Nearly 12,000 knitted poppies now adorn a West Sussex church, thanks to local villagers who responded to an appeal back in February. Originally hoping for 4,000 poppies to mark Remembrance Day, the church was overwhelmed with nearly triple that amount. The result is a striking tribute – a cascade of red blooms honouring the fallen. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00And I'm also overwhelmed at how many people have come to see the exhibition.
00:29I'm also overwhelmed at how many different shades of red you can get, because what colour is red?
00:34You look at that and there's every hue you can imagine in the red spectrum.
00:39And the different shapes, the different sizes, we had no idea that it was going to look like this.