With its flat land and huge skies Cambridgeshire was an obvious choice for airfields with 30 RAF bases and stations once peppered across the county. However, after the war ended most of these were ...

It might seem hard to imagine now, with duty-free shops and modern passenger jets on the tarmac, but the airport's original use was as an RAF base in WW2. It was built in August 1942 by American ...

In a sleepy part of the Bedfordshire countryside, near the Cambridgeshire border, an RAF base that no longer exists played an important and largely unknown role in WW2. Secrets about wartime ...

Do you know what to do if your vehicle starts to slide on an ice-covered highway? With the impending winter storm state and local police are warning drivers to be alert for slippery conditions. 28/22 ...

Hedgehogs are classified as "vulnerable to extinction" in the UK A rescue charity has celebrated the release of more than 100 hedgehogs back into the wild at a Royal Air Force airbase in Cornwall.

The Spitfire played its part in many of the crucial battles of World War Two, giving the RAF a critical edge over ... out attacks on German ground forces. WW2: What was the secret to winning ...

The Royal Air Force is for the first time using the “spoils of war” captured from Argentina in the 1982 Falklands Conflict to provide aircraft and parts in front-line squadrons. A senior RAF ...

Tucked away within the contemporary setting of Alconbury Weald near Huntingdon lies a treasure trove of wartime history. Alconbury Weald stands on a site once pulsating with military life as the ...

The pilots of the RAF, who became known as "The Few", stood ... Scrub back and forth below to see a Battle of Britain dogfight in action. WW2: Did the war change life for women?

What was the World War II experience of James Alfred (“Alf ... what really grounded the promising young RAF pilot, and much more about wartime living and vetting in Yorkshire.