Colditz Castle, a forbidding medieval edifice near Leipzig, Germany, was supposed to be the Nazis' most escape-proof prison. Incorrigible Allied officers who had repeatedly escaped from other ...

Hay Castle in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, is undergoing a £5.5m building overhaul. On Friday specialists started the delicate task of removing the gates from their rusted hinges before they can be ...