John “Paddy” Hemingway, an Irishman who served in the British Royal Air Force (RAF) during the 1940 Battle of Britain, died ...

A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air Force — one of the “few” hailed by Churchill — he took to the skies to help ...

Comedians Aisling Bea and Diane Morgan are taking part in the next series of the BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are? Genealogy researchers helped Philomena Cunk star Morgan discover a family history that ...

One person has died and 15 people have been rescued while trying to cross the English Channel overnight in an overloaded ...

A new documentary tells the little-known story of the 1941 evacuation of Soviet troops from Estonia which became one of history's largest maritime disasters and left approximately 15,000 dead as the ...

A total of four deaths have been recorded by the French coastguard in its rescue operations in the Channel this year.

The genealogy show Who Do You Think You Are?, produced by Wall to Wall Media, is slated to return to BBC One and iPlayer this spring.

The last surviving Royal Air Force fighter pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain in 1940 during World War II has died. He was 105 years old.

Two people were rescued from the water, with one suffering from hypothermia while the other was in cardiac arrest and did not ...

Three people were pulled from the water and a group of 12 others on board the dinghy asked to be evacuated from it ... it first left west of the port of Dunkirk at 11.30pm on Wednesday.