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David Roberts heads back to the Italian Northern Front to checkout some heroes, angels and villains on The italian-Swiss border

Coming up to Italian Liberation Day on 25 April. David Roberts looks at the dramatic happenings around the city of Como in the final days of World War 2.

David Roberts looks at a Buxton College Casualty missing from the College War memorial

David Roberts reviews Some Corner of a Foreign Field by Janet Kinrade Dethick

David Roberts takes a walk round some undiscovered parts of Milan on the track of Stolpersteine

With the recently announced closure of the National Westminster Bank in Buxton, David Roberts takes a look at the ups and downs of Buxton's Banks

A look back at European Football Club competition in the 1930s and the Mitropa Cup of 1935

In February 2019, I published an article on two Hungarian football managers István Tóth-Potya and Géza Kértesz who worked in 1930s Italy. Since then, there have been some developments in the story of István Tóth-Potya. so here is an update together with the original article.

Peter Edward Glaser did not actually go the Moon, but he was a project manager for NASA – getting a large scientific device on to the surface of the Moon, getting it to work and by all accounts it still working today