Ashby's Ivanhoe Social Club is making an appeal for plastic bottles - so it can mark Remebrance Sunday with a difference.

The club plans to collect enough bottles to be able to paint them red and hang them from the tree outside.

With Ashby's Remembrance Day parade cancelled this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, club steward Karen Deakin said she wanted to do something to make up for not being able to pay her respects in Market Street this year.

Karen told Ashby Nub News: "I thought I would like to do a nice display of poppies with there not being a parade this year.

"I don't quite know how it's going to work out yet, we'll see we go along and it depends how many bottles we get.

"I always go into Ashby for the parade, but obviously we can't this year.

"But we have a big tree outside, we want to put them on to wire mesh and hang them so it looks like they're falling off the tree. So it'll hopefully be a good display.

"We might have some going on the flower beds if we get a lot, we'll paint the bottles red with a black middle so they look like poppies.

"Fingers crossed we get the bottles we need, plastic water or pop bottles."

Karen says she is happy if people drop them off at the Ivanhoe Club.

She added: "You can leave them outside on the doorstep in a bag, that'll be fine.

"There are different ways of marking the day and this is ours.

"We're getting them coming in bits and drabs at the moment. I'm winging it a bit.

"Hopefully when people are passing by they'll seen something unique to mark Remembrance Sunday."