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Page last updated at 11:10 GMT, Monday, 9 November 2009

Remembrance poppy crosses
In Pictures: Remembrance Sunday, Sunderland 2009
The skies cleared from torrential rain to sunshine for the 2009 Remembrance Sunday parade in front of Sunderland's cenotaph.

Tom Cuthbertson Memorial for our lost loved-ones
Tom Cuthbertson is a part of Brothers in Arms who want a memorial in Sunderland for soldiers who have died since World War II.

Piece of treasure found in the River Wear In Pictures: Bishop's gifts found in the River Wear
Divers in the River Wear have stumbled across artefacts given to a former Archbishop of Canterbury and Durham, Michael Ramsay.


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