Armed Forces

A footbridge has been decorated in scores of poppies, thanks to knitting nannas and their friend who put them on wires for an amazing display.

Veterans are being offered free refreshments this Sunday at a pub as part of a thank you for their service.

Towns and villages are staging Remembrance Sunday services and parades this weekend.

A school's remembrance display features silhouettes made from poppies and pictures from staff who had family involved in D-Day.

There's advance warning of brief, rolling road closures as towns get set for Remembrance Sunday parades on November 10.

School children took part in the Royal British Legion poppy appeal.

The pilot whose military jet plane crashed into a village field five years ago today gives his first interview since the accident.

The first men at the scene of an America jet plane crash five years ago have described what they saw.

48th Fighter Wing vice commander Col John Stratton was just weeks into the command tour when one od his planes crashed in a village field.

The landowner of the a site where an American jet fighter crashed five years ago is still awaiting compensation. claim.

The pilot whose military jet plane came down in a village field five years ago today has given his first interview since the crash.

Calls have been made to honour a hero pilot who saved a town.

South Holland people have been honouring the soldiers who fought at Arnhem at commemorations here and in The Netherlands.

The twin daughters of a hero pilot who sacrificed his life have visited the site where his plane crashed more than 60 years ago.

A parade and church service on Sunday will honour a village's ties with the Battle of Arnhem.

A World War II veteran has reached his 100th birthday on a diet of 'pure luck'.

A fundraiser brought along an original DUKW amphibious vehicle for a talk to a U3A group about D-Day.

A pensioner will see Arnhem for the first time this month as he makes an emotional pilgrimage to the place where his father fought valiantly

The 75th anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem sees Angela Porter visit The Netherlands, where her father was an Allied landings paratrooper

About £2,500 was raised at a military weekend attended by one of the area's war veterans.