UP to 10,000 poppies will be adorning the Shire Hall in the run up to Remembrance Sunday.

It began with a simple request for hand knitted poppies from manager Aileen Atkinson and she has so far had 8,200 hand-knitted poppies handed in.

Poppy donations have ranged from threes and fours up to 2,000 from Rita Whitehall in Osbaston who just kept knitting and knitting until she ran out of wool.

The poppies donated so far have been carefully pinned onto plastic panels that will be hung over the gates and railings from the 5th of November onwards to celebrate 100 years since the Armistice was signed over 100 years ago.

“I have been overwhelmed by the response” said Aileen who is inviting volunteers to turn up at 9am on 5th November and help hang out the 35 panels of poppies.

They will be taken down every evening and hung up again the next day up to the 11th of November.

After the town’s Remembrance service on 11th November, they will be taken onto Raglan Castle for the scouts event on 18th November.