Checkpoint Charlie
Thanks for your even handed coverage of the Scottish referendum issues. I enclose a box brownie picture of the English-Scottish border taken 60 years ago. My brother and I cycled from near Hawick wher ...
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Special relationship
A British grandmother has met her American pen pal – nearly 70 YEARS after she posted an advert in a New York newspaper looking for a long-distance friendship. Joyce Vosper was a 15-year-old sch ...
Raceway to Ascot
Over the last 300 years Ascot has established itself as the centrepiece of the British social calendar. The only place to go darlings is to the Royal Enclosure if you past the dress code. It is really ...
On the 70th anniversary of D-Day a veteran remembers
A blind 96-year-old World War II veteran from Lancashire has recalled storming the beaches of Normandy on the 70th anniversary of D-Day. Like thousands of young men of his generation, Preston resident ...