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The BBC has announced plans to make a Call the Midwife film and prequel TV series set during the Second World War.

"There is an interest in the Second World War, the role of the Brancaster estate in D-Day, and people want to engage with it," he added.

House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has switched on Parliament's historic Ayrton Light to commemorate the moment his predecessor did the same thing 80 years ago towards the end of the Second World War.

There was also a commemoration in Ravenna's town hall of the role played by Canadian troops in liberating this part of Italy in the Second World War.

Burgess was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent during the Second World War and the early Cold War period.