Photo: A child sleeps in an air-raid shelter festooned with Christmas decorations – a not uncommon sight in December 1940. (Getty Images) Firemen who fought the Second Great Fire of London ...

At least 99,000 school children are homeless in temporary accommodation before Christmas in England, startling figures show. Ministry of Housing data obtained by charity Shelter found that at ...

Christmas trees were introduced into the UK in 1800 by Queen Charlotte, the German wife of George III. Each year a large tree is given to the UK as a gift by the people of Oslo in Norway.