In late 1914, the fields of Northern France and Flanders were once again ripped open as World War One raged through Europe's heart. Once the conflict was over the poppy was one of the only plants ...

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row.' In 1915, Lt-Col John McCrae, a Canadian army surgeon working in the field in France in the First World War, wrote his famously ...

Eating even a small amount of food containing poppy seed can lead to a false positive on drugs tests. You probably know that poppies sprung up in their thousands on Flanders fields after the ...