, and to elect regional mayors who will be given more powers.
There was only one place Eileen wanted to be."When we heard the war was over we got on the train and went up to London," she says.
"We were celebrating in Trafalgar Square... Everybody was so happy and cuddling each other and kissing and dancing and singing. It was a really lovely atmosphere."I was there all night and I fell asleep in the entrance to a cinema. I had my photo taken by a reporter from the Daily Herald."Eileen loved her wartime years in rural Essex so much that she moved there in the 1970s, settling in a village just a few miles from the fields where she spent her late teens.
"The house where we stayed is still there. It's called The Limes and there were 16 Land Army girls in there, with two ladies looking after us."Sometimes when I'm out that way I stop and look up at the house and remember that bunk bed where I used to sleep. It was such a happy time."
The owners of a World War One airfield have confirmed they will appeal against a council's decision to refuse a second application to develop the site.
Under the proposals, up to 315 new homes and commercial and visitor buildings were set to be built at Old Sarum, Salisbury, Wiltshire.UKHarvest said it aims to provide food for up to 40 people per school.
Clare Corbitt, a mother of two from Chichester who has begun using the initiative, said it was a “fantastic idea”.“My two daughters decided together what food to use in our dinner that evening, and what we could use up for breakfast and lunch the next day,” she said.
“It's a massive help for me, and lovely to see the children come up with meal ideas."Ms Ellis, deputy headteacher at Birdham CE Primary School, said the scheme was not a food bank.