Poppies
by Martin Belam, 14 November 2004
Some things are most evocatively conveyed by pictures alone, and that was the case with the bbc.co.uk homepage this morning for Remembrance Sunday.

Earlier this week I was lucky enough to get out of the office early and head down to Waterloo Bridge, where I was able to watch the fly-past of two Douglas Dakota DC3 aircraft down the Thames, dropping millions of poppy petals.
