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David Fargher, who runs a website on Newark's history, said: "Like the collieries, it was an industrial cathedral which ...

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The stockpile of German ammunition left in Norway in 1945 could have been cleared and dismantled by the Germans. Norway ...

F-35 fighter jets have escorted a specially liveried Spitfire on a tour of Britain as part of the Second World War icon’s ...