For the first time since the blitz.

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Occupy Protests Close St. Paul’s Cathedral

Swansea marks the 70th anniversary of the start of the three-day Blitz during Word War II which killed 270 people and injured hundreds.

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City marks Blitz 70th anniversary

A memorial service honouring more than 1,000 people killed in Portsmouth during the Blitz is to be held, on the 70th anniversary of the attacks.

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Memorial in honour of Blitz dead

There was an unofficial lull in the Blitz for Christmas. But on 29 December 1940, the bombers were back with a vengeance.

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How did St Paul’s survive the Blitz?

People in Liverpool are marking the seventieth anniversary of Liverpool’s worst loss of life in the Blitz.

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Liverpool’s Blitz remembered

Commemorations are being held as Birmingham remembers the Blitz that killed more than 2000 people 70 years ago.

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Birmingham remembers the Blitz

Anyone asking whether Obama was not liberal enough is not tethered to reality.

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For President Obama, a progressive blitz was not an option

Pilots, firefighters, nurses and ambulance workers who battled through the bombing raids of the Blitz came together at St Paul’s Cathedral to commemorate the ordeal.

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Blitz commemorated at St Paul’s

Robert Hall chats to an ex-hurricane pilot who flew over London during the Blitz and a woman who’s house was destroyed by German bombs.

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Hurricane pilot remembers Blitz

Alf Morris, who was 10 at the time of the Blitz, took BBC News back to the site of his former home in Bethnal Green to relive the events of the first night of Nazi Germany’s assault on London.

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‘The Blitz brought everybody together’

A Remembrance service is to be held later to mark the 70th anniversary of the start of the blitz.

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Service to commemorate the Blitz

Eleven football hooligans who took part in the worst destruction Manchester has suffered “since the Blitz” will be going to jail, a judge has said.

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‘Jail’ for 11 fans in Uefa riot