内容摘要："What the Euros shows us is that big occasions will bring more people out.

"What the Euros shows us is that big occasions will bring more people out.

June 2024 marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day, when tens of thousands of troops - including Donald - landed on beaches across Normandy, marking the start of the Allied campaign to liberate Nazi occupied northern Europe.The BBC has been gathering first-hand accounts from surviving veterans, to preserve them for future generations.

was a dispatch rider in the Royal Corps of Signals."About two o’clock in the morning, we were all awake and didn’t know where we were going," he recalls.He said the realisation of where he was being sent came when his sergeant handed him a one franc note.

"We must be going to bloody France!"Along with 132,000 other troops, in around 7,000 vessels, he was to sail across the Channel to take on German forces.

The Nazis had spent the past three years preparing their defences along much of Europe's coastline.

"I was scared to death," confesses"It was overwhelming at the time and I really let myself get in my head during the show."

But Ailish was still proud to have even featured on Glow Up, which has been her dream since she first watched the show aged 14.Having recently finished her degree, she's looking forward to pursuing more of her goals by picking up work on films and in theatres.

And while she may not have got one on series 7, as she starts this new chapter, Ailish asks: "Can I get a Ding Dong?!"at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back