A WAR hero who survived five years in a German prisoner of war camp has died, aged 103. Dick Charlton, a lifelong Henley resident, passed away in his sleep at t.
The late poet laureate’s hymn to the commuter towns of Middlesex, Herts and Bucks is still a great guide to the Metropolitan line, the world’s first urban ‘underground’ railway
Arnold Bennett, who died in 1931, published 124 books, but is only remembered because he is an omelette, still on the menu at the Savoy. Patrick Donovan s new book uncovers the author s life