Herga Kitty,

"...There was a brief item on the radio last week (Today, BBC Radio 4) that suggested that the EU are proposing that member states should re-name places called after battle sites to avoid causing distress to visitors from the defeated nations.... so no more Trafalgar Square or Waterloo station. ..."

Yet again, I believe the official concerned was French, so I say fine, but let the French show the way, remove all references to Austerlitz, Iena(Jena), Auerstadt from Paris - oh and rename L'Arc de Triomphe (after all it was named for Napoleon's triumphs over other Europeans), then perhaps we should think about renaming bits of London

"...There's also the matter of the 60th anniversary of the D-day landings next year..."

And, of course the outbreak of the Great War.

Walrus