14 h. ago The town at war with developers over 'monstrous' warehouses: Families living in shadow of huge 60ft tall structures lose latest battle to halt construction

The Wigan Council has ignored a 10,000-strong signature petition and ruled out halting construction on the 18-metre grey giants.

Society

3 d. ago German president honours victims of Nazi bombing atrocity on Guernica visit

Frank-Walter Steinmeier travels to Basque town for remembrance ceremony marking ‘terrible crimes’ of 1937Eighty-eight years after Luftwaffe pilots took part in the most infamous atrocity of the Spanish civil war, Germany’s president has visited the Basque town of Guernica to honour the victims of the Nazi bombing and to urge that the “terrible crimes” committed there are never forgotten.Hundreds of civilians were killed and hundreds more injured on 26 April 1937 when planes from the German Condor Legion, operating alongside aircraft from fascist Italy, spent hours bombing Guernica on market day. Adolf Hitler had loaned the Luftwaffe unit to Gen Francisco Franco’s nationalist forces to help them in their coup against the republican government, and to allow Nazi Germany’s pilots to practise the blitzkrieg tactics they would later use in the second world war. Continue reading...

Events

2 w. ago Man charged following investigation into suspected fake admiral at Remembrance event

Jonathan Carley will appear at Caernarfon Magistrates' Court on December 11

Events

2 w. ago Man charged over allegedly posing as admiral at Remembrance Sunday event

Jonathan Carley will appear in court next week over incident at remembrance event in Llandudno

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2 w. ago Police charge 'fake admiral' Jonathan Carley days after appearance at a Remembrance Sunday event with a chest full of suspicious medals sparked fury

Jonathan Carley, 64, of Harlech, Gwynedd, was arrested at his home earlier today after the event 40 miles away at Llandudno.

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2 w. ago Police charge man after suspected fake navy 'admiral' attends remembrance event

A naval uniform and a selection of medals have been recovered by police

Events

2 w. ago 'Fake' admiral who 'took centre stage at Remembrance Sunday event while wearing phoney medals' is arrested

A man previously ignited fury after he was reportedly pictured wearing the uniform as well as medals of a 'high ranking' navy officer while laying wreaths at the cenotaph in north Wales.

Events

2 w. ago Police arrest man after 'fake admiral' turned up at Remembrance Sunday event

A man has been arrested after a 'fake admiral' turned up at a Remembrance Sunday event in Wales.

Events

2 w. ago The glaring red flags that gave away 'fake' admiral as top ex

Several glaring red flags suggested Jonthan Carley, 64, who attended a Remembrance Sunday event with a chest full of suspicious medals was 'fake' admiral, a source has revealed.

Politics

2 w. ago MoD launch probe into 'fake' admiral at Remembrance Sunday event wearing suspicious rare medal

Jonathan Carley, 64, is now the subject of an MoD investigation after being accused of posing as a military serviceman at the Remembrance ceremony in Llandudno, North Wales on Sunday.

Politics

2 w. ago 'Fake' admiral with suspicious medals sparks a wave of angry accusations from veterans after turning up to lay wreath at Remembrance Sunday event

The man, who is yet to be named, is believed to have bluffed his way into laying a wreath alongside a senior army officer at the event in Llandudno, north Wales.

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2 w. ago 'Fake' admiral with suspicious medals sparks a wave of angry accusations from veterans after turning up to lay wreath at Remembrance Sunday event 

The man, who is yet to be named, is believed to have bluffed his way into laying a wreath alongside a senior army officer at the event in Llandudno, north Wales.

Politics

3 w. ago Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh's touching reason for wearing three poppies on Remembrance Sunday with Queen Camilla

The Duchess of Edinburgh donned three poppies as she made an emotional appearance at this morning's Remembrance Sunday event in central London.

Politics

3 w. ago Bathgate schools attend special remembrance event at town’s War Memorial

Pupils, staff, and members of the public gathered together to pay tribute to those who made the ultimate sacrifice in all wars and conflicts.

Events

3 w. ago Queen Camilla's 'unusual' move at Remembrance event as Kate steps down from key role

Queen Camilla stood side by side with Princess Kate at today's tearful Remembrance Day service, and as her husband King Charles paid a moving tribute to the fallen, she made a 'powerful' move

Politics

3 w. ago Queen Camilla takes over major role from Kate at tearful Remembrance Sunday event

Princess Kate and Queen Camilla paid their respects at the national Remembrance Sunday service today in London, standing side by side as they looked on at King Charles and Prince William's tributes

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3 w. ago Sophie Wessex in tears at Remembrance event as she supports newly widowed Duke

The Duchess of Edinburgh, Sophie, wiped away tears as she watched her husband lay a wreath at today's moving Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph in London

Politics

3 w. ago From fiasco to feted: the story of the Dream of Gerontius, the revolutionary music of The Choral

The Choral depicts an amateur choral society in wartime Yorkshire taking on Elgar’s trailblazing and controversial work. But how much does Alan Bennett’s fiction reflect actual fact?Nicholas Hytner’s new film, The Choral – in UK cinemas today – culminates in an unconventional rendition of Edward Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius. Alan Bennett’s screenplay is an affectionate portrayal of a choral society in a small Yorkshire town during the first world war. Searching for non-German repertoire, the chorusmaster Dr Guthrie (Ralph Fiennes) settles in desperation on Gerontius.Perhaps it is Elgar’s reputation as a pillar of the British establishment – he appears briefly in the film, a cameo from an extravagantly moustachioed Simon Russell Beale – that reassures Bennett’s fictional committee members that this will be a safe choice. But as Guthrie starts to teach the unfamiliar score, they realise Sir Edward’s patrician persona has deceived them. They expected something staidly English, but in...

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3 w. ago The Choral review – Ralph Fiennes leads the choir in impressively unsentimental Alan Bennett fable

Genteel manners of first world war story about repressed passion delivered with surprising sexual candourAlan Bennett’s new film, directed by Nicholas Hytner, is a quiet and consistent pleasure: an unsentimental but deeply felt drama which subcontracts actual passion to the music of Elgar and leaves us with a heartbeat of wit, poignancy and common sense. Music itself mysteriously exalts and redeems the community, and I mean it as the highest possible praise when I say that The Choral reminds me of Victoria Wood’s musical That Day We Sang, about the recording of Purcell’s Nymphs and Shepherds by Manchester Children’s Choir.The film is about men in a fictional Yorkshire town during the first world war who are variously too old or too young to fight, and the women who have to deal with the menfolk’s repressed emotions and their own. The place is upended by the arrival of Dr Guthrie (Ralph Fiennes) who is to be the choirmaster, directing the music society’s annual production; he scandal...

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