19 h. ago St Mary Aldermanbury: The bombed London church rebuilt in the USA

St Mary Aldermanbury: The bombed London church rebuilt in the USA  BBC

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20 h. ago My VE Day was nothing like our image of it today. I hope we can honour what it really meant | Sheila Hancock

Our street party tea was a muted celebration, full of uncertainty. Then, as now, we faced a long struggle towards a better world It is May 2025, it is 4am, and I am sitting up in bed, sleepless, looking out at a huge moon illuminating the still world.Eighty-five years ago, in 1940, a silently weeping seven-year-old lay on a cracked leatherette sofa in urine-soaked pyjamas, looking through an alien window, praying that that same moon would protect my mum and dad from the killer bombs falling in London. Continue reading...

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44 h. ago The day London went 'barmy.' An East End boy remembers the end of World War II in Europe

As Europe marks Victory Day over Nazi Germany, Londoner John Goldsmith still remembers the rationing, the blackouts and the bombs that devastated his neighborhood in east London

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5 d. ago Jean Charles De Menezes' mum says 'everyone needs to watch' Disney+ drama about son's tragic death

Jean Charles De Menezes was tragically and wrongly killed by police shortly after the London bombings 20 years ago.

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1 week ago Jean Charles de Menezes’s mother says ‘everyone should watch’ TV drama about his killing

Disney+ series revisits killing of Brazilian man wrongly identified as a terrorist by Met police officers in 2005The mother of a man shot dead by police in a London Underground station after being mistaken for a terrorist has said “everyone should watch” a new dramatisation of her son’s killing.Jean Charles de Menezes was shot seven times by two police marksmen in Stockwell tube station on 22 July 2005. De Menezes was wrongly identified as one of the fugitives involved in a failed bombing two weeks after the 7/7 attack in London, which killed 52 people. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘We didn’t want to avoid the reality of what happened’: the drama telling the true story of Jean Charles de Menezes

The 2005 shooting of the Brazilian created national headlines, but the shocking truth of his death remains unknown by many. A new series aims to do justice to his story – and those who fought to clear his nameOn 22 July 2005, 27-year-old Jean Charles de Menezes was shot and killed by firearms officers on the London underground shortly after boarding a train. The information relayed by the Metropolitan police at the time was that he had leapt over the ticket barriers at Stockwell station and was wearing a bulky coat under which officers thought he was hiding a bomb.The incident occurred two weeks after the 7/7 bombings on London’s transport network, where 52 people were killed, and the day after a copycat attack in which four men tried – and mercifully failed – to detonate devices on three underground trains and a bus; the bombers in the latter incidents fled the scene, triggering a police manhunt. It later emerged that De Menezes was innocent and the intelligence on him was flawed. ...

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2 w. ago London terror attack survivor in OKC for Murrah bombing anniversary

London terror attack survivor in OKC for Murrah bombing anniversary  KOCO

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2 w. ago Jihadi who plotted to bomb the Stock Exchange is recalled to prison for a fourth time

Mohammed Chowdhury was one of nine al-Qaida-inspired group members sentenced in 2012 for plotting to bomb the London Stock Exchange and build a terrorist training camp in Pakistan.

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3 w. ago Fatal error: 20 years on, the Met still has questions to answer about the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes. A new drama investigates the tragedy

The award-winning producer and screenwriter of Philomena’s new show, Suspect, is about the shooting of an innocent young Brazilian electrician on the London Underground in the wake of the 7/7 bombings. Here he asks why the force still can’t admit that it acted incompetently‘Everybody’s human. Mistakes can be made But you are really not prepared to say that any mistake [was made] here, are you?”Michael Mansfield QC put this question to Cressida Dick – then deputy assistant commissioner at the Metropolitan police – at the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, a young man who, 20 years ago this summer, was shot dead at Stockwell station in south London by Met firearms officers. The inquest took place in 2008, three years after his shooting on the morning of 22 July 2005, which was 15 days after the 7/7 bombings in London and one day after copycat bombers had tried and failed to detonate more explosives on the transport system and then fled. De Menezes was a 27-year-old Bra...

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