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VE day UPDATES: Britain marks 80th anniversary of WW2's end in Europe

VE day UPDATES: Britain marks 80th anniversary of WW2's end in Europe

At 3pm eighty years ago on May 8, 1945, then Prime Minister Winston Churchill took to the airwaves to announce that Nazi Germany had unconditionally surrendered - and that the cruelty of World War II was finally at an end

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