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Normandy

since 2025 › Jan › 23 (Thu) @ 22:21 UTC

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2 days ago

Weather tracker: France reels from deadly thunderstorms and lightning

found 2025 › Jun › 16 (Mon) @ 12:05 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Cold drop, upper-air trough and heat dome combine to create severe weather and 85mm hailstone

Severe thunderstorms swept across France last Friday, killing one person and injuring another. Two systems…

7 days ago

The Spin | Chipboard and carpet: refugee cricket tournament brings a moment of happiness

found 2025 › Jun › 11 (Wed) @ 10:45 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

In the current wild and fragmented landscape, there is comfort in the sport’s ability to bring hope and community

Next week in Caen, at a baseball practice ground, on a pitch made out of two pieces of…

9 days ago

King Charles gives 101-year-old veteran some cheeky life advice on visit to Lancaster Castle

found 2025 › Jun › 09 (Mon) @ 14:05 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Charles met Richard Brock, who served in the D-Day landings, at the Ceremony of the Keys at Lancaster Castle on Monday and remembered him from a visit to Normandy last year.

11 days ago

France honours veterans on 81st anniversary of D-Day

found 2025 › Jun › 06 (Fri) @ 21:30 UTC

a story from Al Jazeera 🚨 › Al Jazeera English

Thousands gathered in Normandy for the 81st D-Day anniversary, honouring the WWII invasion.

12 days ago

How D-Day unfolded, hour by hour. The daring mission to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe

found 2025 › Jun › 06 (Fri) @ 09:25 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

On June 6, 1944, Allied troops crossed the English Channel by boat, aircraft and glider to attack and secure beaches in Normandy as part of Operation Overlord.

13 days ago

D-Day veterans return to Normandy to honour the fallen 81 years on

found 2025 › Jun › 05 (Thu) @ 14:15 UTC

a story from Euronews ⚠️ › Euronews

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On the shores of Normandy, where Allied forces landed 81 years ago, a small group of World War II veterans gathered to remember those who never came home.

'Underage' D-Day hero dies aged 102: Tributes paid to WWII commando who signed up at 17 before helping to capture Pegasus Bridge during Normandy landings

found 2025 › Jun › 05 (Thu) @ 10:45 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Roy Cadman landed at Sword Beach at Normandy on June 6, 1944. He was part of the relieving force for Major John Howard's 6th Airborne Division paratroopers who had seized the bridge.

44 days ago

D-Day hero, 99, who ferried Allied troops onto beaches of Normandy as a teenager laughs with Keir Starmer during VE Day procession - ahead of tea with the King at Buckingham Palace

found 2025 › May › 05 (Mon) @ 13:20 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Albert Keir was pictured having a chuckle with the PM ahead of the military procession. The pair had the best seats in the house on the specially built dais outside Buckingham Palace.

47 days ago

D-Day hero who survived Normandy landings and being shot three times dies aged 101

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 12:11 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Cecil Newton, a trooper with the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, died peacefully in his sleep on Thursday, his family said.

3 months ago

French fugitive whose escape left two officers dead extradited from Romania

found 2025 › Feb › 26 (Wed) @ 06:38 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Mohamed Amra’s arrest ends nine-month manhunt when armed assailants ambushed prison convoy in Normandy

A notorious French fugitive who staged a deadly escape that killed two guards last year has been …

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