Pay your respects at events for fallen

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If you haven’t yet bought your poppy, a group of collectors will be at Fremlin Walk shopping centre in Maidstone tomorrow (Saturday) from 10am.

Maidstone will mark the occasion on Remembrance Sunday, November 13, with a parade through the town followed by a service of remembrance.

It includes a two-minute silence at 11am at the War Memorial in The Broadway, followed by the laying of wreaths.

The parade, including military and civilian units, will form up in Week Street, and set off at 10.30am, to march past the Town Hall, down the High Street, over the bridge to the memorial for the service at 10.50am.

Once the wreath-laying has concluded, the Mayor Cllr Derek Butler and his guests will lead the parade back to the Town Hall, with participants expected to dismiss in Week St reet at 11.35am.

There will be a sequence of rolling road closures as it passes. Traffic will be affected on County Road ( for the parking of coaches), Sandling Road, Station Road, Union Street, St Faith’s Street, Earl Street, Week Street, High Street, Wyke Manor Road, Pudding Lane, Bank Street, Gabriels Hill, Mill Street, Lower High Street, the Bridge Gyratory, Barker Road, St Peter’s Street, The Broadway, Rocky Hill, Lon- don Road. Th e area around the memorial will be shut between 10.30am and 11.30am. The Royal British Legion at Aylesford will mark the occasion with a service on Armistice Day, Friday November 11, in the Garden of Honour, off Hall Road, Aylesford, starting at 10.45am. On Remembrance Sunday, there will be a parade at the village from the Pavilion to the Memorial Gardens at 2.45pm. Also on Sunday, remembrance will be held at East Sutton Memorial at 10am, and at Sutton Valence Memorial, at 10.55am. From 3pm a service takes place at St Michael’s Church, in Chart Sutton. Parking is provided by Sutton Valence Prep school.