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The village's service will be a quieter affair this year, so residents are invited to observe a two-minute doorstep silence instead.

Denise Hudson, who organises the annual collection, and her donations deputy Heidi Barden are undertaking a 10-mile walk.

Bishop's Stortford soldier who suffered devastating injuries while serving in Afghanistan will tie the knot with his fiancée this week.

Nationally, the organisation celebrates its centenary in 2021 and has launched a 'Telling our Story' project to chronicle its history.

RAF Pilot Officer Harold Tipple, who attended Bishop's Stortford College, was killed when his plane crashed into a tree in Suffolk, aged just 19.

Commemoration of the 75th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day on Saturday was a subdued and sombre occasion in Bishop’s Stortford.

For three months after VE Day, war continued to wage in the Asia-Pacific region and ended only after atom bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Sawbridgeworth residents are being urged to decorate their homes and raise a toast on their doorsteps.

Carl Carrozza, whose father was a US airman at Stansted during the Second World War, recognised the photos of 344th Bomber Squadron.

Usually, the event is marked by a parade from Basbow Lane to the War Memorial by veterans, armed forces personnel, cadets and other groups

The images were given to Mountfitchet Castle owner Jeremy Goldsmith by a fellow war enthusiast, who discovered them among his archives.

Lockdown prevented the 95-year-old Stortford OAP from travelling to Normandy, so he placed a spray of poppies on Stortford's war memorial instead.

Twins Ernie and Fred Large celebrated end of hostilities in Europe in Trafalgar Square, but three years were conscripted to the Royal Military Police.

Margaret Clift's daughter Esme Willcocks said: "I bet there's not many pictures left like this in the world. It made us all feel very nostalgic."

The golden memory of Thorley Park woman Beryl Bartlett as a nine-year-old girl on May 8, 1945, is a street party with pony rides.

Lance Corporal James Heath's service on the battlefields of France, Belgium and Holland could not prepare him for the horrors of the Holocaust.

The town council will 'host' readings, music and poetry, and wants people to share photos, stories and videos of them saluting Second World War heroes

Bishop's Stortford will be marking the 75th anniversary of the Allies' Second World War victory over Nazi Germany at May's Bish Bash music festival.

The air cadets is "not just about wearing a uniform or preparing you for military service".

RBL Bishop's Stortford branch chairwoman Denise Hudson announced the town's total for 2019 topped £45,322.