A Labour-run council has axed a Remembrance Day poppy display amid its crackdown on flag-flying. Locals in Hoyland, South Yorkshire, will no longer be able to commemorate their 'fallen heroes' by ...

A poignant display of more than 110,000 poppies helped to raise almost £20,000 for the Royal British Legion (RBL), a council ...

Helen Coffey’s piece questioning whether poppy wearing has become performative – and if the white poppy offers a better alternative – has struck a chord with Independent readers. Responding to the ...

“In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row …. ” So begins “In Flanders Fields,” written in 1915 by John McCrae, a Canadian poet and military physician. “The poem’s powerful ...

Bermuda’s annual Poppy Appeal has launched with a presentation to Rena Lalgie, the Governor, of the first remembrance poppy ahead of the November 11 commemoration. The annual fundraiser held in the ...