Airdrie and Motherwell will host North Lanarkshire’s main Remembrance Sunday services and parades for this year.
The events on Sunday, November 14 will be the first such ceremonies to take place since 2019, after last year’s had to be cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Further acts of remembrance to honour the fallen will take place on the same date in Wishaw, Bellshill, Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, while there will also be ceremonies and the laying of wreaths in communities across North Lanarkshire.
The service and parade at the war memorial on Monkscourt Avenue in Airdrie will take place at 10.50am on November 14.
North Lanarkshire’s second major event of Remembrance Sunday will be at the Cenotaph in Motherwell’s Duchess of Hamilton Park at 3pm that day.
A wreath-laying ceremony will also take place at the war memorial outside the authority’s Civic Centre headquarters on Armistice Day, Thursday November 11, at 11am.
The Royal British Legion Scotland is also organising events at Bellshill Cenotaph at 10.30am; Cumbernauld Village Cenotaph at 10.45am; Burngreen Park in Kilsyth at 10.50am; and Belhaven Park in Wishaw at 1pm.
Council officials add: “Other locally-organised ceremonies may also be taking place in other towns and villages across North Lanarkshire.”
The area’s usual Remembrance events could not take place in November 2020 with the area being in the second-highest tier of level three coronavirus measures, preventing outdoor gatherings of more than six people from two households; while places of worship were restricted to a maximum attendance of 50 at that time.
Dignitaries and community groups instead laid wreaths individually throughout Remembrance Sunday while observing social distancing, and residents were invited to mark the day by standing on their doorsteps to observe the two-minute silence at 11am.
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