Nick and Miriam Clegg and the Poppy Girls have taken to the streets to remind people to support London Poppy Day tomorrow.
The Deputy Prime Minister and his wife sold poppies at Charing Cross station this morning alongside volunteers.
The Poppy Girls, five young singers whose fathers have all served in the Armed Forces, teamed up with Coldstream Guardsmen Mitch Thomas and Mathew Foster to collect at Westminster tube station yesterday evening. Tomorrow, more than 2,000 volunteers will be collecting across the capital to raise £1 million in one day for the Royal British Legion in the largest street collection in Europe.
Megan Adams, 10, from Stirling, whose father is currently deployed in the Indian Ocean on anti-piracy work, is one fifth of the Poppy Girls. “I’m just so happy to be part of it,” she said. “Please buy poppies everyone — it’s so important to raise as much money as possible so we can help the injured soldiers.”
Aged 10 to 17, the Poppy Girls were chosen from 1,000 entrants. They have recorded this year’s Poppy Appeal anthem, which they will sing in front of the Queen at the annual Festival of Remembrance in the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday watched on TV by more than six million people.
The song, a cover of Regina Spektor’s The Call (No Need To Say Goodbye), will be released on Remembrance Sunday, November 10.
The other four Poppy Girls are Florence Ransom, 10, from Petersfield in Hampshire; Alice Milburn, 13, from Portsmouth; Charlotte Mellor, 17, from Wolverhampton; and Bethany Davey, 15, from Dartford.
