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Labour has called on the size of juries to be cut from 12 people to seven to help clear the backlog of criminal cases waiting to come to court amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The party called on the Government to resort to ‘wartime juries’, as were used during the Second World War when numbers were … Read more
President Joe Biden on Thursday called for the nation to summon a ‘full scale war-time effort’ to beat back the coronavirus – but snapped when questioned about the ambition of his new 100 million-shot goal. Biden made the revealing comment as he signed new executive orders to speed vaccine delivery and called wearing a mask a … Read more
The RAF Bomber Command controlled the RAF’s bomber forces from 1936 to 1968, including Squadron XV, and was responsible for the strategic bombing of Germany during the Second World War. When the command was founded in 1936 it was only intended to be a deterrent, but the reality when war broke out three years later … Read more
The Undoing star Matilda De Angelis was transformed into a wartime beauty on Monday as she continued filming for Ernest Hemingway’s Across The River and Into The Trees. The actress, 25, who rose to fame earlier this year with her role in the thrilling HBO miniseries, sported her glossy brunette hair in pinned curls as she … Read more
The Undoing star Matilda De Angelis was transformed into a wartime beauty on Monday as she continued filming for Ernest Hemingway’s Across The River and Into The Trees. The actress, 25, who rose to fame earlier this year with her role in the thrilling HBO miniseries, sported her glossy brunette hair in pinned curls as she … Read more
Dame Vera Lynn’s daughter Virginia Lewis-Jones has revealed how she asks her late mother’s spirit for advice following her death, aged 103. The much-loved singer, who will forever be remembered for her ‘magical voice’, morale-boosting songs and risking her own life to visit troops during the Second World War, passed away surrounded by her family on … Read more
Although there will be no crowds or military march past at this year’s Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph, you do not have to travel far before you find reminders of the sacrifices previous generations made for their country. It has long been the custom to name streets after battles and war heroes. Today, housing … Read more
Eighty years ago in 1940, a dark cloud of suspicion verging on paranoia hung heavily over the British Isles. The country was at war with Nazi Germany and Hitler’s forces were camped just across the English Channel. Invasion seemed inevitable and imminent, and the country went into a form of lockdown, with barbed wire on … Read more
TOM STOPPARD: A LIFE by Hermione Lee (Faber £30, 860pp) Transport yourself, in these sad days of silenced theatres, to a full-house Old Vic on the evening of April 11, 1967. It’s the opening night of Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, first performed the previous summer at the Edinburgh Fringe where it had terrible reviews … Read more
Bomb disposal experts explode 11 wartime explosive devices found by metal detectorist in one sweep of beach Glenn Evans discovered the explosive devices in the sand at Sandwich Bay, Kent Metal detectorist called the police after making the discovery on Wednesday Police were joined by an army disposal team which safely disposed of munitions By … Read more