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County pauses as Remembrance services adapted for lockdown

We will remember them

People from across the county paid their respects despite the official Remembrance services being scaled down or moved online due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Residents paid their own personal tributes, observing the two minute silence on their own doorsteps as advised by the Royal British Legion.

In Corby, a socially-distanced service took place with Mayor Cllr Lawrence Ferguson laying a wreath on behalf of the people of the town.

Mayor of Kettering, Cllr James Burton attended a service of Remembrance at Kettering War Memorial along with 29 others including, MP Philip Hollobone, Rear Admiral Andy Kyte, and Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire, Martin Gaskell. The service is available on the This is Kettering's YouTube channel .

Mayor of Rushden Cllr Melanie Colman took part in a doorstep ceremony that was live streamed.

In Wellingborough, mayor Cllr Jon-Paul Carr and a small civic party will be paying their respects at a separate private wreath laying.

He has also laid a posy of flowers as a tribute to the fallen at the war memorials in Mears Ashby, Ecton, Grendon, Bozeat, Wollaston, Wilby, Earls Barton, Irchester, Little Irchester, Wellingborough, Finedon, Isham, Little Harrowden and the church porches of Great Harrowden, Orlingbury, Hardwick , Sywell, East Maudit, Strixton, Great Doddington and the the calvary cross in All Hallows Churchyard, Wellingborough.

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