Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the start of World War II, Nazi Germany had a long lead in building atomic weapons. It was German scientists who discovered ...

In late February 1943, nine commandos set out of daring raid against the Germans in the Norwegian wilderness. Their mission, to destroy a plant producing heavy water, would fulfill one of the Allies' ...

Police are appealing for witnesses and warning residents to be on their guard following a sneak-in burglary in Gunnerside, near Reeth in North Yorkshire. A man is his late 60s was in his home on ...

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The leader of a daring World War Two raid to thwart Nazi Germany's nuclear ambitions has died aged 99, Norwegian government officials said on Sunday. Joachim Roenneberg, serving behind enemy lines in ...

Partners are Norway’s Filmkameratene and Denmark’s Sebasto Film, in collaboration with the UK’s Headline Pictures. Operation Gunnerside – the Allied’s 1943 commando raid at Norsk Hydro’s plant at ...

After handing them their suicide capsules, Norwegian Royal Army Colonel Leif Tronstad informed his soldiers, “I cannot tell you why this mission is so important, but if you succeed, it will live in ...

The Reynoldsons were among a group of lead miners who moved to east Lancashire from places like Gunnerside in the Yorkshire Dales when the mines there were closing. Many were devout Methodists and ...

Gunnerside is one of many beautiful Swaledale villages and once visited always to return. That's been the case for trailer maker and choir man Graham Edwards since first making his way to the dale at ...

A FEUD between a landlord and tenant has left a Dales village pub closed. The King’s Head, in Gunnerside, Swaledale, was shut down last week by tenant Roger Tuckett, after landlord Stuart Watson ...