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Having first been evacuated to Kent, a further emergency evacuation to Betws-y-Coed in 1940 occurred when a German invasion looked likely during World… More...
Oliver Lam-Watson challenging negative public attitudes towards disability More...
Anthony Payne was a critic, composer and arranger who took a series of fragmentary sketches by Edward Elgar and transformed them into a symphony More...
As Dorset's director of public health, Paul Harker pioneered programmes to reduce smoking, tackle obesity and prevent suicides among young men More...
A Rugby blue, a Harlequin, a England XV and a Barbarians founder, W R Martin-Leake was a sporting legend. More...
The Zeebrugge raid was a daring but near-suicidal attempt to block the canal entrance at the German-held port of Zeebrugge, to stop German U-Boats ent… More...
Vice-Admiral Sir James Jungius, who has died aged 96, took part in a daring raid behind enemy lines and later became Deputy Supreme Allied Commander A… More...
Whilst evacuated to Wales during the war the Prep boys played an active part in the national war effort More...
