It's Been a Wonderful Life! My Story. . .Bill Anderson, a Times Reader for Almost 70 Years, Looks Back

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FEBRUARY, 1945. The scene: Yalta, a resort in the Crimea. The leaders of the wartime Allies - Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin - are putting together a final strategy for winning the Second World War.

At one point Churchill, now 70, makes his way down to a jetty with his Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, to board a ship.

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It's Been a Wonderful Life! My Story. . .Bill Anderson, a Times Reader for Almost 70 Years, Looks Back

It is pitch-dark and he needs a lamp to show him the way - and, it turns out, the lamp is held by a young Royal Navy man from Glasgow.

That young man is now 87 years old, but the memory of that brief encounter has stayed with him, even if Churchill failed to acknowledge him.

Bill Anderson, of Cadder, has had an eventful l...

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