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Centenarian and Second World War veteran, who died a year ago, inspired millions with laps around his garden at outset of coronavirus pandemic to raise money for NHS

The City of Edinburgh Council made the controversial decision this week - but there was an objection from the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland who say that they were created in World War Two and have historical significance.

Centenarian and Second World War veteran, who died a year ago, inspired millions with laps around his garden at outset of coronavirus pandemic to raise money for NHS

Opening in 1929 and surviving through the Second World War, the Ritz Cinema in Cannonmills finally closed in 1981 as the home video boom resulted in a decline in ticket sales.

Seventy years ago on February 6, the Queen - aged just 25 - became monarch of a nation still recovering from the upheavals of the Second World War

The pair's bodies were discovered on remote farmland almost 80 years after they died

A collection of images from the 60s show a city in transformation, as people up and down the country came out the other end of a struggle to recover from the Second World War.

A 72-year-old man was arrested in connection with the discovery, but the investigation has now ended without any charges being brought.

The Second World War veteran who raised £38.9m for the NHS by walking 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday, died on February 2 last year

"I wanted to save it, particularly as it is such a rare and highly visual landmark of the war-time Home Front.”

Journalist, photographer, author and professor Howard W. French’s Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War, is the most recent in a long career of thoughtful and significant literary and journalistic interventions. It demands an account of modernity that reckons…