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In summer 1944, the Nazi occupation of Poland was nearing its fifth year. More than one in five Poles had been killed, enslaved, or shipped off to concentration camps. The country was being incrementally destroyed to make way for Adolf Hitler’s vision of a greater German Reich. Still, hundreds of thousands of Poles continued to fight. |
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Former BBC Radio Derby breakfast show presenter and stalwart of the city’s Christian community, Donald Macdonald, has died at the age of 71. Well-known in Derby for his 25 years’ service as a vicar at St Osmund’s Church, in London Road, Mr Macdonald went on to become an additional chaplain at Derby Cathedral after retiring in 2010. |
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The nominees for the 2017 International Bluegrass Music Awards were announced Wednesday morning in Nashville. The Earls of Leicester and Balsam Range lead the pack with eight nominations each, including for Entertainer of the Year, which the Earls — a supergroup that pays homage to the music of Flatt and Scruggs — won in 2015 and 2016. |
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Alex Vella, a mainstay of the football and waterpolo beat, passed away last night, at age 75. The veteran journalist worked for 30 years as a correspondent for the Times of Malta, covering waterpolo and swimming events, as well as Premier League football matches. |
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We asked readers to tell us what they remembered from the summer of 1967 and what lesson they hoped people would learn from those events. Here are some of the responses we received: I can remember an apartment building burning on Taylor street between Woodrow Wilson and Byron. Lots of my family lived on Taylor street. |
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In 2010, a group of 25 concerned citizens from the Central Coast chartered a bus and took a journey from the source of the Murray river at Tom Groggin in the Snowy Mountains to the mouth of the Murray at Goolwah (The tragedy of the Murray-Darling river is man made. SMH on line 25 July). |
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GETTY DISTASTEFUL: Sick ghouls are trying to dig up Diana's body Charles, the ninth Earl Spencer, said there have been four attempts to break-in to her grave at their family estate. The break-ins, at Althorp, Northants, have been attempted in the last 20 years since Diana’s death in a horror car crash in 1997. |
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| UPDATED: 14:52, Wed, Jul 26, 2017 Joe Barnes Sharing memories of his late sister as part of the 20th anniversary of her tragic death, Earl Spencer says he still has nightmares about the “harrowing” experience of her funeral.
He also recalled how the event must have been a “million times worse” for the Princess’ two sons William and Harry. |
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Several attempts have been made to excavate and steal Princess Diana’s body according to her brother as reported by Earl Spencer said there had been four attempted break-ins at the grave site since the British royal was buried on an island in the grounds of the family’s Althorp estate in 1997. |
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© Getty Prince Harry 30th birthday. Earl Spencer has opened up about the "harrowing" experience of his sister Diana, Princess of Wales', funeral with her two sons, Princes William and Harry, and how people have attempted to steal her body since the funeral. |
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Earl Spencer has opened up about the "harrowing" experience of his sister Diana, Princess of Wales', funeral with her two sons, Princes William and Harry, and how people have attempted to steal her body since the funeral. The 53-year-old recalled the heart-breaking time in an interview with BBC.... |
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