EMPTY shoes were laid at the war memorial in Regent Circus in a poignant memorial to British men and women who have died in Iraq.

Swindon members of the Stop The War Coalition placed 85 pairs of shoes to mark the number who have died.

Among those remembered were the ten servicemen from RAF Lyneham who died after a Hercules plane crashed in Iraq.

Andy Newman, the secretary of Swindon's Stop The War Coalition, headed the ceremony yesterday which marked the second anniversary of the demonstration held in London to protest against the war.

Mr Newman stood in front of the cenotaph at noon to read out the names of the British servicemen and women who have lost their lives since the war began.

He then read the names of some of the 1,600 American dead.

As the names were read many people stopped to listen and pay their respects.

War veteran, Allan Thipthorpe, 76, of Kirkstall Close, Toothill, was among the supporters at the ceremony.

He said: "It's a disgrace that our blokes have died in someone else's war."

Madeleine Channer, 62, of Southampton Street, Swindon, is angry at the Government's decision to go to war.

She said: "I know in my bones that without those certain dodgy dossiers the majority of people knew this war was unjustified."

Mr Newman said Swindon's coalition will continue to hold events like this until British troops return home.