The Civic Parade introducing the new Mayor of Maidstone is this weekend.

Cllr Marion Ring's inaugural mayoral parade is set to march through the streets of the County Town tomorrow morning (Saturday) and will have the 36 Engineer Regiment and The Queen's Gurkha Engineers among the procession.

Both regiments will be exercising their rights as Honorary Freemen of the Borough by marching through the town with bayonets fixed.

Tomorrow morning the military led by the Parachute Regimental Band, will march along Week Street, meeting up with civilian contingents in Earl Street and proceed to All Saints Church via the High Street.

The mayor and senior military personnel will take the salute from the parade from a dais to the side of the Town Hall at 11.30am.

More than a dozen closures will affect shoppers and motorists as the parade passes.

The roads affected are: Sandling Road (At the junction with White Rabbit roundabout)

• Station Road
• St Faiths Street
• Week Street
• High Street
• King Street
• Wyke Manor Road (At the junction with King Street)
• Gabriels Hill (At the junction with High Street)
• Bank Street
• Pudding Lane (At the junction with High Street)
• Lower High Street (At the junction with High Street)
• Mill Street
• Bishops Way
• Knightrider Street
• College Road
• Old College Horseway - road closure from 6am to 1pm
• Jubilee Square and Bank Street - road closure from 9am to 1pm
• Additionally, a temporary closure will take place at approx. 11.10am to allow the military coaches safe access when reversing into Mill Street car park.

The temporary closure will be lifted once coaches are safely off the road

Cllr Marion Ring, who served as deputy mayor last year will lead the procession with Richard Ring in a horse drawn landau carriage, supplied by Acorn Carriage Hire.