RINGWOOD is hosting its Armed Forces Day celebrations on Saturday at Bickerley Green.

There will be fair rides, re-enactors, welfare services, displays, bands, food stalls and military vehicles.

Amongst the displays will be a group from Nothe Fort in Weymouth who will fire muskets and canons and children will get to have a go at First World War cooking and see a working forge in action.

A First World War recruitment tent will also be on display and children can fill in forms and find themselves marched around the field by the recruitment sergeant.

The event was part funded by a £3,000 grant from the Ministry of Defence and it is hoped that this will become an annual event in the towns calendar.