Eighty years on, the UK remembered VE Day with a gathering in the same streets where the defeat of Nazi Germany was greeted with delight and relief in 1945. Senior members of the royal family ...

Here, we remember VE Day celebrations from the past – with the packed streets of 1945 a far cry from life under lockdown.

The Coventry Evening Telegraph headline on the frontpage of 6 May 1945 blared: "Tropical Storm Mars VE Day ... Elsewhere, images from the day were taken and "preserved for the records of history ...