CREDITON Town Council and the Crediton Branch of The Royal British Legion are pleased to invite veterans, residents, local businesses and organisations to join them for the annual Remembrance Sunday Service and Parade on Sunday, November 9.

Remembrance Sunday is a national opportunity to remember the service and sacrifice of all those that have defended our freedoms and protected our way of life.

A Civic Service will take place at Crediton Parish Church at 10am.

After that the Parade will form up under the direction of the Parade Marshal on Union Road at 10.45am and will proceed to the War Memorial.

Councillor Steve Huxtable (Mayor of Crediton), Henry Parker and Mike May (respectively President and Chair of Crediton Royal British Legion) and Rev Matthew Tregenza will lead the service at the War Memorial.

The public is invited to attend and watch the parade and wreath-laying ceremony.

Members of the public are welcome to lay their own tributes on the North Side of the Memorial following the town group and organisation wreaths are laid.

After the ceremony, the Parade will move off along Union Road to Crediton Town Square for the salute and dispersal.

Union Road, Lower High Street and North Street will be closed to traffic from 10.30am to facilitate the Parade and some of the roads will not re-open until the event has concluded at 12 noon.

In addition, on Tuesday, November 11, the Mayor of Crediton together with representatives from Mid Devon District Council, from Crediton Hamlets Parish Council and the Royal British Legion will attend an Armistice Day Ceremony at the War Memorial (10.50am).

Two minutes silence will be observed at 11am. The Mayor will make the appropriate announcement before the start of the silence.

A member of Crediton Town Band will play to mark the commencement and end of the silence.