Even on the day that victory was to be declared ... perhaps been wounded themselves. Once-happy husbands and fathers were withdrawn, impatient, irascible, unkind. ‘My father and I never got ...

The event at the Erskine home near Glasgow was reminiscent of the street parties held to celebrate VE Day 80 years ago.

Dancing on the street around a piano. Cakes and sandwiches. Lemonade for the children and beer for the adults. Bunting and decorations hung from terraced homes. Everyone chipping in so family and ...

As they waited for the procession to get under way, Prince Louis brushed fluff off his father’s uniformed shoulder ... lot of things happened but VE Day was a happy day.

Veterans at a tea party at Erskine Veterans Home in Bishopton, Renfrewshire to celebrate the 80th anniversary of VE Day (Andrew Milligan ... explaining that his father had served in the Merchant ...

Like other streets across the UK, Downing Street has become the venue for a VE Day tea party. Two long tables have been lined with gold and red chairs for the special occasion. Bunting is also ...

Terry Basson spent the war years in Woodbridge. Here, he remembers how the town celebrated the happy news - and shocked the Americans ...

Yet even when I was young, visiting my grandmother with my father ... folds of his bunting blanket — he’d been working at the Murray Shoe Co. factory. He dreamed of one day owning his ...

Some have speculated that he did so partly because his father had been a lawyer and ... Restaurants are offering Pope specials. (“Happy Mother’s Day!” read the board outside the Trebol ...