Events, services, beacon lightings and more have been arranged across the region.
Events across the East Midlands will take place to mark 80 years since the D-Day landings.D-Day services will provide focal points for commemorations in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire.
Derby Cathedral will host a commemorative service on Thursday from 17:15 to provide a moment of reflection and gratitude for those who took part in the landings and the wider armed forces, followed by a peel of the Cathedral bells. For those representing uniformed services and organisations, wearing uniform is encouraged and insignia, decorations and medals may be worn.These include in Loughborough, where the Queen’s Park beacon will be lit for the first time since Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee.
On Thursday, churches across Hinckley and Bosworth will ring out at 18:30 while the beacon in Argents Mead, Hinckley, will be lit at 21.15. At 08:00 on Thursday, a reading of the proclamation at Kimberley War Memorial in Main Street takes place.
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