Ypres is the name the French gave to Leper, the little town near the North Sea in southern Belgium the Brits called Wipers simply because they found it too difficult to pronounce. Now, if you think ...
The scene of some of the bloodiest fighting from the First World War will be commemorated by this year’s Tour de France. A hundred years after the start of the global conflict and the first battle of ...
Two construction workers were killed Wednesday after a World War I shell exploded near the Belgian town of Ypres, site of some of the bloodiest battles in the conflict. Two other men were hurt, one ...
Comme chaque année le mois de juillet rimera avec cyclisme en 2014 puisque c’est du samedi 5 juillet au dimanche 27 juillet que se déroulera la 101e édition du mythique Tour de France. Un événement ...
After three days in England and one back in France last night, the Tour de France peloton will leave Ypres for the first time to launch stage five, a potentially-dangerous 155.5km stage across nine ...
Le Tour de France s’arrêtera à Ypres en 2014, a appris la rédaction de la VRT auprès de l’ancien premier ministre Yves Leterme, originaire de Ypres, et de l’organisation locale. L’organisateur du Tour ...
REBECCA FORD makes a moving visit to Flanders for the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele, in which both her grandfather and great uncle fought, and finds a region still resonating with ...
The statistics are numbing. Nearly 12,000 Commonwealth soldiers lie buried at Tyne Cot cemetery near Ypres, with a further 35,000 listed there as missing. Some 20,000 British soldiers died on the ...
The 2014 Tour de France is set to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War by holding a stage start in the Belgian town of Ypres. The news was revealed on Belgian ...
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The scene of some of the bloodiest fighting from the First World War will be commemorated by this year’s Tour de France. A hundred years after the start of the global conflict and the first battle of ...
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