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now on bbc news — first hand accounts from veterans of the second world war in episode one of we were there. you were shot at, shelled, bombed, mortared. ..and yelled, "let the bombs go from the aircraft". how many young people did we actually kill? we looked to the aircraft and the whole of the back of it had been shredded with shell splinters. if the sergeant says, _ "jump," you said, "how high?" we just did whatever we were told to do. i in the sand, the only way to survive seemed to be try and get shelter of some kind. because of the 12 of us, only eight of us had come back. fo...

like nothing else in my life. good morning from edgbaston ahead of the second day of an ashes series that's so far lived up to all the hype. a brilliant century from joe root and brave battling by england helped them to nearly 400 before they turned the pressure onto australia, with this opening test intriguingly poised. and ian wright, ken bruce and davina mccall are among those in the king's first birthday honours list. it will feel increasingly humid this weekend when the sun is out but more cloud around and the increasing chance of thundery showers especially tomorrow. all the de...

of women and children. a group of african leaders are currently in russia for a crucial meeting with president putin. this comes after their visit to ukraine as part of a peace mission aimed at resolving the ongoing conflict between the two nations. now on bbc news. first hand accounts from veterans of the second world war in episode one of �*we were there'. you were shot at, shelled, bombed, mortared. ..and yelled, "let the bombs go from the aircraft". how many young people did we actually kill? we looked to the aircraft and the whole of the back of it had been shredded with shell...

and you got... ..you got a feeling of sort of complete comradeship with them. nothing could... nothing could take it away. it was extraordinary, really. you didn't have that same sort of relationship with the other people in the regiment, as we did with those four men. i think towards... ..towards the end of april, beginning of may, i think they thought that they were, they really had had it. they were surrendering quite a lot. they didn't... normally when you took a mountain or an objective, they counterattacked you, probably once or twice to try and get it back again. but they stop...

before the low pressure starts to ease away. on saturday, we will see wet weather to the west. it is also going to impact wales and south—west england. elsewhere, dry with sunshine. if you dodge the showers, you will get that once again. but we could see lines of showers through east anglia, stretching up towards newcastle and south—west scotland. we are going to see the winds strengthen, particularly with this pulse of wet weather pushing up from the south—west towards northern ireland during the beginning of sunday. that is then going to sit across northern ireland and southâ...