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Winston Churchill's Battle of Britain 'Few' remembered

The 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain is being commemorated by a reading of one of Churchill's most famous speeches and a fly-past.

Winston Churchill's "so much owed by so many to so few" speech will be read at 1552 BST, precisely 70 years after he gave the address in Parliament.

The reading outside the Churchill War Rooms will be followed by a Spitfire and Hurricane fly-past over Whitehall.

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