THE Kingswinford branch of the Royal British Legion (RBL) will be out in force collecting for its annual poppy appeal this weekend.

Members of the RBL will be at the Lidl supermarket, in Stallings Lane, on Saturday (October 31) collecting money and selling poppies to support armed forces personnel in the community.

Dudley South MP Mike Wood will be joining the group’s collection team in the afternoon.

The appeal is the legion's biggest nationwide fundraising campaign, with lapel poppies available to buy in shops, supermarkets, pubs and clubs.

More than 40 million remembrance poppies, 500,000 poppies of other types, five million remembrance petals, 100,000 wreaths and sprays and 750,000 remembrance crosses and other items are made and sold by the RBL each year.

It takes 350,000 volunteers and staff to organise the poppy appeal each year across the country.