Service celebrates Windrush families

The people of the Windrush generation showed resilience as they helped rebuild postwar Britain a service to commemorate the 70th anniversary of their arrival has been told.

Prime minister theresa may, whose government has been heavily criticised amid a scandal that has seen people who were invited here decades ago face deportation, was among those listening at a service in Westminster Abbey.

The Rev Canon Joel Edwards said the generation had “gifted Britain”.