Designed by Sir Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke, this stone column reaches a height of 202 feet, exactly 202 feet from the ...

A gallery of images showing artefacts and paintings connected to The Great Fire of London Let's Move with Naomi and Nigel - The Great Fire of London A fun dance session that's ideal for ...

In 1665, one year before the Great Fire of London, Newport was already a thriving market town with narrow streets filled by homes mostly made of wood. Tragedy struck on the afternoon of Friday ...

London's Heathrow Airport — one of the busiest airports in the world — was closed on Friday after a fire at a nearby power ...

Flights have resumed at Heathrow after a substation fire shut the airport and triggered global travel chaos yesterday - but ...

Dramatic pictures show the "massive explosion" scene that shut down Heathrow Airport, disrupting over 1,300 flights and leaving ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Reachable via direct trains from London King's Cross station, York is home to a remarkable cathedral called York Minster, arguably England's most impressive medieval city walls and the type of winding ...

More than 1,300 flights were disrupted after London's Heathrow Airport, the UK's busiest airport and one of the world's top transit hubs, shut down operations due to a massive fire at a nearby ...

Board Games. On this day 350 years ago the capital was in ruins after the Great Fire of London. Historian Adrian Tinniswood describes the massive clearing-up operation, and talks to New Generation ...