Former Ditchling resident - the late Dame Vera Lynn - has once again topped music charts with her cover of the song 'Land Of Hope And Glory'.
Dame Vera, who died at home in June aged 103, featured her version of the song on her 1994 album 'Vera Lynn Remembers: The Songs That Won World War Two'.
The song hit the top of the UK singles chart yesterday, also taking the number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 spots on the Amazon music chart.
It comes just days after the BBC provoked disdain from some people after deciding to play an instrumental version of the song at this year's Last Night at the Proms concert after critics suggested the lyrics glorify colonialism.
Speaking to the Daily Mail about the decision, Dame Vera's daughter, Virginia Lewis-Jones, said:
"'It is daft and I can't understand it. You try to stop 12,000 people in the Royal Albert Hall plus all those outside from not singing it. How are you going to do that? Especially if mummy's record has gone to number one. What it could do is put a lot of people's backs up and defeat the object of whatever they were trying to do."
She added the song was particularly meaningful to her mother, who sang it on VE Day in 1945.
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