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Policeman joins the Great Escape Pt II in charity ride

02.06.11
A team of 12 British bikers are riding 3,500 miles to the scene of the Great Escape during the Second World War to raise money for the Royal British Legion... more

Betty Blue Eyes brings home the bacon

14.04.11
The star of this jaunty musical version of 1984 film A Private Function is the pig that provides its name: an animatronic, blue-eyed and weirdly flirtatious porker called Betty... more

Heroes honoured at £5 million war gallery

09.11.10
A £5million gallery opens this week at the Imperial War Museum to honour dozens of heroes... more

Storming Normandy

30.04.10
No pesky volcano can stop the cross-Channel exodus to a promised land of beaches, battlefields and the Bayeux Tapestry, discovers Sasha Slater... more

Modern masterpieces set to make £69 million at Sotheby's

12.01.10
An importantlandscape by Gustav Klimt seized by the Nazis and lost for decades is one of three works expected to make more than £10 million at Sotheby's... more

Legends of the Berlin Wall

04.11.09
It's 20 years since the Berlin Wall came down, and even longer since Nick Curtis lived in Germany's most iconic city. So what does he make of Berlin now?... more

The BNP do not deserve a place in this debate

14.10.09
Tell me it is a bad joke, please. The BBC, bastion of ethical values, has invited into its bed the British National Party, an avowedly racist organisation with a fascist pedigree... more

Lady GaGa's outfits are a bit old hat

07.09.09
Is anyone else getting slightly tired of Lady GaGa’s overexposure? ... more

Time to face the Nazi music

22.04.09
Two plays by Ronald Harwood re-examine the moral responsibility of the musicians who danced to Hitler’s tune... more

Council wants to axe us, warn West End stallholders

23.03.09
London's 500-year-old street stall tradition could be wiped out by town hall plans to "clean up" the West End, traders warned... more

Rotten luck in Flame and Citron

05.03.09
The twists and turns of the Flame and Citron plot keep you on tenterhooks throughout in this competently made film.... more

Germany's artists in exile

20.01.09
Work made in Britain by artists who fled the Nazis has gone on show in London... more

My brave parents made the ultimate sacrifice

20.11.08
This Sunday Prince Charles will be at the 70th anniversary celebrations of the rescue of 10,000 children from Nazi Germany. Here one of them tells his extraordinary story ... more

Fears grow over New Star as the punters pull out

14.11.08
Fears for the health of John Duffield’s New Star Asset Management are growing, as the company scrambled to rejig its debt mountain and admitted that investors are withdrawing money at an alarming rate... more

When a rape case should not go to court, by Helen Mirren

01.09.08
The 63-year-old, who won an Oscar last year for playing the Queen, said date-rape was a 'tricky area' and something men and women had to work out between themselves.... more

Trader is fined £300 by council for using black bin bags instead of grey

25.07.08
A boutique has been fined £300 for throwing away rubbish in the wrong coloured bin bags... more

It's guten tag to 'Allo 'Allo as German TV to broadcast classic sitcom for first time

10.03.08
Second World War sitcom 'Allo 'Allo has been sold to the Germans. The hit show - which was set in Nazi-occupied France and poked fun at the Gestapo - will be broadcast to German audiences for the first time. But the comedy accents could end up lost in translation as the whole show will be dubbed into German. BBC Worldwide struck the unlikely deal with broadcaster ProSiebenSat1... more

Brown should make life hell for the tax havens

25.02.08
Am I the only person in Britain who pays tax? That's certainly what it's felt like these past few weeks. I've lost track of how many people I've come across who are non-doms - yet seem to have lived all their lives here and have the most English of accents... more

Dreary Dream in an office block

01.02.08
Theatre Delicatessen's unremarkable A Midsummer Night's Dream is all fancy wrapping for a very average product.... more

Making a hit out of Lives of Others

20.04.07
Anne McElvoy talks to the director of Oscar-winning hit The Lives of Others, and asks him why a German film about the Stasi has been a global hit.... more

Nazi claim halts sale of Lloyd Webber's Picasso

09.11.06
As the £30 million Absinthe Drinker is withdrawn from auction at the last minute, we reveal a secret deal over another masterpiece looted by the Germans during the war.... more


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