article_snippet.sent: It is set to be one of the highlights of a three-day commemoration of the end of the Second World War, running from Friday, May 8 to Sunday, May 10.
article_snippet.sent: It is likely to be the last major anniversary which will be attended in strength by the generation that fought at home and abroad during the war.
article_snippet.sent: David Cameron asked Cabinet minister William Hague in February to draw up plans for three days of national commemorations and last month Chancellor George Osborne earmarked up to £2million in the Budget towards marking the event.
article_snippet.sent: The three-day commemoration will begin with a Service of Remembrance on VE Day (May 8) at The Cenotaph and a national two-minute silence at 3pm, marking the moment Winston Churchill broadcast Winston Churchill historic speech formally announcing the end of the war in 1945.
article_snippet.sent: On the Sunday there will be a Service of Thanksgiving at Westminster Abbey attended by The Queen, followed by a parade to St James’s Park, where the Royal British Legion will host a lunch reception for 2,000 veterans.
highlights_snippet.sent: Concert will be part of the three-day commemoration of end of WWII .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: There will be a Service of Remembrance on VE Day at The Cenotaph .