A Second World War evacuee has recalled how mass evacuations from London during the Blitz separated children from their families and "changed people's lives".Doreen Simson, who was evacuated from her home in White City, west London, in 1941 at the age of four, said she still remembered being "left crying" after she was separated from her eight-year-old brother Dennis as the pair were taken in by different homes when they arrived in Wales.

A Second World War evacuee has recalled how mass evacuations from London during the Blitz separated children from their families and "changed people's lives".Doreen Simson, who was evacuated from her home in White City, west London, in 1941 at the age of four, said she still remembered being "left crying" after she was separated from her eight-year-old brother Dennis as the pair were taken in by different homes when they arrived in Wales.