A worldwide appeal is seeking to find surviving veterans of World War Two's Russian Arctic Convoys. A Scottish event will mark the 75th anniversary of the last of the maritime missions to supply ...

Mr Higgins was among the last veterans of the supply voyages to Russia during the war. More than 3,000 Allied seamen lost their lives during the Arctic Convoys to Russia He was aboard HMS ...

After the outbreak of war, the Arctic Council – consisting of the US, Canada, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Russia – paused its operations. Since resuming, the "western members ...