The Week Ahead with The Yorkshire Post

The Week Ahead with Yorkshire Post features writer Laura Reid.

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00:00Hi, I'm Laura Reid, the Deputy Features Editor at the Yorkshire Post and here's a look at what's

00:05coming up in the week ahead. Commemorative events will be taking place across the country this week

00:10to mark 80 years since the end of the Second World War. There'll be lots of VE Day commemorations

00:16taking place locally and nationally. On May 8th, for example, more than a thousand beacons and

00:22several hundred land lights of peace have been lit around the nation with communities encouraged

00:27to take part in commemorations to recreate the jubilant scenes of 80 years ago on May 8th,

00:331945, when people up and down the country lit hundreds of bonfires and beacons

00:38at celebratory events following the news of the German surrender. There's another anniversary

00:44being marked in the region this week too, 40 years since the devastating Bradford City Stadium fire.

00:50A fire broke out in Bradford City's Valley Parade Stadium on May 11th, 1985, as the club met Lincoln

00:56City for the final game of the season. Bradford had got promotion three weeks before and the day was

01:04set to host a carnival atmosphere, but at the end of the first half a disaster struck and the fire,

01:12which was believed to have been started by a discarded cigarette or match, engulfed one of the

01:17wooden stands and claimed the lives of 56 people. Meanwhile Bradford is also hosting the Creative Cities

01:25Connection this week, which is an annual event for professionals working in film, tv and digital

01:30industries and it's focused on perspectives from outside of London. As part of this, Pictureville

01:36Cinema at the National Science and Media Museum is holding two gala screenings organised in partnership

01:44with Bradford 2025 City of Culture. The screenings include the upcoming BBC documentary Unforgotten,

01:52the Bradford City Fire, as well as Anita Rane's The Brontes, which is a new documentary for Sky Arts

01:59exploring the enduring influence of the Bronte sisters.