Get email updates with the day's biggest stories Invalid Email Something went wrong, please try again later. Roy Vickerman, one of Stoke-on-Trent’s last surviving Normandy veterans, was engaged to his long-time sweetheart Nora Jackson. Family, friends and other former soldiers hope to give him a fitting send-off at Stoke Minster, reports StokeonTrent Live. Roy and Nora's love story began in the 1940s Stoke-on-Trent when World War II tragically tore them from one another's sides. Instead, Nora threw her arms around him and, soon after, Roy proposed using the ring he had originally given her during the Second World War.

Source: Daily Mirror May 27, 2021 06:55 UTC