HUNDREDS of people took part in remembrance events at the weekend, commemorating those who died in the world wars and other conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries.

This year’s events also marked the centenary of the armistice that ended the First World War.

The weekend’s events began on Saturday afternoon with a Festival of Remembrance concert at Great Malvern Priory.

The same evening, about 100 people climbed to the summit of the Worcestershire Beacon for the lighting of a commemorative beacon,

And on Sunday, the remembrance parade assembled on Graham Road and, led by the Malvern Boys’ and Girls’ Brigade Band, marched to Great Malvern Priory for the main service at 9.30am.

Following the service, which was extremely well attended, the parade reassembled in front of the post office in Abbey Road, before marching down Church Street and into the library grounds off Graham Road, where the war memorial is located.

The act of remembrance was led by Nigel Coke-Woods from Malvern Methodist Churches, and included the Last Post, the two minutes’ silence and reveille, before the reading of the Kohima epitaph and the laying of wreaths at 11am.

A remembrance parade also took place in Upton, marching from the old fire station to the parish church for the service at 10.45am, followed by the laying of wreaths at the Memorial Hall, Old Street.