Olivia Lee

Residents at street parties highlight importance of commemorating those who died in second world war

It’s lunchtime in Manchester, and neighbours spanning three generations in Chorlton are celebrating VE Day with music, union jack hats and England’s favourite delicacy: the sausage roll.

It is one of 20 street parties happening across the city on bank holiday Monday to mark the day when the allies formally accepted Germany’s surrender in 1945.

Point Blank, a collection of 97 paintings of ‘emotional resonance’ by the singer-songwriter, will open at the Halcyon Gallery in May

After the success of this year’s biopic A Complete Unknown, a whole new generation has learned about the lyricism, nasal vocal style and often-frustrating nature of Bob Dylan.

And this month they will get the chance to discover he is also a painter, as the songwriter exhibits a series of original artworks – created with “emotional resonance” – in London.