Simon Weston, Falklands hero, reunited with crewman who came to his aid

Bill Tuttey, a naval aircrewman at the time, picked Mr Weston off the beach after he suffered severe burns in the bombing of the RFA troop carrier, the Sir Galahad, in the 1982 conflict.

He gave the Welsh Guardsman morphine to relieve the pain, issued words of comfort, and offered him a cigarette.

The two men did not meet again until this week when Mr Weston was signing copies of his latest book in Helston, Cornwall.