A PLEA has been issued to remember the fallen at home across Bolton this Remembrance Sunday.

Bolton Parish Church has been told it cannot stage any acts of public worship under the new coronavirus lockdown regulations.

But there will be a streamed service, including many of the elements of the usual Remebrance Sunday proceedings, which will be available online at https://youtu.be/KZfklZpRDic

There will also be a broadcast on Bolton FM just before 11am.

All other services and parades across the borough have been cancelled.

But wreaths can be laid at one of Bolton's cenotaphs up to Armistice Day on November 11.

Town hall officals are also encouraging people to mark Remembrance Sunday by taking part in a two-minute silence from their doorsteps at 11am

Mayor of Bolton, Cllr Linda Thomas, said it was disappointing the traditional parades and ceremonies could not take place this year, but people’s health had to come first.

She said: “We would like to welcome people to show their appreciation and to take part in an act of remembrance by placing photographs, drawings and artwork of poppies in the windows of their homes, and places of work, in a similar way to which we supported our NHS workers during lockdown.”

The Bolton News has reported previously how Horwich's remembrance parade had been cancelled, with residents being asked to leave tributes over the course of this weekend.

Services would usually have taken place at the Loco Works War Memorial and at the cenotaph at the garden of remembrance on Lever Park Avenue.

Giant poppies - bearing the motto 'Lest We Forget' - have been painted close to memorials across the borough by highways contractor Kays.

Twelve have been located around the area, with the first four at Bradshawgate, near the Nelson Square memorial; Darwen Road, Bromley Cross; Knowsley Street; and Nelson Street.

Poppy signs have also been painted near memorials at Albert Road, Farnworth; Chorley New Road; Church Road/Market Street, Westhoughton; Manchester Road in Kearsley; Market Street, Little Lever, and Scholes Bank, Horwich. Markings are also at Belmont Road, Astley Bridge and Manchester Road, Blackrod.