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Terminally-ill veteran's dying wish is to support the Poppy Appeal

Patrick McQuiston wants to give something back for the help he has received

Wales Online

When is Remembrance Sunday 2022? Date, events and when you can start wearing a poppy?

The Poppy Appeal 2022 started today, Thursday, October 27, which means Remembrance Sunday is coming up very soon. Here is everything you need to know ahead of the annual event

Daily Mirror

Royal British Legion launches annual poppy appeal with wall of poppies

Bernard Morgan, a 98-year-old D-Day veteran, is among those to have their stories featured on the wall of poppies in central London.

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Remembrance field is opening at Cardiff Castle to pay tribute to Welsh war heroes

The garden will be a place where people can pay their respects

Wales Online

"They risk everything to protect us, despite having never met us": Poppy Appeal launch in Greater Manchester

A former Army captain from Stockport has told of the appeal's enduring importance

Manchester Evening News

Rail strikes: RMT changes date of industrial action to avoid Royal British Legion poppy day clash

The RMT has moved the date of a planned walk-out so it does not clash with the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Day collection. The rail union originally planned strike action for November 3 but has now moved that to November 9. The Legion, which raises millions for armed forces veterans,…

Evening Standard

Rail strikes: RMT changes date of industrial action to avoid Royal British Legion poppy day clash

The RMT has moved the date of a planned walk-out so it does not clash with the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Day collection.

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£1 million Poppy Day fundraiser cancelled because of rail strikes

RMT general secretary Mick Lynch "regrets and apologises for" the disruption rail strikes will cause the Royal British Legion

Wales Online

£1 million London Poppy Day fundraiser cancelled due to rail strikes

The Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal director Simon O’Leary said the day is “one of the most important days in our annual remembrance calendar”.

The Independent UK

Veterans can get Royal British Legion grant of up to £2400 to help with energy bills

Royal British Legion scheme set to help the UK armed forces families who are struggling with the cost of living

Chronicle Live

Thousands of families can claim new £2,400 cash grant to help pay bills - who is eligible

Charity Royal British Legion is offering £200 a month to help the Armed Forces community - which includes those who have served, or are serving, in the Royal Navy, British Army or Royal Air Force

Daily Mirror

Royal British Legion announces new grants to help pay energy bills

Over the last 12 months the charity has issued 20% more grants to help with food and basic living costs than in the previous year

Wales Online

Poppies for pets as fundraising range for RBL returns for fifth year

Pets at Home has launched its annual range of limited-edition poppy accessories

Wales Online

'We were at sea for more than 14 hours - it was a horrendous crossing': Tributes as D-Day war veteran dies aged 98

Ken Tanner, a former Royal Marine, was among the first artillery troops to land at Normandy

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Daily Mirror

'We watched Queen's funeral in the pub - it was moving and felt like one big family'

As billions of people across the world tune in to watch the Queen's funeral live on television, our Mirror writers paid their respects to Her Majesty alongside fellow mourners and veterans in the pub

Daily Record

People across Renfrewshire joined the Royal British Legion in paying their respects to Queen Elizabeth II

A short service was held at the Cenotaph this morning.

Liverpool Echo

Widow fears for future of pigeons as homing society faces eviction

The Hooton homing society face being turfed out at the end of the month

Manchester Evening News

'Reluctant hero' veteran who survived D-Day at just 19 years old dies aged 97

Tributes are being paid to Jim Healy, who was just 19 when he guided Allied landing craft onto the Normandy beaches

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Wales Online

Couple planned to sell home to get premature baby home from Turkey

Louise Crawshaw-Bowen, 37, and husband Stephen, 27, were stranded in Antalya after little Wolfe was born seven-and-a-half weeks early

Liverpool Echo

'End of an era' as iconic club demolished to make way for retirement home

Developers had the original plans rejected in 2021

Liverpool Echo

Pigeon fanciers' anger as British Legion brings in £100 rent for birds

"It’s only the pigeons and the guys at the club that are keeping me going really, so if I lose all that, I don’t know what I’ll do”

Manchester Evening News

Following in the footsteps of the heroic Stockport milkman who helped bring WW2 to an end

The Cockleshell Heroes mission retraced - 80 years on

Daily Mirror

Man buys £150,000 first home at just 21 - using only his £13,000 salary

Max Woodvine, a Tory councillor, claims he saved £800 a month by living carefully and says others should follow his lead - but some local residents branded his comments 'disgusting'

Edinburgh Live

East Lothian Royal British Legion club gets early opening for football

The Royal British Legion (Ssotland) club installed Sky but was missing out on customers as some kick-offs came before it was licensed to open on Sundays

The Independent UK

Service to mark 40th anniversary of liberation of the Falkland Islands

The Royal British Legion is inviting veterans and civilians and bereaved family members to attend a service in Staffordshire.

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