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The world remembers those who fought and fell on D-Day seventy years ago | :00:19. | :00:27. | |
Heads of State and World leaders stand alongside those who served, | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
It was the moment that changed the course of the Second World War, | :00:32. | :00:43. | |
when Allied forces landed on the beaches of German-occupied France. | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
These men waged war so that we would know peace. They sacrificed so we | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
could be free. They fought in hope of a day when we would no longer | :00:58. | :00:58. | |
need to fight. I'm here in Normandy where events | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
are taking place throughout As veterans honour their fallen | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
comrades, more acts of remembrance Back to Normandy shortly. The | :01:04. | :01:13. | |
other headlines, this lunchtime. The Conservatives hold off UKIP - | :01:14. | :01:25. | |
and win the Newark by-election. The parents of the baby who died | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
after being poisoned by a contaminated drip will meet | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
hospital officials later today. The IMF admits, it got it wrong, | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
on the UK economy but says the Later on BBC London, seven people | :01:38. | :01:51. | |
are injured, three seriously after a crash involving a police car in east | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
London. And we report on the growth of Southend airport and its | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
expansion plans for the future. Hello and welcome to Arromanches, | :01:57. | :02:18. | |
on the day that thousands of people are gathered to remember | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
the bravery and courage of those who took part in the D-Day | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
landings - the event that helped Seventy years ago, Allied troops | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
poured on to Normandy's beaches. Almost 160,000 arrived and an | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
estimated 4,000 lost their lives. Today, world leaders, | :02:35. | :02:44. | |
Heads of State and hundreds of veterans are attending commemoration | :02:45. | :02:46. | |
events, in what is likely to be the last time a major D-Day anniversary | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
is marked by large numbers of men Services have been held, among | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
others, in Bayeux this morning. Events have been taking place in | :02:53. | :03:08. | |
several parts of Normandy, to commemorate the heroes of the | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
longest day. Earlier, President Hollande visited the American | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
Cemetery above Omaha beach where more than 9000 American servicemen | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
are buried. President Obama paid tribute to the courage and sacrifice | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
of those who waged war so that we might know peace. Our correspondent | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
has more. For the very last time on such an occasion, Britain's D-Day | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
veterans raise the standard at Arromanches were so many of the | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
British forces came ashore on that momentous day 70 years ago. They | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
will still come, of course, as long as they can, but with the numbers | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
dwindling, they are disbanding their association. It adds to the potency | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
of this particular, oration. --, more Asian. By ear and by sea they | :03:57. | :04:05. | |
came, more than 150,000 of them come up mainly British, Americans and | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
Canadians. There was an unprecedented armada of more than | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
5000 landing ships assaulting the beaches. Codenamed Utah, Omaha, Gold | :04:13. | :04:20. | |
and Sought. It was an organisation the likes of which had never been | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
seen before and it was the pivotal point of the war in Europe. Today, | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
the presidents of the United States and France made the pilgrimage to | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
gaze down on Omaha Beach. The Americans called it held speech as | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
they endured some of the most withering German resistance. If | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
prayer was made of sound and the skies -- the skies over England that | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
night would have deafened the world. I am honoured to return here today | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
to pay tribute to a man and woman of a generation who defied tyranny. | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
Among them are the veterans of the day. We are humbled by your presence | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
here today. Back on the beach at Arromanches, it might not have been | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
quite like this but today's amphibious forces with a flavour of | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
the events of 70 years ago, a reminder of the magnitude of what | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
they accomplished. And overhead, two Spitfires in the | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
distinctive black and white markings of D-Day. And evocative sight and | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
sound that echoes down the decades, even for those for whom the courage | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
and sacrifices of that day now seem almost unimaginable. | :05:35. | :05:44. | |
Commemorated services held in many churches and cathedrals along the | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
coastline. Most poignantly, but groups of people gathered around | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
hedges where there is a small cross marking an event where just a few | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
men may have been killed on D-Day and in the following days but for | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
whom the families have made a pilgrimage to share their quiet | :06:00. | :06:09. | |
moments. At bio Cathedral, -- Bayeux Cathedral, a service attended by the | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
Prince of Wales, the ringing the bell specially struck to mark the | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
anniversary. The Queen, accompanied by the Duke | :06:17. | :06:47. | |
of Edinburgh, attended a service at the Commonwealth graves cemetery, | :06:48. | :06:55. | |
laying a wreath in honour of the British and Commonwealth soldiers | :06:56. | :07:06. | |
who fought at the beaches of Sought, Juno and Gold on June six, 1944. We | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
can now go to my colleague, Robert Hall, who is in a year for us. -- | :07:15. | :07:32. | |
Bayeaux. And what an appropriate setting. The stones here illustrate | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
the ferocity of the combat during those days in the summer of 1944. | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
The data here, June, July, August. The ages on the stones, 18, 19, | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
early 20s. This has been a morning of remembrance, not just of the war | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
dead but of the millions killed across Normandy because of the | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
ferocity of that battle. And it has been a day of appreciation. The | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
veterans and families gathered around the central cross there, they | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
walked here from bio Cathedral, through lines of achieving and | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
applauding townspeople. -- Bayeux. There was a real sense of a bond | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
which has existed ever since the first liberators came up short. -- | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
came ashore. Several of the veterans world whelmed. Some were | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
experiencing this for the first time. One man said to me, apart from | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
my marriage, this is the best day of my life. Robert Hall, thank you. And | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
here in Arromanches later today, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
be meeting some veterans over a cup of tea. They are holding 80 parties | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
here in the square. And afterwards, a parade. The last ever parade, it | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
is believed, involving veterans who were actually hear 70 years ago. And | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will take the salute from those very | :08:59. | :09:11. | |
men. No two today's other main stories. David Cameron has hailed | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
the conservative success and retaining the constituency of Newark | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
in Notts as a very good result. But the majority was reduced to 7403 | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
votes by UKIP, who came second. Labour were third and in literal | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
Democrats recorded one of their worst results in six. Norman Smith | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
is in Newark. Over to you. If you listen very carefully, you can | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
almost hear the sigh of relief from Downing Street. The Newark | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
by-election was meant to be a fire break moments to halt the forward | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
march of the self-styled People's Army. My senses that they may not | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
have stopped the search to UKIP but they have perhaps blown a couple of | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
tyres out of Nigel Farage's bandwagon. Business as usual in | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
Newark. Certainly, no sign of any political earthquake. But then maybe | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
Newark was never earthquake country. The Tories' 44th safest | :10:12. | :10:20. | |
seat. Robert Jenrick is duly elected for the Newark constituency. This | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
was a must win for David Cameron and prompted a huge Tory effort. He | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
visited the constituency for times and his MPs were ordered to campaign | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
here at least three times. This is a very good result for the | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
Conservative Party and for the government. By-elections are | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
notoriously tricky. The last time we won one in government was over 20 | :10:42. | :10:50. | |
years ago. And it is a good result because we worked hard and we had a | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
clear message about our economic plan, how it is working and we need | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
to stick at it to deliver for everyone in Britain. As for UKIP? | :10:57. | :11:04. | |
Are the English? I am afraid not. Not the response they wanted. Second | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
yet again. We increased our share of the vote six fold. We cut the | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
Conservative majority by more than half. We think that is quite an | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
achievement here. Labour were pushed into third place, not a great result | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
for an opposition one year away from a general election but they insist | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
that the vote was squeezed hard by UKIP. For the Lib Dems, more gloom | :11:27. | :11:34. | |
and another dire result. The worst in an anguished by-election since | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
the war. -- English by-election. What we have learned above all from | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
this is just how hard it is for UKIP or any small party to win under the | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
first past the post system. Yes, they can pile up the votes in the | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
European elections but under first past the post, they struggle. And | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
that must raise serious question marks about their prospects at the | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
next general election. The parents of a nine day old baby, | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
who died after contracting an infection from a suspected | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
contaminated drip, will meet The baby boy died on Sunday | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
at St Thomas' Hospital in London. The meeting will take place | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
at Southwark Coroner's court, and our Medical correspondent | :12:19. | :12:20. | |
Fergus Walsh is there. Fergus, tell us more about this | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
meeting. The meeting was called by the | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
Southwark coroner, Doctor Andrew Harris, and he has asked for | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
interested parties to attend. That will include the parents of Yousef | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
Al-Kharboush, nine days old, born prematurely. He died after being fed | :12:42. | :12:50. | |
a contaminated intravenous feed. His parents will be here, as will the | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
hospital authorities from Saint Thomas as hospital and the | :12:54. | :13:03. | |
manufacturers of the feed. -- Saint Thomas's Hospital. In due course, | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
there will be an inquest. 18 babies have been affected. Could | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
there be more cases? The could, but it is unlikely. There were three | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
cases reported yesterday but no baby has fallen ill since Tuesday. 22 | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
hospitals were sent this contaminated batch did has a very | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
short shelf life. It has either been used recalled. Having it is unlikely | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
that we will see more cases. -- I think it is unlikely. All 17 that | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
survived the infection are responding well to antibiotics. | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
New measures have been announced, to tackle the falling conviction | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
The proposals have been put forward by the Director of | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
Public Prosecutions - Alison Saunders - who'se calling | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
for renewed efforts to dispel what she calls, 'myths and stereotypes', | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
We have seen great improvement in the way that police and prosecutors | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
work together to improve the way that we handle rape. We have already | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
seen an increase in the number of referrals and the successful | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
conviction rates from six or seven years ago. But we know there is more | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
we can do and this is about making sure that we reaffirm and reinforce | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
with police and prosecutors, how they look at cases, making sure they | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
do not take into account the stereotypes. And to make sure that | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
they focus on the fence rather than the vulnerabilities of the victim. | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
Jim Kelly is here with me. What exactly is being proposed. -- June | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
Kelly. When Alison Saunders talks about | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
myths and stereotypes, she means that police and prosecutors have | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
sometimes got attitudes that it is basically too focused on the victim. | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
She says the rates to be more of a shift, looking at the behaviour of | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
the suspects. She says that this idea about preconceptions, these | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
preconceptions can be helped by juries who were hearing these cases. | :15:04. | :15:05. | |
She says that many people still think that rapes occur when a rapist | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
attacks a stranger in a dark alley and the victim put up the fight. In | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
reality, most rapists know their victims. The victim may not put up a | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
fight. When that case gets to court, it is all about consent and one | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
person's word against the other. Basically, she is trying to change | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
the mindset of the lease and prosecutors. What concerns her is | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
that the prosecution rate has dropped to 60%. It should be said | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
that some people are sceptical about all of this. They think they have | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
heard it all before. The success will only be judged if the | :15:41. | :15:41. | |
conviction rate goes up. Police in Canada have arrested | :15:42. | :15:50. | |
a man suspected of killing three police officers, | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
and wounding two others, in the city of Moncton, in New Brunswick. | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
It follows a massive manhunt for the suspect who was heavily armed, | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
and dressed in camouflage gear. Large parts of Moncton had been | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
in virtual lock-down for more than 24 hours. | :16:03. | :16:04. | |
Residents have now been told it is safe to leave their homes. | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
A student, who overpowered a man who opened fire | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
in a university building in Seattle, has been praised for his bravery. | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
One person died, and three others were injured | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
when a gunman walked into the university and started shooting. | :16:22. | :16:23. | |
The suspect is now in police custody. | :16:24. | :16:25. | |
The student tackled the man when he stopped to re-load his gun. | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
The head of the International Monetary Fund, | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
Christine Lagarde, has admitted that it was wrong, about its evaluation | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
of the UK economy in 2013. Just over a year ago, | :16:37. | :16:38. | |
the IMF's chief economist warned the Chancellor, George Osborne, | :16:39. | :16:40. | |
that he was "playing with fire" if he did not | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
ease off on his austerity policy. Here's our business correspondent, | :16:44. | :16:44. | |
Simon Jack. Every year, the IMF pops in for a | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
check to see everything is OK. In many countries affected by the | :16:50. | :17:05. | |
crisis, we are beginning to see some good news. The news coming out of | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
the UK recently has been pretty much all good. | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
But there were warnings the housing market presented a potential threat. | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
Keeping interest rates low could further fuel house prices, and | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
increase risk to financial stability. | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
The IMF said the Bank of England should consider capping the amount | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
people can borrow, but that is not enough according to the Shadow count | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
-- Shadow Chancellor. They are saying there is a real risk | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
to recovery, unless the Chancellor acts on housing supply. | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
That is something George Osborne acknowledged. | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
The only long-term answer is to build many more houses in this | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
country. That is why we have reformed planning laws, with house | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
building up a quarter. The IMF seems satisfied the risks | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
for now seem under control. The housing market is strengthening | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
but even then they said there was no bubble, the bag of England had the | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
equipment to deal with it and this is a positive report. So much better | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
than last year. Christine Blower guard left, saying | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
she got it wrong a year ago. Don't get complacent while I am away. | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
Our top story this lunchtime. Thousands of veterans, world leaders | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
and royalty attend ceremonies and church services across Normandy, | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
to mark the D-Day landings. And, still to come: | :18:37. | :18:38. | |
Could this year's Tour De France be missing Britain's | :18:39. | :18:39. | |
most successful road cyclist? On BBC London, it has covered 63 | :18:40. | :18:53. | |
countries in seven months, today, the Queen's baton arrives in London. | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
The singer who has performed with them all, she remembers 40 years in | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
the business. Police have expanded their search of | :19:01. | :19:10. | |
an area of scrubland in Portugal, near to where Madeleine McCann was | :19:11. | :19:12. | |
last seen seven years ago. They were due to finish searching | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
today, but have been granted a further week when two more sites | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
will be looked at. Madeleine's parents, | :19:19. | :19:20. | |
Kate and Gerry McCann, say they are "encouraged" by the progress. | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
Tom Burridge reports from Praia da Luz. | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
For a fifth day, mainly British police searched this large piece of | :19:32. | :19:39. | |
scrubland in the Algarve. As they look for clues into the | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
disappearance of Madeleine McCann. This morning, two sniffer dogs from | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
South Wales Police back on site. Here, one officer lowers himself | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
into a drink to look into a network of old sewers that one underneath. | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
Yesterday, officers dug in an area where they had used special radar | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
equipment. The machine allows them to look for anything buried in the | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
ground underneath. All this, seven years since | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
Madeleine disappeared. Most of the police activity this | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
week has been focused on the far side in the distance. This morning, | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
they moved towards this end, with officers working in different areas | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
on this fairly large piece of land. What we still don't know is by | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
British police believe this site could be important. | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
Could it be just the geography? The apartment where the family stake is | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
here. Next door, the swimming pool where the family had dinner. The | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
site by the police are working is a short walk away. This area of land | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
is even nearer to wear a man was spotted carrying a child on the | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
night Madeleine disappeared. This morning, this British detective who | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
asked the Portuguese to allow the search, was back on site. | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
Despite the forensic suits and tents, we still do not know whether | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
they have found any evidence which could explain why Madeleine McCann | :21:11. | :21:12. | |
disappeared. Sir Bradley Wiggins says he is | :21:13. | :21:21. | |
?gutted? that he will miss, this year's Tour De France, as his team, | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
concentrates their efforts on the defending champion, Chris Froome. | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
Wiggins was the first Briton to win the race, in 2012, but missed it | :21:28. | :21:28. | |
last year, when Froome triumphed. Now, let's return to Normandy - | :21:29. | :21:47. | |
and the D-Day celebrations. Let's go back to Simon McCoy. | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
The Allied mission to storm the northern coast | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
of France started in the early hours of the 6th of June 1944, with tens | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
of thousands of troops taking part in the biggest amphibious assault | :22:00. | :22:01. | |
in military history. The operation proved to be the | :22:02. | :22:02. | |
beginning of the end for Hitler. 70 years ago, the windows of Bayeux | :22:03. | :22:18. | |
battled to gunfire. This morning, eyewitnesses to history made their | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
way up the cobbled streets to do their duty once more. | :22:22. | :22:29. | |
Under the vaulted roof of the cathedral which survived the | :22:30. | :22:31. | |
battle, they paraded their standards. | :22:32. | :22:40. | |
Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall joined more than 600 | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
veterans in honouring the young men who still lie here in Normandy. | :22:45. | :22:52. | |
They shall grow not old as we that are left to grow old. Age shall not | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
the morning, we will remember them. We will remember them. | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
At the close, a new bell rang out for peace. | :23:14. | :23:20. | |
Sounded by section James Aitken and his grandson Stephen. The cathedral | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
is almost a mile from Bayeux Cemetery. | :23:26. | :23:27. | |
The veterans, carers and families stepped out into the warm sunshine. | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
The people of Normandy lost thousands of their own in the weeks | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
after D-Day, but they have never forgotten their liberators. | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
For a few brief minutes, the clock turned back to the hours when | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
soldiers and civilians met for the first time on the roads from the | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
beaches. How are you? I am very well, thank | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
you. Well done. I have the utmost respect | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
to every veteran who landed on D-Day. I am very proud of them. And | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
to be amongst them. I feel very lucky that I am here. | :24:06. | :24:16. | |
My company commander, they are all dead, they didn't make it. | :24:17. | :24:24. | |
I have been to Normandy before, several times. But, this day has | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
been out of the ordinary. It is absolutely amazing. In fact, | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
except for my wedding, the second-best thing in my life. At the | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
gate to the cemetery, a convocation of 2000 awaited the Queen and of | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
Edinburgh. NEWSREEL: Peacefully they like, our | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
dead. The first men were buried here in | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
the weeks following the landings. There are now more than 4000 | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
graves, their last resting place. The men who sat among the ranks of | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
white headstones listened to the veterans bear, knowing full well | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
that many around them would not hear it again. | :25:10. | :25:28. | |
Sunrise over Normandy. The Royal Navy flagship sailed | :25:29. | :25:36. | |
as close as she could to shore, carrying today's young sailors | :25:37. | :25:38. | |
and Royal Marines. Most have seen the face of war | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
in this generation's conflicts. And, for the veterans on board, | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
it was a calmer night than they remembered | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
when they last sailed these seas. It was, though, | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
the very same hour 70 years ago that former Royal Marine Bill Bryant was | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
preparing to preparing to drive his landing craft to the beaches. | :25:59. | :26:00. | |
A task he carried out the three days without best. | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
-- rest. You just didn't know what to expect. | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
I was only 18 at the time. Everything was being let loose. | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
You never had time to get scared. You concentrate on the job you were | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
doing, looking after your crew, making everything all OK. | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
It is a little bit emotional to see it back again now. | :26:23. | :26:43. | |
But I'm looking forward to the day's trip on the landing craft | :26:44. | :26:45. | |
again. I won't get a chance to cox it, I'm | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
sure, because it is more complicated now than what it was in my day. | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
HMS Bulwark is part of an international task group | :26:53. | :26:54. | |
which has come here to commemorate the D-Day Landings. | :26:55. | :26:56. | |
Looking over the Normandy shores, it is unimaginable what they went | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
through that night when there were 6,000 vessels in the seas waiting to | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
disembark over 100,000 men. Joining Bill Bryant on the landing | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
craft, another veteran, 97-year-old Admiral Sir William O'Brien. | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
How rough were the seas? It wasn't rough. | :27:16. | :27:24. | |
He was never in any doubt that the landings would turn the tide of war. | :27:25. | :27:32. | |
Two of a doughty but dwindling Band Of Brothers, aware they may not | :27:33. | :27:34. | |
be meeting on these shores again. The D-Day commemorations will | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
continue throughout the afternoon. And we'll have coverage here on | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
BBC One. Every Allied Head | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
of State has been invited to an international ceremony on Sword | :27:47. | :27:49. | |
Beach at Ouistreham, hosted by the French President Francois Hollande. | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh will be joined by the Prince of Wales | :27:54. | :27:56. | |
and the Duchess of Cornwall. Later, the Duke and Duchess | :27:57. | :27:59. | |
of Cambridge will have tea with veterans in Arromanches. | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
Aand Prince William will attend a parade of British veterans | :28:04. | :28:05. | |
in the town centre, when a minute's silence will be held | :28:06. | :28:07. | |
for those who lost their lives. That's all from us here | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
in Arromanches. One final thought from Normandy. | :28:13. | :28:15. | |
The timing of the D-Day landing was one of the | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
most crucial decisions of the Second World War, and it wasn't down, in | :28:21. | :28:23. | |
the end, to senior Allied soldiers, but to the weather forecasters. | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
So it's fitting that my colleague, Helen Willetts, can bring us | :28:27. | :28:29. | |
the weather from HMS Belfast. Helen. | :28:30. | :28:35. | |
Thank you. The weather, almost perfect today, but far from it in | :28:36. | :28:45. | |
those days. Lovely and sunny here on HMS Belfast. Let me show you the | :28:46. | :28:49. | |
chart from 70 years ago. A difficult decision to make. The weather | :28:50. | :28:56. | |
forecast equally difficult without computer models. Following on from a | :28:57. | :29:03. | |
storm, that made it very rough indeed. | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
We have some thunderstorms, some very active weather. It is beautiful | :29:08. | :29:13. | |
ahead of the storm. A little cloud in the south-west and northern | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
Scotland. It is warm and humid for many parts of the country. Humidity | :29:19. | :29:22. | |
rising through the day, temperatures into the mid-20s. Cooler across | :29:23. | :29:29. | |
Scotland. The risk of a few showers approaching the West of Northern | :29:30. | :29:33. | |
Ireland later. Those temperatures, certainly up on | :29:34. | :29:38. | |
yesterday, and on the middle part of the week. | :29:39. | :29:44. | |
But we are going to get some lively showers setting off this evening and | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
overnight, initially in southwestern areas. The Met Office has issued a | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
warning because they look like they could be torrential tomorrow. A very | :29:55. | :29:59. | |
warm and humid night, temperatures not dropping below 15 degrees in | :30:00. | :30:04. | |
some areas. A better day in the North tomorrow. | :30:05. | :30:10. | |
Let us look at the potential for these thunderstorms which could be | :30:11. | :30:14. | |
torrential, severe, with hail, strong and gusty winds. Enough to | :30:15. | :30:21. | |
cause some disruption in a few localities. | :30:22. | :30:23. | |
The worst will hit England and Wales, moving northwards. The far | :30:24. | :30:31. | |
north of Scotland will fare better today -- ban today. Even with the | :30:32. | :30:36. | |
cloud and thundery rain, with a lot of lightning tomorrow, it will still | :30:37. | :30:40. | |
be warm because of that humidity. By the end of tomorrow, the worst | :30:41. | :30:45. | |
will be over. A lot of thundery activity potentially tomorrow. | :30:46. | :30:53. | |
That tends to clear out of the way on Sunday. But there will be showers | :30:54. | :30:59. | |
following on behind it. Those showers will be with us for Sunday | :31:00. | :31:04. | |
but not as hot and sticky as during the course of tonight and tomorrow. | :31:05. | :31:10. | |
There will still be showers around. If you do have plans, please stay | :31:11. | :31:14. | |
tuned to the forecast. It is still warm even with the showers. | :31:15. | :31:28. | |
Now a reminder of our top story this lunchtime. | :31:29. | :31:33. | |
Commemorations have been held in Normandy to celebrate the 70th | :31:34. | :31:39. | |
anniversary of the D-Day Landings. | :31:40. | :31:41. |