A woman who helped build Spitfires during World War Two has unveiled a commemorative plaque at the factory where she used to work. Vera Saxby was working for Auto Metalcraft in Southampton when the ...

Eighty years ago landmark steps that would lead to Birmingham being forever associated with the iconic Spitfire, hailed as helping to save our necks in the Battle of Britain, were taken. For it was in ...

MARJORIE Power was 18 when she spotted an advert in her local newspaper appealing for female workers to take up jobs at the local Spitfire factory. She had been an office worker since leaving school ...

A computer-generated image of how the new memorial might look Plans to build a life-size memorial of a Spitfire to honour the people who secretly built the iconic plane have been unveiled. During ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A creative factory worker has paid tribute to the heroes of World War Two, by building intricate replicas of two iconic RAF planes ...

Nine Spitfire veterans from Southampton and Portsmouth came face to face with members of the cast from Nuffield Southampton Theatres critically acclaimed play The Shadow Factory at a special after ...