PEOPLE in Blackburn came together today to honour Britain's war heroes in events to mark Remembrance Sunday.

Members of the armed forces, the mayor, emergency services, school-children, voluntary organisations, and ex-service groups congregrated at the Cathedral for a special service.

The Salvation Army band then led a parade from the town centre to the war memorial in Corporation Park, Preston New Road.

At 11am, a lone bugler played the Last Post as light rain fell on the large crowd who had gathered to pay their respects to the country's military heroes.

Following a two-minute silence, members of the armed forces, mayor Coun Maureen McGarvey, the emergency services, and other groups, laid wreaths of poppies at the war memorial, which was flanked by two young Royal Navy cadets who rested their hands on upturned rifles.

The Dean of Blackburn, the Very Rev Christopher Armstrong, led the service with an Act of Remembrance, before the national anthem closed the event.

Av Katowicz, 83, of Abbey Village, near Blackburn, is the only surviving member of the Blackburn branch of the Polish Ex-servicemen's Club.

He said it was good to see so many people paying their respects.

Mr Katowicz, who served in World War Two and moved to East Lancashire in 1948, said: "The service went well.

"It is very important that we remember those who served in the armed forces and those who died."