The familiar red, Royal Mail pillar box at the corner of my street on the fringes of Richmond Park in South-West London features the cypher of Edward VII.
Across the country there are still postboxes from Queen Victoria’s reign, which carry the letters VR — which stands for Victoria Regina. Regina meaning queen in Latin.
Our postboxes are living memorials to the kings and queens of Great Britain who followed her — some 130 are marked with the cypher of
Ruthless IRA boss Martin McGuinness apparently helped set up a car bomb that later blew up in the Londonderry city centre, newly recovered video has revealed.
A documentary that was hidden away for nearly 50 years shows how a group of men, including McGuinness, seemingly packed explosives into a Volkswagen on a street in Londonderry, Northern Ireland before the vehicle was driven away.
The video then cuts to the moment a car bomb was detonated on Shipquay Street in 1972.
Enzo Fittipaldi has revealed that he is yet to personally hear about the upcoming Red Bull academy driver cuts as Helmut Marko prepares to wield his axe and drastically reduce the team’s presence in the Formula 2 series.
The 80-year-old Austrian is currently in charge of Red Bull’s driver development programme and has been responsible for identifying and signing up reigning world champion Max Verstappen and the legendary Sebastian Vettel, who claimed the team’s first titles at the beginning of
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