VE Day Beacons
Over 200 beacons will be lit on Friday 8 May to mark Victory in Europe (VE) Day.
![Slieve Donarde Peak beacon for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee](https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/image_data/file/37600/s300_SlieveDonardePeak960.jpg)
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.
![Helsby beacon for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee](https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/image_data/file/37601/HelsbyBeacon960.jpg)
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