Neighbours have spoken of the ‘chaos’ as families fled for their lives after their block of flats was engulfed in flames in north London. Three children were rushed to hospital after firefighters ...

On this day in 1666, the worst blazes of the Great Fire of London engulfed the City, creating, in the words of Samuel Pepys, “the saddest sight of desolation” he ever saw. Eliot Wilson tells us more ...