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 ...

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.

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 ...

The USAA Poppy Wall of Honor, a temporary installation honoring the more than 645,000 American service members who gave their lives in service to our nation since World War I, will return to the ...

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 ...

Julie Parker, niece of solider Thomas Morris, joined church warden Debbie Pope and Silvia Meredith in creating the poppies The niece of a WW1 soldier who knitted more than 700 poppies for a church ...

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 ...

It all began with Walther Nernst, a German chemist. He was born in 1864 in Poland, which was part of Prussia at the time. Nernst was a smart boy, mechanically minded – the type who always ...

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 ...