By the man, salute hello, ken, how are you . 75 years ago, these men set sail for the normandy beaches. I was wounded on sword beach, the first wave in. Everything all right, yeah . Now, helped by the Royal British legion, 300 of them are returning to normandy. The veterans were part of one of the most ambitious military operations ever attempted, d day. Newsreel boarding ship for the battle of normandy, the army group carrying out the assault is made up of british, canadian and american forces. Some of them have been back before, but never on a journey quite like this. This will be my third visit. Itll be totally different to the other two. Cos the other two, we were just a small group of normandy veterans. But nothing as big as this one. Theyre aged between 90 and 101. For some, this will be the last time theyre able to make the trip. Did you ever go to caen . 0h, did i go to caen well, we shelled the hell out of it. We took caen on the 8th ofjuly. Itll be an amazing adventure. I kep
But the idea is to be entertaining. Youve been personally committed, havrnt you, to trying to reverse the decline of the english cartoonist. Yes. Why have you and private eye kept up with your investment in cartoons . Um, because, um, people like them and the mag sells. No, obviously, its a much more elevated reason than that. No, i love cartoons and that i think that one of the things that print can do is reproduce sort of beautiful drawings that are funny. And english cartooning tradition is very old and i think absolutely remarkable. So i am basically i doubled the number of cartoons and people said well, you know, there arent any young cartoonists. You wont get anyone. It is funny if you offer money, people become cartoonists its amazing. We have got a brilliant raft of young cartoonists. I mean, this is a genuine skill and there are lots of people who do it really well. I mentioned politics, which is what most of your covers are about. Now, we seem to be in an age of polarisation,
And Northern England. Our next frontal system bringing rain into western scotland and northern ireland. Elsewhere a lot of dry weather, cloud, some glimmers of sunshine breaking through. Western parts will feel milder, 12 celsius for belfast, plymouth, further east, Single Digits for the time being. Frontal system still running across the north west on saturday, brisk winds as well. Further south and east, we are looking at a lot of dry weather. Largely dry on saturday. Cloud around but sunny breaks, largely fine for northern ireland, rain clipping into the north west. Eastern scotland dry, the western side seen outbreaks of rain. All of us just about by this stage in double figures. It stays very mild as we get into sunday, we should see more sunshine developing across england, wales, the south and east of scotland. Still some outbreaks of rain at times, temperatures of 11 14 degrees in one or two places. As we head into the last couple of days of 2019, most will see dry weather, some
Watched Christmas Day programme of the decade. And in half an hour well look at some of the best of the travel show from 2019. Good evening. Spanish police have named a british holidaymaker and his two children, who drowned in a Hotel Swimming Pool on the Costa Del Sol on Christmas Eve. On the Costa Del Sol gabriel diya who was 52 and from london died with his 16 year old son praise emmanuel, and his nine year old duaghter comfort, at the Club La Costa world resort, near fuengirola. An investigation into what happened is underway. The owners of the hotel have described it as a tragic accident. Helena wilkinson reports. This is gabriel diya, the 52 year old father who died trying to rescue his daughter. Here he is with nine year old comfort, on a family holiday when on Christmas Eve she got into difficulty in this Hotel Swimming Pool. Despite her fathers efforts, she also died, as did her 16 year old brother, praise emmanuel, who also tried to help. Postmortem examinations confirmed tha
Watched Christmas Day programme of the decade. And later on i will be looking at the stories that weve covered from britain by the coastal towns this year, thats an half an hour with me simon mccoy. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Spanish police have named a british holiday maker and his two children, who drowned in a Hotel Swimming Pool on the Costa Del Sol on Christmas Eve. Gabriel diya, who was 52 and from london, died with his 16 year old son, praise emmanuel and his nine year old daughter, comfort. The family had been staying at the Club La Costa world resort, near fuengirola. An investigation into what happened is under way. The owners of the hotel have described it as a tragic accident. Helena wilkinson reports. This is gabriel diya, the 52 year old father who died trying to rescue his daughter. Here he is with nine year old comfort, on a family holiday when, on Christmas Eve, she got into difficulty in this Hotel Swimming Pool. Despite her fathers efforts, she also died,