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Thomas Turner of Pendle Hill Properties hands out Hershey bars at Padiham on Parade while telling the story of the feted 'candy bomber' Col. Gail Seymour Halvorsen, an American pilot who gained fame for dropping candy to German children in response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin.

Tale of ‘candy bomber’ brought to life at 1940s weekend

Holocaust Memorial Day takes place every year on January 27th

Burnley MP Antony Higginbotham column: A time to reflect

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War PS5 review - 'A lot of bang for your buck'

UCLan signed a memorandum of intent with the Tashkent Institute of Textile and Light Industry (TITLI), in Uzbekhistan via Zoom

Preston fashions new links with Uzbekistan.......what's that all about?

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Call of Duty: Warzone's battle royale mode features a gulag mode which has quickly spawned memes (Acitivision)

The gulag meme and social media trend from Call of Duty Warzone explained

The Dead Lake by Hamid Ismailov

Book review: The Dead Lake by Hamid Ismailov

A scene from Stalingrad. Picture: PA Photo/Sony UK.

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