BROMSGROVE is set to remember the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice while serving their country.

Silences and parades will take place across the area as townsfolk pay tribute on Remembrance Day and Remembrance Sunday.

The ceremonies will start tomorrow (Thursday) on Remembrance Day at 11am when maroons will be let off in Sanders Park and Rubery Recreation Ground. The maroons will signal the start and finish of the national two minutes' silence.

Royal British Legion members will observe the silence beneath the Oddfellows' memorial in Bromsgrove town centre.

On Remembrance Sunday, a parade in Bromsgrove, starting at 10am, will see members of the Royal British Legion and other organisations march down High Street to St John's Parish Church.

A service will be held before a salute and wreath laying ceremony at the Burma Star Memorial in Crown Close.

In Rubery, a parade will start at the Royal British Legion club at 10.30am, before moving to St Chad's Church, New Road. Another service will also be held at the Beacon Church Centre, Whetty Lane, at 6.30pm.

St Godwald's Parish Church, Finstall Road, Aston Fields, will also hold a service after a wreath-laying at the war memorial at 2.45pm.

District council chairman Ted Tibby, who is himself an ex-soldier, said: "The people of Bromsgrove always support Remembrance Day. I am sure they will come out to give thanks to those that gave their lives in defence to their country."

Tomorrow a two minutes' silence will be held at the Council House in Burcot Lane, after a fire alarm is sounded.

l Roads closed for Remembrance Sunday parades include Church Street and Market Street in Bromsgrove and Legion Road, New Road and St Chad's Road in Rubery.