EARBY Town Council is playing its part in Battle’s Over, an international commemoration marking 100 years since the guns fell silent at the end of World War I on November 11.

It begins with lone pipers playing Battle’s O’er, a traditional Scottish air played after a battle, outside cathedrals in the country, following which a specially written tribute will be read out. At the same time, over 1,000 pipers will be playing the tune in individual locations within their local communities.

At 6.55pm buglers will sound the Last Post at more than 1,000 locations, where at 7pm beacons will be lit in a tribute called Beacons of Light, signifying the light of peace that emerged from the darkness of four years of war.

The Earby beacon will be on the picnic site at the top of Stoney Bank Road and people will gather for 6.45pm. “The Tribute to Millions” will be read by the Churches Together clergy just before the Last Post.

At 7.05pm Kelbrook’s St Mary’s Church bells will be ringing as part of the Ringing Out For Peace peel.

Earby Town Council will join in with another national beacon festival event, and this will follow on from the Remembrance Sunday service at the war memorial in Memorial Park, at Sough, which starts at 2.30pm.