Both of Reading’s MPs have paid their respects to the war dead over the weekend as people remembered family members who served in the Armed Forces.

Matt Rodda, the Labour MP for Reading East and Sir Alok Sharma, the Conservative MP for Reading West, were both at the Cenotaph in Reading to mark the sombre occasion.

Every year, the war dead and those who serve in the Armed Forces are paid respects with a two-minute silence and wreath laying on Remembrance Sunday.

Mr Rodda said: “On Remembrance Sunday in Reading, we paid tribute to all those who fought to protect our freedoms, and committed to never allowing their memory to be forgotten.

“It was a privilege to join these ceremonies to honour all of those who have served.”

Sir Alok said that he was ‘humbled as ever’ to attend the Service of Peace and Remembrance at Reading Minster and lay a wreath at the Cenotaph at Forbury Gardens.

Separately, Mr Rodda spent Armistice Day (Saturday, November 11) in Woodley, to commemorate the end of the First World War, and also laid a wreath at the Caversham War Memorial at the north bank of the River Thames.

Reading Chronicle: Matt Rodda, the Labour MP for Reading East laid a wreath at the Caversham War Memorial. Credit: Office of Matt Rodda MPMatt Rodda, the Labour MP for Reading East laid a wreath at the Caversham War Memorial. Credit: Office of Matt Rodda MP

Meanwhile, Sir Alok left a cross with a poppy Constituency Garden of Remembrance in the grounds of the Houses of Parliament in London.

Saturday was an active day in London, with football hooligans seen clashing with police and thousands of people marching to call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Mr Rodda also laid a wreath at London Paddington station as part of the Great Western Railway Remembrance Service, where more than 200 poppy wreaths were laid on Friday, November 10.