Two dates are said to be under consideration for the extra day off The government is reportedly planning an extra bank holiday for next summer to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two. According to the Express, plans are in place for a four-day bank holiday weekend in 2025. May 8 […]

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‘I think, once again, what a waste of time war is’ A D-Day veteran has said he would like the children of today to know that “war is not exciting” and “doesn’t achieve much in the end.” Today (June 6) marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day, when 160,000 Allied forces troops launched an assault on the […]

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The chant has been labelled ’embarrassing’ and ‘awful’ England fans have been criticised after footage emerged of some singing a banned World War Two song during a Euro 2024 warmup game. The Three Lions took on Bosnia and Herzegovina in Newcastle on Monday evening, running out 3-0 winners in their penultimate match before travelling to […]

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‘It’s kind of a horror movie’, the director said Christopher Nolan’s new Oppenheimer move is so intense some viewers have been walking out of the cinema unable to speak, the director has said. The biographical drama follows the father of the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer, as he devises the weapon that went on to […]

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Four in ten also don’t know what the Blitz was A third of Brits have no idea Sir Winston Churchill was Prime Minister during World War II, according to research. The poll of 2,000 adults found their knowledge of the conflict is lacking – despite 48 per cent believing it’s important ‘everyone’ has a good […]

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The clock was founded by the US scientists involved in the Manhattan Project The Doomsday clock has moved 10 seconds closer to midnight due to Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. Founded by the US scientists involved in the Manhatten Project, the clock has been tracking humanity’s proximity to annihilation since 1947 after the first nuclear […]

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