Hotel magnate Conrad Hilton fulfilled his dream to purchase the Waldorf-Astoria in 1949. He called the luxury hotel on Park ...

Recap as as the UK celebrates the 80th anniversary of VE Day with a military procession and flypast in London.

Anna said her grandparents were in the Second World War. Nan would tell me all the ... efforts to organise a successful street party in Basildon, where I grew up, during the late Queen’s Silver ...

Huge crowds took to the streets on 8 May 1945 to celebrate after nearly six years of war. In a blog post, external, Essex Police Museum explained that the war presented new challenges to policing ...

New polling shows how people in different nations view the war’s end — and the chances of a new war.

Fifty years after a North Vietnamese tank came crashing through the front gate of Saigon's presidential palace and brought an ...

A huge blaze broke out in Basildon this afternoon after a fire at an industrial estate near the A13. Four fire crews were initially deployed before other units were requested for assistance.

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A MAJOR new retailer is set to create hundreds of new jobs in Basildon town centre, Basildon Council’s leader has revealed. Gavin ...

Here are the latest planning applications submitted to Basildon Council, featuring a range of proposals from residential developments to home extensions. Among the applications are plans for the ...

The Trump administration is looking at cooperation in the Russian energy sector as a key element of economic enticements to win over the Kremlin as it pushes for a deal to end the war in Ukraine ...

Trains came to a halt, cars pulled to the side of the road and no plane arrived or departed in the Netherlands as the country ...