A number of signs on bus shelters in Portsmouth have been broken into and posters of the Donald Trump baby blimp put up.

A spokesman for Clear Channel UK, which runs the signs, says one of its team is "manically" driving around the city in a van trying to take them down.

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He describes the act as "illegal fly-posting" and says the signs were first reported to them by a "senior person" at Portsmouth City Council.

The spokesman can not confirm how many of the posters have been put up.

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Harold Smithard, who served in the Royal Navy, was on board one of the first ships to drop anchor near the Normandy beaches.

He says the operation was the "only time" he was told what was going to happen beforehand.

Describing the assault on Gold beach, he says simply: "That day was a very busy day - as the day before and the day after.

He adds that it was a quiet trip from Belfast to Normandy, apart from one moment in which his ship accidentally hit a buoy. He says: "That really put the wind up everyone."

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Seventy-five years ago today, the first allied soldier was killed in a D-Day operation.

Lt Den Brotheridge's wife Maggie was eight months pregnant with their first child when he left Smethwick in the Black Country and headed to war.

At 22:40 on Monday, 5 June 1944, he was in one of six wooden gliders carrying 181 men from the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry into France to take two crucial bridges.

It would take Maggie around 40 years before she could tell their daughter Margaret of his fate.

Speaking to Radio 5 live in Normandy ahead of D-Day commemorations, Margaret recalls: "She told me very little, I found out a lot when I was 40, she just didn't speak about it.

She adds: "It's amazing how many people know of him - that's a bit mind-blowing really."

Read more about Lt Den Brotheridge's story here.

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BBC South

There are currently more photographers and police officers than protesters in Guildhall Square, Portsmouth.

Police have urged people wanting to demonstrate against President Trump's state visit to head to the square rather than Southsea Common - where the D-Day commemorations are being held.

Civic leaders were worried protests near the main event could upset veterans.

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Who were the people who played a part in D-Day, away from the front line?

On @BBCSounds, external and @bbc5live, external we’re paying tribute to three of the 'Home Front Heroes' – the spy, the weather forecaster and the code-breaker, who all played a crucial role.

Click here to read their stories.

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Assistant political editor

BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith says Mr Trump was probably unaware of the "symbolic importance" of the NHS when he said it could be part of a future trade deal between the UK and US.

"At first, I don't think he quite understood the question he was being asked, or didn't quite grasp what the NHS meant," he says. "Mrs May actually leant over and said to him National Health Service."

Later, Mr Trump clarified that he did not think the NHS could be part of any trade deal.

"I suspect he was made aware of the symbolic and political importance of the NHS within the British domestic debate.

"And it will come as some relief I'm sure to the Tory leadership contenders that the president now appears to have backtracked and taken it off the table."

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Private Robert Johns was one of the youngest soldiers to die during the D-Day operation.

Pte Johns ran away from home at the age of 14 and lied about his age to join up, going on to serve with the Parachute Regiment.

He was shot dead by a sniper on D-Day - aged 16.

His mum wrote to a colleague shortly after. The letter read: "Bob was so unafraid and a son to be proud of. I can't believe it's true - in fact, it will never seem true to me.

"He was so full of life. I often wonder whether it will ever have been worth this terrible sacrifice of life.

"Let's hope these brave fellows will never be forgotten after the war and those that come back deserve the best."

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Giles Milton, author of D-Day: The Soldiers' Story, says the men landing on the Normandy beaches in 1944 were met with "chaos".

"It was a horrific experience for so many of those young - often teenagers - on the landing craft," he tells Radio 4's Today programme.

"Many of them never made the landing craft, they stopped far too far away from the shore. The men jumped off, and they jumped into water out of their depth.

"Of course they were carrying hugely heavy packs, they just sank to the bottom. Many of them never even made it to the beaches.

"Those that did make it to the beaches, the ramp went down on the landing craft and they found themselves running into a hail of gunfire."

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Commander Matt Stratton’s grandfather, Arthur, was a soldier in the Queen’s Royal Regiment and was one of those who landed in Normandy on D-Day.

“We have to remember it’s all about the veterans today,” he tells BBC Breakfast.

“It’s about commemorating and looking back at what they did, that gives us the life we have today.

“My grandfather died in 2007 and your memory fades over that time. This has forced me to look back at the history and share it with my children and I think that’s really important.”