{"id":55218,"date":"2015-03-15T00:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T00:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9fb57f4ef4d785f1469ac89e4ae84a87"},"modified":"2015-03-15T00:00:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T00:00:02","slug":"news-story-ve-day-beacons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=55218","title":{"rendered":"News story: VE Day Beacons"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 70th anniversary of VE Day will see beacons lit throughout the United Kingdom. At the going down of the sun on the 8 May the first beacon will be lit (at a location to be announced) followed by a chain of over 100 beacons across the UK. <\/p>\n

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Find out more about how your community can get involved with the lighting of the anniversary beacons.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The following areas have been invited to light a beacon:<\/p>\n

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  • Barnsley<\/li>\n
  • Bath & North East Somerset<\/li>\n
  • Bedford<\/li>\n
  • Birmingham<\/li>\n
  • Blackburn with Darwen<\/li>\n
  • Blackpool<\/li>\n
  • Bolton<\/li>\n
  • Bournemouth<\/li>\n
  • Bracknell Forest<\/li>\n
  • Bradford<\/li>\n
  • Brighton & Hove<\/li>\n
  • Bristol<\/li>\n
  • Buckinghamshire<\/li>\n
  • Bury<\/li>\n
  • Calderdale<\/li>\n
  • Cambridgeshire<\/li>\n
  • Central Bedfordshire<\/li>\n
  • Cheshire East<\/li>\n
  • Cheshire West & Chester<\/li>\n
  • Cornwall<\/li>\n
  • Coventry<\/li>\n
  • Cumbria<\/li>\n
  • Darlington<\/li>\n
  • Derby<\/li>\n
  • Derbyshire<\/li>\n
  • Devon<\/li>\n
  • Doncaster<\/li>\n
  • Dorset<\/li>\n
  • Dudley<\/li>\n
  • Durham<\/li>\n
  • East Riding Of Yorkshire<\/li>\n
  • East Sussex<\/li>\n
  • Essex<\/li>\n
  • Gateshead<\/li>\n
  • Gloucestershire<\/li>\n
  • Halton<\/li>\n
  • Hampshire<\/li>\n
  • Hartlepool<\/li>\n
  • Herefordshire<\/li>\n
  • Hertfordshire<\/li>\n
  • Isle Of Wight<\/li>\n
  • Kent<\/li>\n
  • Kingston upon Hull<\/li>\n
  • Kirklees<\/li>\n
  • Knowsley<\/li>\n
  • Lancashire<\/li>\n
  • Leeds<\/li>\n
  • Leicester<\/li>\n
  • Leicestershire<\/li>\n
  • Lincolnshire<\/li>\n
  • Liverpool<\/li>\n
  • Luton<\/li>\n
  • Manchester<\/li>\n
  • Medway<\/li>\n
  • Middlesbrough<\/li>\n
  • Milton Keynes<\/li>\n
  • Newcastle Upon Tyne<\/li>\n
  • Norfolk<\/li>\n
  • North East Lincolnshire<\/li>\n
  • North Lincolnshire<\/li>\n
  • North Somerset<\/li>\n
  • North Tyneside<\/li>\n
  • North Yorkshire<\/li>\n
  • Northamptonshire<\/li>\n
  • Northumberland<\/li>\n
  • Nottingham<\/li>\n
  • Nottinghamshire<\/li>\n
  • Oldham<\/li>\n
  • Oxfordshire<\/li>\n
  • Peterborough<\/li>\n
  • Plymouth<\/li>\n
  • Poole<\/li>\n
  • Portsmouth<\/li>\n
  • Reading<\/li>\n
  • Redcar & Cleveland<\/li>\n
  • Rochdale<\/li>\n
  • Rotherham<\/li>\n
  • Rutland<\/li>\n
  • Salford<\/li>\n
  • Sandwell<\/li>\n
  • Sefton<\/li>\n
  • Sheffield<\/li>\n
  • Shropshire<\/li>\n
  • Slough<\/li>\n
  • Solihull<\/li>\n
  • Somerset<\/li>\n
  • South Gloucestershire<\/li>\n
  • South Tyneside<\/li>\n
  • Southampton<\/li>\n
  • Southend On Sea<\/li>\n
  • St Helens<\/li>\n
  • Staffordshire<\/li>\n
  • Stockport<\/li>\n
  • Stockton-on-Tees<\/li>\n
  • Stoke-on-Trent<\/li>\n
  • Suffolk<\/li>\n
  • Sunderland<\/li>\n
  • Surrey<\/li>\n
  • Swindon<\/li>\n
  • Tameside<\/li>\n
  • Telford and Wrekin<\/li>\n
  • Thurrock<\/li>\n
  • Torbay<\/li>\n
  • Trafford<\/li>\n
  • Wakefield<\/li>\n
  • Walsall<\/li>\n
  • Warrington<\/li>\n
  • Warwickshire<\/li>\n
  • West Berkshire<\/li>\n
  • West Sussex<\/li>\n
  • Wigan<\/li>\n
  • Wiltshire<\/li>\n
  • Windsor & Maidenhead<\/li>\n
  • Wirral<\/li>\n
  • Wokingham<\/li>\n
  • Wolverhampton<\/li>\n
  • Worcestershire<\/li>\n
  • York<\/li>\n
  • Greater London Authority<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Over 100 beacons will be lit on Friday 8 May to mark Victory in Europe (VE) Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}