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On a warm July evening in 1985 a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in Moscow ho..
Following Kate Marshall's first year in the mortuary at a north of England NHS hospital with each mo..
In 1972 sixteen-year-old schoolgirl Michelle Pearson gave up her son for adoption. Michelle was told..
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Throughout the twentieth century the seaside service posters of Britain's railways promised fresh ai..
It was said of the young Frank Sinatra that he came across as 'St Francis of Assisi with a shoulder ..
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As a Royal Marine Commando H. Collins served in Afghanistan post 9/11 in 2001 on combat operations p..
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On Saturday 15th April 1989 Jenni Hicks her husband Trevor and their two daughters Sarah and Vicki w..
When FDR Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin gathered outside the Crimean city of Yalta in February 1..
When Philip Serrell - now well known for his television appearances - gave up teaching to become a p..
On April 30 1980 six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate overlooking..
Can we resurrect dinosaurs Jurassic Park-style? Are we living in The Matrix's digital simulation? Do..
Following the death of her beloved mother Jennifer Worth in 2011 Suzannah Worth discovered amongst h..
Number 4 Euston Square was a respectable boarding house like many others in Victorian London. But be..
In the far south of New Zealand in the remote Fiordland village of Manapouri Ruth Shaw runs two tiny..
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