West Midlands honours the fallen on Remembrance Sunday

People across the West Midlands turned out in their thousands to honour our fallen war heroes during Remembrance Sunday.

Events were held across the region, with military personnel and onlookers marking the two-minute silence at 11:00 GMT.

A service took place at the Royal British Legion National Remembrance Gardens in Alrewas, Staffordshire – formerly the National Memorial Arboretum.

Former British army chaplain, the Rev Clare Callanan, said she was feeling nervous ahead of the event because of all the work that had gone into organising it.

Asked what Remembrance meant, she said: “It’s that stop moment, it’s that pause moment, and I don’t think we do enough of that generally on a day-to-day basis.

“It’s a collective national pause but also, it’s a personal pause and stop.”