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Aimee Broughton holding the scarf

Football club's giant 200m scarf knitted by fans

The 200m (656ft) Preston North End muffler has been hand-knitted by members of the local community.

Beryl Jenkins is facing the camera with her knitting equipment in her hand. She has glasses on and a pink cardigan, sitting on a sofa.

Knitter, 97, celebrated for helping homeless cats

Beryl Jenkins started out knitting socks, balaclavas and gloves for soldiers during World War Two.

The picture shows Peggy sitting her room at Brunelcare. She is holding a basket containing her knitted creations. She is surrounded by balls of wool.

Woman, 93, supports charity with knitted creations

Peggy Moore knits soft toys and blankets to raise cash for Children's Hospice South West.

A red post box with a brown brick wall behind it. The tope of the postbox looks burned and there are bits of burned fabric on the top.

Charity postbox topper destroyed in fire

The topper was part of a charity trail and had been handmade by a volunteer.

A colourful knitted display of Noah's Ark complete with animals. The knitted postbox topper is on top of a red postbox. There is a rainbow and lots of knitted animals. The sun is shining.

Knitted postbox toppers take over island museum

About 90 knitted postbox toppers went on display at the Isle of Wight Postal Museum.

Hampshire & Isle of Wight

Two soft toy penguins with knitted jumpers on. The one on the left has a pink jumper with yellow and black stripes. The penguin on the right has a navy jumper with white stripes. They are at a beach with the sea and another headland behind them.

Nannas knit jumpers for oil-spill penguins

The jumpers help protect penguins on an Australian island should they come into contact with oil.

There is a long table with a white table cloth on it with knitted cakes, sandwiches and flowers on it. There are five knitted figures dressed in service clothes and four knitted children dressed in jumpers sitting on hay bales around the table. It is on a green patch of grass next to a road with a wooden fence behind it that has red, white and blue bunting on it.

Knitted VE Day party appears in village

The display popped up in Fillongley ahead of VE Day celebrations.

Coventry & Warwickshire

A postbox topper, featuring woollen figures including Winston Churchill and a nurse.

VE Day post box topper stolen, knitters say

The group worked for a month to create the topper, which was placed on the postbox on Saturday.

A knitted scene of the Royal family waving from Buckingham Palace at a crowd.

Knitted scenes of wartime Britain on display

The woolly scenes will be on display at Wells Cathedral before being sent to the US.