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DRAMA All Creatures Great And Small: Christmas Special This drama series about vets in the chocolate-box Yorkshire Dales is first-class comfort viewing (Callum Woodhouse, above) This drama series about vets in the chocolate-box Yorkshire Dales is first-class comfort viewing. It’s Christmas Eve and James is trying to come to terms with the fact that … Read more
Migrants set sail from Dunkirk at dawn today to make the perilous Channel crossing – with more than 400 estimated to have landed in Britain. Photos showed dozens of migrants embarking from Gravelines beach in the twilight and their smugglers scurrying back up the dunes after seeing them off. Others showed French police officers patrolling … Read more
We suddenly got a warning on the VHF radio that a Belgian warship was within range and that we should keep clear. We weren’t keen on tangling with it, so we swiftly checked the map and altered our course. The warning came through as we steadily bobbed across the world’s busiest shipping lane on our … Read more
We suddenly got a warning on the VHF radio that a Belgian warship was within range and that we should keep clear. We weren’t keen on tangling with it, so we swiftly checked the map and altered our course. The warning came through as we steadily bobbed across the world’s busiest shipping lane on our … Read more
The evacuation from Dunkirk was one of the biggest operations of the Second World War and was one of the major factors in enabling the Allies to continue fighting. It was the largest military evacuation in history, taking place between May 27 and June 4, 1940. The evacuation, known as Operation Dynamo, saw an estimated … Read more
The family of a British soldier who was killed at Dunkirk have finally received a poignant letter he wrote to his mother just days before his death nearly 80 years ago. Private Harry Cole, 30, penned a letter to his mother Rosa on May 26, 1940, predicting with hopeless optimism that German troops would soon … Read more
Even before Charles Lightoller joined the Titanic, he had packed a great deal into his 38 years. He went to sea at 13 and the following year was shipwrecked on an island in the Indian Ocean Standing at the helm of his 52ft family pleasure cruiser Sundowner, Charles Lightoller, 66, could see in the distance … Read more
A Battle of Britain hero thought to have been the real life inspiration for Tom Hardy’s character in the film Dunkirk has been revealed after his bravery medals emerged for sale. Squadron leader Kenny Hart crash-landed his Spitfire on the beaches of Dunkirk following a dogfight with the Luftwaffe in May 1940. The 19-year-old fighter … Read more
The tragic tale of a RAF ace who was shot down and killed over Dunkirk while his brother watched from the beaches can be revealed after his medals emerged for sale. Flying Officer Peter Dixon had taken out five German aircraft in five days before he engaged three more Luftwaffe fighter planes on June 1, … Read more
Boris Johnson is facing demands to overrule control-freak health chiefs today amid warnings ‘time is running out’ to scale up coronavirus testing. Sir Paul Nurse, chief executive of the Francis Crick Institute, urged the PM to summon the Dunkirk spirit and let ‘small ship’ labs start screening for the killer disease. Delivering a damning verdict … Read more