“The White Cliffs of Dover are a significant landmark and it is so encouraging to know that they will now be protected for future generations. Over many years, I have been a supporter of the ...

Bluebirds? Over Dover? Ian Hislop delves into the somewhat chequered history of Dame Vera Lynn's legendary wartime anthem. From May 2004. Dame Vera Lynn's wartime classic is British, original ...

These are the cliffs made famous by both Shakespeare (they are mentioned in “King Lear”) and in a 1942 popular song (“There’ll be bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover…”).

The white cliffs of Dover, Tomorrow, just you wait and see ... Once again, something more than bluebirds threatens English skies. It seems that authorities at the Oxford Central Mosque have ...

None of this really explains why – alongside French chanson and the vocal stylings of Mr Mick Hucknall out of Simply Red – the town’s Cora supermarket has been playing over its public ...

And they have featured in songs and poetry, most famously the wartime classic (There'll be bluebirds over) the White Cliffs of Dover, sung by Dame Vera Lynn, and Matthew Arnold's poem Dover Beach.

Three enormous and purpose-built structures of 15 to 30ft were due to be sited on the White Cliffs featuring bluebirds, as a homage to the phrase made famous in her world-renowned 1940s hit.

immortalised in Dame Vera Lynn’s patriotic 1942 song There’ll Be Bluebirds Over The White Cliffs of Dover, will soon be looking as good as new. Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT But it ...

According to Hislop, the song, (There’ll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover, is “the product of politics, propaganda and even a touch of plagiarism”. It was written by two ...