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The article on the battle against U-boats in the Second World War in the November issue omitted perhaps the most important episode. That was the part played by the late Joe Baker-Cresswell of Bamburgh

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For many years, Hugo Young’s This Blessed Plot (1998) was seen as the authoritative account of Britain’s semi-detached relationship with the European Union, as it had then recently become. This was a