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‘Like the Somme without the generals’: Tory nerves grow as local elections loom

Contest being treated as a general election bellwether and some MPs fear ‘complete annihilation’ will spark further Conservative rebellion

The Guardian - UK

Great-Uncle Harry by Michael Palin audiobook review – a personal first world war story

The beloved Python narrates his touching tribute to a long-lost relative who was killed at the Somme

The Guardian - UK

Battle of the Somme: new research shows detonating a massive mine under German lines too early led to a British slaughter

The Battle of the Somme began on July 1 1916 with a spectacular explosion under Hawthorn Ridge – a fortified German frontline position west of the village of Beaumont Hamel in northern France. The footage of the explosion remains one of the best-known pieces of film from the whole conflict.

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‘When is it too early to teach your kids about genocide?’ Inside the Imperial War Museum’s harrowing new galleries

From the Somme to Afghanistan and Iraq, 500 works capture a century of warfare at the museum’s new Blavatnik art, film and photography galleries. You could spend days in its screening rooms alone, says our writer

The Guardian - UK

Tough Mudder banned from London park after damage left it ‘looking like the Somme’

Labour MP David Lammy branded damage to Finsbury Park an ‘environmental disgrace’

The Independent UK

War hero's grave finally gets RIP inscription - 100 years after widow first asked for it

Amelia Young couldn’t afford to pay for the epitaph on her husband Joseph's gravestone - now her descendants have arranged it more than 100 years later

Daily Mirror

Somme 'junket' fears sees council cut budget for annual pilgrimage

"I am disappointed of people's perception that it is a holiday, for me it is not a junket."

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Untold story of heroine journalist dressed as man in bloody Western Front battle

Armed with just a passport and a pencil in 1915, 19-year-old Dorothy Lawrence had taken a boat to France and tried to cycle to the Somme, hoping to expose the terrible conditions British soldiers were enduring

Daily Mirror

Dreaming shires: how East Yorkshire shaped Tolkien’s Middle-earth fantasy

Invalided home from the Somme, the Lord of the Rings author was inspired by this peaceful landscape to begin his epic tales – which are now getting the Amazon blockbuster treatment

The Guardian - UK

Newtownards greenway will cause antisocial behaviour at Somme Museum, councillor says

The new greenway is part of a £12.5 million project across the borough, with plans to link to Belfast

Belfast Live

Michelle O'Neill lays wreath to mark the Battle of the Somme

"I hope that today’s attendance and the laying of a wreath is actually a demonstration of someone who wants to work for all in our community"

Belfast Live

Somme wreath gesture shows I’ll be a first minister for all, says O’Neill

The Sinn Fein vice president laid a laurel wreath for those who died in the First World War battle.

The Independent UK

Michelle O’Neill lays wreath for Battle of the Somme anniversary

While Sinn Fein mayors in Belfast have laid a laurel wreath in previous years, this was the first time the party leadership took part.

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