HUNDREDS of people turned out for Remembrance Sunday services across South Durham today (Sunday, November 9).

Bishop Auckland residents attended a parade at the town’s war memorial in Market Place where about 300 people gathered to watch several organisations lay wreaths and remember 1,340 Bishop Auckland men who lost their lives in the First World War.

Two services, one at St Anne’s Church and the other at Bishop Auckland Methodist Church were also held after the parade.

Residents in Spennymoor also attended a service at Spennymoor Town Hall at 10am which was followed by a march to the cenotaph at 10.45am.

More than 400 people attended a service at St Edmund’s Church in Sedgefield which was followed by wreath-laying at the town’s war memorial.

The mayor, deputy lord lieutenant and several uniformed organisations laid wreaths at the gathering which included parishioners from both the Catholic and Methodist churches too.

The names of men from Sedgefield, Brandon and Mordon who died in both the First and Second World Wars, along with Canadian men who died after being involved in an air crash just outside Middleton in the Second World War, were also read out.