Hundreds of people have taken part in a parade in Lancashire to mark the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day. The march through the Ribble Valley, led by the Accrington Pipe Band, saw around 500 residents walk from St John's church in Read to the Constitutional Club in Simonstone on Monday.

Cities from London to Moscow will be awash with parades, flyovers and memorials this week as the world marks the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day — the day Nazi Germany surrendered to Allied forces.

Thousands of people lined the roads around the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace on Monday as British and allied troops paraded past at the start of four days of pageantry to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe.