A BOROUGH has revealed details of road closures on Remembrance Sunday.

Burnley Council will hold its annual Service of Remembrance to be held at the Peace Garden in Croft Street Sunday November 14.

Several roads will be closed between 10am and noon for the memorial parade.

They are St James’s Street from its junction with Curzon Street to its junction with Parker Lane; Parker Lane from its junction with St James Street to its junction with Finsley Gate; Red Lion Street from its junction with Parker Lane to its junction with Croft Street; the nearby unnamed road from its junction with Parker Lane to its junction with The William Thompson Car Park; and Croft Street from its junction with Red Lion Street to its end in a South-Westerly direction for 32.5 metres.

The service will start shortly before 11am and will be conducted by the Bishop of Burnley the Right Rev Philip North.

Members of the public attending are asked to be at the Peace Garden no later than 10.45am.

After the National Anthem, the civic party will then proceed to the main entrance of the police station where the Commanding Officer of the 4th Battalion of the Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment will take the Salute accompanied by Cllr Townsend.

After the Salute, Cllr Townsend will attend a short service and lay a wreath on the town’s Cenotaph in Towneley Park.

He said: “I hope people will join us to pay their respects at the Remembrance Sunday service to those who have served our country.”