AS this year's Remembrance Day approaches, we're looking back at the events that have taken place over the years to mark the occasion.

In November last year, Veterans for Peace laid a white poppy wreath during the honour guard, while a purple wreath was also laid in memory of animals killed in service.

On November 14 last year, a statue of a 'Tommy' in Ponteland was vandalised a night before the Remembrance Day service at the memorial hall.

The incident was said to have happened overnight and the damage was discovered on the morning of Remembrance Day.

The black silhouette of the 'Tommy' soldier with a plate that said 'Lest we forget', was later taken down after the Remembrance Day parade.

At Greenhead last year, the Remembrance Service at the War Memorial took place as usual on November 14, and customers and stall holders joined from the Farmers' Market, which had a range of new craft stalls as well as the addition of specialist gins and Muckle Breweries beers.

In 2020, instead of the usual parades and gatherings at cenotaphs across Tynedale, due to the pandemic the council commemorated Remembrance Day online on November 11.

Residents of the county were invited to join a virtual event to pay their respects to the fallen.

Remembrance events organised by local authorities, including town and parish councils, were still able to take place.

The Royal British Legion encouraged people to remember the fallen by observing a two-minute silence on their doorstep at 11am on November 8 2020, after the UK entered a second national lockdown.

In 2019, Hexham’s parade began from Argyle Terrace. Soldiers from 3 Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, Army Cadets and Air Force Cadets marched to the War Memorial for a service of remembrance and the laying of wreaths.

A parade also marched through Prudhoe, to the Lychgate War Memorial at St Mary Magdalene Church, followed by an act of remembrance.

In 1997, the Royal Navy was represented for the first time in Hexham's annual parade, while crowds turned out in Prudhoe and Corbridge despite the rain and cold.

In Hexham, among those laying wreaths was Hexham sailor, Mark Moulding.