Around 200 people turned out for the Bollington Civic Parade and Service.

The event was a celebration of the town culminating in awards for residents for services to the community. Bollington Brass Band led the parade from Adelphi Mill to Bollington Civic Hall.

The band was followed by standard bearers for the Royal British Legion, 236 Bollington Air Cadets and TS Ardent Sea Cadets, then town mayor coun Amanda Stott, visiting mayors and MP David Rutley. Brownies, guides and cadets followed on as well as members of the public.

The service, led by Rev Marion Tugwood, had a religious element but was in the civic hall not the church as in the past.

Cadets made an altar of drums to represent a place of worship – something soldiers did during the war.

Coun Stott said: “It was a break from tradition having it in the civic hall, but it worked well and involved more people.

“We’re enormously proud of the civic hall.”

A collection was taken in aid of the Bollington War Memorial fund.