Dame Vera hits out at pop stars

Published on Tuesday 3 November 2009 00:07

DAME Vera Lynn has bemoaned the lack of singers backing troops in Afghanistan.

The 92-year-old We'll Meet Again singer – who travelled as far as Burma, Egypt and India to entertain the troops during the Second World War – questioned why modern pop stars were not going to the same lengths.

She said: "It's strange that there aren't any special songs for Afghanistan. I don't know what songwriters are doing these days. Nowadays a lot of them can't sing unless they've got all their equipment, and it's not easy carting that stuff around in the jungle."