16+ hour, 4+ min ago   (390+ words) Work has begun to restore a historic, granite-built military fort with hopes to open it up to the public. The work on the Grade II listed Garden Battery at Mount Edgcumbe in Cornwall, which dates back to 1862, was announced in…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (611+ words) A parade and ceremony has honoured a Cornish hero who died saving thousands of lives during the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks in New York 25 years ago. Rick Rescorla was head of security for Morgan Stanley and was working in the…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (858+ words) Twenty-five years after 9/11, US presidents past and present have commemorated the lives lost when hijacked planes slammed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field. President Donald Trump led a Pentagon ceremony, while US Vice-President JD Vance…...

2+ day, 1+ min ago   (507+ words) On Tuesday 11 September 2001, hijackers seized US passenger jets and crashed them into two New York skyscrapers, killing thousands of people. A third plane destroyed the western face of the Pentagon - the giant headquarters of the US military just outside the…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (183+ words) Captain James Martin Stagg, the chief meteorological adviser who persuaded US General Eisenhower to change the date of D-Day, spoke to Richard Dimbleby in 1964. The Allied invasion was moved from the 5th to the 6th of June, due to Stagg's advice. The…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (22+ words) BBC Inside Gander: the town that took in thousands on 9/11...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (388+ words) The last living pre-World War II resident of the family home of Sir Winston Churchill is to make an emotional return to help launch a new display celebrating the work of her father at the estate. The father of Gwen…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (415+ words) A "sponsor a brick" scheme to help buy and turn a former Victorian railway goods shed into a community hub has been started by a group of residents. They hope to transform the privately owned shed, which used to sit…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (291+ words) A repair plan has been drawn up for a category A-listed town hall in southern Scotland after reports of "chunks of masonry" falling from the building. A conservation report on Lockerbie Town Hall warned it could be "quite dangerous" until…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (295+ words) In 1935, tens of thousands who had followed Mao Zedong on the Long March across China struggled to survive. They were fleeing Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist forces during the country's civil war. Zhong Ming was one of them. In 2014, a year before…...