UK and Slovenia celebrate their friendship

A village in south-eastern Slovenia where a British bomber crashed in 1945 and the surviving crew members were rescued by the locals hosted the annual ceremony to mark UK-Slovenia Friendship Day.

Addressing the ceremony in Gornji Suhor, President Nataša Pirc Musar and UK Ambassador to Slovenia Tiffany Sadler stressed the importance of the "priceless" friendship between the two nations which was born in the hardest of times.

Pirc Musar, Sadler and Črnomelj Mayor Andrej Kavšek touched on the war in Ukraine in their speeches, noting that alliances like the ones forged during the...