An MP has welcomed a decision by a Lancashire-based retailer to drop a ban on staff from wearing Poppies at work.
The row erupted after staff at cosmetics firm Bodycare were threatened with disciplinary action for wearing Poppies because they are "not part of their uniform".
A worker at one store told how she was humiliated and ordered to remove a Poppy that she had pinned to her lapel.
The Bodycare chain employs over 1600 staff nationwide, and has an annual turnover of #123 million pounds.
Bodycare worker Catherine Barr told of her dismay when she was ordered to remove her poppy at the branch in Wigan, Lancs.
Catherine, 49, had said: "I refused to remove it. I was quite upset and really annoyed.
"Because I refused to take it off, they called the area manager and they came down and I had a meeting with them.
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