‘Being here is better than winning the lottery to me’

FOR 83-year-old Lilian Jenkinson, the pain of losing the love of her life during the Normandy invasions has hardly faded.

Sixty years after the D-Day landings, she was back in Normandy by her late husband’s side once again, and she said returning to the cemetery at Benouville, where he lies, was all she lives for now.

“I do a lot of crying, but being here is better than winning the lottery to me,” said Mrs Jenkinson, who lives in Dagenham, east London.