While most people know poppies for their association with WW1 and WW2, the flower has ... poppies were a direct response to a poem - In Flanders Fields - published in the Christmas 1915 issue ...

In Flanders Field is a famous poem ... This clip is from the series WW1 A to Z. Pupils could read together the full text of McCrae’s poem. Why do they think it is still so well-known today?

They removed the cover and found a brick shaft leading straight down, the Flanders Heritage Agency said in a February research report. Immediately, workers suspected the find might be significant.