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The Latest Breaking News from the Second World War

People are only just realising 'vital' reason why street railings have kinks

It turns out that their purpose dates all the way back to the Second World War.

Daily Record

Families in UK to light 30,000 candles to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day

UK Yom HaShoah remembers the six million Jews killed in The Second World War and sees families light yellow candles - each one marking the life of someone who died

Daily Mirror

Daphne du Maurier’s The Birds predicted environmental crisis 70 years ago

In Daphne du Maurier’s short story, The Birds (1952), a change in bird behaviour is linked to the impact of technological developments after the second world war.

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Edith Velmans obituary

Other lives: Author of Edith’s Book, an account of her years in hiding from the Nazis in Holland during the second world war

The Guardian - UK

Putin doesn’t want the war to end – he wants to blast us back to the 40s Soviet era

Russia is harking back to the glory days of the second world war, writes the Bulgarian novelist Georgi Gospodinov

The Guardian - UK

King and Queen Consort to close Germany visit with focus on Second World War

Charles will focus on the Second World War as his three-day state visit to Germany with the Queen Consort draws to a close.

The Independent UK

Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace review: historic adventures in Budapest

Housed in one of the world’s most beautiful Art Nouveau buildings, the Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace is the ideal destination to experience Hungary’s capital city, Budapest. Surviving pieces from the Belle Époque era and the Second World War are stashed across its five floors, and from the outside the…

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Plans to transform East Lothian Second World War toilet block into a family home

The out-building is thought to have been a female toilet block used by the auxiliary air force during the Second World War. Plans have been drawn up which would see it make way for a family home

Edinburgh Live

Righting the wrongs of development

A key issue with which the world community has had to grapple since the end of the Second World War is that of "development", especially from the angle of national and international measures to ensure responsiveness to the rights and needs of the peoples of the land, without discrimination and…

Bangkok Post

Who was Marcel Marceau? Google Doodle celebrates French mime artist

Marceau used his skills to liberate Jewish children from Nazi-occupied France during the Second World War

Evening Standard

Plea for mourners to attend funeral for RAF ‘pilot of the Caribbean’

A desperate search is under way to find mourners to attend the funeral of one of the Second World War’s last black “Pilots of the Caribbean”.

Evening Standard

Al Murray on war games, Putin and how to solve a problem like Suella Braverman

The Pub Landlord turned history buff Al Murray says the war in Ukraine "is a direct product of WW2”

Daily Mirror

Ernest Simon obituary

Other lives: Austrian who fled to the UK before the second world war and later worked for ICI across Europe

The Guardian - UK

The forgotten 62-year record that Erling Haaland is closing in on.

Haaland is seeking to become just the second player to score over 40 league goals in an English top tier season since the Second World War.

Irish Mirror

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