Hurrah for big red poppies. Their first flowers are a visual fanfare heralding the arrival of summer. And after such a cold, wet and windy May, their appearance has seldom been more welcome.

Lamp posts across the county are set to be festooned with large scale poppies again later ... In 2017, 36 towns and villages displayed bright red poppies in their streets. This rose last year ...

The Royal British Legion chose the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London, for its big reveal at the start of the campaign - a six metre high red poppy installation. Nils Jorgensen/REX ...