Tide of time

Danny Boyle, the film director, holds a photograph of Pte Walter Bleakley, who was from the street where Boyle went to school, as he announces plans for his Pages of the

Sea Armistice Day commission for an arts programme marking the centenary of the end of the First World War. Members of the public will assemble at dozens of beaches around the UK on Nov 11 where a giant portrait of a war casualty will be drawn into the sand at low tide at each location and washed away as the tide comes in.