On 6 June we will be commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day with the lighting of a beacon on the Fairground.
D-Day - when Allied forces mounted the largest amphibious invasion the world has ever witnessed. In 1944 Operation Overlord saw over 5,000 ships and landing craft set down more than 130,000 troops on five Normandy beaches in an action that would bring about the liberation of north-west Europe from Nazi occupation.