Lights Out for World War 1

The Lights Out campaign is to commemorate the centenary of the start of Britain's Great War. On the 4 August 2014  people throughout the country turned out their lights between 10pm and 11pm. In Victoria Tower Gardens next to the Palace of Westminster they've set up Spectra to shine through the darkness.

First thing published on Press Association website

Who said sitting in the dirt will get you nowhere...

100 years since Britain went to War of the world

"The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." Sir Edward Grey, 3rd August 1914.