SERVICES of remembrance will take place throughout the district of St Albans and across the nation on Sunday, to mark the death of soldiers who died serving their country during peace and conflict at home and abroad over the past 80 years.

St Albans Mayor John Peters will join members of the Royal British Legion and city residents for a service at the city's war memorial in St Peter's Street.

The service will begin at 10.30am on Sunday with a parade starting at the Old Town Hall in Market Square, leading to the war memorial, where wreaths will be laid and the two minutes silence observed.

A service of remembrance will be held in Harpenden on Sunday attended by Town Mayor Teresa Heritage, at the war memorial in Leyton Green off the High Street, starting at 10.30am, with a two minute silence observed at 11am.

Redbourn residents will be marking Remembrance Day with a service at the War Memorial as well as the traditional parade through the village High Street.

Scouts, guides, parish councillors, and representatives of village organisations, including the British Legion, as well as political representatives, will meet at the library in Lamb Lane at 10.25am before proceeding down the High Street to the memorial.

Wreaths will be laid before a short service and a minutes silence at 11am.

In Sandridge, the Sunday service at St Leonard's Church in Church End, will begin 15 minutes early at 9.45am. Wreaths will be laid at the parish war memorial at the lychgate of the church just before 11am, when the two minutes silence will be observed.

November 9, 2001 19:00