Heroes commemorated at Remembrance services and parades across the borough

In Lye - British Legion members, scouts, guides and boys' brigade members marched from Clinic Drive to Christ Church where a service of Remembrance was held in front of the war memorial at 10am on Sunday.

Former soldiers and dignitaries later gathered at the recently-renovated cenotaph in Mary Stevens Park, Stourbridge, where a service of Remembrance, two-minute silence and wreath-laying ceremony were held at 11am.

Stourbridge MP Margot James, the leader of Dudley Council, Councillor Pete Lowe, and the Deputy Mayor of Dudley, Councillor Mohammed Hanif, were among those paying their respects to the fallen.

Ron Gould, chairman of Stourbridge Royal British Legion, said the event was "the best one we've had for years".

He said between 2,000 and 3,000 people turned up to the service in the Norton park which was taken by Rev Michael Deakins.

Mr Gould added: "It was a very, very moving service and there was a very big crowd."

Servicemen who sacrificed their lives were also honoured at moving Remembrance events in Wordsley, Brierley Hill and Quarry Bank where a parade to the cenotaph by veterans, scouts, guides, brownies and rainbows was led by a lone piper.

Eric Homer, secretary of Quarry Bank Royal British Legion, said: "The parade was very well attended again and church was full with people standing at the back."

In Kingswinford, Royal British Legion members, the women’s section, cadet forces, scouts and guides turned out in force to march from the Royal British Legion HQ to St Mary's Church where a short service was held at the war memorial ahead of a church service.

Around 500 people turned out for this year's Remembrance Sunday event which Dudley South MP Mike Wood described as "fantastic".

He added: "It was particularly good to see so many cadets, Scouts, Guides, Cubs, Brownies, Beavers and Rainbows there, remembering the sacrifices made by so many people to safeguard the freedoms that we sometimes seem to take for granted."

Around 120 people turned up to take part in Clent, Belbroughton and Fairfield Royal British Legion's Remembrance parade which was this year held in Belbroughton held ahead of a service at Holy Trinity Church.

Blakedown and Hagley Royal British Legion held its Remembrance parade and service at Blakedown Church this year. Next year's event will be back in Hagley.

Meanwhile - Stourbridge's British Military Fitness, which meets in Stevens Park, Wollescote, staged a stretcher run on Saturday morning which saw members running with a 65kg dummy from Stevens Park to Mary Stevens Park in Norton.

The stunt raised around £600 and the money will be handed over to the Royal British Legion on Wednesday.

Meanwhile Quarry Bank Royal British Legion's annual poppy concert raised £776 for the Poppy Appeal but funds collected in the community have yet to be fully counted.