'We have to always be full of gratitude to the person who saved our lives'

Sir Nicholas Winton, known as the "British Schindler" for his work rescuing Jewish children during the Second World War, is being honoured in Cumbria by one of the people he saved.

He rescued 669 children, by organising eight trains to transport them from Czechoslovakia to London in 1939.

He also helped to find foster families for the children when they arrived in England.

On Wednesday, 1 July, he passed away, aged 106.

Lord Alfred Dubs was six years old when the German army arrived in Prague.

He boarded one of Sir Nicholas Winton's trains, and met his father at Liverpool Street Station.

His mother later joined them, but other family members died in Auschwitz.

He says Sir Nicholas almost certainly saved his life:

Lord Alfred Dubs went on to become an MP, Labour Party Peer, and Director of the Refugee Council.

He now lives near Cockermouth, but he continued to see a lot of Sir Nicholas, and was a guest at his 106th birthday party, shortly before his death: