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welcome back to morning glory it's coming up to three minutes past eight i'm mike gra Graham. The day is upon us, ladies and gentlemen. It is VE Day and we will be celebrating it, of course, as the day goes on. Coming up at midday, there will be a two-minute national silence observed in government buildings and, of course, across the nation. You're looking there at pictures of the ceramic poppies

outside the Tower of London. First put there in 2014, I believe, now part of the 80th celebration

of VE Day. We spoke about it quite a lot on Monday. We heard quite a lot of your stories. Please

do continue to send those into us if you wish because coming up, also the King and Queen will

join other

members of the Royal Family in attendance at a service of Thanksgiving for the 80th anniversary

at Westminster Abbey. That's also around about 12 o'clock today. And at 7.30 tonight at the Royal

Albert Hall, the Armed Forces Charity, the SSAFA, will host a party for VE Day in its 80th year.

An extraordinary time when you think back to what courage people had in those days.

We've heard some incredible stories over the course of this entire week, in fact.

And I'm sure we will continue to hear them over the course of the next several days.

The Daily Express has got quite a striking front page this

morning, that famous picture that some of you may have seen before, there are two little girls

waving their union jacks. Homes were ruined, people had died, but there was a sense of hope in our

small community. People knew there were better days ahead, and it's Maureen Jenkins, who's in that

picture, who's now 81, recalling, waving that union flag with her friend Jenny, Jeannie,

and amidst the London rubble in the nation's celebrations on May the 8th, 1945.

It's hard to believe how much the world has changed and how much Britain has changed in that period.

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