Event to celebrate Windrush generation

The flag raising event will take place in St Peter's Square, Wolverhampton, on Friday

A flag raising event will be held on Friday to pay tribute to the Windrush generation in Wolverhampton.

Windrush Day has been held every June since 2018, to celebrate the contribution Caribbean migrants and their families have made to the UK.

City of Wolverhampton Council is holding the celebratory event at 10:50 BST in St Peter's Square.

The Deputy Lord Lieutenant, Martin Levermore MBE, will open the event with Pastor Gilroy Brown also attending.

HMT Empire Windrush docked in Tilbury, Essex, in 1948, bringing hundreds of passengers from the Caribbean to the UK.

In 2018, it emerged that the government had not properly recorded the details of people granted permission to stay in the UK, and many were mistreated.

HMT Empire Windrush became a symbol of a wider mass-migration movement.

People in the Caribbean were invited to the UK to help rebuild post-war Britain.

Several hundred passengers were Jamaican, but others arrived from islands including Trinidad, St Lucia, Grenada and Barbados.

These travellers - and those on other ships which came to the UK until 1971 - became known as the Windrush generation.