Remembrance Day - residents to observe two-minute silence

PEOPLE in Wyre Forest will join together on Sunday to remember the men and women who lost their lives in conflict.

Parades, church services and the laying of wreaths will take place across the district to mark the sombre occasion of Remembrance Sunday.

Kidderminster will pay its respects with a church parade that will start at 10.30am. From there, it will pass through Bridge Street, Oxford Street, Vicar Street, Bull Ring, Lower Mill Street and St Mary's Ringway.

A short service is being held at the War Memorial at 10.55am and that will be followed by a service in the St Mary and All Saints Church.

Bewdley Scout and Guide Band is leading its town's parade, that will begin at 10.30am at Bridge House car park, Riverside North.

It will then make its way to the War Memorial at St Anne's Church for a wreath-laying ceremony before the church service at 11am.

Youngsters from the band will lead the parade past the Guildhall after the conclusion of the church service, where the town's mayor, Elizabeth Davies, will take the salute.

A second wreath-laying event is taking place outside All Saints Church in Wribbenhall at 4.15pm. A service will take place after at 4.30pm.

Wyre Forest residents will observe a two-minute silence tomorrow, in remembrance of people who lost their lives in conflict.

The Armistice Day silence is held at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month to mark the end of the First World War. Members of Kidderminster's Royal Navy Association will join other ex-serviceman at the War Memorial outside St Mary and All Angels Church to pay their tributes.

Sunday parades

WOLVERLEY'S Remembrance Sunday parade will assemble at 10am at the Memorial Hall and leave at 10.25am before making its way to St John the Baptist Church for the service at 10.45am.

Anyone wishing to take part in Cookley's parade should gather outside the Bulls Head pub in Bridge Road at 6pm.

The parade will go to St Peter's Church for the service, which will be conducted by the Rev Geoffrey Shilvock, taking place at 6.30pm.

Black Country singers, Cum Sing Wi' We, are performing at Wolverley Social Club tonight at 8pm. A collection in aid of the Poppy Appeal is being held at the free event.

Time for reflection

STOURPORT'S parade will assemble at 10.15am outside the Royal British Legion Club in Severn Road before moving off at 10.35am.

It will make its way up Mitton Street to the War Memorial Gardens in Vale Road, where wreaths will be laid and a two-minute silence observed.

Last Post and Reveille will be played and the parade will then be dismissed to St Wulstan's RC Church for a service.

The parade will gather after the service in Vale Road car park. It will head down High Street, where the town mayor, Michael Freeman, and any serving members of the armed forces will take the salute.

It will then proceed to the Royal British Legion headquarters, via York Street and Lichfield Street.