Major events were cancelled due to coronavirus, but there was still the chance to bring some colour to the event.

VE Day 75 in pictures: Britons bring out the bunting

Celebrations will be very different during the coronavirus lockdown.

In Pictures: Then and now – 75 years since VE Day

Despite large-scale public events being unable to go ahead, tributes will be paid by members of the royal family. 

The Royal Mint says the coins are a "thank you" to the wartime generation.

The coronavirus lockdown has meant that hundreds of VE Day celebrations have had to be cancelled, so commemorations have moved online.

The Queen will make an address to the nation on the day the UK marks the 75th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe.

With 75 days to go to the anniversary, the Government has announced plans to commemorate VE Day.

It will be the second time the Bank Holiday has been moved.

While it was often the source of jokes Winston Churchill said the country needed to realise "all it owes to these devoted men".

An aquatic park in the Russian Siberian town of Irkutsk marked VE Day by staging a patriotic-themed show, giving two of their seals rifles.

VE Day was the start of a lifelong relationship for Betty and Cyril Axon. 