House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has switched on Parliament's historic Ayrton Light to commemorate the moment his ...

Lizzie McCrae MacIntyre, a retired Women’s Royal Air Force veteran, arrived at the Admiralty Arch, Westminster at 4am to see the parade. Ms MacIntyre, who travelled from Surrey, said: “It’s so ...

The light which sits above the Big Ben bell at the top of the Elizabeth ... not only as an outward and visible sign that the Parliament of a free people is assembled in free debate, but also ...

Recap as as the UK celebrates the 80th anniversary of VE Day with a military procession and flypast in London.

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This is the actual VE Day. A service will take place at Westminster Abbey, which will serve as both ‘an act of shared remembrance and a celebration of the end of the war’. A two minutes silence will ...

Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis were last seen together in public when they attended the Christmas Day ...

One conclave in the 13th century took nearly three years. Others took just one day. Pope Francis was elected on the second ...

A statue of Margaret Thatcher should stand alongside the sculptures of Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi in Parliament Square, according to Kemi Badenoch.

In the four days building up to VE day, communities and organisations up and down the country are taking advantage of the ...