WE have had a busy weekend across the borough remembering our fallen heroes.

It was so good to see so many people attending acts of Remembrance.

There was added poignancy this year as it was 100 years since the Peace was signed on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month to end World War 1.

By then 858 local men had lost their lives so that we could be free.

We must never forget.

This was the Great war, the war to end all wars. Sadly this was not the case.

Barely twenty years later Europe was being torn apart again.

It isn’t difficult to see why our European neighbours wished to establish the European Community. They wanted to make sure that the death and destruction would never happen again by binding the nations together.

It is why in leaving the European Union, it is important that we continue to maintain close relationships with our continental neighbours.

But it was uplifting to see so many people join in this year.

Sometimes when you read the papers you could conclude that no one cares about anyone else.

At a time like this you realise that people do care. The quiet majority is very quiet, but when it comes together it is very special.

In two years time we will be marking 75 years since the end of the Second world war. I have no doubt that will be equally special. With our politics so divisive at the moment it is nice to remember that our nation is united by more than what divides us.