A SWATHE of poppies made from recycled plastic bottles have been planted on the Bromyard bypass.

Run by the town's Royal British Legion, residents and businesses in the town made the poppies in the run-up to Armistice Day.

There are now 4,500 poppies on display on the bypass, which can be viewed from a `safe area` at Nunwell Surgery.

The Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire, Countess Darnley planted a poppy on behalf of the Queen.

They are in situ until November 18 linking in with the town's Royal British Legion Poppy Festival displays at St Peter’s Church from November 3 to 16.

Bromyard shops and businesses are also displaying a Bromyard bypass poppy - each one hosts an image of a First World War cap badge.

The Herefordshire Light Infantry Museum, Suvla Barracks in Hereford, sent the RBL the 137 cap badge images as worn by county soldiers.

Bromyard and District Local History Society are putting together a slide show as part of Bromyard’s First World War commemorations, which will feature in their window fronting onto Sherford Street from November 10 until the end of Dec.

A First World War installation was also put up at the Queen Elizabeth School gates.