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David Roberts visits Baveno on Lake Maggiore and considers British railway barons, Queen Victoria, Field Marshal Sir Jan Smuts and a wartime tragedy at Baveno on Lake Maggiore.

A short literary tour around Ascona and Brissago on the trail of Hemingway, H G Wells, Daphne Du Maurier and some counter culture.

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