Chester Day 1 - the sadness of VE Day - and another super League

Underwhelmed, dismal, and woeful may all words that I’m sure the older members of The Lambourn Hellfire Club have used to describe the Port and Madeira racks at the Château d’If. They were certainly the words that described that pathetic effort made by this Government and then by the BBC at paying homage to the survivors of WWII who had made it through from VE Day.

We had Joan Bakewell and Angela Rippon doing a reasonable interpretation of two Snipers in Stalingrad… “Well of course you’re much older than me…” an RAF retiree who wanted to be anywhere but there; Ross Kemp reminding us that when he was a nipper,