A RECORD number of residents paraded through Wyre Forest streets to commemorate Remembrance Day which marked 100 years since the end of WWI.

Parades and church services were held yesterday (Sunday November 11) in Kidderminster, Bewdley, Stourport, Cookley, and Wolverely, with townsfolk joining processions to pay respect to the fallen.

The parade at Kidderminster, which was their largest in several years, started from New Road Car Park at 10.30am and made its way through the town centre to the parish church of St Mary and All Saints for a short service at the War Memorial and church.

Residents were encouraged to place tea lights or candles in their windowsills at 7.18pm as part of the #Let their lights shine campaign.

Councillor Martin Stooke, Mayor of Kidderminster, said: "May I thank most warmly all the organisations and townspeople who attended the parade and service.

The huge turnout assembled at the War Memorial was a fitting tribute to the memory of the fallen."

Bewdley's Remembrance Parade travelled through Load Street, followed by a wreath laying ceremony at St Anne's Church in the morning, and at Wribbenhall in the afternoon.

The town also saw the "Battle's Over" beacon lighting, as well as a visual display outside the Guildhall in commemoration of the fallen, and a Remembrance Concert at St Anne's Church.

In Stourport, a morning procession set off from The British Legion and made its way through Severn Road and Mitton Street to arrive at the War Memorial on Vale Road.

After a special Remembrance Service at St Wulstan's Church, the parade continued through the High Street and York Street, and back to The British Legion.

In Wolverley a Remembrance Parade made its way from the Memorial Hall down the lane to St John the Baptist Church, and then towards the Queens Head pub at 10.25am.

Cookley residents commemorated armistice with a parade which travelled from the Bulls Head pub along Lea Lane to St Peter's Church.