With Christmas and New year blessing to you all from Hanbury PCC.

Thank you to everyone who took part in the Armistice Centenary commemorations on Remembrance Sunday.

The church recorders

From the Worcester Fine Arts Society

The BBC’s recording in the ringing room, for an episode of the Archers

Thanks to Hanbury School, Pippins Nursery and Hanbury Brownies and Rainbows

NEWS IN BRIEF Taken from the Bowbrook News

Over one thousand Royal British Legion branches were represented in the procession to the Menin Gate on Wednesday the 8 August in Ypres, in memory of pilgrims who had processed ninety years before them this carefully reconstructed city, which has the iconic Flanders Fields Museum at its heart, became the back drop for something particularly special although the memory of total destruction in the past, is ever present in people’s minds.

The Legion’s Biggest ever membership event marking 90 years since the Great Pilgrimage of 1928. A decade after the end of WW1, veterans and war widows visited the battlefields of the Somme and Ypres before marching to the Menin Gate.