A POLICE community support officer has planned a tribute to the ex-servicemen and women who lived on his beat.

In the run-up to Remembrance Day, Jim Tuckwell will tell the stories of Armed Forces veterans who resided on the Sunderland streets he patrols.

A keen historian in his spare time, PCSO Tuckwell has extensively researched the period between the end of the First World War and 1946.

His uncle was killed in June 1944 serving with The Durham Light Infantry and his father also enlisted with the regiment.

Now, over the next fortnight, he plans to recognise the service and sacrifice of ex-military personnel who lived in the Barnes and Eden Vale areas of the city.

Every day from Friday through until Remembrance Day, PCSO Tuckwell will focus on a different street and tell the story of one of its former residents who showed incredible bravery during their line of duty.

The stories will be told on Twitter account @NPSunderland.

He said: “Our communities are more than bricks and mortar and we all walk in the footsteps of heroes every single day.

“Remembrance is not just November 11.”