Poppies will be displayed in Westhoughton in coming weeks to commemorate Remembrance Day.

Approximately 100 street poppies have been funded by Westhoughton Town Council for the fourth year running as a way to commemorate all of the brave people who fought for the country.

The town council has funded £500 which will be given to the Poppy Appeal, helping the Royal British Legion support the Armed Forces community in lots of different ways.

The poppy became a symbol of Remembrance and hope for a peaceful future in the aftermath of the First World War.

Since 1921 collectors from the Royal British Legion have been at the heart of the Poppy Appeal and this year they will once again be back in local communities across Bolton to collect donations that help the Royal British Legion continue its vital work.

Falklands War veteran and Westhoughton deputy town mayor Neil Maher said: “It’s good that the town council is helping to commemorate Remembrance Sunday in our town centre.

“The poppies are a public display of our remembrance as a town and the Poppy Appeal does great work in supporting our Armed Forces community.”

Westhoughton Town Council also organises the town’s Remembrance Sunday service which takes place at the cenotaph at the corner of Market Street and Church Street.

If any community organisations want to organise a wreath for the cenotaph or residents would like to organise street poppies for their own street, they can contact the Westhoughton Poppy Appeal at westhoughtonpoppyappeal@gmail.com.

Westhoughton isn’t the only area of the borough that will be commemorating Remembrance Day.

Other areas are also making arrangements and areas including Heaton, Lostock, Chew Moor and Horwich have confirmed they will be taking part.

Cllr Ryan Bamforth, Bolton Council's Armed Forces Champion said it is great people come together to commemorate Remembrance Day.

He said: “I think it is a great thing to do putting poppies up around Bolton and these volunteers that go around and put up the poppies, they show true support.

“The poppies are appreciated and respected as people remember those that gave their all and in instances where there are those that are still with us, but they are impaired due to their acts of duty whether that be loss of limbs or their mental health.

“The council also recognises the purple poppies as well as the red poppies, with the purple poppies representing service animals that have given their lives and service for the country.

“It is a beautiful thing.

“The Poppy Appeal is run by the Royal British Legion, and it is something that needs supporting by Bolton Council, and soon residents will see stalls and stands going up around shopping centres in the borough and volunteers from across the entire borough will be putting up poppies on all the lampposts from October.

“During the Remembrance period I will also be doing my sleeping rough for 48 hours again up in Horwich which I have done previously.”

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