Each poppy starts as a plastic stem, imported into the factory. The paper leaf and petal are cut out using machines. The factory assembles these together using a plastic button. Around 140,000 ...

A primary school of 900 pupils has made poppies from plastic bottles to help them understand Armistice Day in an "age-appropriate way". Children at St Matthew’s School in Luton, painted the ...

But it's not just at memorials and in cemeteries; everywhere you look, a profusion of plastic poppies appear on the lapels of people walking down the street, on TV news anchors, sports stars ...