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HMS 'Duke of York' firing a broadside; Second World War

Photograph showing the Royal Navy battleship HMS 'Duke of York' firing her 14-inch guns, whilst heavy seas break over her bows, sometime during the Second World War. The 'Duke of York' was a 35, 000 ton battleship built by John Brown's yard at Clydebank in 1941.

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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The Great Train Robbery-'commando raid' frees train robber

Front page of The Illustrated London News reporting on the latest episode in the Great Train Robbery saga. As Ronald Biggs clambers with there other prisoners over Wandsworth Gaol wall, the rest of the exercise squad obstruct the prison wardens. Following his escape, Ronnie Biggs fled to Brazil where he fathered a child and successfully evaded extradition by the authorities. In 2001, Biggs voluntarily returned to the UK to serve the remainer of his sentance, but following ill health was released from custody the day before his 80th birthday, on 'compassionate grounds'.

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Woman sleeping on deck chair on Tenby Beach, Wales

A woman holidaymaker wearing a floppy sun hat sleeps in a deck chair behind a windbreak on the sandy beach at Tenby, Pembrokeshire, South Wales. A man lies on an inflatable sunbed next to her. Only his legs can be seen Date: 1988

© Philip Dunn / Mary Evans Picture Library

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