BRIGG WILL REMEMBER THE FALLEN ON REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY 2020 DURING CORONAVIRUS EMERGENCY

Brigg will still remember The Fallen on Sunday, November 8, 2020 but Coronavirus emergency measures mean changes have had to be made to the familiar format.
Brigg Town Council, which organises the commemorations, says it is planning a very small, socially distanced service to be held at the Monument.
There will be no church service at St John's nor parade through the town centre.
Town Clerk Kerry McGrath has now written to the regular wreath-bearers, inviting one adult representative to meet at the Monument at 10.30am to lay their wreath. Face masks must be worn and social distancing observed.
Following local vicar Father Owain Mitchell's move to another parish earlier in the year, lay reader Keith Simpson has agreed to oversee a very short service, where there will be traditional readings and poems. Keith currently leads the prayers at council meetings.
The council will be "live streaming" the service on Facebook on November 8; and while it cannot stop people from attending, the authority says "it will be actively discouraging public attendance."
The council has booked a public address system and will be broadcasting digital music for the Last Post and Reveille, rather than having a bugler playing at the Monument. A road closure for the roundabout area has been requested.
Town Mayor Coun Sharon Riggall will lay a wreath on behalf of the council.
"We will, obviously, be keeping an eye on Government Guidelines and will adapt the day if anything changes," the council says.
These arrangements follow discussions about Remembrance Sunday during the council's latest 'virtual' meeting (held online due to the emergency).
At the suggestion of Coun Rob Waltham, a special working group was formed with delegated powers to decide how best to proceed. This comprised the Mayor, Deputy Town Mayor Coun Brian Parker, and the Town Clerk.
The council session, held the previous day, considered advice given to local councils which recommends that only TWO wreaths are laid - one by the Mayor or chairman/woman (on behalf of the council and all local groups) and one on behalf of the Forces. This advice also rules out church services, parades, hymn singing and bugle-playing. It appears that a number of other councils in the region have already decided to follow this recommendation in full.
In normal years, dozens of townsfolk watch the parade from Station Road to St John's for the service, see it re-form on Wrawby Street to march through the town centre to the Monument, gather near the roundabout to watch wreaths being laid and observe the two-minute silence.
The planting of wooden crosses by local school children in flower beds near the Monument has been cancelled on the Friday prior to Remembrance Sunday.
Instead, schools are being encouraged to get pupils to submit a poem, prose or piece of artwork on an A4 piece of paper which the Town Council will display on its electronic boards (currently awaiting planning permission). The Mayor, Deputy Mayor and Town Clerk will be laying the crosses near the memorial at some point before November 11.
PICTURED: Wreaths and crosses at the Monument on previous Remembrance Sundays.