Britain’s BEST fish and chips revealed: Chippy boss who’s been in the trade since he was 15 scoops top award – beating takeaway famed for fish finger butties and rival with secret batter recipe…does YOUR local make the list?

Ryan Hughes runs Ship Deck, in Caerphilly, south Wales, with partner Kimberley The best restaurant was unveiled as Knights Fish Restaurant in Glastonbury  By Harry Howard and John James Published: 10:27 EST, 28 February 2024 | Updated: 12:12 EST, 28

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David Attenborough, Maggie Thatcher and Queen Mother are reunited…as Spitting Image turns 40! Comic who voiced hit satire’s iconic characters on cancel culture, the Iron Lady and why the remake flopped – as he revisits his best impressions

Programme made its debut on February 26, 1984, and became a firm favourite Steve Nallon voiced Thatcher as well as Edward Heath and Roy Hattersley By Harry Howard, History Correspondent Published: 12:58 EST, 26 February 2024 | Updated: 12:58 EST,

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Could Mail Rail solve Britain’s postal crisis? Campaigners call for secretive six-mile-long tunnels that once ferried post under London to be put back into use (after failed proposals to use it to deliver goods to Oxford St or turn it into a mushroom farm)

By Harry Howard, History Correspondent Published: 03:23 EST, 26 January 2024 | Updated: 03:48 EST, 26 January 2024 For nearly 80 years, it ferried post to sorting offices across London on more than six miles of track. The capital’s Mail

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Mad Mitch and the ‘last battle of the British Empire’ in Yemen: How WWII hero led troops as they stormed the rebel-held Aden in successful 1967 raid… but controversial officer was not decorated on his return to Britain

By Harry Howard, History Correspondent Published: 06:56 EST, 15 January 2024 | Updated: 08:06 EST, 15 January 2024 With his kilt proving his proud Scottish ancestry, the diminutive Lieutenant-Colonel ‘Mad Mitch’ Mitchell was the hero of the ‘last battle of

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‘Not all Englishmen are brutes!’: Unseen accounts from WWI reveal the German perspective of famous Christmas Truce in 1914 – where troops exchanged food and tobacco and agreed to ‘aim high’ when shooting resumed

The accounts were unearthed in German newspapers by Robin Schaefer  By Harry Howard, History Correspondent Published: 09:24 EST, 25 December 2023 | Updated: 09:39 EST, 25 December 2023 After months of bloody fighting, the unprecedented Christmas Truce of 1914 represented

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Amphibious tank which sank during disastrous Operation Smash D-Day rehearsals in 1944 that left six troops dead ‘was damaged by reckless divers who knocked off turret and cannon’

Duplex Drive Valentine tank sank in Studland Bay, Dorset, nearly 80 years ago Damage to the vehicle was discovered by recreational divers in September 2022 By Harry Howard, History Correspondent Published: 08:25 EST, 20 December 2023 | Updated: 10:01 EST,

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