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In the summer of 1889 young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poi..

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At 10.41a.m. on a Tuesday morning in September Mark Mason boards the number 1A bus at Land’s End. ..

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In the dying months of World War I Spanish flu suddenly overwhelmed the world killing between 50 and..

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On 16 December 1944 Hitler launched his “last gamble” in the snow-covered forests of the Ardenne..

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In 1945 Gwen Moffat deserted from her post as dispatch rider in the Army and went to live rough in W..

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Bombs were falling all over Britain. . .For one young Londoner in a children's home - Queenie Clapto..

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On April 30 1980 six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate overlooking..

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At 75 Terry and Monica Darlington had done everything they could think of doing including starting a..

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