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Service at St Paul's to remember the Blitz 70 years on

A service at St Paul's marked the 70th anniversary of the start of the raids.

Thousands of people across the UK were killed and injured in the raids by German forces in 1940 and 1941.

Blitz, the German word for "lightning", was applied by the British press to the tempest of heavy and frequent bombing raids carried out over Britain.

This concentrated direct bombing on industrial targets and civilian centres, with heavy raids on London....
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