‘Laurel and Hardy: Year Two’ includes 10 comedy shorts of varying quality, each of which runs about 20 minutes in length. Even the best are loose-limbed, ramshackle, on-the-fly efforts. Oliver Hardy ...

There’s a Sunderland man who can boast links to Stan Laurel, The Beatles and a childhood backstage at the Empire Theatre. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Sunderland Echo, you can get ...

An engineer has been recognised with a blue plaque for his role in helping to put mankind on the Moon. Tom Bacon, a Cambridge engineer, developed the first practical working hydrogen-oxygen fuel ...

Credit: ITV Channel / Guernsey Museums A Blue Plaque has been unveiled to commemorate the woman who founded Guernsey's oldest-running residential home. Mary Magdalene Edith Louisa Renouf ...

A commemorative blue plaque scheme has been approved in Neath Port Talbot to celebrate notable people, places and events across the county borough. The decision to green-light the scheme was made by ...

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The man who coined the term "Northern Soul" is to be recognised with the unveiling of a blue plaque in Sheffield. Dave Godin, who was born in London in 1936 but who moved to Sheffield to study in ...

His childhood was filled with backstage memories of the Empire Theatre - including links with comedy legend Stan Laurel who was known as ‘Uncle Stan’ to Bill. All of the interviews were ...

Not a design choice, these emblems—and there are just over 1,000 of them—are part of the city’s blue plaque program run by the organization English Heritage. A plaque denotes that the ...

And now 12 buildings in Woodseats, Sheffield, are set to have their place in history recognised with a scheme to roll out a wave of blue plaques across that part of the city. The plaques are being ...