Service to remember Drummer Lee Rigby

Over 120 people attended a civic memorial service for Drummer Lee Rigby organised by Newtownabbey Borough Council in the Civic Square in Mossley Mill on Thursday, July 11.

Drummer Rigby, of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, was killed near his army barracks in Woolwich, south-east London, in May.

Pictured are: Mr Ivan Hunter (Royal British Legion), Father John Forsythe (St Mary’s on the Hill Parish), Rev Ellen Whalley (Newtownabbey Methodist Mission), Mayor of Newtownabbey, Alderman Fraser Agnew, Jacqui Dixon, council chief executive, Rev Dr Jim Moore (Mayor’s Chaplin) and Rev Bill Davidson (Newtownabbey Methodist Mission).

Second row: Councillors Jim Bingham, Thomas Hogg, Mark Cosgrove, Audrey Ball, Alderman Paul Girvan, Alderman Billy Ball and Councillors Pamela Barr, Robert Hill and Robert Scott.