An appeal to make 10,000 crocheted poppies - so they can be cascaded down the outside of a church tower to mark 80 years ...

Jane, is there a quote from your poem 'Poppies' that you'd like to talk about? JANE: "I traced the inscriptions on the war memorial, leaned against it like a wishbone." I think that's a way of ...

A war memorial has been vandalised in a sickening ... late on Tuesday night when it was targeted with butane canisters. Poppy wreaths that had been laid at its base were also strewn across ...

Jane, is there a quote from your poem 'Poppies' that you'd like to talk about? JANE: "I traced the inscriptions on the war memorial, leaned against it like a wishbone." I think that's a way of ...

We have no war memorial though, so it's really important to mark." The group has collected the poppies over the last eight years and hope, in the future, to do a "poppy curtain" on the church tower.

It cites the poppies growing on the graves of fallen first world war comrades in Belgium and northeastern France. Given the scale of the casualties, people “felt an overwhelming desire to ...

Police appealed for information after eight wooden soldiers and several poppies were taken from the Breightmet memorial Poppies and eight wooden soldiers were stolen from a road war memorial on ...

A man has been arrested after around 50 poppy wreaths were removed from a war memorial in Swindon and thrown across the street. First World War centenary: Armistice events around the UK The ...

The poppy wreaths were taken from Lincoln's war memorial and dumped into the River Witham A man has dumped more than 20 poppy wreaths placed at Lincoln's war memorial into a river, police said.