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Roy Roebuck, journalist, barrister and Labour MP who formed Harold Wilson’s ‘Young Eagles’ –...
The Telegraph via Yahoo News UK· 7 months agoRoy Roebuck, who has died aged 94, was a Fleet Street sub-editor who was briefly a Labour MP – and...
The sadness and opportunity of 'working' state funerals
Sky News via Yahoo News UK· 2 years agoThe guest list is closed for the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey on Monday....
Tributes paid to 'enthusiastic and bubbly' ECHO journalist and writer
Liverpool Echo via Yahoo News UK· 2 months agoFormer Liverpool Echo features writer and medical correspondent Monica O’Hara, who has died...
JFK assassination 60 years on: seven experts on what to watch, see and read to understand the event...
The Conversation via Yahoo News UK· 8 months agoJohn F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy in the limousine in Dallas minutes before the assassination. Walt...
Major events during the Queen’s long life
Evening Standard via Yahoo News UK· 2 years agoHere are some of the major events and milestones the Queen lived through: 1926: General Strike. Duchess of York gives birth to Princess Elizabeth....
Ahern urged Blair to clarify speculation around Casement ‘black diaries’
PA Media: UK News via Yahoo News UK· 6 months agoAmid Northern Ireland peace process efforts, Bertie Ahern asked Tony Blair to look at the issue to...
Aberfan 56th anniversary: The story of the coal-mining tragedy
Evening Standard via Yahoo News UK· 2 years agoToday (October 21) marks the 56th anniversary of the Aberfan Disaster of 1966, which killed 116...
Balmoral – the Queen’s Scottish home and summer retreat
PA Media: UK News via Yahoo News UK· 2 years agoThe Queen’s Scottish retreat of Balmoral has been chosen as the venue where she will bid Boris...
Wilfrid Brambell: The sad, lonely life of Steptoe and Son star revealed in new book
Yahoo Celebrity UK· 11 months agoWilfrid Brambell found fame with Steptoe and Son. (Alamy) On the evening of 6 November 1962 Wilfrid...
All the poets turned down for the laureate in 1968
Evening Standard via Yahoo News UK· 12 months agoProminent poets of the era — including John Betjeman, WH Auden, and Philip Larkin — were disparaged, accused of being drunkards, snobs, communists,...
