A UNIQUE public event by director Danny Boyle to mark 100 years since the end of the First World War will be held in Dorset.

Pages of the Sea will be held at 12 beaches across the UK on November 11.

Each event centres around the drawing of a large-scale portrait of a casualty from the First World War, designed by sand artists, which will be washed away as the tide comes in.

Weymouth beach is one of the locations to be announced with Porthmeor Beach at St Ives, Sunny Sands Beach at Folkestone and Norfolk’s Brancaster Beach also involved.

More locations are set to be revealed.

Boyle has also commissioned a new poem by poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy which will be read by people on the beaches.

Danny Boyle said: "Beaches are truly public spaces, where nobody rules other than the tide. They seem the perfect place to gather and say a final goodbye and thank you to those whose lives were taken or forever changed by the First World War. I'm inviting people to watch as the faces of the fallen are etched in the sand, and for communities to come together to remember the sacrifices that were made."