It might seem unusual now, but sailors in the Royal Navy had a daily allowance of rum, called a ‘tot’ and equivalent to about ...

Credit: UK MOD © Crown copyright 2025/Cover Images Procession and flypast in central London today. A major military ...

Sir David Attenborough has been on our TV screens for more than seven decades presenting programmes such as Planet Earth and ...

Stephen Cottrell, the Archbishop of York, voiced his concerns about the state of the continent during a service at ...

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said Ukrainian personnel will join around 1,000 UK service personnel from the Royal Navy, the ...

Senior royals have joined thousands of people in the London rain to observe a military procession to begin commemorations ...

A former head of the Royal Navy in Scotland has recalled how he spent VE Day fearing the Second World War would continue for ...

Senior royals joined veterans at the service in Westminster Abbey, as events across the UK mark the 80th anniversary.

At 3pm 80 years ago on May 8, 1945, then Prime Minister Winston Churchill took to the airwaves to announce Nazi Germany had ...

Britain desperately needed help and Roosevelt wanted to offer it, but the US was isolationist and anti-colonial so it came at ...

Having parade aboard a warship which played an important role in the war might be something most sea cadets can only dream of ...

The Ministry of Defence says that Ukrainian soldiers will join the UK's military procession marking the 80th anniversary of ...