A DORCHESTER shop owner has come up with his own way of supporting the Poppy Appeal.

Ashley Newman, who already sells poppies and has a collection tin at Trinity Stores in Trinity Street, will be donating all the sales of the Dorset Echo on Monday, November 11 to the Royal British Legion.

He said he was keen to do a little bit extra for such a worthy cause and thought it was a simple way for people to help support it.

Ashley said: “I wanted to raise some money and it seemed like an easy way so people could not only buy an Echo but support a very worthwhile charity.

“For every Echo someone buys on Monday I will donate 50p to the Poppy Appeal.”

Ashley said he hoped it would entice people to come in and buy the Echo so it would be a way people can support a local business as well as a renowned national charity appeal.

He added: “Hopefully we will raise as much as possible.”

Meanwhile, in Weymouth and Portland knitters from across the borough have been busy doing their bit for the Poppy Appeal.

The Let’s Make It community group put on two special workshops for nimble-fingered knitters who wanted to help out.

They also had knitted poppy donations flooding in from across Weymouth and Portland. It takes around four hours to make each poppy.

Last year the group raised £1,100 for the Royal British Legion with their poppies and this year they hope to make even more.

PLANNED SERVICES

WEYMOUTH
The main Remembrance Day parade and service will be on Weymouth seafront on Sunday at 10.30am.
For this service William Street to King Street will be closed to traffic from 10.20am until noon approximately. There will also be traffic diversions in place from noon until approximately 12.30pm on the Esplanade between King Street and the King Statue for the US Memorial wreath laying ceremony. Local diversions will be fully signed. There will be a quiet contemplative service on Monday, November 11 at the Weymouth War Memorial on the Esplanade from 10.45am.

DORCHESTER
The main service will be held on Sunday at 10.50am at the cenotaph. Services of Remembrance will be held at 10.50am in Broadmayne and also in Warmwell at the same time.
A service will be held at Crossways Village Hall on Sunday at 10am which will be followed by a wreath laying ceremony at the RAF Warmwell Memorial at 10.40am.

PORTLAND
The Service of Remembrance will be held from 10.30am on Sunday at the cenotaph at Portland Heights New Ground.

BRIDPORT
The parade will start in East Street at 10.20am on Sunday and go down South Street to the cenotaph for 10.55am. This will be followed by a service at St Mary's Church.