Harry Howard

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 KimberleyThe best restaurant was unveiled as Knights Fish Restaurant…

2 months ago

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 favouriteSteve Nallon voiced Thatcher as well as Edward…

2 months ago

The WWI soldiers who sewed for sanity: New exhibition tells how troops injured on the Western Front took up embroidery while recovering in hospital

Exhibition is being held by the Fusilier Museum in Warwick By Harry Howard, History Correspondent Published: 05:53 EST, 14 February 2024…

2 months ago

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…

3 months ago

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…

3 months ago