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Their ranks include men like Olaf Schmid, the bomb disposal legend who saved his comrades from 70 Taliban devices before he was killed by the 71st, and Jim Beaton, the royal bodyguard who took three bullets from a madman trying to kidnap Princess Anne. They include the impossibly brave British wartime agents Odette Sansom, who narrowly survived her Gestapo torturers and Ravensbruck concentration camp, and Violette Szabo, who tragically did not. They include the wartime population of the most he...

Just four weeks after the St Pauls Cathedral fundraising drive was launched, it reached the milestone last night thanks to the incredible support of Mail readers and a string of donors.

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The Remember Me campaign for a Covid memorial at St Paul’s Cathedral has received another stunning boost thanks to a £100,000 donation from City grandee and philanthropist Lord Spencer and his wife. Making the generous pledge, the trading tycoon said he and his wife Sarah felt a ‘national memorial to those we have lost is much needed’. The former Tory treasurer said they were both ‘so glad’ to be able to contribute to the lasting tribute, which is backed by the Mail and will honour C...

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Philanthropist Sir Tom Hunter donated an astounding £250,000 to the Daily Mails Remember Me campaign yesterday – taking the total raised soaring above £1million. The retail entrepreneur said he and his family were honoured to support the national memorial to the victims of the Covid pandemic at St Pauls. The Hunter familys generous donation means that more than £610,000 has been raised in just seven days since the Mail launched the campaign last weekend. Combined with the funds already co...

A shiver of anticipation ran through the British archaeologists as they slowly descended the sand-covered steps and passed through a sealed door. After five years excavating in the Valley of the Kings, Howard Carter and his sponsor, Lord Carnarvon, had feared their dream of unearthing treasures buried for 3,000 years was doomed. Now, on this day in November 1922, the pair believed they might, in fact, be on the brink of a remarkable discovery.  Digging through a rubble-filled passageway, they ...

Help us remember the loved ones we lost: Magnificent memorial to 127,000 Covid victims is to be built in St Pauls Cathedral - with your help The Daily Mail has launched a campaign to create a memorial to every life lost during the pandemic  The idea has been endorsed by Prince Charles, faith leaders and by grieving family members of those lost A chapel inside St Pauls Cathedral will have screens that are showing a virtual book of remembrance 

Dean Finch, Group chief executive of York-based housebuilder Persimmon which has recorded a strong start to 2021. Picture: A Persimmon home at Germany Beck in York. THE UKs mini-housing boom has helped push property sales for York-based Persimmon for the first quarter of 2021. The housebuilder has reported a strong start to the year with sales up by more than 20 per cent on the previous year. The FTSE100 company said house sales so far in 2021 are running 11 per cent higher than the year ...