Every year on 11 November people now stop to think about the war. Poppies grew on the barren fields of World War One and are used to remember soldiers who died in battle. Paper poppies are still ...

which marked the centenary of the start of World War One. It was made up of 888,246 ceramic poppies, each representing a ...

Across the UK, poppies are worn each year to mark Remembrance events and commemorate those who lost their lives in two world wars and other conflicts. Events and services take place around ...

To mark 100 years since the end of the First World War, the veterans made a special ... change to the look of the Scottish poppy in decades, albeit for one year only. Poppyscotland gave the ...

John McCrae's beautiful words written amid the horrifying bloodshed of the First World War linked the poppy and remembrance for ever more. Kate Green tells his story. In 1915, Lt-Col John McCrae, a ...