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Britain’s supermarkets are on a war footing: What are they doing to help shoppers?

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Britain’s supermarket sector has been thrown into the spotlight like never before in the last few weeks. Panic-stricken shoppers are stockpiling goods and stripping shelves bare of essentials as the Government’s draconian but necessary lockdown plans ramp up. From the crack of dawn, shoppers are queuing up outside supermarket doors to try and get hold … Read more

Nuclear war using less than 1% of the world’s arsenal would spark a global food crisis, experts warn

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Nuclear war using less than one percent of the world’s arsenal would spark a global food crisis in just five years, experts warn A nuclear war of just 100 bombs could be devastating to the world’s food supply Five million tons of black smoke would be released into the atmosphere This would block out the sun … Read more

Angela Merkel declares coronavirus the ‘biggest challenge for Germany since World War II’

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Angela Merkel today declared coronavirus the ‘biggest challenge for Germany since WWII’ in a televised address to the nation. The Chancellor urged Germans to heed the stringent confinement measures imposed this week as the number of infections in her country soared over 11,000 today, including 28 deaths. ‘The situation is serious. Take it seriously. Not … Read more

Historian unearths camera from World War One that is still in working order

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The selfie a WW1 German soldier took with camera he stole from a dead British soldier is developed after over 100 years – as historian seeks to reunite Kodak with its original owner’s family A picture of a World War One German soldier has developed after over 100 years German veteran Ernst Behnke took camera … Read more

Coronavirus Outbreak: The Boat Race is CANCELLED for the first time outside of a world war

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2020 OLYMPIC GAMES  Cancelled The Olympic torch relay in Greece was cancelled on Friday 13 March – just a day after the flame was lit in Olympia. Large crowds mobbed Hollywood actor Gerard Butler as he lit the cauldron in the Greek city of Sparta on Friday despite repeated warnings for spectators not to attend because of … Read more

Inside Colditz Camp: Failed escapes revealed in picture archive from prisoner of war camp

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The repeated escape attempts and day to days lives of prisoners inside one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious prisoner of war camps have been revealed with a collection of photographs.  German photographer Johnannes Lange was tasked with documenting every failed Allied escape from Colditz Camp in Leipzig during the Second World War. Among the shots … Read more

Drivers will soon see a REAL fuel price war kick off, says ROB HULL

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With markets opening this week to the biggest crash in oil price since the 1991 Gulf War, motorists would have been rubbing their hands together with the prospect of paying significantly less the next time they brimmed their cars.   However, so far we’ve only seen a measly cut of 2p off a litre of unleaded … Read more

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Prince’s polo club embroiled in war of words

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The polo season hasn’t even begun and already the divots are flying at Ham Polo Club, London’s last remaining ground, where Princes William and Harry and Elle ‘the Body’ Macpherson have all played chukkas. The fencing outside its entrance is festooned with signs listing the names of the club’s hierarchy and juxtaposing them with disobliging … Read more

US World War II submarine that sank during a warfare exercise in 1958 is discovered

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Researchers have found the resting place of a World War II submarine wreck 11,000 feet below the surface. Named the Stickleback, the vessel sank on May 28, 1958 during a military exercise 19 miles off the coast of Barbers Point, Oahu. It lost power during the drill, which forced it to dart towards the seabed … Read more