors gave the project the green light... more
70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain is marked with a reading of one of Winston Churchill's most famous speeches and a fly-past over Whitehall... more
London’s food czar Rosie Boycott visits a grand new location for Capital Growth, the project dedicated to creating new London grow-your-own plots.... more
The row over responsibility for the Second World War broke out again last night at the Evening Standard and Intelligence Squared's joint debate on Winston Churchill... more
In launching his putsch on the Financial Services Authority and overhaul of City regulation, George Osborne paid tribute to Sir James Sassoon as the Shadow Chancellor’s adviser. This is most odd... ... more
Pimlico has had a poor press. Some may still see it as a Belgravia wannabe, but the area has come a long way since GK Chesterton decried its poverty-struck streets as a "desperate thing"... more
Shepherd Neame, which has controversially traded on invoking the spirit of the Second World War, said Londoners are happily drinking their way through the financial blitzkrieg... more
Britain's prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials bragged he had knocked "fat boy" Hermann Goering "off his perch", previously unseen letters reveal... more
Bert Hardy, one of the most powerful figures in the newspaper industry in a career spanning 65 years, has died after a long illness at the age of 80... more
Kitted out in Welsh red dragon coat trimmed with saltire and cross of St George, Bryn Terfel led the lusty crowd in Rule, Britannia! at the Last Night of the Proms.... more
The case shed a fascinating light not only on the private sexual preferences of a public figure but on the hidden world of BDSM - Bondage, Domination and Sado-Masochism... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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