General Alfred Jodl signed Germany’s capitulation in this beautiful French city 80 years ago today – and it’s going big for the anniversary Anthony Peregrine was a reporter at the Lancashire Evening ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. It was one of the 20th century's most defining moments. At 2.41am on May 7, 1945, the German Third ...

Reims, France, boasts the best of European travel condensed into a single little city. It's the home of crowned kings, Christian faith, Gothic majesty and luminescent wine. It's also where a sad, ...

Reims today celebrates its often overlooked role in history as the place where the second World War ended, writes Lara Marlowe… Reims today celebrates its often overlooked role in history as the place ...

It's known as the City of Champagne - and a break in Reims could certainly go to your head. Beneath the cobbled streets and squares of this French city are miles of cellars containing millions of ...

Paul Wade explores the city's 1000-year-old imperial history and extraordinary Gothic architecture. Many travellers approach Reims as an excuse for a quick tour of a champagne house, a cracking meal ...