Community efforts to mark Armistice Day

Top: Kelty Parish Church has created a stunning cascade of scarlet poppies from the wall of the church for Armistice Day.

Inside the church, situated at Kelty Cross, there is another display to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War.

Children from Kelty Primary School helped make a lot of the poppies on show.

Middle left: St Bryce Kirk in Kirkcaldy will open on Saturday to allow the public to view its “extraordinary” memorial window.

The huge window is the workofartistDouglas Strachan, who was responsible for the windows in the National War Memorial at Edinburgh Castle.

The kirk will open from 10am to 3pm on Saturday.

Middle right: For the fifth year running, members of staff at ExxonMobil Chemical’s Fife Ethylene Plant gave their time to assemble 54,000 poppies for the 2018 Scottish Poppy Appeal.

ExxonMobil FEP has also donated £1,000 to the charity Erskine, Scotland’s foremost provider of care for veterans and their spouses, from FEP’s safety incentive scheme.

Bottom: Leuchars has been gifted two trees to add to community efforts to commemorate the centenary of the end of the First World War.

North East Fife SNP MP Stephen Gethins donated two saplings, a silver birch and a hazel, for planting in the community garden, next to one of two memorial benches due to be unveiled to mark the centenary.

The Rev Hugh Steele with John Abbot, Joe Hughes, Andy Stark, Pete Duff and Jim Bridie.

The trees were planted by Mr Gethins, local SNP councillor Bill Connor and Wilma Henderson and Steve Davies of Leuchars Community Council.