Young and old paid their respects to those who gave their lives in two world wars and other conflicts at Remembrance Sunday services across Thanet.

Attendances were high as communities gathered at war memorials around the isle in a year that marks the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War.

There were hundreds at Broadstairs, where as well as youngsters in organisations such as the Scout and Guide associations, there were also pupils from Charles Dickens and Dane Court schools.

The service was led by the Rev Philip Hobday from St Peter-in-Thanet Church and the Mayor of Broadstairs and St Peters, Cllr David Lawson gave the reading.

He laid the first wreath and was followed by more than 30 others including Thanet Council chief executive Richard Samuel, members of the armed forces and uniformed branches of different service organisations and groups as diverse as the Broadstairs Society, the Comrades Club and the Rotary Club.

They were announced by Broadstairs town crier John Myhill.

The Broadstairs and St Peters Concert Band provided music for the occasion and a bugler to play The Last Post and Reveille before and after the two minute silence.

Cllr Lawson said: “I think this service was the best attended it has been for some years. It was so good to see all parts of the community represented, particularly the youngsters and the two schools.

“Talking to some of the ex-servicemen and women afterwards was very special, they have such wonderful stories to tell and have given so much, just being in their presence was very moving.”