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'As a whole, it was thank God it's over': War veteran aged 101 recalls VE Day 1945
I think there was a feeling of relief, no doubt about it, because you were thinking that the killing, the dying, is stopping' ...
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Buckie community comes together to mark VE Day milestone 80th anniversary of end of World War II in Europe
The 80th anniversary of the end of World War II - VE Day - is being celebrated today by local communities large and small.
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RAF Officer 'full of emotion' as the story of his wartime grandparents remembered: 'I want to carry on their story'
The RAF officer, who has served for 12.5 years, told GB News he would be "full of emotion" remembering his grandparents' ...
TODAY'S TV WITH SARA WALLIS: BBC's Marie Antoinette is a lavish, feminist take on a scandalous slice of history
From the retelling of that iconic Judy Blume novel Forever to drama in the French courts in Marie Antoinette and danger in the soaps, our TV columnist Sara Wallis picks the best telly to watch tonight ...
This week's Neighbourhood News for Earby
Earby and District Local History Society will meet on Tuesday, May 20, from 7.30pm to 9pm at New Road Community Centre in the ...
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Veteran recalls horrors of Nazi concentration camp on VE Day
A 101-year-old former paratrooper has recalled coming across a "pile of bodies" in a Nazi concentration camp on VE Day in 1945.
Inside this Salford care home veterans remember how one of their number uncovered the darkest horrors of the Nazis on VE Day itself
Peter Belcher was already a veteran of the D-Day landings and the Battle of the Bulge, but the worst was yet to come as he ...