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Wakefield and Kirklees remembrance services preview
Details of Rememberance Day services around Wakefield and Kirklees.
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SATURDAY
The British Legion will be planting a poppy cross outside Wakefield Cathedral at 11am.
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SUNDAY
BATLEY: Procession assembles at Batley Market Place at 10.15am for march off at 10.35am to Batley War Memorial Gardens for 10.55am service.
BIRSTALL: Assemble 1.45pm Carr Street/Market Street corner, Birstall, for march off at 2pm for 2.20pm service at St Peter's Church.
CLECKHEATON : Assemble at Cleckheaton Town Hall at 2.15pm for march off at 2.30pm. Service at St John's Parish Church at 3pm.
DENBY DALE : Service at Methodist Church at 9.30am followed by service and wreath-laying ceremony at the War Memorial at 10.50am.
DEWSBURY : Procession assembles at Dewsbury Town Hall at 10am for march off at 10.10am to Dewsbury Minster for service at 10.30am. Following the service wreaths will be laid at the War Memorial on Longcauseway.
GOLCAR: Service of Remembrance at 10am at St John's Church. 11.15am leave the church and meet on Manor Road for 11.45am parade to Memorial in Jubilee Square. Parade will then march to Golcar British Legion Club.
HECKMONDWIKE: Meet at 11.45am at Green Park War Memorial for service at noon.
HOLMFIRTH: Service at 10.45am in Holy Trinity Parish Church followed by wreath-laying at the War Memorial at noon.
HUDDERSFIELD: Procession assembles at Huddersfield Parish Church at 10am for march off at 10.05am. The salute will be taken in the Market Place on the way to Huddersfield Town Hall. Remembrance Service in Huddersfield Town Hall at 10.50am.
KIRKBURTON: Service at the Parish Church at 10.30am. Wreaths will be laid in church and at the War Memorial.
MELTHAM: Assemble in Carlisle Street at 10.20am - march off at 10.30am to St Bartholomew's Church for service at 10.45am. Parade will re-form in Greensend Road and process through Market Place for the salute. Wreaths will be laid on the war memorial.
MIRFIELD: Assemble at 2pm in Lowlands Road for march off at 2.15pm via Station Road and Huddersfield Road for service and wreath-laying at Ings Grove Park War Memorial.
SLAITHWAITE: Service in St James's Parish Church at 9.45am and wreath-laying service at War Memorial at 11am.
* The Royal Armouries will pay tribute to the nation's war dead throughout November in a poignant month of remembrance. Following last year's tribute when museum staff read out the names of every Leeds' soldier killed during the First World War, the RA in Leeds will now remember local people who died during the 1939-1945 conflict.
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Sunday 12 February 2012
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