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TOM UTLEY: I’ve driven nearly every day for 53 years and never had a prang or speeding ticket. But I stand before you as a reckless boy racer clocked at… 26mph!

One of my favourite books as I was growing up was A. P. Herbert’s hilarious collection of Punch columns, Uncommon Law (first published 1935), which was later adapted as the hit BBC comedy series, Misleading Cases. Alas, they don’t make ’em like that any more. As some readers may recall, …

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REVEALED: The sailor sent by China to serve in Royal Navy on D-Day. ROBERT HARDMAN tells the remarkable story of Lam Ping-yu’s role in the invasion and beyond… and his possible fling with a British girl called Violet

He writes of watching the first salvos blasting over the heads of the troops in landing craft heading – like ‘ants’ – for the French coast. He describes German torpedo attacks ‘narrowly’ missing his Royal Navy ship – three times. But what makes this previously unseen witness account of D-Day …

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