A SPECIAL service has been held to remember those killed in the M2 coach crash near Faversham on November 10, 1993, which claimed the lives of nine Americans and their British driver. The service, organised by Ospringe parish council, was held by the side of the motorway and marked the eighth anniversary of the crash.

It was conducted by parish council chairman Andrew Keel, who laid a wreath donated by Wyn's Flowers. Parish councillor Joan Tovey said: "It is always an emotional time because 10 is a lot of people to die. We don't even know if the Americans know we hold this service every year but the parish council is the custodian of this place and we should look after it."

Soon after the crash the council planted a Holm oak as a permanent memorial to the victims. Cllr Tovey said: "If our relatives were killed in a foreign country it would be nice to know that people were thinking about them where they died."