The new lockdown, which comes into effect tomorrow, means today is the last day this year that poppy seller Terry Grimwood will be outside Waitrose.

Terry, 79, has been selling poppies outside the store for 23 years, but this year, due to Covid-19 restrictions, has had to move his stall away from the front entrance and into Bridge Street.

While collecting donations, day in day out for the past two weeks, Terry says, he has been well supported by Waitrose staff. "They are marvellous, they really are," he told Nub News. "I get hot drinks, and they give me lunch."

Terry spent seven years in the Royal Naval Reserve, having signed up in 1958 at the age of 17.

"I wanted to join the Fleet Air Arm, but my academic qualifications weren't good - they were abysmal," he laughed.

"I wanted to fly, so I got the money together and learnt." He then enjoyed a successful 30-year career flying commercial aircraft. Terry started selling poppies in Godalming in 1997. "It all started when they were looking for volunteers to do some poppy selling to stand outside Waitrose," he explained. "It was just one of those things. I have done it ever since and I will do it every year." Sadly though, this year, the collections won't run right up until Remembrance Day as the Royal British Legion has recalled its collectors from their spots in our towns and villages, meaning today is Terry's last day of the 2020 campaign.