Clarets House? Burnley players celebrate their 2-0 win over Barnsley yesterday Phil Miller, of the Accy Clarets supporters club, said: 'Burnley by Royal Approval, you can't get any better than that. 'It is great to hear the club's name mentioned in such...

Following an impassioned late-night speech, the National Union of Mineworkers’ Arthur Scargill, who later became the union’s head, persuaded Birmingham engineers to close Saltley. The closure forced prime minister Ted Heath to concede the miners’ pay...

Battle of Saltley is seen as a decisive point in the 1972 miners' strike Trade unionists and miners are gathering in Birmingham to mark the 40th anniversary of "the Battle of Saltley Gate", a decisive moment in Conservative prime minister Ted Heath's...

But newsman Nicholas Owen is in no doubt as to his finest hour and it proved that there was no love lost between Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher after Owen interviewed him on his retirement. Ted Heath was rather interesting, Owen tells us. He would not...

According to the Sunday Times the archive reveals that Baroness Thatcher turned to Fleming when she was dropped from a party political broadcast in the early 1970s, because her voice was too harsh. Having not long been appointed to Ted Heath's cabinet...

US will decide when to leave Afghanistan for its own reasons, and will not be influenced by concern about Britain. Fourth, the policy appears to assume that loyal support for America will somehow be rewarded, and lack of it penalised. There is very...