North East events to mark Remembrance Sunday

About 1,000 people attended a service at Durham Cathedral last year

A raft of events are taking place across north-east England to mark Remembrance Sunday.

Poppy displays have been dotting monuments, churches and civic buildings in the lead-up to commemorations on 9 November.

Newcastle City Council said it was expecting thousands of people to attend city centre events.

A military parade will gather at the civic centre from 10:45 GMT ahead of a service at the Old Eldon Square memorial.

A gun signal will mark a two-minute silence ahead of a service by the Bishop of Newcastle, Helen-Ann Hartley.

The Lord Mayor of Newcastle, councillor Henry Gallagher, will head to the Saluting Dias at Grey's Monument to take the salute as the military parade marches past.

Newcastle City Council said it was expecting thousands of people to attend a city centre Remembrance Sunday event

Durham Cathedral is holding a service at 10:15 which will be attended by service personnel and veterans.

A parade will march through Market Place at 11:20 and past a replica Spitfire at Millennium Place.

The full-size reproduction Spitfire MK IX is a feature to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two and the 85th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.

Sunderland's Remembrance events are taking place at the city's Burdon Road war memorial.

A parade starts at 10:35, with the British Army Band Catterick and Bearpark and Esh Colliery Band accompanying the procession.

The firing of field guns from Mowbray Park will mark the start of a two-minute silence at 11:00.

Middlesbrough Council will livestream its Remembrance Sunday event on the authority's Facebook page.

A parade will start at 10:30 and head to the cenotaph for a service.

In Darlington, a Remembrance service is being be held at Holy Trinity Church, Woodland Road, at 10:00.

A procession will follow to the cenotaph in the grounds of Darlington Memorial Hospital, where wreaths will be laid.

A further service will be held at the war graves in West Cemetery, Carmel Road North, at 14:30.