... It's not nostalgia for the second world war, so much as sentimental affection for the songs and entertainment of the period that make Happy as a Sandbag (Decca SLK 5217), from the West End musical by Ken Lee, so captivating. Impressions of Al Bowlily ...

... Mr Cartwright with some Second World War respirators and helmets. Pensioner saves 30 from blaze A quick thinkix:fi pensioner saved 30 elderly res today as fire swept through a block of old people’s flat Lagti'en ran through the home near Brentwood, Essex ...

... Comments by a Wolverhampton councillor about a visit to the town of an Army motor cycle display team are “an insult” to Second World War despatch riders. Councillor Ken Purchase feels that council backing should not be given to armed forces’ advertising ...

... Taking a long view of war ANYONE first picking up A. J. P. Taylor’s lavishly illustrated new work The Second World War (Hamish Halimton, £5.95), may be forgiven for imagining it to be just another hasty essay inflated into a coffee table book. In reality ...

... Surrender £3,000 The final draft of the Second World War instrument of surrender by the German armed forces to Field Marshal Montgomery. with directions in his handwriting, fetched £3,100 at Sotheby's in London today. It was bought by a Scottish autograph ...

... Ooagd Having provided a vital service in suipplying tools to industry during the second world war, James Lister and Sons became a limited company in 1957, and in 1961 moved to their present extensive premises in Spon Lane, West Bromwich. ...

... Army visit Russian army officers are to visit Britain from the weekend — the first visit of its kind since the second world war. Men from Moscow's Frunze military academy will spend nearly a week on social engagements, ...

... S ;éo b {1 ._l%:_;::\-{;' G Audie Murphy, most decorated solgier of the Second World War, %lnys himself in To Hell and Back (ATV, 7.30 pm). IR e f g B . ] & - 3 5e Y g & ma. ...

... Vivienne Neckmore tell us how we in isolated Britain can grow 80 per cent of our food in our country? Even during the Second World War we could not achieve anything like that. ...

... and 18 durinfieher London visit. She will berthed alongside a warshige of an earlier era, HMS Belfast, the 10,000-ton, Second World War cruiser, opposite the Tower of London. ...

... and Fred celebrates his 95th birthday on Christmas Day. The couple had one child, Charles, killed at the end of the Second World War while serving as an RAF squadron leader. Fred and Lois have three grandchildren, who they helped bring up when their ...

... VE Day party with Germans Former Second World War Luftwaffe pilots are flying into Bristol Airport this afternoon on the 30th anniversary of VE Day. They are in a party of some 20 members of a Hanover flying club. Tomorrow morning the German visitors ...