Services are due to be held on Sunday throughout South Lakeland and Furness as part of the annual Remembrance Day events.

Veterans will join members of the public to lay wreaths and remember the dead from two world wars and other conflicts.

Motorists are warned to expect road closures during the ceremonies.

In Kendal, wreath laying will take place at the war memorials in Romney Road at 8.30am and in Market Place at 9.30am.

The parade will move off from the town hall at approximately 10.20am, ready for a Remembrance Sunday service in the parish church at 10.45am.

In a separate act of remembrance on Sunday, a poppy wreath will be laid at the Provincial Insurance War Memorial at St George's Church by Molly Wilson.

Mrs Wilson is a former Provincial staff member who was employed by the company during the war.

Windermere's events begin with a wreath laying ceremony at the war memorial near the police station at 2.30pm.

The parade marches down Lake Road to St Martin's Church for a service at around 3pm.

The police will stop traffic for the wreath laying and drivers will need to negotiate the parade.

In Ulverston, the parade will meet at 2.15pm in New Market Street, in the area of the Coronation Hall.

Participants will march off to the parish church for a service at approximately 2.30pm.

Following the service, the parade will continue to the war memorial in Market Place for a wreath laying at 3.30pm.

Carnforth's events start at 10.35am from outside the council chamber.

The parade will make its way to the war memorial for an outdoor service to include the two minutes' silence at 11am.

After the service the parade returns via the council chamber to the civic hall.

As usual, the Rusland remembrance service was held one week before the official Remembrance Sunday, at St Paul's Church.

The congregation was one of the largest for some years.

The Rev Stephen Pye, of Hawkshead, who will shortly also be appointed vicar of Rusland, spoke of the horrors of war and made references to the folly of war as seen through the eyes of First World War poets.

The Ulverston Town Band played the hymns and, in the Act of Remembrance section, included in the names of members who were recently deceased was that of Barbara Wroe, the organist for the service over the past five years, who had just died.

The Royal British Legion and associated women's section, and ex-service organisations were well represented at the service with 12 standards present, and civic participation was particularly high.