D-DAY memorial events will be taking place in Stourbridge and Dudley tomorrow (Thursday June 6).

The Royal Naval Association will hold a memorial and wreath-laying ceremony at the cenotaph in Mary Stevens Park, Norton, Stourbridge, at 11am to mark the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings.

D-Day was the biggest military naval, air and land operation ever attempted and it marked the beginning of the campaign by Allied Forces to liberate north-west Europe from Nazi occupation.

Tens of thousands of troops landing simultaneously on five separate beaches in Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944.

The anniversary of the momentous military operation will also be commemorated in Dudley tomorrow (Thursday June 6).

The Mayor of Dudley will lay a wreath at the cenotaph in Ednam Road at 10am.

The D-Day anniversary flag will be flown from Dudley Council House on the day and the building will be lit up in red, white and blue in the evening.

Dudley Zoo and Castle will also be lighting a beacon at 9.15pm on Thursday to coincide with beacons being lit throughout the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

A beacon will also be lit at Kinver Edge by the toposcope at 9.15pm and a tribute read out by a representative of the Kinver and Enville branch of the Royal British Legion, following a day of events in the village, including a commemorative service in Jubilee Gardens at 2.30pm, a ticketed afternoon tea at the Senior Citizens Club, and bell ringing at St Peter's Church from 6.30pm.

The Edward Marsh Centre will also host a ticketed 1940s dance on Saturday June 8.