The liberation of Europe, when it finally came, was a momentous task consuming the energies of millions of men and women. The ...

THE wind swirls sand around my boots and gulls bounce overhead as I read the 47 Royal Marine Commando Memorial at the viewpoint in Port-en-Bessin, the site of a daring raid following D-Day.

One of the last survivors of the assault on the D-Day beaches in 1944 has died, his family has said. Aged 101 Cecil Newton, ...