ALMOST 50 years after they met in the frozen seas of Russia, wartime pals Jack Sowerbutts and Benjamin Yakoubovsky were together in East Lancashire, a year after finding each other again.
Jack, of Mellor, thought he would never see Benjamin again. But Benjamin was enjoying Jack's East Lancashire hospitality a year after the two met at a reunion in St Petersburg.
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