LOCAL REMEMBRANCE EVENTS

A number of churches in the East Neuk and St Andrews will take part in a mass bell ringing at 7.05pm on Sunday.

Callum McLeod, chairman of St Andrews Community Council, will play melodies from the time on the great carillon of Holy Trinity Church.

Lindores Abbey will re-enact a ceremony from the end of the First World War on Armistice Day.

An open-air remembrance service will be held at 6pm on Sunday in the remains of the abbey.

Then at 7.07pm a beacon will be lit on the top of the hill above the abbey, exactly as they did 100 years ago.

A County Remembers is to be the theme of a First World War commemorative event to be held on the eve of Armistice in Angus at Kirriemuir Old Parish Church. The event starts at 7pm on Saturday. Alongside a visual presentation, the commemoration will include a performance by the Scottish Police and Community Choir and Cadet involvement from across the area.

A church bell in Stonehaven will ring out for the first time in around half a century this weekend. The bell at St James’ in Arbuthnott Street will be ready for Remembrance Sunday following a restoration project.

The bell itself was originally housed in the Episcopal Chapel on the High Street but was moved, following the chapel’s demolition, to St James’ in 1885.

The discovery of the forgotten 50kg chime was made by a steeplejack who was helping repair the dry rot found in the roof of St James’.

Work to remount the bell was carried out following a successful crowdfunding event and it will be rung during the remembrance service on Sunday.

An exhibition to mark the centenary of the surrender of the German fleet will be held in Rosyth later this month.

Rosyth Garden City Association is presenting the exhibition in Rosyth Parish Church from 1.304pm on November 20 and from noon to 4pm and 6-8pm the following day.

It will tell of Operation ZZ which saw the mightiest gathering of warships in one place on one day in naval history in the Firth of Forth on November 21 1918.

A wreath-laying ceremony will be held at 6pm on Saturday at the VC memorial by the Golf Hotel in Carnoustie.

On Sunday the parade leaves Carnoustie Legion on Dundee Street at 10.30am for the war memorial. The service begins at 10.45am with a two-minute silence at 11am followed by a service of remembrance and wreath-laying.