Plans for ANZAC Day reach Australia

PREPARATIONS for the village's annual remembrance day for Australian Soldiers made big news down under.

The hundreds of schoolchildren who went out picking flowers for Saturday's Remembrance service for ANZAC Day was reported in the Sydney and Melbourne Herald Sun.

Andrew Gandon, St Mary's Church Vicar, said: "This is a major community event, every child who has ever been to the village school, to the infant school and junior school, have every ANZAC day come here and laid flowers on the graves,

"If you've grown up here, it's kind of being bred into you. You have older generations who look back over the years and have really come to value it and I've come to really value it and it acts as a kind of glue really to bring people together and give them a sense of what it means to belong to this community."

The Remembrance Service will be held on Saturday at St Mary's Church, in the High Street at 3pm and will be led by preacher Reverend Canon John Cullen from New Zealand.