ENTHUSIASTIC volunteers teamed up for a monumental challenge.

They got up early on Saturday morning to build a giant beacon as part of an international tribute, Battle's Over to mark 100 years since the guns fell silent at the end of the First World War.

The group started work at 8am when two trailer loads of pallets were dropped off at Rilshaw Meadows in Winsford.

Around 200 pallets were used to build the huge beacon.

It was a painstaking operation as each pallet had to be put in place individually to build a safe stack.

Local firm Plumbley's Environmental Contractors, Mid-Cheshire Pallets and the volunteers worked together to complete the beacon.

Crowds gathered on Sunday evening to watch it being lit and the flames could be seen for miles around.

Local bugler Gill Holmes sounded the Last Post minutes before the beacon was lit alongside thousands of others around the world , signifying the light of peace that emerged from the darkness of four years of war.

Local churches rang out their bells as part of Ringing Out For Peace and town crier Ben Booth performed a specially written cry for Peace Around The World.

Town mayor Cllr Gina Lewis said: "I am so pleased that so many people came along. It was a very moving and wonderful experience."