KIDDERMINSTER was on parade this week as more than 100 soldiers passed through the streets as part of the freedom march.

The 2nd Battalion of the Mercian Regiment exercised its Right of Freedom in the town on Sunday with a salute taken outside the Town Hall by the civic party.

Taking its heritage from the former Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment, the 2nd battalion recruits soldiers from Worcestershire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

It has been deployed to Afghanistan four times and as such, is one of the most highly decorated battalions in The British Army.

The most recent deployment to Afghanistan was as part of Operation Herrick on October 2011, with soldiers returning in April 2012.

The parade left the bus station at noon, and passed onto Corporation Street, New Road, Bridge Street and Oxford Street before heading towards the town centre.

It then passed the Town Hall, where dignitaries will take the salute, before continuing along Vicar Street to the Bull Ring Island and then back along Vicar Street.

It then turned right into Weavers Wharf, alongside the Town Hall, before going across the Husum Bridge and finishing by Debenhams.

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