In the spring of 1939 two determined 24-year-olds Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver decided to open a m..

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'I could see that still no one had been able to get out from the cockpit. It must have been at this ..

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This is the account of a unique journey - a 600-mile trek on foot around Cyprus in the last year of ..

Kitty Baxter was born in London in 1930 the daughter of a road sweeper and a cleaner and one of five..

In 2010 Alison Hitchcock made an unusual offer to an acquaintance Brian Greenley who had been diagno..

Bombs were falling all over Britain. . .For one young Londoner in a children's home - Queenie Clapto..