Wem to light a beacon for D-Day
A Shropshire town is to commemorate D-Day by lighting a beacon.
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Wem Town Council is joining several other Shropshire town's by lighting a beacon on June 6 – the 80th anniversary of the storming of the beaches of Normandy.
The town council said the beacon will be lit on Wem Recreation Grounds at 9pm.
The beacon lighting will following a service of commemoration at St Peter and St Paul's Church at 4pm.