Gordon Cummins was a seemingly ordinary RAF airman. But amid the darkness of blackout-era London he became one of the city’s ...

(Getty Images) Firemen who fought the Second Great Fire of London ... created crime on the home front. Michael Portillo and leading historians discuss the causes and effects of the Blitz.

A clampdown on the "industrial-scale" crime of mobile phone-snatching across London has resulted in 230 people being arrested ...