Special stamps for VE Day anniversary see unsung war heroes receive a salute

A SPECIAL set of stamps has been issued to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day.

- By ALAN JONES

A main set of 10 stamps will honour men and women who made contributions during the Second World War, while a mini-sheet of stamps has images of Dame Vera Lynn from different aspects of her wartime career.

People featured include:

■George Arthur Roberts, the first black man to join the London Auxiliary Fire Service, in 1938;

■Mary Morris, whose diaries describe how she nursed troops returning wet and wounded from Dunkirk;