A medal awarded to a homing pigeon who helped the Dutch resistance during World War Two has been sold at auction for £30,000. Tommy, from Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria, was blown off course and ...

Before the internet and telephone, societies relied on homing pigeons to relay important news across long distances. Here are three classic examples.

The Germans, aware that pigeons were being used to relay messages to the Allies, ordered a homing pigeon cull ... “Here’s to hoping it will fly at auction.” The Dickin Medal was created ...

The Dickin Medal, considered the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross, will be part of a two-day auction at Laidlaw ... where all homing pigeons were ordered to be killed, and their identity ...