History can be complicated. Take the story of the Mayflower. The 110-foot vessel departed on her voyage to America from Plymouth, England on Sept. 6, 1620. The passengers and crew battled late summer ...

Harwich, Mass., and Harwich, England, are sister communities. Residents and officials from both towns have established a relationship of municipal camaraderie by visiting each other on various ...

When it comes to Pilgrim lore, Plymouth, England, gets most of attention as the town from which the Pilgrims first set sail, but this Thanksgiving you might want to give a little thanks to the town of ...

Harwich was the main point of entry for most of the 10,000 children who came to Britain from Nazi occupied territories on the Kindertransport A memorial has been unveiled to mark the arrival of 10,000 ...

Tory Harwich and North Essex MP Sir Bernard Jenkin said the Home Office had put "out feelers" about Harwich An Essex MP says government plans to use Harwich to moor a ship housing asylum seekers have ...

When the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Cape Cod in 1620 to start a new colony, they ensured that the name of Plymouth would be immortalised in American history for ever. But now it has been claimed that ...

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Border officials at Harwich port found 68 people, including 15 children, inside lorries from a ferry Sixty-eight suspected illegal immigrants, including two pregnant women and 15 children, have been ...