PUPILS from a Summertown school read tributes to D-Day heroes on the Normandy beaches at a ceremony attended by international leaders.

Students from Summer Fields School spoke at a ceremony on Juno Beach on Thursday to mark the 75th anniversary of the Allied invasion of mainland Europe.

Two students, Chinweike and Somers, impressed the watching dignitaries with readings, while another pupil, Blake, carried the British flag.

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They also met the French Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe, and Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada.

The boys arrived back in Oxford on Friday, after a three-day trip providing a new perspective into D-Day.

Pupils met veterans who had stormed the beaches 75 years earlier and investigated a replica landing craft.