Dambusters 70th anniversary

A memorial is being unveiled in Woodhall Spa adjacent to the existing World War Two one in honour of the Dambuster Raids. It will be unveiled by Air Marshal A D Pulford. Weather permitting, there will also be flypasts by Lancaster and Tornado aircraft.

A memorial service for Canadian airmen who lost their lives in the Second World War is taking place this afternoon in the North Yorkshire village of Sutton-on-the-Forest.

14 personnel from the Royal Canadian Air Force will be attending the service, which will be even more poignant this year in light of the 70th anniversary of the Dambuster Raids, which many Canadian airmen took part in.

Dambuster veterans Les Munro and Johnny Johnson have attended the commemoration service at Lincoln Cathedral/

A service is being held at Lincoln Cathedral to commemorate the Dambusters raid.

There will be another service to commemorate the Dambusters raid today, this time in Lincoln Cathedral. The event will be attended by more than 1,300 people, including veterans of the raid Johnny Johnson and Les Munro, who has flown from New Zealand to be here.

Other relatives of those involved in the raids, including Guy Gibson's nephew and Mary Stopes Roe, the daughter of bouncing bomb inventor Barnes Wallis, will also be in attendance.

The service will be led by the Dean of Lincoln Cathedral, supported by the Chaplain in Chief of the Royal Air Force, and will be followed by a flypast by the Lancaster of the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and a pair of Tornado aircraft from 617 Squadron.

It follows last night's flypast infront of hundreds of people at RAF Scampton where the Dambusters mission began.

There has been another flypast this evening - this time at a service of remembrance in front of hundreds of people at RAF Scampton where the Dambusters mission began. James Webster was there.

In a moving interview, Lincolnshire-born survivor Johnny Johnson looks back over his life and says he was "lucky" in more ways than one.

Hundreds of people turned out to witness the Dambusters' commemorative flypast in Derbyshire, Chris Kiddey among them.

Mary Stopes-Roe is the daughter of Barnes Wallis, the man who invented the infamous "bouncing bomb".