A Burnham resident has paid his respect to those fallen in the First World War by taking part in a commemoration in London. 

Jim Cousins, 80, of Poplar Grove, Burnham, planted a ceramic poppy at the Tower of London for the "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red" art installation, which will see 888,246 of the poppies fill the moat. 

Each poppy represents a soldier fallen during the First World War. 

His son, Jeremy Cousins, of Lilian Road, Burnham, accompanied his father, who is the secretary of the Burnham branch of the Royal British Legion, to the tower. 

He said: "It's an amazing sight, it's quite moving to think that for every poppy planted there was someone killed in the war, one for every single soldier."