This past week there have been many moving ceremonies commemorating the 80th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe) marking the end of the war in Europe. I was born shortly after the war (a "bundle ...

VE Day was celebrated with great relief in 1945 but the following years saw Britain suffer from a wartime rationing hangover.

The heroism and sacrifices of the Second World War generation were remembered and honoured at street parties in Plymouth on ...