Overview
- Councils and Royal British Legion branches have confirmed parades and services for November 9 and November 11 across towns including Derby, Oxford, Coventry, the Isle of Wight, North Devon, Cumbria, Torbay, Bradford, Darlington, Swindon and Nuneaton.
- Detailed traffic plans include full and rolling closures such as Coventry’s Spencer Road, Warwick Road, Leamington Road and Kenilworth Road, Derby city centre streets from 8am to 1pm, and Oxford’s St Giles’ and adjoining routes, with parking suspensions and Blue Badge provisions where stated.
- Community-led tributes feature prominently, from Sutton Poyntz’s 1,200‑plus knitted poppies and Swindon’s lamppost poppies to Bradford’s large single‑poppy projection on City Hall during the civic ceremony.
- Traditional elements and accessibility measures are in place, including Last Post and wreath‑laying, maroons or cannon firings in coastal Dorset at 11am and 11.02am, and a British Sign Language interpreter at Oxford’s St Giles’ service.
- Additional activities include Carlisle’s Remembrance Run donating entry fees to the Royal British Legion and Coventry’s expanded programme marking the 85th anniversary of the Blitz, with the West Orchards Poppy Drop at 10.45am on Tuesday.