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TWO days before his 19th birthday, German infantryman Willi Rothemund was captured by the British at Caen in France.

Iran is still one of the worst countries in Human Rights violations while the world powers are trying to save the regime’s future with an agreement about its nuclear case.

Carlisle Cathedral set to mark 900 years with Melvyn Brag set to join in with celebrations

Historian, novelist and former officer in of the King’s Own Royal Border Regiment Brigadier Allan Mallinson will headline Cumbria’s first Military Festival.

Report on the dire situation of human rights violations in Iran

George Macdonald Fraser, the author of the Flash...

Andy Grant Published: 9:00 AM April 24, 2021    A picture of Cranham Holme from Treasures of Havering by John Drury (1998). - Credit: With permission of John Drury Historian Andy Grant takes a look at the succession of owners of Cranham Holme - later Cranham Court - such as an orchard lover, a disreputable doctor and a philanthropist. In St Mary’s Lane, where London’s urban sprawl gives way to rolling countryside, there is a long driveway signposted “Cranham Court Nursing Home”, a...

Roland Bell, known as Ronnie, has died aged 82 at Dickinson Court Care Home in Whitehaven. He lived in Newtown, Frizington after returning from National Service. Mr Bell lived a full life, working at the Kangol factory in Cleator Moor, as a bus conductor and in an iron ore mine. Mr Bell most recently lived at Bransty. Members of the Royal British Legion have paid their respects to Mr Bell for his service. Treasurer of the Wath Brow RBL branch Keith Faulkner said: “I was in the same ...