A RECORD 300 people attended the annual Remembrance Day service at Saltburn's war memorial today (Sunday).
The Reverend Adam Young, a curate at Emmanuel church, told the crowd that work on restoring the memorial should be completed next year.
The Last Post was played by former Army musician Crawford Hall and representatives of 38 organisations stepped forward to lay wreaths.
Parade marshall John Lambert, formerly of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, invited anyone else to lay wreaths or crosses and a dozen people did so.
Earlier, civic leaders, Army cadets, young people from other youth organisations, and the public took part in a procession from Emmanuel church where a service had been held. Traffic was held up along Windsor Road and Albion Terrace while the procession walked along.
In Redcar, standard bearers led the way as the town's Remembrance Parade headed to the cenotaph as hundreds of people lined the streets to pay their respects.
In Middlesbrough, the town's mayor Ray Mallon led proceedings while Liz Chambers, welfare officer of Durham and Cleveland Korean Veterans Association, read an exhortation and Peter Bird, chairman of the Combined Services, read the Kohima dedication, as hundreds of people gathered at the cenotaph in Linthorpe Road.
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