In Pictures: VE Day marked across Shropshire and Mid Wales
People gathered for ceremonies across Shropshire and Mid Wales to mark the 70th anniversary of VE Day.
Welshpool Remembers programme began a summer of events yesterday, with a VE Day exhibition and event at the town hall – although organisers are hoping for better weather in future.
The programme was officially launched with the release of 70 balloons outside the town hall.
Sirens also rang out at 3pm, when Winston Churchill's victory speech was played outside the town hall and the Victory Queen 2015, Sara Smith, was crowned by Welshpool's 1946 Victory Queen, Dorothy Williams.
A free exhibition was open in the Corn Exchange yesterday and again until 4pm today, with displays on animals in war, the Home Guard, local soldiers who died in the war and WWII aircraft crashes in Mid and North Wales.
Youngsters at Norton-in-Hales Primary School, near Market Drayton, took part in an indoor picnic to avoid the rain and mark the occasion, and members of the community were invited to join in too.
Headteacher Guy Verling said: "We planned to have an outdoor picnic but because of the rain we had to move it into a classroom. However this did not spoil things and the atmosphere was lovely.
"We had about 150 local residents, parents, grandparents and pupils."
An event was also held to commemorate VE Day at Southwater Lake in Telford, while last night beacons were lit across the country to mark the anniversary.
