That i would shirk nothing. I wouldnt surrender. If i had to have my little fight with the germans on my own, i would do it and die. That i would be true to the traditions that had grown up around our kind of unit, and i would pay the price if necessary. D day was a low leveljump from a dakota plane. Today, harry will exit the same aircraft type, but will freefall attached to one of the red devils display team. He has done one before, last autumn, but was 94 then. Now he is 95, but still young at heart. Its going to be cool to see his reactions, jumping out of a plane, out of the same area that he jumped. All these stories that we hear about about guysjumping in in world war ii, its going to be amazing to see his reaction. Its amazing with all that time, as long ago as it was, the amount of detail that he still remembered. And that was that was quite amazing. Airborne troops talk of a brotherhood, a unique bond the same for these young men today as it was for the tens of thousands of y
Would make the pension age the same for men and women as a long overdue move towards gender equality and this has been clearly communicated. But she believes she has lost £49,000 and she wants the money back. Simon complex, bbc news. Simon gompertz. Robert hall has spent the last few days with vetera ns, spent the last few days with veterans, seeing the faces of men in their 90s lighting up. Since i got onto the boudicca at the weekend, we saw it on the boat, men who do not talk about d day experiences, do not tell theirfamilies, one talk about d day experiences, do not tell their families, one man talk about d day experiences, do not tell theirfamilies, one man told me he only told his brother a month ago, suddenly sharing experiences and gaining confidence to talk about stuff that nowadays people would say they have post traumatic stress, it did not happen at the time, now they are dealing with that and telling stories and it helps them. Thank you. Of course, the weather playing suc
are you waiting on a routine operation? if so, for how long? get in touch to let me know you can do that on twitter @annitabbc and use the hashtag #bbcyourquestions, or email yourquestions@bbc.co.uk right wing radio host alexjones is ordered to pay almost $1 billion in damages forfalse claims ordered to pay almost $1 billion in damages for false claims that the sandy hook school massacre was a hoax. a report by conservationists says global wildlife populations have fallen by nearly 70 % in less than five decades. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the uk prime minister is coming under increasing pressure to rethink the tax cuts announced in last month s mini budget. one tory mp accused her of wrecking ten years of conservative policies aimed at helping working people. this morning the foreign secretary james cleverly warned tory mps that any attempt to replace liz truss as prime minister would be a disastrously bad idea . let s take a look
it has arrested eight people in connection with saturday s bombing of the kerch bridge that links russia with occupied crimea. a bbc investigation finds that up to 70% of donations being sent to displaced families in syria via tiktok are being taken by the social media platform. and tributes pour in for the british born actress, angela lansbury, best known for her role in murder she wrote, who has died in los angeles aged 96. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. there are more concerns for the uk economy as official data shows it shrank in august. meanwhile the governor of the bank of england said he won t extend a financial support package beyond this friday. the emergency measures were launched nearly two weeks ago because of the turmoil prompted by the chancellor s mini budget. official figures released show the uk economy fell by 0.3% in the three months to august. if it falls again in the next three months we ll be in a recession. there s
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