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VE Day Beacons

Over 200 beacons will be lit on Friday 8 May to mark Victory in Europe (VE) Day.

From:
Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021) and Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Published
15 March 2015
This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
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The 70th anniversary of VE Day will see beacons lit throughout the United Kingdom. At the going down of the sun on the 8 May the first beacon will be lit (at a location to be announced) followed by a chain of over 100 beacons across the UK.

Find out more about how your community can get involved with the lighting of the anniversary beacons.

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The following areas have been invited to light a beacon:

  • Aberdeen
  • Barnsley
  • Bath & North East Somerset
  • Bedford
  • Birmingham
  • Blackburn with Darwen
  • Blackpool
  • Bolton
  • Bournemouth
  • Bracknell Forest
  • Bradford
  • Brighton & Hove
  • Bristol
  • Buckinghamshire
  • Bury
  • Calderdale
  • Cambridgeshire
  • Central Bedfordshire
  • Cheshire East
  • Cheshire West & Chester
  • Cornwall
  • Coventry
  • Cumbria
  • Darlington
  • Derby
  • Derbyshire
  • Devon
  • Doncaster
  • Dorset
  • Dudley
  • Durham
  • East Riding Of Yorkshire
  • East Sussex
  • Essex
  • Gateshead
  • Gloucestershire
  • Halton
  • Hampshire
  • Hartlepool
  • Herefordshire
  • Hertfordshire
  • Isle Of Wight
  • Kent
  • Kingston upon Hull
  • Kirklees
  • Knowsley
  • Lancashire
  • Leeds
  • Leicester
  • Leicestershire
  • Lincolnshire
  • Liverpool
  • Luton
  • Manchester
  • Medway
  • Middlesbrough
  • Milton Keynes
  • Newcastle Upon Tyne
  • Norfolk
  • North East Lincolnshire
  • North Lincolnshire
  • North Somerset
  • North Tyneside
  • North Yorkshire
  • Northamptonshire
  • Northumberland
  • Nottingham
  • Nottinghamshire
  • Oldham
  • Oxfordshire
  • Peterborough
  • Plymouth
  • Poole
  • Portsmouth
  • Reading
  • Redcar & Cleveland
  • Rochdale
  • Rotherham
  • Rutland
  • Salford
  • Sandwell
  • Sefton
  • Sheffield
  • Shropshire
  • Slough
  • Solihull
  • Somerset
  • South Gloucestershire
  • South Tyneside
  • Southampton
  • Southend On Sea
  • St Helens
  • Staffordshire
  • Stirling
  • Stockport
  • Stockton-on-Tees
  • Stoke-on-Trent
  • Suffolk
  • Sunderland
  • Surrey
  • Swindon
  • Tameside
  • Telford and Wrekin
  • Thurrock
  • Torbay
  • Trafford
  • Wakefield
  • Walsall
  • Warrington
  • Warwickshire
  • West Berkshire
  • West Sussex
  • Wigan
  • Wiltshire
  • Windsor & Maidenhead
  • Wirral
  • Wokingham
  • Wolverhampton
  • Worcestershire
  • York
  • Greater London Authority

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Published 15 March 2015

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