CAMPAIGNERS from one of Pendle’s smallest outposts are hoping to unveil their own war memorial for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

Villagers in Laneshawbridge have already staged their first-ever Remembrance Sunday service this year, which was well attended.

And now plans are being brought together to provide the village’s own cenotaph in time for the royal celebrations this summer.

Coun Paul White, who represents Boulsworth ward, said that Laneshawbridge was one of the only locations locally which did not have its own memorial.

The official population of the area is around 760 and there are only approximately 370 homes within its boundaries.

But Coun White said that there are number of war dead officially recorded, during both the First and Second World Wars.

He added: “The idea is that the memorial will be in place for the Queen’s jubilee celebrations. We have bought the stone itself and we are now raising money for the rest of the project.

“There is a garden there, opposite the Emmott Arms, at the corner of Keighley Road and School Lane, which we will be using as the garden of remembrance.”

Around £8,000 will be needed in total for the initiative, which was originally formulated by the parish council’s events committee.

Jerry Stanford, secretary of Colne Connected, the Market Town initiative group, confirmed that the organisation had awarded £1,000 towards providing the centrepiece.

It is expected that the memorial will be a stone ‘cromlech’ design, and bear a simple plaque recording the collective sacrifice of Laneshawbridge’s troops.