SHOUTING by a lone man failed to disturb a remembrance service honouring the fallen in St John’s, Worcester.

Several hundred people had gathered at the war memorial outside St John in Bedwardine Church, when a man began shouting shortly before the minute’s silence at 11am on Sunday.

The same man then also shouted out urging people “to repent” as people filed from the church ahead of the two minutes’ silence yesterday.

Arthur Cooper, of the local Royal British Legion branch, said: “On Sunday he started playing up but a police officer had a quiet word with him. "I don’t know if he’s against the actual remembrance services.”

The Rev Sherry Bloomer, rector of St Clement with Christ Church, who took Tuesday’s service, said it had not disturbed the occasion.

She said: “He was evangelising in his understanding that God had asked him to tell us to repent.”