Support our troops - that is our rallying call as Canterbury prepares for a march by the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.

We, along with our radio station kmfm and the Kentish Gazette, are urging readers and listeners to get out and show they care.

On Sunday the Argylls, who are based at Canterbury’s Howe Barracks, will exercise their right to march through the streets with guns and bayonets fixed, after being awarded The Freedom of the City of Canterbury.

We will be giving out flags, while stocks last, to help the parade go with a swing.

The Argylls, who are the 5th Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland, have just returned from serving in Afghanistan.

Soldiers will muster in Station Road West car park at 11.30am and be led off by the regimental mascot, a shetland pony called Cruachan, and pipe and brass bands

They will march up St Peter’s Street and the High Street to Rose Lane where the colonel-in-chief of the Royal Regiment of Scotland, Gen Andrew Graham, will receive the Freedom Scroll from the Lord Mayor of Canterbury, Cllr Carolyn Parry, at 11.45am.

The battalion will then parade through Whitefriars Square to Canterbury Cathedral via Canterbury Lane and Burgate for a service of thanksgiving and remembrance.

Queningate car park will be closed from 7am to 2pm to allow parking for those attending the service.

Station Road West car park will be closed from 6pm on Saturday until 12.30pm on Sunday.

Any car left in the Station Road West car park by 6.30am on Sunday will be removed at the insistence of the police.

Station Road West itself will be closed from 9am to 12.30pm between the station and St Dunstan’s.

Burgate and Canterbury Lane will both be closed from 8am to 3pm.