A D-Day veteran from Lancaster has celebrated his 100th birthday by becoming a cover star of a special 80th anniversary edition of the Radio Times.
Sergeant Richard Brock appears on the front cover of this week's edition of the popular TV listings magazine, to mark 80 years since the Normandy landings on June 6 1944.
Richard, who turned 100 years young earlier this week, was awarded numerous medals for bravery including the Legion d'Honneur, the highest military order of merit in France, after being part of the largest seaborne invasion in history.
He landed on the beaches at Normandy with the Allied Forces as they advanced into Nazi-occupied France in 1944.
Over the next 12 months he helped to liberate parts of France and the Netherlands, saw first-hand the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps, narrowly escaped death after a missile landed on a cinema in Belgium, was part of the famous 'A Bridge Too Far' battle, and invaded Germany's second biggest city as Hitler's forces surrendered.
Richard's dramatic and gruelling journey - staying overnight under trees, hedges and in foxholes, and constantly in danger - took him 2,000 miles from London, through France, Belgium, Holland and then into Germany as the Allied Forces were ultimately victorious.
Here is Richard celebrating his recent 100th birthday. Image credit: Bay Veterans' Association.
Beyond Radio was honoured to interview Richard at the regular Bay Veterans' Association coffee morning at The York pub in Morecambe, earlier this year.
Read more: INTERVIEW: D-Day veteran from Lancaster, 99, tells his incredible World War 2 story - Beyond Radio
*A series of events will be held in the Lancaster and Morecambe District on Thursday, June 6 to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
The Town Crier is due to deliver the official D-Day 80 Proclamation on the steps of Morecambe Town Hall at 8am on Thursday, and again at roughly 8.30/8.45am by the Clock Tower on the Promenade.
Then at 9pm, there will be a ceremonial beacon-lighting event outside Morecambe Town Hall.
This event is open to the public and free to attend.
In Carnforth, there will be a proclamation by the Town Crier at 10am at the War Memorial Gardens. The D-Day flag of peace and the Union Flag will be flying high.
From 8:45pm there will be a gathering at the War Memorial Gardens to join the nation and Commonwealth in remembrance and celebration of the D-Day landings.
There will be another proclamation by the Town Crier, an international tribute read by the Deputy Town Mayor, Councilor Roly Parker and at 9:15pm a beacon will be lit along with hundreds of other parishes and towns across the United Kingdom.
You can light a 'candle of peace' (provided by Carnforth Town Council) to remember the servicemen and woman and all of those who fought, suffered and died during the D-Day landings. Bring a jam jar.
The Bobby Pin ups will provide songs and music from the era.
In Lancaster, there will be a concert with Morecambe Band and beacon lighting at the Priory.
The concert starts at 7.15pm and the beacon will be lit at 9.15pm.
Unreserved seating £10, U18s half price. Wheelchair spaces £10 plus one personal assistant seat included free of charge. Please contact concerts@lancasterpriory.org for availability.
This concert will run without an interval and last about one hour.
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