All news on the topic: World War 2
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Love letters found in house renovation sent to rightful owner - and cause tears
Chelsey Brown, from New York, collects antiques and tracks down their rightful owners, with the most recent discovery being lost World War 2 love letters found during a home renovation
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King's coronation oil 'secretly developed for months on housing estate in Hull'
Retired church minister and pharmacist Mark Hutton spent months getting items from an ancient list of ingredients based on a recipe in the Bible ready for King Charles' coronation in May
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Moment Great Yarmouth bomb explodes as experts try to defuse WW2 device
A Second World War bomb detonated unexpectedly in a Norfolk town and the explosion was captured by a police drone. It was discovered in Great Yarmouth on Tuesday and a major incident was declared
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Tories leave Britain as only G7 country with smaller economy than before Covid
The Government wants to blame the pandemic and the war in Ukraine for this dire situation rather than admit it is the product of 12 years of Conservative failure
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UK's oldest toy museum to close with enchanting collection fighting for survival
This unique Pollock’s Toy Museum collection of 7,000 items was housed in a Georgian townhouse full of sloping doorways and creaky floorboards in London’s Fitzrovia - but soon won't have a home
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'I live entirely in 1940s - from how I dress and even hide modern appliances'
Hannah Hall lives her life as if it were the 1940s, as she wears vintage clothes and uses a period cooker to cook wartime food on her retro cooker after hearing stories from her grandfather
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Bomb squad tries to detonate WWII bomb on beach after discovery in nearby garden
Crowds gathered at the beach in Cleethorpes to watch a bomb squad carry out a controlled explosion following the discovery of what's thought to be an undetonated remnant from WWII
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Battle is on to keep Victoria Cross awarded to RAF World War Two hero in UK
The medal was awarded posthumously to Squadron Leader Arthur Scarf, who was killed after leading a daring raid on enemy Japanese forces in Burma in 1941
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Give Ukraine western fighter jets to fight Russians, urges Boris Johnson
The former Prime Minister dismissed fears UK and US aircraft would prove complicated for Ukrainian pilots, pointing to the success of Polish airmen flying RAF planes in the Second World War
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Inside Cold War spy Kim Philby's life - sex, deception and double-dealing
Biographer James Hanning tells of his fascination with Kim Philby, who was played by Guy Pearce in the ITV series A Spy Among Friends. He spied for the Russians while working as a British secret agent
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'My dad survived Hitler - I found out his full story at 43 and must share it'
Maralyn Turgel spoke to the Mirror about what it was like growing up with a Holocaust survivor father and why it's paramount her family keep his story alive this Holocaust Memorial Day
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Holocaust survivor, 89, warns Brits to be vigilant against rising anti-Semitism
John Dobai has lived in the UK for 60 years and warns that signs of anti-Semitism have been making a prominent appearance in his neighbourhood over the last 12 to 18 months
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'Disabled people having to forgo heating or eating to run breathing equipment'
Some disabled people are so poor right now that the old heating vs eating chestnut has been pushed up a few unbelievable grades to breathing vs heating or eating
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World's longest ever flight took 64 days and pilots were carried out of plane
Robert Timm and John Cook spent 64 days, 22 hours and 19 minutes in the air 64 years ago, sleeping, eating and doing everything else in the tiny four seater plane
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Putin sending cannon fodder recruits 'over the top' in WW1-style trench warfare
Russian commanders are reportedly sending inexperienced recruits across no man's land armed only with rifles and grenades towards Ukrainian trenches, with those injured left to freeze
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Holocaust survivor's daughter says mum never talked about horrors of Auschwitz
Marta Seiler's parents both survived the Holocaust, but Marta knew very little about their experience until she read a series of harrowing letters written by the pair and other members of the family
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WW2 veteran, 97, traumatised by sub sinking swims for first time in 80 years
Roger Roberts was aboard the HMS Charybdis in the English Channel in October 1943 when it was torpedoed and had to swim to safety - the last time he was in the sea for 80 years
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Student retraces perilous journey hero RAF great-grandad took across Europe
RAF pilot Frank Griffiths miraculously survived after his plane was shot down above France and spent 3 months trekking across occupied territory to freedom - now great-grandson Adam Hart is retracing his steps
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War hero gets 160 cards on his 108th birthday thanks to kindness of strangers
Donald Rose woke on the big day to find 50 cards from complete strangers from across the UK - and after a Royal British Legion appeal, his care home was swamped with another 110 in the following week
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Doctor who helped launch his 'beloved' NHS in 1948 shedding tears over shambles
Professor Harold Ellis says that bed-cutting by the Tories is partly to blame for the current crisis which is overwhelming his 'beloved' NHS and leaving hospitals unable to cope
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Vital to celebrate Windrush pioneers, says Lenny Henry ahead of 75th anniversary
The actor and other black Brits urged the country to get behind events marking the 1948 arrival of the liner HMT Empire Windrush, which brought passengers from the Caribbean to the UK
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Brighton beach evacuated as bomb squad blow up 'World War 2 shell' near pier
The World War Two shell was spotted on the pebbles at Brighton beach in East Sussex close to the Palace Pier this morning
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