Remembrance Sunday parade cancelled as residents are asked to remember at home

The Stone High Street and Walton Remembrance events are milestone community events, however, in light of current restrictions, the parade is cancelled as residents are asked to remember at home.

In previous years thousands of people have attended the Stone High Street and Walton Remembrance Sunday parades and services. In these current times, such gatherings could create unacceptable levels of risk to our community and therefore Stone Town Council has reluctantly decided not to hold either the High Street parade or the service at St Michael and St Wulfad’s Church.

There will instead just be small services at the war memorials in Granville Square and at Walton Community Centre.

All members of the public are being asked on this occasion to remember at home and not come to
the High Street or the Community Centre due to the potential risk to themselves and others should
crowds gather.

Arrangements are being made for organisations who would normally lay wreaths to do so at other times, avoiding Remembrance Sunday morning.

Stone Town Councillor and Town Mayor Mark Green said:

“I am disappointed that the current situation has forced the Town Council to have to curtail such an important occasion for the town.

I urge you to avoid risks to the community by remembering in your own way at home on this occasion, rather than coming into the town centre or Walton on Remembrance Sunday morning.”