The council told the group if they wanted to continue their tradition they would have to submit an application A town’s Remembrance Day poppy display has been axed because of a council clampdown sparked by the recent spate of Union Jack flying. For the last three years locals in Hoyland, Barnsley, South Yorks, have commemorated […]
3 months ago
He’s received widespread criticism Ireland U21 star Killian Phillips has been criticised on social media after refusing to stand alongside his Wycombe Wanderers teammates during their Remembrance Day minute’s silence. Phillips took the personal decision, on Saturday, to stand aside as his teammates linked arms for a Remembrance Day moment of tribute. The day – […]
2 years ago
The event is to go ahead at 11 am as usual The Queen will no longer attend the Remembrance Sunday service at the London Cenotaph as she has sprained her back. Amidst instructions from doctors telling the monarch to rest, the BBC reports that Buckingham Palace says the Queen is “disappointed” to miss the annual […]
4 years ago
Extinction Rebellion paid their respects to the war dead by placing a wreath at the cenotaph urging world leaders to act now against climate change
5 years ago
On Remembrance Sunday Britain remembers its war dead At 11am on the second Sunday in November (the Sunday nearest to 11 November, 1918 – the end of World War I) Britain holds Remembrance Sunday to commemorate its fallen soldiers. Up and down the country, crowds of people gather to pay their respects to their forefathers […]
6 years ago
Nothing but support for my troops Française
7 years ago