Stagecoach East Midlands offers free VE Day travel for military
He added: "Offering free travel on VE 80 Day is a small gesture of appreciation for the enormous contribution made by our service men and women, past and present."Events are being held across the country to mark the day Allied forces accepted Germany's surrender in World War Two on 8 May 1945.The national celebrations will start with a military procession in central London from Whitehall to Buckingham Palace on the 5 May bank holiday.Other landmarks will be illuminated to mark the occasion and installation of 30,000 ceramic poppies will be displayed in the Tower of London, which was bombed during the Blitz.
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