North Perrott will commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day landings with a hot air balloon “glow” in Church Lane.

Meet on the Village Green at 9.30pm and walk to the field oposite the church for the “glow” at 9.45pm.

The Manor Arms will be open before the event.

The significance of the 80th anniversary is as huge as the event itself. The youngest to have been involved in the landings, and eyewitness to events of the 6th June 1944, are now at least 98 years old. This is the last major anniversary that eyewitnesses will be present and it is important that their recollections are recorded for prosterity. Without the sacrifice and success of the largest every combined army, naval and air operation ever to take place, our freedom could never have been won from the occupation of Europe by the Nazis.