From my hometown. "A D-Day veteran born in Scotland has died at the age of 96, the Ministry of Defence has announced. John Hutton, known by his friends as Jock, was 19 when he served in the 13th Lancashire Parachute Battalion during World War Two. The MoD said the "courage and spirit" of Mr Hutton, from Stirling, "must never be forgotten". In 1944, he parachuted into Normandy and descended to the famous Pegasus Bridge on D-Day. Mr Hutton replicated his descent in June last year when he parachuted into France alongside fellow ex-serviceman Harry Read." www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-53785731