Remembrance Sunday 2018: Poppy displays in pictures
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From "Poppy Road" in Walsall to Lloyd's of London, Armistice Day is being marked across the country - and beyond.
Members of the Royal Family and Prime Minister Theresa May attended the Festival of Remembrance on Saturday
The Last Post sounded before silence filled the hall and poppies floated down
Poppies fell from the ceiling over members of the Royal Navy, the Army and RAF who stood in the centre of the hall
Before the England v New Zealand rugby match at Twickenham, Prince Harry laid a wreath on the pitch and a minute's silence was observed
A single commemorative poppy atop skyscraper Tower 42 in the City of London.
A box of poppies believed to date back almost 100 years was found in an old suitcase in Cardiff
A statue of former West Bromwich Albion player Tony Brown with a poppy at the Hawthorns football ground
A wreath is laid on the pitch before Cardiff City's home Premier League match against Brighton on Saturday
Workers at the insurance market Lloyd's of London watch as poppies fall through the atrium of the building during Friday's commemoration service
Salisbury Cathedral is lit up with a projection of falling poppies, created by the Royal British Legion
In Hull Minster, people admire an installation created by artist Martin Waters entitled "Coming Home"
Meanwhile, on Seaham seafront in County Durham, the historical statue of soldier "Tommy" is decorated with magnetic poppies
Station Road in Aldridge, Walsall, has been transformed into Poppy Road
Residents and businesses have decorated their buildings with tens of thousands of poppies as part of the project
On a smaller scale, local councillor Laurence Green in Ashprington, Devon, tends to a memorial at the village war memorial
Thousands of individually knitted poppies cascade down the side of St John the Baptist church in North Baddesley, Hampshire
"Still now and always in our hearts": Crosses at the official opening of the Field of Remembrance in the grounds of Lydiard House and Park, Royal Wootton Bassett
Watchman V, the outgoing mascot for the Staffordshire Regiment Association, near Westminster Abbey
Next to the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres, Belgium, poppies with messages are left in remembrance
Meanwhile Down Under, EU ambassadors help to install poppies ahead of Remembrance Day commemorations in Canberra, Australia
More than 15,000 poppies - knitted by the Secret Society of Hertford Crafters as well as schoolchildren and people in care homes - pour down Hertford Castle
Woollen poppies adorn the railings outside Winchester Cathedral in Hampshire
A range of knitted decorations for Armistice Day decorate railings in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire
London Underground redecorates its Tube sign to mark the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day
And around the Tower of London, the moat is filled with 10,000 lit torches as part of a week-long installation
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