Weatherday: The Scarlet Pimpernel of The Vatican

Weymouth Harbour, Dorset (2004).

Bright and fresh today with sunny spells and passing showers.

Temperature up to 11deg in light to moderate breezes from the south.

On this day in 1963, Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, responsible for saving 6,500 Jews and Allied soldiers from the Nazis in Rome during WW2, died in Cahirciveen in Kerry.

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