FLOODS made it impossible for some members of Staunton & District Over-60s Club to attend the winter sale, but a profit of £130 was made which will go toward funding the Christmas lunch on December 11.

The last meeting of the year will be on November 27, with the year 2001 meetings starting on January 8. The organiser Mrs Nan Bevan says a welcome awaits anyone wishing to go along and enjoy some company if you are 60 or nearly, you will be made welcome.

As more than 100 people stood at Staunton War Memorial on a cold but dry morning, they remembered with two minutes' silence all those who had given their lives in two world wars that we might live in peace and freedom. It was a solemn occasion for the dozens of young Scouts, Cubs and Beavers who had paraded from the church with their leaders of the 1st Staunton & Corse to the War Memorial. The short service was led by Canon John Evans and a wreath of poppies was laid at the memorial by a member of Staunton & District Women's Royal British Legion and the words of Lawrence Binyon were spoken by the chairman, Mrs Pat Hunt. Their standard bearer was member Sergeant Lorraine Tomlinson, a serving member of the WAAF. The names of those men from the village who gave their lives in two world wars were read by Warrant Officer Michael Bradbury, RAF. The Service of Remembrance followed in the church and during the singing of Onward Christian Soldiers the banner was received at the altar by the vicar. The lessons were read by Mr John Luard and the collection was taken by June Fardon and Ursula Groves-Smith, churchwardens. Margaret Riley was the organist.