On Thursday commemorations will be marked by a thanksgiving service at Westminster Abbey and V E Day 80: A Celebration to Remember, an evening concert at Horse Guards Parade. Expected to draw over 10,000 attendees, the concert will feature stars such as Samantha Barks, Fleur East and John Newman.

The VE Day 80 flypast will see the Red Arrows and a host of stunning World War Two era planes zip past Buckingham Palace in a several-hundred-mile arc starting from RAD Waddington