News about Vera Lynn

I didn't have to worry twice about accepting after receiving a request to MC a fundraising dinner for the Dame Vera Lynn Memorial Statue. The original Forces' Sweetheart, Vera Lynn, is the epitome of a legend. With her pitch-perfect songs rallying the Front Line and Home Front, she became a household name in just 22 years. Vera never feared danger; she entertained people on tube station platforms during air raids; and encouraged the world by a song: The White Cliffs of Dover was never far away. Her songs promised a brighter future - we could certainly do with her optimism right now…

The Mail is proud to be able to post this first glance at the complete monument to a woman who embodied what her generation was fighting for. Vera has been immortalized by the celebrated British sculptor Paul Day, a past master at weaving parallel narratives into a single epic work, in Twice life-size. This one is now in bronze at a Czech foundry and will be completed by the summer. It will be more than a bicentennial of a great artist. It will also be a salute to the entire wartime period. Hence the inclusion of the troops; of the wives and mothers who 'kept the home fires burning; of the children who may never get to know their father; and all the other servicewomen who were determined to 'do their bit'.

Dame Vera Lynn's daughter is requesting funds to install a memorial monument. During World War II, the legendary entertainer risked her life visiting troops in order to give people who called'my boys' a new lease on life with morale-boosting songs such as We'll Meet Again and The White Cliffs Of Dover. She selflessly carried out more charitable causes in the decades that followed, with the words in We'll Meet Again resonating once more during the coronavirus pandemic when the Queen used them to incite modern Britain to evoke the spirit of the wartime period.

Callum Grubb does not own a cell phone, names Vera Lynn and Ginger Rogers among his top celebrities, and he bought a 1938 Austin 10 Cambridge as his first car.

For the majority of teenagers, social media, smartphones, and keeping up with the latest trends are all essential components of modern life. But Callum Grubb has turned to electronics and lives as if he was growing up in the 1940s. The 19-year-old does not own a cellphone, names Vera Lynn and Ginger Rogers among his favorite characters, and he bought a 1938 Austin 10 Cambridge (left) as his first vehicle. He also has a large collection of vintage clothes and collectibles sourced from antique shops, including a mug commemorating King Edward VIII's coronation and a portrait of Winston Churchill. He and his grandmother, Anne Walker, who is 75, use a traditional rotary dial phone to communicate.

Hamas propaganda is being disseminated by the BBC and other Left-wing media outlets. Demonstrators yelling for "jihad" on London's streets have declined to arrest protesters calling for 'jihad.' The Labour Party is on the side of the terrorists. All of this made me wonder how we could have won World War II if the Beeb's editorial rules and Scotland Yard's woke police procedures had been in place back then. .. . Calling from London, London Calling. This is the BBC Home Service. Here is the latest from Lord Haw-Haw's visit to the United Kingdom.

Locals are outraged that an iconic Hotel Bristol (top right) will be demolished for 'hideous' flats that they claim are being 'rubberstamped through.' When the plan to demolish the hotel was not revealed to Cornwall Council's planning committee, it was initially suggested that the blustertop road Narrowcliff in Newquay (bottom right and left).

BEL MOONEY: My mother died (pictured) in Bath's Royal United Hospital the day before Mothering Sunday last year. On the 15th anniversary of our Queen's marriage, we died six months later. And when I shed real tears for her, the nation's mother, they were also for Mum, who always put her family first. Gladys Mooney was 98 years old, and Elizabeth Windsor was 96. Mum was sadly mourned by her mother, son-in-law, two grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.

I can recall my first visit to Trafalgar in 1966, when a tumultuous, smoky new exhibit of the Battle of Trafalgar had just opened, and we were taken to see it on a school trip. The Battle of Trafalgar has concluded, but the waxworks of most of the actors of yesteryear - Morecambe and Wise, Harold Wilson, Bobby Moore, the Queen Mother, Vera Lynn, Mike Yarwood, and even The Beatles - have all disappeared, five years later. Politicians are out: Sir Winston Churchill, the only Prime Minister on my recent visit, stood outside No. 10, alongside Mrs Pankhurst, who was wagging a finger. More recent Prime Ministers, Blair, Cameron, Sunak - are nowhere to be seen. Have they perhaps been melted down, remoulded, squeezed into corsets, and transformed into Little Mix?

CRAIG HOPE: Jimmy Montgomery has the photograph that defines his football career and maybe even his life. The picture is defined by the hands. A millisecond of his near-80 years, a moment in time that is now commemorated half a century. If his grandchildren are asked to reflect in another 50 years, this is the legend. For the time being, we are fortunately with the guy himself. Montgomery is fighting prostate cancer, but he's winning, thanks to the care of the Sir Bobby Robson Unit in Newcastle.

Market traders, costermongers, and street hawkers all invented the Cockney rhyming slang in London's East End in the 1840s. It's either accidental or deliberately developed, to this day, it's unclear if or not the words came about as a result of a linguistic accident or deliberate. Rhyming slang is used to obscure sentences with the first word of a term that rhymes with the word. Cockney words have made their way into the English wordbook, as many are still used in London and others around Britain centuries since they were first invented.

The majestic 1931 Rolls-Royce (pictured) was used as transport for the late singer's ride to the opening of the annual Ditchling Fair in East Sussex, where she stayed. On October 19, the H&H Classic Cars auction at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, Cambridgeshire, is expected to sell for between £25,000 to £30,000. Dame Vera Lynn (inset) lived in the same village as the car's new owner and annually attended the Ditchling Village Fair riding in "GX 7255," according to James McWilliam of H&H Classics. In a photograph taken at the Village Fair in 1982, she can be seen with the car.'

JUNOR: It was only her family and friends who knew Elizabeth was real and knew she was something but bland. She had a quick wit, a strong sense of humor, and a keen sense of fun. "You immediately found yourself having conversations with the Queen," one former minister says. 'You probably didn't believe you were hearing.' 'She was both incredibly indiscreet and humular.' Not all that often, but you knew there was another person there who was mysterious and enchanting, as well as girlish. Every now and then, I had to pinch myself to hear what she was saying and the questions she was asking.'

After 70 years on the throne, Queen Elizabeth II died at Balmoral in the Scottish Highlands at the age of 96. Many of her memorable moments in her life were caught on film, from her wedding to Prince Philip in 1947 to her Platinum Jubilee celebrations in 2022, marking her historic reign.

ANDREW NEIL: She was the glue that held our country together for as long as most of us can remember. From empire to Commonwealth, conflict and reconstruction, socioeconomic revolution and reunification, nationalism, and national unity are all here-tomorrow politicians (including her 15 prime ministers). From school-bound, dowdy postwar decline to increasing interconnectedness and dynamism, the transition has moved from class-bound, dowdy post-war loss to increasingly fluid diversity and dynamism. As the country's leaders, celebrities, colleagues, and rivals came and went, she was the rock as all around us was shifting and in perplexing flux: a familiar, reassuring, permanent presence as the country's leaders, celebrities, colleagues, and enemies came and went. With her absence, the likelihood of being stuck and falling apart on so many fronts is all the greater. It was not predicted that she would have to leave her days so revered. Our young Queen of the 1950s, who was swept to the throne by her premature death, George VI, at the age of 56, was adored. However, in middle age, she was somewhat ignored, seen as behind the times and overshadowed by younger royals' glamour and high jinks, whose shenanigans commandeered the limelight.

ROBERT HARDMAN: Monarchs, who have a particular place in history, are still entitled to the dignity of a 'age'. The Georges, Victoria, Edward VII, the Georges, would all come to define not only a time but a period of time, a mood, or even a style of architecture. However, history will tell that one king whose reign defied any such classification. Queen Elizabeth II's reign spanned way much (left is her coronation; top inset is with Diana in 1982, bottom inset as a young princess in 1942, right age two). On her watch, entire eras have come and gone. She had lead her country through the Jet Age, the Space Age, and the crown's unsurpassed stewardship of the monarch came to an end. It is an extraordinary fact that more than half of the world's nations today do not exist in their current state when she assumed the throne. We had long been in Britain, so accustomed to this utterly consistent routine in all of our lives that we had almost come to take her for granted. Queen Elizabeth II, on the other hand, portrayed stability on a massive, enviable scale. Her coronation will occur before their constitutions, national anthems, flags, and currencies. She was history made flesh.