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70 years after D-Day, world leaders come to Normandy to pay tribute to | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
those who changed the course of the Second World War. | :00:16. | :00:25. | |
The Last Post The Queen joins the commemorations | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
in France for remembering the thousands of men who lost their | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
lives. For many of the veterans, it is the | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
last time they'll gather on the beaches to share their stories of | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
bravery and sacrifice. Chaps with me, who, my company | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
commander and all that, they are all dead. They didn't make it. You know. | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
I am just lucky. I suppose. Among the world leaders, Barack | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
Obama pays a tribute to the soldiers, sailors and airmen who | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
defied danger. These men waged war so we might know peace. They | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
sacrificed so we might be free. They fought in hopes of a day when we'd | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
no longer need to fight. We are grateful to them. Also on the | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
programme tonight: Nigel Farage looks glum as the | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
Conservatives celebrate winning the Newark by-election, albeit with a | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
reduced majority. The UK economy is brighter than the IMF forecast. It | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
admits it made a mistake. And there'll be no yellow jersey for | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
Bradley Wiggins in this year's Tour de France, as he says he is dropped | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
from the team. The boy who died in the floods. A | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
most mother up the said he was killed by -- a postmortem says he | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
was killed by carbon monoxide. Good evening. Welcome to Normandy, | :01:46. | :02:17. | |
where heads of state and political leaders have joined veterans today | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
to remember the D-Day landings on June 6th, 1944. The Queen laid a | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
wreath to honour the falling and President Obama paid tribute to a | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
generation who had, as he put it, defied every danger. Almost 160,000 | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
Allied troops fought their way up five beaches along the coast behind | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
me. It is thought at least 4,000 lost their lives. Our correspondent, | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
Nicholas Nitchell, has our first report today, on D-Day remembered. | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
Dawn at the D-Day beaches. Old soldiers remembered that morning | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
when they helped to change the course of history and where some of | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
those who survived and grew old remembered the many who did not. | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
At the Commonwealth war cemetery at Bayeux, five miles inland from the | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
coast are the graves of more than 4,000 young men, mostly British, who | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
died on D-Day or in the weeks of fighting which followed. | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
As the Queen arrived to lead the tributes of Britain and the | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
Commonwealth, aircraft from the Second World War flew overhead. | :03:27. | :03:35. | |
Wreaths were laid at the stone of remembrance remembrance. | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
Spoken by Eddie Slater. In 1944 he was a 20-year-old able seaman. We | :03:42. | :03:49. | |
shall grow old. Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn. | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
We will remember them. THE LAST POST | :04:01. | :04:13. | |
The veterans had been seated close in amongst the headstones, among | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
which are the inscriptions which lose none of their emotional impact | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
with the passing of the years. They are the tributes of families, | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
of mothers for sons, and wives for husbands. The men who gave their | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
lives so that a continent might be free. | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
After the service, the Queen joined the set rans. She mingled and -- | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
veterans. She mingled and chatted. A monarch for the same wartime | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
generation, sharing memories with those who had fought in the name of | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
her father. At Omaha Beach, to the west lays the | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
huge military cemetery of the United States. | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
There are nearly 10,000 graves here, a reminder of the ferocious | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
resistance the Americans faced at Omaha Beach and at a time when the | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
new world sk fised so much blood in -- sacrificed so much blood in | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
support of the old. In his speech President Obama said what the Allied | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
troops achieved and what he called this tiny slither of sand, had | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
determined the course of history. Whenever the world makes you cynical | :05:25. | :05:33. | |
when ever you doubt that courage is possible, stop and think of these | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
men. Along with all our veterans of D-Day, if you can stand, please | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
stand, if not please raise your hand. Let us recognise your service | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
once more. These men waged war so we might know peace. | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
once more. These men waged war so They sacrificed it so we might be | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
free. We are grateful to them. On Sword Beach, the heads of state | :05:51. | :06:01. | |
and heads of Government assembled for the official commemoration. | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel, was greeted with warm applause. Then | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
a reminder of the difficult diplomatic difficults. Vladimir | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
Putin and Barack Obama had their first face-to-face discussion about | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
Ukraine, as they watched the events on Sword Beach, French television | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
cut them up, side by side on the public screens. The crowd enjoyed | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
it. President Putin's reaction was harder to read. | :06:30. | :06:40. | |
Then something else unexpected. A video and dramatic re-enactment of | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
the Second World War, complete with references to Nazi brutality and the | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
Holocaust. This is one anniversary where even the most sensitive issues | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
of the war are being dealt with openly. | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
But above all, this day has been for the veterans. Many of them are frail | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
now. It is time to pass the stories of what they did to new generations. | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
And so, this afternoon, Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
joined a group of veterans at a tea party. | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
And then n the centre of the town of Aromanches, right by Gold Beach, | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
where one of the British divisions had fought its way ashore on D-Day, | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
old soldiers paraded for a few chush king. | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
-- future king. It was a chance for them to remember | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
so many friends who never made it home. | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
And it was a chance for us to express our gratitude for so much | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
sacrifice. Well, the square behind me in | :07:48. | :08:02. | |
Aromanches is still full of British veterans and their families after | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
the march-past a short time ago. 70 years ago they were the men who | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
poured on to the beaches here. Many under heavy gunfire as part of the | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
biggest amphibious assault in history. Some who survived have been | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
here many times. For others, it is the first time they have been back | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
here in 70 years. Our correspondent spent the day with the veterans. | :08:26. | :08:33. | |
70 years ago the windows of Bayeux rattled to the thunder of gunfire. | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
This morning, eyewitnesses to history made their way up the | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
cobbled streets to do their duty once more. Under the vaulteded roof | :08:42. | :08:52. | |
of the cathedral they paraded their Standards. More than 600 veterans | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
honouring the young men who still lie here in Normandy. | :08:58. | :09:05. | |
Every single man that was a veteran, he played an important key part for | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
the success of the whole operation. Every one of them. I have the utmost | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
respect to every veteran that landed on D-Day. | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
So much changed when the ramps dropped on that June morning and men | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
peered ahead through the smoke, knowing they would need luck to | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
survive. Once again we were back on the soil of France. | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
70 years later, they still can't quite believe it. | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
I feel very lucky that I'm here. Chaps where me, my company commander | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
and they are all dead. They didn't make it. | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
I am just lucky, I suppose. Along Bayeux's cobbled streets the | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
clock turned back to the hours when soldiers and civilians met for the | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
first time on the roads from the beaches. | :10:04. | :10:13. | |
How are you? Very well, thank you. The people of Normandy lost | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
thousands of their own in the fighting. Many remember the dangers | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
which lie beneath the sand, the scars on their land scar and the | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
reics of war which were part of daily life. Their gratitudes to | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
their liberators has never diminished. I have been to Normandy | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
before - several times. But this day has been right out of the ordinary. | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
It is absolutely amazing! In fact, except from my wedding the second | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
best day of my life. ??FORCEWHITE NEWSREEL: | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
The first graifrs were drug oh -- the first graves were dug in the | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
days after the landings. Now 4,000 lie here. Give us strength to carry | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
on our work to bring comradeship to all veterans. I have been here | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
before. It is very touching. It makes me cry. | :11:11. | :11:18. | |
There have been moments when emotions overcame them. Moments when | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
they paraded with pride. Above all, they will leave here knowing that | :11:23. | :11:31. | |
once again duty has been done. Many of the veterans here today have | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
said how much they hope the Second World War will never be forgotten by | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
their children and grandchildren. We have been finding out what pupils in | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
a school in Staffordshire made of D-Day and the sacrifices of those | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
who took part. Sophie Hutchinson sent this report | :11:47. | :11:56. | |
on the Future Generations. In the heart of Staffordshire, among | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
the trees, 300 miles from the Normandy beaches, a service of | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
commemoration. Some came to the national mem mor memorial to | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
remember. Some to learn of the sacrifice of another generation. | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
That sacrifice is something pupils at this Staffordshire school were | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
discussing today. What I want to talk about today and think about | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
today is why it is still important in 2014 - 70 years after the events. | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
Why it is still important to remember the veterans who fought. It | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
is extraordinary to think that the youngest known British casualty of | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
the Second World War was a boy on a Merchant Navy ship, who was 14. The | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
same age as some in this class. What does it mean for pupils today? I | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
think, like today's society wouldn't have that sort of courage. Obviously | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
a lot of people think of teenagers these days, they sit back and are on | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
their Xbox. They have gone out, OK, unfortunately he's lost his life or | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
something, he say's tried to make a difference to that country, which | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
doesn't happen as often in our society. If someone said there is a | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
war coming on, can you come? I would be like, what has happened? What's | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
going on? Obviously, they didn't have much | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
detail and they just went straight off and did what they had to do. | :13:16. | :13:24. | |
Hats off to them. They did it. Whatever the doubts about their own | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
generation's courage, these youngsters are proof that the | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
sacrifice made by so many 70 years ago, will be remembered. | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
We will have more from Normandy later in the programme. Now back to | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
the studio. Thank you. And the rest of today's news now. | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
Last year, the International Monetary Fund warned George Osborne | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
he could be taking austerity too far. Today, the head of the IMF | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
arrived in London and admitted she had got it wrong and praised | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
Britain's good, sustained growth. It was not all good news. | :14:04. | :14:04. | |
had got it wrong and praised Britain's good, sustained growth. A | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
warning that rising house price -- prices may damage the economy. There | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
is some flash photography in this of VT. The sun is out. The economy, if | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
it is not soaring away, well it is recovering nicely. That is not | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
exactly what the powerful IMF, monitor and watchdog of the global | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
economy, thought was likely a year ago, when it warned that the | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
Chancellor was playing with fire. He was pushing ahead with austerity. | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
Contrition from the IMF's boss? I completely acknowledge that we | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
underestimated growth. Do I have to go on my knees? We underestimated. | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
Look, we got it wrong. We acknowledged it. We were not the | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
only one to get it wrong. This man is not exactly weeping at the IMF's | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
embarrassment. Today's IMF report shows our long-term economic plan is | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
the right one. The British economy is firing on | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
allsy len dirs -- - on all cylinders. The IMF says we should | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
tackle the deficit, fix the banking system and back businesses to create | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
jobs. We are firmly on the sunny side of the street, are we? | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
Rich, London, prices going through the roof. The IMF says it is not a | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
serious bubble yet. If the overheating in the housing market | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
were to intensify, if it were to spread to the rest of the country, | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
that could be dangerous. So the IMF is urging the Bank of | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
England to move early and gradually to cool down the housing market by | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
curbing mortgages, at a high multiple of what people earn. To | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
strengthen banks so they can absorb mortgageds if they go back. | :15:59. | :16:07. | |
Britain will remain vulnerable to boom and bust in housing, warning | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
the IMF unless there is more of this - the building of new homes. | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
Our top story this evening: Commemorations have been taking | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
place in Normandy to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings. | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
We follow one veteran who made the journey back to remember the day | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
that changed the Second World War. Later on BBC London: Bringing back | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
memories of the Olympics as the Queen's baton returns to London on | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
its way to the Commonwealth Games. Andy Murray's best friend on beating | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
cancer and winning a major tennis tournament. | :16:51. | :17:01. | |
The Conservatives have won the Newark by-election, | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
retaining the seat with a majority of more than 7,000. | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
But UKIP came second and massively reduced the Tory's majority | :17:08. | :17:09. | |
The winner, Robert Jenrick, polled 17,431 votes, | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
beating UKIP's Roger Helmer, who halved the Conservative vote. | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
And it was a disastrous result for the Lib Dems, | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
Our deputy political editor James Landale sent this report | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
My first duty as your member of parliament. | :17:23. | :17:34. | |
From the excitement of the campaign, to the reality of the job. | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
here, even now, he wouldn't drink to celebrate his party's first | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
by-election victory in Government for 25 years. At least the boss was | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
happy. It's a good result because we worked | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
hard. We had an excellent candidate and we had a very clear message | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
It's a good result because we worked hard. | :17:52. | :17:53. | |
We had an excellent candidate and we had a very clear message | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
about our long-term economic plan, how it's working | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
As the ballot papers were counted early | :17:59. | :18:09. | |
Robert Edward Jenrick is duly elected for the Newark constituency. | :18:10. | :18:24. | |
take on UKIP and beat them. Well, they've certainly done that. | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
in holding a safe seat meant Nigel Farage was looking, for once, | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
You promised an earthquake, it hasn't really happened, has it? | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
This by-election mattered because for the first time it pitted | :18:34. | :18:45. | |
Well, we won the European elections two weeks ago with 28% | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
In this by-election, this fiercely contested by-election tonight, | :18:49. | :19:05. | |
The Lib Dems did beat the Loonies, but not many others. | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
They came 6th and once again lost their deposit. | :19:09. | :19:10. | |
Clearly this is a very disappointing result for the Liberal Democrats, | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
but it's also clear that an awful lot of our supporters in | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
People absolutely didn't want to be represented by UKIP. | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
So the people of Newark have stalled UKIP's momentum. | :19:22. | :19:23. | |
The Tories are shouting it from the roof-tops and life here, | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
The father of a baby who died of blood poisoning linked to | :19:27. | :19:36. | |
suspected contaminated hospital feed has been describing what happened to | :19:37. | :19:38. | |
Nine-day-old Yousef Al-Kharboush died on Sunday. | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
Three more cases were confirmed today meaning 20 | :19:43. | :19:44. | |
Our correspondent Fergus Walsh is at Southwark Coroners court. | :19:45. | :19:57. | |
The father made some dignified and restrained comments today. He | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
praised the hospital for the care it gave his son and said it was just | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
unlucky that they had received some contaminated feed. Outside court he | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
explained how the family was coping. Anybody who has a child and think | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
about him being dead, you would understand what a father would feel | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
in that case and seeing him suffering in front of you before he | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
dies, but this is what life is all about and we accept it the way it | :20:30. | :20:38. | |
is. He also revealed that Yousuf who was born eight weeks premature is a | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
twin. He didn't want details of the surviving baby to be revealed but I | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
can tell you is that all 20 other babies from ten hospitals who | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
developed blood poisoning from this suspected contaminated feed are | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
responding well to antibiotic treatment. | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
Bradley Wiggins says he's gutted no to be taking part | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
The 2012 winner has been told other riders are better suited to form the | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
Sky team that will try to win the race for Britain's Chris Froome. | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
Our sports correspondent Joe Wilson reports. | :21:15. | :21:16. | |
Bradley Wiggins is British cycling's outstanding individual. | :21:17. | :21:18. | |
Tour de France winner in 2012, four-time Olympic champion, | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
There are two stars in Team Sky, Wiggins and alongside him, | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
The team ain't big enough for the both of them and it seems | :21:29. | :21:41. | |
I've worked extremely hard for this all winter | :21:42. | :21:43. | |
The team is focussed around Chris Froome, the defending | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
champion, who's got a great chance of winning his second Tour. | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
And it's been decided that as things stand they're going to | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
The whole point about the Tour de France this year | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
In a month's time the Mall here in central London will be filled | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
That, of course, being Bradley Wiggins. | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
The first stage is in Yorkshire where there's been a huge marketing | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
Great scenery, but without Wiggins some of | :22:10. | :22:22. | |
I am very disappointed that Bradley won't be at the start in Yorkshire, | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
Because him winning the race in 2012 was one of the reasons | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
the Tour de France is coming back to the UK as quickly as it had, | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
Meanwhile, Chris Froome, the reigning champ, | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
has already seen off his main rival - sorry team-mate, Wiggins. | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
He may already feel like he's won the Tour once more. | :22:41. | :22:51. | |
Let's get more on the commemorations marking the anniversary of D-Day. | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
Welcome back. Veterans and world leaders been remembering the events | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
70 years ago. For many who were here in 1944 there's been pride, sorrow | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
and some tears as they remembered the fallen. Among them was Tony | :23:07. | :23:14. | |
Colgan of the Durham Light Infantry. Our correspondent joined him and his | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
grandson on a veteran's journey. Together the veterans sailed once | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
more across the English Channel. Tony Colgan was just 20 when he made | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
this journey for the first time. 70 years and a lifetime ago. He has | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
come back with his grandson, Anthony, who wants to know more | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
about his grandfather's war before it's too late to ask. Just over | :23:40. | :23:49. | |
there we landed and we came up the beach and turned left. Hard to | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
imagine on this peaceful Normandy morning the noise, the chaos and the | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
fear as Tony and his comrades landed, uncertain what awaited them | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
knowing only that it could be death. There was all hell breaking loose | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
when we were about a mile off shore. I thought this is your last day. You | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
are just not going to get out of this. It's weird to imagine that he | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
was a 20-year-old kid running on to this beach or driving on to this | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
beach and experiencing what he has, it's important to remember as much | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
as we can so that I can pass that information on to his | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
great-grandchildren. You are so lucky... As tony's unit pushed | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
further inland the toll of the wounded and the dead rose quickly. | :24:42. | :24:51. | |
We lost 200 men over in one day. It can be emotional. It is, isn't it. | :24:52. | :25:02. | |
Yes. Oh, man, you made me cry now. Yeah. As D-Day passes from living | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
memory, Tony's grandson promises he will remember what his grandfather | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
and his comrades achieved at such a cost. | :25:13. | :25:20. | |
Just to give you an idea of how much it means for so many of these | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
veterans to be here in Normandy today, let me tell you a story of | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
Bernard Jordan, he is 89 years old and he lefs in a nursing home -- | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
lives in a nursing home in Hove, he was here during the landings and he | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
was so determined to get here he left the nursing home yesterday, | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
wearing his medals, hidden under a coat, and he boarded a coach in | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
Brighton, came over on his own to Normandy to make sure that he could | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
take part in these commemorations. The police were called by the | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
nurgsing home but thankfully -- by the nursing home but thankfully they | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
found him safe and well here. That's how much it means to so many of | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
these men. Time to look at the weather now. | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
It's been glorious here. Sunshine across the UK at the | :26:04. | :26:16. | |
moment, we are swapping shows skies for stormy ones. Some of you will | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
miss the storms altogether. Humid air across western parts of Europe. | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
Fresher air trying to push in. Storms breaking out now and heading | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
towards us through tonight. The cloud at the moment mostly thin, | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
hazy sunshine out there. One or two spots of rain possible. The odd | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
lightning storm. Later in the night some spectacular lightning storms | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
are expected and torrential rain. Most of you go through the night | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
dry, a humid and sticky night and misty in the north of Scotland as it | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
will be tomorrow. For tomorrow, the main storm risk initially parts of | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
the Midlands, southern England South Wales and Northern Ireland will be | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
during the morning. Even here some will miss. That transfers | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
northwards, prolonged rain Midlands into northern England through the | :27:06. | :27:07. | |
afternoon and into south-west Scotland and another batch in | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
Northern Ireland. Are to some of you will avoid it. North of Scotland | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
staying fine. Later Northern Ireland and through southern parts, it | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
should be a fine end to the day. Once the sun comes out it will feel | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
warm. The storms rumble on during Saturday. Into Sunday it's going to | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
be a fresher day. A lot of dry and sunny weather around initially. A | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
few showers, many of you avoiding them and staying dry, especially in | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
the south. Even though the air is fresher it will still feel warm once | :27:42. | :27:50. | |
the sun is with you. For now, back to Sophie in France. | :27:51. | :27:53. | |
Thank you very much. That's all from the team here in Normandy. In a | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
moment the news where you are. Let's leave you with some images of D-Day, | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
then and now. From Normandy, goodbye. D-Day has come, early this | :28:03. | :28:09. | |
morning the allies began the assault on the north-western face... When | :28:10. | :28:16. | |
the shells were coming over I said, if I can survive this, I will work | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
the rest of my life for nothing, just to be alive. | :28:22. | :28:38. | |
They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old, age shall not | :28:39. | :28:49. | |
weary them, nor the years. At the going down of the sun and in the | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
morning, we will remember them. | :28:54. | :28:57. |